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Hendrickson, Robert,
The Facts on File Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
(New York: Facts on File Publications, 1980).

Hibbert, Christopher,
The Court at Windsor: A Domestic History
(London: Penguin Books, 1982).

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Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America, 1770-1781
(London: Grafton Books, 1990).

Hokanson, Drake,
The Lincoln Highway: Main Street Across America
(Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1988).

Holt, Alfred H.,
Phrase and Word Origins
(New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961).

Hume, Ivor Noël,
Here Lies Virginia: An Archaeologist’s View of Colonial Life and History
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963).

Hynd, Noel,
The Giants of the Polo Grounds: The Glorious Times of Baseball’s New York Giants
(New York: Doubleday, 1988).

Ingstad, Helge,
The Norse Discovery of America, 2
vols. (Oslo: Norwegian University Press, 1985).

Jackson, Donald,
Among the Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces on Lewis and Clark
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987).

Jackson, Kenneth T.,
Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985).

James, Sydney V.,
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Johnson, Paul,
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The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830
(New York: HarperCollins, 1991).

Jones, Maldwyn Allen,
American Immigration
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).

Jordan, Philip D.,
The National Road
(Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1948).

Josephy, jun., Alvin M. (ed.),
The American Heritage Book of Indians
(Boston: American Heritage Publishing Co., 1961).

Jowett, Garth,
Film: The Democratic Art
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1976).

Keeley, Joseph C.,
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(New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1950).

Kowinski, William Severini,
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Krapp, George Philip,
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Kroc, Ray (with Robert Anderson),
Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald’s
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Krout, John Allen,
Annals of American Sport
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Lacey, Robert,
Sir Walter Ralegh
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973).

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Ford: The Men and the Machines
(Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1986).

Laird, Charlton,
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(New York: The World Publishing Co., 1970).

Levenstein, Harvey A.,
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(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

Levin, David,
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(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978).

Liebs, Chester H.,
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(Boston: New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Co., 1985).

Lingeman, Richard R.,
Don’t You Know There’s a War On?: The American Home Front, 1941-45
(New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1970).

Love, John F.,
McDonald’s: Behind the Arches
(Toronto: Bantam Books, 1986).

Lowance, jun., Mason I.,
Increase Mather
(New York: Twayne Publishers, 1974).

Lutz, William,
Doublespeak
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Luxenberg, Stan,
Roadside Empires: How the Chains Franchised America
(New York: Viking Books, 1985).

McAlister, Lyle N.,
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(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984).

McDavid, jun., Raven I.,
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(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1980).

McPherson, James M.,
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(London: Penguin Books/Oxford University Press, 1990).

Madison, James, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay (ed. Isaac Kramnick),
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(London: Penguin Books, 1987).

Maggio, Rosalie,
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Martineau, Harriet,
Society in America,
3 vols. (London: Saunders and Otley, 1837).

Mathews, Mitford M. (ed.),
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Mee, jun., Charles L.,
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Mencken, H. L.,
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The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States,
suppl. 1 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945).

———
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States,
suppl. 2 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948).

——— (with new material by Raven I. McDavid, jun.),
The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States,
abridged 4th edn. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989).

Meyer, Jerome S.,
World Book of Great Inventions
(Cleveland OH: The World Publishing Co., 1956).

Milton, Joyce,
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(New York: HarperCollins, 1993).

Moolman, Valerie,
The Road to Kitty Hawk
(Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1980).

Morison, Samuel Eliot,
The Oxford History of the American People
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1965).

———
The European Discovery of America,
2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971).

Moulton, Gary E. (ed.),
Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983).

——— (ed.),
The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986).

Nye, David E.,
Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).

Oakley, J. Ronald,
God’s Country: America in the Fifties
(New York: Dembner Books, 1986).

O’Malley, Michael,
Keeping Watch: A History of American Time
(New York: Viking Penguin, 1990).

Opie, Iona, and Peter Opie,
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951).

Partridge, Eric, and John W. Clark,
British and American English Since 1900
(London: Andrew Dakers Ltd., 1951).

Patton, Phil,
Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986).

Peirce, Neal R.,
The New England States
(New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976).

Pyles, Thomas,
Words and Ways of American English
(New York: Random House, 1952).

———
Selected Essays on English Usage
(Gainesville: University Presses of Florida, 1979).

Quinn, David Beers,
Set Fair for Roanoke: Voyages and Colonies, 1584-1606
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).

———
North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements
(New York: Harper & Row, 1985).

Rae, John B.,
The Road and the Car in American Life
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1971).

Rodgers, Elizabeth G.,
Chagrin ... Whence the Name?
(Chagrin Falls, OH: pub. privately, 1988).

Root, Waverley, and Richard de Rochement,
Eating in America: A History
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1976).

Rosenberg, Bernard, and David Manning White (eds.),
Mass Culture: The Popular Arts in America
(Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1957).

Rowsome, jun., Frank,
The Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma-Shave Signs
(Brattleboro, Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, 1965).

Rybczynski, Witold,
Home: A Short History of an Idea
(New York: Penguin Books, 1987).

———
Waiting for the Weekend
(New York: Viking Books, 1991).

Safire, William,
On Language
(New York: Avon Books, 1980).

———
What’s the Good Word
(New York: Times Books, 1982).

———
Take My Word for It
(New York: Times Books, 1986).

———
Coming to Terms
(New York: Doubleday, 1991).

Sagarin, Edward,
The Anatomy of Dirty Words
(New York: Lyle Stuart, 1968).

Savage, jun., William W. (ed.),
Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975).

Schiller, Herbert I.,
Mass Communications and American Empire
(New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1969).

Schor, Juliet B.,
The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
(New York: Basic Books, 1991).

Schrank, Jeffrey,
Snap, Crackle, and Popular Taste: The Illusion of Free Choice in America
(New York: Delacorte Press, 1977).

Schumach, Murray,
The Face on the Cutting Room Floor: The Story of Movie and Television Censorship
(New York: William Morrow & Co., 1964).

Schwarz, Barry,
George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987).

Seavey, Ormond,
Becoming Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography and the Life
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988).

Shearer, Benjamin F., and Barbara S. Shearer,
State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols: A Historical Guide
(New York: Greenwood Press, 1987).

Simpson, David,
The Politics of American English, 1776-1850
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).

Small, Herbert,
The Library of Congress: Its Architecture and Decoration
(New York: Arthur Ross/W. W. Norton, 1982).

Smith, Elsdon C.,
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(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950).

Smith, Page,
A People’s History of the United States,
8 vols. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1984).

Stedman, Raymond William,
Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982).

Sterling, Christopher H., and Jon M. Kittross,
Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting
(Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1978).

Stewart, George R.,
Names on the Land: A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States
(New York: Random House, 1945).

———
American Place Names: A Concise and Selective Dictionary for the Continental United States of America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1970).

Story, G. M., W.J. Kirwin and J. D. A. Widdowson (eds.),
Dictionary of Newfoundland English,
2nd edn. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1990).

Strasser, Susan,
Never Done: A History of American Housework
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1982).

———
Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1989).

Sullivan, Mark,
Our Times: The United States, 1900-1925,
2 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926).

Tannahill, Reay,
Sex in History
(London: Abacus/Sphere, 1981).

Tedlow, Richard S.,
New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America
(New York: Basic Books, 1990).

Terrace, Vincent,
The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs, 1947-1976,
2 vols. (South Brunswick, NJ: A. S. Barnes and Company, 1976).

Thomas, Benjamin P.,
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
(New York: The Modern Library, 1968).

Thomas, Charles Kenneth,
An Introduction to the Phonetics of American English
(New York: The Ronald Press Co., 1947).

Thornton, Willis,
History: Fact and Fable
(New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1993).

Tocqueville, Alexis de (trans. George Lawrence),
Journey to America
(Garden City, NY: Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1971).

Trollope, Frances,
Domestic Manners of the Americans
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949).

Tulloch, Sarah,
The Oxford Dictionary of New Words: A Popular Guide to Words in the News
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

Udelson, Joseph H.,
The Great Television Race: A History of the American Television Industry, 1925-1941
(Birmingham, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1982).

Vallins, G. H.,
Spelling
(London: André Deutsch, 1954).

Van Doren, Carl,
Benjamin Franklin
(New York: The Viking Press, 1938).

———
The Great Rehearsal: The Story of the Making and Ratifying of the Constitution of the United States
(New York: Viking Press, 1948).

Vieyra, Daniel I.,
Fill’er Up: An Architectural History of America’s Gas
Stations
(New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1979).

Voigt, David Quentin,
American Baseball: From Gentleman’s Sport to the Commissioner System
(University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1983).

Wagenknecht, Edward,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: His Poetry and Prose
(New York: Ungar, 1986).

Ward, Sir A. W. (ed.),
The Cambridge History of English Literature,
vol. xiv (New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1931).

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