Historical Fiction

Pathfinders for Post-War Historical Fiction

Print Materials -

Historical Fiction 1918-1929:

From the JFK Library:

The last innocent hour / Abbott, Margot. FIC ABB

The forgotten fire / Bagdasarian, Adam. FIC BAG

Dandelion wine / Bradbury, Ray. FIC BRA

Mirror, mirror on the wall : the diary of Bess Brennan / Denenberg, Barry. FIC DEN

The big money / Dos Passos, John. FIC DOS

USA / Dos Passos, John. FIC DOS

Homesick, my own story / Fritz, Jean. FIC FRI

A time of angels / Hesse, Karen. FIC HES

Pictures, 1918 / Ingold, Jeanette. FIC ING

Heat and dust / Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer. FIC JHA

A time for courage : the suffragette diary of Kathleen Bowen / Lasky, Kathryn. FIC LAS

Color me dark : the diary of Nellie Lee Love, the great migration North / McKissack, Pat. FIC MCK

White lilacs / Meyer, Carolyn. FIC MEY

An ocean apart, a world away : a novel / Namioka, Lensey. FIC NAM

After the dancing days / Roskowski,Margaret. FIC ROS

Joy in the morning / Smith, Betty. FIC SMI

Birds of a feather : a novel / Winspear, Jacqueline. FIC WIN

From the Sacramento Public Libraries:

The Amazon quest / Gilbert Morris.

The clearing / Tim Gautreaux.

Doctor Zhivago / Boris Pasternak

Elena : a love story of the Russian Revolution / Judith Egan.

The Empty Mirror / James Lincoln Collier.

The end of the hunt / Thomas Flanagan.

Evidence of things unseen : a novel / Marianne Wiggins.

Granny Dan / Danielle Steel.

Joshua's song / Joan Hiatt Harlow.

Justice for none / Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan.

Listening for lions / Gloria Whelan.

Lydia, queen of Palestine / Uri Orlev

Maisie Dobbs : a novel / Jacqueline Winspear.

The Master Butchers Singing Club / Louise Erdrich.

A month in the country / J.L. Carr.

The season of open water : a novel / Dawn Tripp.

Southwest of heaven / Giles Tippette.

A test of wills / Charles Todd.

Tikhon / Ilse-Margret Vogel.

Troubles / J.G. Farrell ; introduction by John Banville.

Wings of fire / Charles Todd.

Nonfiction:

From the JFK Library:

The 1920s : from prohibition to Charles Lindbergh / by Stephen Feinstein.   909.82 FEI

Life, decades of the 20th century : the way we were /    973.9 LIF

The 1920s / John F. Wukovits, book editor.    973.91 192

The 1920s / by Erica Hanson.    973.91 HAN

Daily life in the United States, 1920-1939 : decades of promise and pain / David E. Kyvig.   973.91 KYV

American decades, 1910-1919 /   REF 973.91 AME

American decades, 1920-1929 /   REF 973.91 AME

See also:

World Book Encyclopedia /  REF 031 NEW

Encyclopedia Britannica /  REF 031 WOR

eBooks:

"Building Nations II: Palestine and Israel"  Middle East Conflict Reference Library

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sacr68690?db=GVRL

"India, the Middle East, and China after 1918"

http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/articledisplayresult/27/6269/64036

"Peace and the Allies, 1918–1930s"

http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/articledisplayresult/27/6243/69383

Roaring Twenties Reference Library

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sacr68690?db=GVRL

"United States after World War I, 1918–1930s"

http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/articledisplayresult/27/6240/63705

"United States between World War I and World War II"

http://www.marshallcavendishdigital.com/articledisplayresult/28/6320/64665

UXL American decades (Gale virtual reference library)

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sacr68690?db=GVRL

Online Resources:

1920s: The Decade That Changed London

http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/archive/exhibits/1920s/

Aftermath and Things to Come...

http://www.teacheroz.com/wwi.htm#after

Digital History : The Jazz Age : The American 1920s

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm?titleID=67

Disorder: Europe in the 1920's

http://www.britannia.com/history/euro/3/1_1.html

Monkey Trial

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/

The Roaring Twenties

http://www.teacheroz.com/20thcent.htm#20s