Biography & Personal Papers

ABRAMSON, Albert : Zworykin, Pioneer of Television
ADAMS, Katherine H. and Michael L. Keene: Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign
ADDAMS, Jane : My Friend, Julia Lathrop
ADDAMS, Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 1: Preparing to Lead, 1860-81
ADDAMS, Edited by Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury: The Selected Papers of Jane Addams: vol. 2: Venturing into Usefulness
ALPERN, Edited by Sara, Joyce Antler, Elisabeth Israels Perry, and Ingrid Winther Scobie: The Challenge of Feminist Biography: Writing the Lives of Modern American Women
ANDERSON, Marian : My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography
ARRINGTON, Leonard J. : Brigham Young: American Moses
ASCHENBRENNER, Joyce : Katherine Dunham: Dancing a Life
AVERY, Valeen Tippetts : From Mission to Madness: Last Son of the Mormon Prophet
BAKER, William J. : Jesse Owens: An American Life
BARNHART, Bill and Gene Schlickman: Kerner: The Conflict of Intangible Rights
BARNUM, Phineas T. Introduction by Terence Whalen: The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself
BARRETT, James R. : William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism
BATES, J. Leonard : Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana: Law and Public Affairs, from TR to FDR
BEARY, Michael J. : Black Bishop: Edward T. Demby and the Struggle for Racial Equality in the Episcopal Church
BEAUVOIR, Simone de : Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
BEAUVOIR, Simone de : Wartime Diary
BERNSTEIN, Jane : Loving Rachel: A Family's Journey from Grief
BERNSTEIN, Jane : Rachel in the World: A Memoir
BIERLEY, Paul E. : The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa
BIRCHALL, Diana : Onoto Watanna: The Story of Winnifred Eaton
BLACK, Bob : Come Hither to Go Yonder: Playing Bluegrass with Bill Monroe
BLACK HAWK, Black Hawk: Black Hawk: An Autobiography
BOULARD, Garry : Louis Prima
BRAY, Robert : Peter Cartwright, Legendary Frontier Preacher
BRISTOL, Rev. Sherlock : The Pioneer Preacher: Incidents of Interest, and Experiences in the Author's Life
BROVEN, John : Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock 'n' Roll Pioneers
BRUNS, Roger A. : Preacher: Billy Sunday and Big-Time American Evangelism
BUKOWSKI, Douglas : Big Bill Thompson, Chicago, and the Politics of Image
BURDETTE, Robert J. : The Drums of the 47th
BURKHARDT, Barbara A. : William Maxwell: A Literary Life
BURLINGAME, Michael : The Inner World of Abraham Lincoln
BUSHMAN, Richard L. : Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism
CANTOR, Louis : Dewey and Elvis: The Life and Times of a Rock 'n' Roll Deejay
CARROLL, John M. : Red Grange and the Rise of Modern Football
CAYLEFF, Susan E. : Babe: The Life and Legend of Babe Didrikson Zaharias
CHAPMAN, David L. : Sandow the Magnificent: Eugen Sandow and the Beginnings of Bodybuilding
CHARR, Easurk Emsen : The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960
CHEEK, William and Aimee Lee : John Mercer Langston and the Fight for Black Freedom, 1829-65
COLLINS, Lee : Oh, Didn't He Ramble: The Life Story of Lee Collins as Told to Mary Collins
COOK, Gary A. : George Herbert Mead: The Making of a Social Pragmatist
COSTIN, Lela B. : Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott
COZZENS, Peter : General John Pope: A Life for the Nation
CUMMING, Carman : Devil's Game: The Civil War Intrigues of Charles A. Dunham
CUTRIGHT, Paul Russell and Michael J. Brodhead: Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian
DADIE, Bernard Binlin Dadié: An African in Paris
DADIE, Bernard Binlin Dadié: One Way: Bernard Dadie Observes America
DANNENMAIER, William D. : We Were Innocents: An Infantryman in Korea
DAVIS, Lennard : My Sense of Silence: Memoirs of a Childhood with Deafness
DEBS, Eugene V. : Letters of Eugene V. Debs: 3 Volume Set. Edited by J. Robert Constantine. Vol. 1: 1874-1912. Vol. 2: 1913-1919. Vol. 3: 1919-1926
DEFFAA, Chip : Voices of the Jazz Age: Profiles of Eight Vintage Jazzmen
DICKENS, Hazel and Bill C. Malone: Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens
DIEKMAN, Diane : Live Fast, Love Hard: The Faron Young Story
DIETHE, Carol : Nietzsche's Sister and the Will to Power: A Biography of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche
DIRCK, Brian : Lincoln the Lawyer
DIRKSEN, Everett McKinley : The Education of a Senator
DODSON, Kenneth : The Poet and the Sailor: The Story of My Friendship with Carl Sandburg
DOUGLASS, Frederick : My Bondage and My Freedom
DREISER, Theodore : A Picture and a Criticism of Life: New Letters, Volume I
DUBLIN, Edited by Thomas : Immigrant Voices: New Lives in America, 1773-1986
DUBOFSKY, Melvyn and Warren Van Tine: John L. Lewis: A Biography
DUNAYEVSKAYA, Raya : Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
DUNE, Eduard M. Dune. Translated and Edited by Diane P. Koenker and S. A. Smith: Notes of a Red Guard
EATON, Leonard K. : Hardy Cross: American Engineer
ENZER, Edited by Hyman and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer: Anne Frank: Reflections on Her Life and Legacy
EVANS, Joe with Christopher Brooks: Follow Your Heart: Moving with the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues
EVERETT, William : Rudolf Friml
EWING, Edited by Tom : The Bill Monroe Reader
FABRE, Michel : The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
FARNHAM, Eliza W. : Life in Prairie Land
FINKE, Beth : Long Time, No See
FLUCKEY, Admiral Eugene B. : Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
FOLEY, William E. and C. David Rice: The First Chouteaus: River Barons of Early St. Louis
FRANCH, John : Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes
FRANKLIN, Edited by John Hope and August Meier: Black Leaders of the Twentieth Century
FULLER, Albert : Alice Tully: An Intimate Portrait
GIDE, André : Journals, vol. 1: 1889-1913
GIDE, André : Journals, vol. 2: 1914-1927
GIDE, André : Journals, vol. 3: 1928-1939
GIDE, André : Journals, vol. 4: 1939-1949
GIFFORD, Edited by Carolyn De Swarte : Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96
GINELL, Cary : Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing
GIUNTA, Edited by Mary A. : A Civil War Soldier of Christ and Country: The Selected Correspondence of John Rodgers Meigs, 1859-64
GLAZER, Joe : Labor's Troubadour
GLINSKY, Albert : Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage
GOLDEN, Harry : Carl Sandburg
GOLDMAN, Emma : Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901
GOLDMAN, Emma : Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 2: Making Speech Free, 1902-1909
GOLDMAN, Peter L. : The Death and Life of Malcolm X
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 1: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 2: The Early Years of the American Federation of Labor, 1887-90
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 3: Unrest and Depression, 1891-94
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 4: A National Labor Movement Takes Shape, 1895-98
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 5: An Expanding Movement at the Turn of the Century, 1898-1902
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 6: The American Federation of Labor and the Rise of Progressivism, 1902-6
GOMPERS, Samuel : The Samuel Gompers Papers, Vol. 7: The American Federation of Labor under Siege, 1906-9
GOMPERS, Edited by Peter J. Albert and Grace Palladino: The Samuel Gompers Papers, vol. 8: Progress and Reaction in the Age of Reform, 1909-13
HAMMARSTROM, David Lewis : Big Top Boss: John Ringling North and the Circus
HANCHETT, William : Out of the Wilderness: The Life of Abraham Lincoln
HAPGOOD, Hutchins Introduction and Notes by James R. Barrett: The Spirit of Labor
HARRISON, Edited by Ira E. and Faye V. : African-American Pioneers in Anthropology
HATFIELD, Sharon : Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell
HAWES, Bess Lomax : Sing It Pretty: A Memoir
HEALEY, Dorothy Ray and Maurice Isserman: California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party
HEMENWAY, Robert E. : Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography
HERNDON, William H. and Jesse W. Weik: Herndon's Lincoln
HICKS, Michael : Henry Cowell, Bohemian
HODGART, Matthew J. C. and Ruth Bauerle: Joyce's Grand Operoar: Opera in *Finnegans Wake*
HOROWITZ, Helen Lefkowitz : The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas
HORWITZ, Edited by Dorothy G. : We Will Not Be Strangers: Korean War Letters between a M.A.S.H Surgeon and His Wife
HUDSON, Lynn M. : The Making of "Mammy Pleasant": A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
HULSE, Clark : Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend
ISAACSON, Judith Magyar : Seed of Sarah: Memoirs of a Survivor
ISENBERG, Michael T. : John L. Sullivan and His America
IVES, Edward D. : George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law
IVES, Edward D. : The Bonny Earl of Murray: The Man, The Murder, The Ballad
JACKSON, Edited by Donald : Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with Related Documents, 1783-1854: Two vols
JAN, Flora Belle : Unbound Spirit: Letters of Flora Belle Jan
JOHNSON-ODIM, Cheryl and Nina Emma Mba: For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria
JOHNSTON, Ben : "Maximum Clarity" and Other Writings on Music
JONES, Starr West : Reginald and Gladys Laubin, American Indian Dancers
JOSLIN, Katherine : Jane Addams, a Writer's Life
JULES-ROSETTE, Bennetta : Josephine Baker in Art and Life: The Icon and the Image
KAHN, Sy M. : Between Tedium and Terror: A Soldier's World War II Diary, 1943-45
KATZMAN, Edited by David M. and William M. Tuttle, Jr.: Plain Folk: The Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans
KECKLEY, Elizabeth : Behind the Scenes: Formerly a slave, but more recently modiste, and friend to Mrs. Lincoln; or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
KEILER, Allan : Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey
KERNS, Virginia : Scenes from the High Desert: Julian Steward's Life and Theory
KIMBALL, Stanley B. : Heber C. Kimball: Mormon Patriarch and Pioneer
KLINE, Tiny : Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Memoir of Tiny Kline
KUHN, Rick : Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
KUPERHAND, Miriam and Saul : Shadows of Treblinka
LAAS, Edited by Virginia Jeans : Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
LAND-WEBER, Ellen : To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
LARSON, Edited by Stan : Prisoner for Polygamy: The Memoirs and Letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary, 1884-87
LAUNIUS, Edited by Roger D. and Linda Thatcher: Differing Visions: Dissenters in Mormon History
LAUNIUS, Roger D. : Joseph Smith III: Pragmatic Prophet
LEE, Chana Kai : For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
LEWIS, David Levering : King: A Biography
LICHTENSTEIN, Nelson : Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit
LICHTMAN, Robert M. and Ronald D. Cohen: Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era
LINN, James Weber Introduction by Anne Firor Scott: Jane Addams: A Biography
LITWACK, Edited by Leon and August Meier: Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century
LORENCE, James J. : A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West
LOVEJOY, Owen : His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838-64
LOZA, Steven : Tito Puente and the Making of Latin Music
MAGEE, Gayle Sherwood : Charles Ives Reconsidered
MAIMON, Solomon : An Autobiography
MASTERS, Edgar Lee : Across Spoon River
MCALMON, Robert : The Nightinghouls of Paris
MCELRATH, Joseph R. Jr. and Jesse S. Crisler: Frank Norris: A Life
MCPARTLAND, Marian : Marian McPartland's Jazz World: All in Good Time
MILLER, Leta E. and Fredric Lieberman: Composing a World: Lou Harrison, Musical Wayfarer
MILLER, Edited by Nancy K. and Jason Tougaw: Extremities: Trauma, Testimony, and Community
MILLER, Leta E. and Fredric Lieberman: Lou Harrison
MILLETT, Kate : Flying
MILLETT, Kate : Sita
MILLETT, Kate : The Loony-Bin Trip
MONTAGUE, Magnificent with Bob Baker: Burn, Baby! BURN!: The Autobiography of Magnificent Montague
MOORE, Leonard N. : Carl B. Stokes and the Rise of Black Political Power
MORGAN, Kenneth : Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
MOTT, Edited by Beverly Wilson Palmer: Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott
MUSTER, Nori J. : Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement
NEUMAN, Isaac, with Michael Palencia-Roth: The Narrow Bridge: Beyond the Holocaust
NEWELL, Linda King and Valeen Tippetts Avery: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith
NEWMAN, Katharine D. : Never without a Song: The Years and Songs of Jennie Devlin, 1865-1952
NEWMAN, Danny : Tales of a Theatrical Guru
NICHOLLS, David : John Cage
NIJINSKY, Edited by Joan Acocella: The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky
NOSS, Luther : Paul Hindemith in the United States
OJA, Carol J. : Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds
OLMSTEAD, Andrea : Juilliard: A History
OLMSTEAD, Judith : Woman between Two Worlds: Portrait of an Ethiopian Rural Leader
OPDYCKE, Edited by Glenn V. Longacre and John E. Haas: To Battle for God and the Right: The Civil War Letterbooks of Emerson Opdycke
ORENS, John Richard : Stewart Headlam's Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, the Masses, and the Music Hall
ORR, N. Lee : Dudley Buck
PALMER, Bryan D. : James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928
PARTCH, Harry : Bitter Music: Collected Journals, Essays, Introductions, and Librettos
PASTORELLO, Karen : A Power among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America
PAULY, Thomas H. : Zane Grey: His Life, His Adventures, His Women
PERLIS, Vivian : Charles Ives Remembered: An Oral History
PLANT, Deborah G. : Every Tub Must Sit on Its Own Bottom: The Philosophy and Politics of Zora Neale Hurston
PLUMMER, Mark A. : Lincoln's Rail-Splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby
POLACHECK, Hilda Satt : I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl
POLLACK, Howard : Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
PORTERFIELD, Nolan : Last Cavalier: The Life and Times of John A. Lomax, 1867-1948
RANDALL, J.G. and Richard N. Current: Lincoln the President: Last Full Measure
REMSBERG, Rich : Riders for God: The Story of a Christian Motorcycle Gang
RHODEHAMEL, Edited by John and Louise Taper: "Right or Wrong, God Judge Me": The Writings of John Wilkes Booth
RINKEL, Gene K. and Margaret E. : The Picshuas of H. G. Wells: A Burlesque Diary
ROGERS, William Warren Jr.: A Scalawag in Georgia: Richard Whiteley and the Politics of Reconstruction
ROMALIS, Shelly : Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong
ROSENBERG, Neil V. and Charles K. Wolfe: The Music of Bill Monroe
ROSENBERG, Blanca : To Tell At Last: Survival under False Identity, 1941-45
RUSCH, Edited by Frederic E. and Donald Pizer: Theodore Dreiser: Interviews
RUSSELL, Herbert K. : Edgar Lee Masters: A Biography
RUZIC, Neil : Racing to a Cure: A Cancer Victim Refuses Chemotherapy and Finds Tomorrow's Cures in Today's Scientific Laboratories
SALEM, James M. : The Late Great Johnny Ace and the Transition from R&B to Rock 'n' Roll
SALT, Henry S. : Life of Henry David Thoreau
SALVATORE, Nick : Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
SALVATORE, Nick : We All Got History: The Memory Books of Amos Webber
SANDBURG, Carl : Ever the Winds of Chance: Poems
SANDBURG, Edited by Margaret : The Poet and the Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen and Carl Sandburg
SANGER, Edited by Esther Katz: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 1: The Woman Rebel, 1900-1928
SANGER, Edited by Esther Katz: The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger: Volume 2: Birth Control Comes of Age, 1928-1939
SHIPPS, Jan : Sojourner in the Promised Land: Forty Years among the Mormons
SICHERMAN, Barbara : Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters
SIMONELLI, Frederick J. : American Fuehrer: George Lincoln Rockwell and the American Nazi Party
SMITH, Catherine Parsons : William Grant Still
STONEMAN, Roni as told to Ellen Wright: Pressing On: The Roni Stoneman Story
TARBELL, Ida M. : All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
TEMPERLEY, Nicholas : Bound for America: Three British Composers
TOBIAS, Sigmund : Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai
TOWNSEND, Henry as Told to Bill Greensmith: A Blues Life
TOWNSEND, Charles R. : San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills
TRIBE, Ivan M. : The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives
VAN VECHTEN, Carl : The Splendid Drunken Twenties: Selections from the Daybooks, 1922-1930
VANDER, Judith : Songprints: The Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women
VAUTRIN, Minnie : Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38
WALSH, John Evangelist : The Shadows Rise: Abraham Lincoln and the Ann Rutledge Legend
WARING, Virginia : Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 1: The Autobiographical Writings. Assistant editor, John W. Blassingame
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 10: 1909-11. Assistant editors, Geraldine McTigue and Nan E. Woodruff
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 11: 1911-12. Assistant editor, Geraldine McTigue
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 12: 1912-14
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 13: 1914-15. Assistant editors, Susan Valenza and Sadie M. Harlan
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 2: 1860-89. Assistant editors, Pete Daniel, Stuart B. Kaufman, Raymond W. Smock, and William M. Welty
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 3: 1889-95. Assistant editors, Stuart B. Kaufman and Raymond W. Smock
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 4: 1895-98. Assistant editors, Stuart B. Kaufman, Barbara S. Kraft, and Raymond W. Smock
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 5: 1899-1900. Assistant editor, Barbara S. Kraft
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 6: 1901-2. Assistant editor, Barbara S. Kraft
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 7: 1903-4. Assistant editor, Barbara S. Kraft
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 8: 1904-6. Assistant editor, Geraldine McTigue
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : Booker T. Washington Papers Volume 9: 1906-8. Assistant editor, Nan E. Woodruff
WASHINGTON, Booker T. : The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol. 14: Cumulative Index. Edited by Louis R. HARLAN and Raymond W. SMOCK
WEST, Don : No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems
WHITE-PARKS, Annette : Sui Sin Far / Edith Maude Eaton: A Literary Biography
WIENER, Jon : Come Together: John Lennon in His Time
WILLIAMS, Roger M. : Sing a Sad Song: The Life of Hank Williams
WILLIAMS, Michael Ann : Staging Tradition: John Lair and Sarah Gertrude Knott
WILSON, Edited by Douglas L. and Rodney O. Davis: Herndon's Informants: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about Abraham Lincoln
WILSON, Raymond : Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux
WOLFF, Milton : Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel
WONG, Wayne Hung : American Paper Son: A Chinese Immigrant in the Midwest
WOOLVERTON, John F. : The Education of Phillips Brooks
WRIGHT, John : Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music
WYGODA, Hermann : In the Shadow of the Swastika
YACOVONE, Edited by Donald : A Voice of Thunder: A Black Soldier's Civil War
YUNG, Edited by Bell and Helen Rees: Understanding Charles Seeger, Pioneer in Musicology
ZINGG, Paul J. : Harry Hooper: An American Baseball Life