Using Poetry to Teach... History

Subject Author Title Call number Year
African Americans Adoff, Arnold Roots and Blues: A Celebration 811.54 A239ro 2011
African Americans Alexander, Elizabeth Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color 811.54 A3752mi 2007
African Americans Giovanni, Nikki Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like my Sister Kate 811.508 S556 1996
African Americans Greenfield, Eloise The Great Migration: Journey to the North 811.54 G8125gr 2011
African Americans Greenfield, Eloise The Women Who Caught the Babies 618.20089 G812wo 2019
African Americans Langston Hughes I, Too, Am America 811.52 H8935it 2012
African Americans Lansana, Quraysh Ali A Gift from Greensboro 811.6 L294gi 2016
African Americans Lewis, J. Patrick When Thunder Comes: Poems for Civil Rights Leaders 811.54 L6745wh 2013
African Americans Muse, Daphne The Entrance Place of Wonders: Poems of the Harlem Renaissance 811.008 E61 2006
African Americans Myers, Walter Dean Blues Journey 811.54 M996bL 2003
African Americans Nelson, Marilyn My Seneca Village 811.54 N428my 2015
African Americans Orgill, Roxane Jazz Day: The Making of a Famous Photograph 781.65092 O68ja 2016
African Americans Shange, Ntozake We Troubled the Waters 811.54 S5285we 2009
African Americans Weatherford, Carole Boston Freedom in Congo Square E W3625fr 2017
African Americans Weatherford, Carole Boston Remember the Bridge 811.54 W3625re 2002
Weatherford, Carole Boston You Can Fly: The Tuskegee Airmen 811.54 W3625yo 2016
Discovery/Exploration Hopkins, Lee Bennett Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea 811.608 T779 2017
Slade, Suzanne Countdown: 2979 Days to the Moon 629.454 S631co 2018
Native Americans Bruchac, Joseph Voices of the People 811.6 B8875vo 2022
Native Americans National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution When the Rain Sings 811.54 W5673 1999
Native Americans Sloat, Teri There Was an Old Man Who Painted the Sky 782.42083 S634th 2009
Native Americans Wood, Nancy Sacred Fire 811.54 W8775sa 1998
Wood, Nancy Spirit Walker 811.54 W8775sp 1993
Pirates Engle, Margarita Hurricane Dancers : The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck 811.54 E58hu 2012
Pirates Harrison, David L. Pirates 811.54 H318pi 2008
Pirates Lewis, J. Patrick Blackbeard: The Pirate King 811.54 L6745bL 2006
Yolen, Jane The Ballad of the Pirate Queens 811.54 Y54ba 1995
Slavery Bryan, Ashley Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life 811.54 B915fr 2016
Slavery Grady, Cynthia I Lay My Stitches Down: Poems of American Slavery 811.6 G733iL 2012
VanHecke, Susan Under the Freedom Tree 811.54 V255un 2014
United States Bates, Katharine Lee America the Beautiful 811.4 B329am 2004
United States Evans, Walker Something Permanent 811.54 E92so 1994
United States Hopkins, Lee Bennett America At War 811.008 A512 2008
United States Hopkins, Lee Bennett Lives: Poems About Famous Americans 811.008 L785 1999
United States Hopkins, Lee Bennett My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States 811.008 M9946 2000
United States Janeczko, Paul B. Home on the Range: Cowboy Poetry 811.008 H765 1997
United States Katz, Bobbi We The People 811.54 K194we 2000
United States Lewis, J. Patrick The Brothers' War: Civil War Voices in Verse 811.54 L6745br 2007
United States Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere 811.3 L853mi2 2001
United States Meltzer, Milton Hour of Freedom: American History in Poetry 811.008 H841 2003
United States Myers, Walter Dean We are America: A Tribute from the Heart 811.54 M996we 2011
United States Pinkney, Andrea Davis Martin Rising: Requiem for a King 811.6 P655ma 2018
United States Siebert, Diane Tour America: A Journey Through Poems and Art 811.54 S571to 2006
Singer, Marilyn Rutherford B., Who was He?: Poems About our Presidents 811.54 S617ru 2013
Women Clinton, Catherine A Poem of Her Own 811.008 P7441 2003
WWI Duffy, Chris (editor) Above the Dreamless Dead: World War I in Poetry and Comics 741.5973 A157 2014