American Heritage books in order

The American Heritage series is a collection of 110 local history books covering communities, ethnic groups, and regional traditions across the United States, published between 2007 and 2021.

Reading order

# Title Published Author Buy on Amazon
1 Catawba Nation: Treasures in History 2007 E.B. Wheeler Buy
2 The Battle of Kings Mountain: Eyewitness Accounts 2007 E.B. Wheeler Buy
3 Office Upstairs: A Doctor’s Journey 2007 E.B. Wheeler Buy
4 Women of the Revolution: Bravery and Sacrifice on the Southern Battlefields 2007 E.B. Wheeler Buy
5 A Gullah Guide to Charleston: Walking Through Black History 2008 E.B. Wheeler Buy
6 Long-Ago Stories of the Eastern Cherokee 2008 E.B. Wheeler Buy
7 Germans in Louisville: A History 2008 E.B. Wheeler Buy
8 Parallel Communities: The Underground Railroad in South Jersey 2008 E.B. Wheeler Buy
9 African Americans in Glencoe: The Little Migration 2009 E.B. Wheeler Buy
10 God’s Children 2009 E.B. Wheeler Buy
11 A History of Boston’s Jewish North Shore 2009 E.B. Wheeler Buy
12 Cherokee Pottery: From the Hands of our Elders 2009 E.B. Wheeler Buy
13 Cherokee Basketry: From the Hands of Our Elders 2009 E.B. Wheeler Buy
14 Milwaukee’s Italian Heritage: Mediterranean Roots in Midwestern Soil 2009 E.B. Wheeler Buy
15 Jewish Philadelphia: A Guide to Its Sights & Stories 2010 E.B. Wheeler Buy
16 A Secret History of Memphis Hoodoo: Rootworkers, Conjurers, & Spirituals 2010 E.B. Wheeler Buy
17 A History of Jewish Connecticut: Mensches, Migrants and Mitzvahs 2010 E.B. Wheeler Buy
18 South Carolina Irish 2010 E.B. Wheeler Buy
19 The Virginia Plan: William B. Thalhimer & A Rescue from Nazi Germany 2010 E.B. Wheeler Buy
20 The Isleños of Louisiana: On the Water’s Edge 2011 E.B. Wheeler Buy
21 A History of the Narraganset Tribe of Rhode Island: Keepers of the Bay 2011 E.B. Wheeler Buy
22 Immigrants in Hoboken: One-Way Ticket, 1845-1985 2011 E.B. Wheeler Buy
23 The Campaign for Women Suffrage in Virginia 2011 E.B. Wheeler Buy
24 Harlem in the Twentieth Century 2011 E.B. Wheeler Buy
25 Stories from Jewish Portland 2011 E.B. Wheeler Buy
26 Vermont Women, Native Americans & African Americans: Out of the Shadows of History 2012 E.B. Wheeler Buy
27 Oklahoma Black Cherokees 2012 E.B. Wheeler Buy
28 African American Bryan, Texas: Celebrating the Past 2012 E.B. Wheeler Buy
29 The Underground Railroad on Long Island: Friends In Freedom 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
30 A History of Jewish Plymouth 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
31 Remarkable Women of Old Saybrook 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
32 Women of Martha’s Vineyard 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
33 Portsmouth Women: Madams & Matriarchs Who Shaped New Hampshire’s Port City 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
34 African Americans of Alexandria, Virginia: Beacons of Light in the Twentieth Century 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
35 Church Street: The Sugar Hill of Jackson, Mississippi 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
36 Beach Mexican: Assimilation & Identity in Redondo Beach 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
37 Long Island Italian Americans: History, Heritage & Tradition 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
38 Sacramento’s Historic Japantown: Legacy of a Lost Neighborhood 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
39 Germans in New Jersey: A History 2013 E.B. Wheeler Buy
40 The Irish of Portland, Maine: A History of Forest City Hibernians 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
41 A History of the New Hampshire Abenaki 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
42 Remarkable Women of Stockton 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
43 Tuskegee in Philadelphia: Rising to the Challenge 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
44 The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
45 Native American History of Savannah 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
46 African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
47 Remarkable Women of Rhode Island 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
48 Latino History in Rhode Island: Nuestras Raices 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
49 Dorothy Porter Wesley at Howard University: Building a Legacy of Black History 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
50 Texas Ranch Women: Three Centuries of Mettle and Moxie 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
51 Carter G. Woodson in Washington, D.C.: The Father of Black History 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
52 Miracle on the Salt River: Water, Family & Farming in the Arizona Desert 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
53 AsiaTown Cleveland: From Tong Wars to Dim Sum 2014 E.B. Wheeler Buy
54 Texas Women First: Leading Ladies of Lone Star History 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
55 Heroes of the Underground Railroad Around Washington, D. C. 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
56 Hispanics of Roosevelt County, New Mexico: A History 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
57 Wild Women of Boston: Mettle and Moxie in the Hub 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
58 Remarkable Women of Old Lyme 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
59 Slavery & the Underground Railroad in South Central Pennsylvania 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
60 Pittsburgh Irish: Erin on the Three Rivers 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
61 Better Homes of South Bend: An American Story of Courage 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
62 Waterbury Irish: From the Emerald Isle to the Brass City 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
63 The Jewish Hospital & Cincinnati Jews in Medicine 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
64 Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
65 Atlanta Greeks: An Early History 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
66 Swedish Heritage of Greater Worcester 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
67 Remarkable Oregon Women: Revolutionaries & Visionaries 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
68 Historically African American Leisure Destinations Around Washington, D.C. 2015 E.B. Wheeler Buy
69 Lowell Irish 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
70 The Inspiring Life of Texan Héctor P. García 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
71 Apache Legends & Lore of Southern New Mexico: From the Sacred Mountain 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
72 William Henry Jernagin in Washington, D.C.: Faith in the Fight for Civil Rights 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
73 Native Americans of East-Central Indiana 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
74 Hispanic & Latino Heritage in Virginia 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
75 Oklahoma Cherokee Baskets 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
76 A History of James Island Slave Descendents & Plantation Owners: The Bloodline 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
77 Happy Canyon: A History of the World’s Most Unique Indian Pageant & Wild West Show 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
78 Early Native Americans in West Virginia: The Fort Ancient Culture 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
79 African Americans of Durham & Orange Counties: An Oral History 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
80 Remarkable Women of San Diego: Pioneers, Visionaries and Innovators 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
81 Remarkable Women of Sanibel & Captiva 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
82 The Jefferson Highway in Oklahoma: The Historic Osage Trace 2016 E.B. Wheeler Buy
83 Notable Southern Californians in Black History 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
84 New England Rocks 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
85 San Diego Lowriders: A History of Cars and Cruising 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
86 Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
87 A History of Jewish Youngstown and the Steel Valley 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
88 A History of Nebraska Agriculture: A Life Worth Living 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
89 Slavery in Wilkes County, North Carolina 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
90 Influential Women of Spokane: Building a Fair City 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
91 Slovenians in Cleveland: A History 2017 E.B. Wheeler Buy
92 Abigail Scott Duniway and Susan B. Anthony in Oregon: Hesitate No Longer 2018 E.B. Wheeler Buy
93 Montana Women From The Ground Up: Passionate Voices in Agriculture & Land Conservation 2018 E.B. Wheeler Buy
94 Indian Americans of Massachusetts 2018 E.B. Wheeler Buy
95 Uncle Tom’s Journey from Maryland to Canada: The Life of Josiah Henson 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
96 Italian Louisiana: History, Heritage, & Tradition 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
97 Irish Iowa 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
98 Woodland Mounds in West Virginia 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
99 Gullah Geechee Heritage in the Golden Isles 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
100 German Influences in Louisville 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
101 The Texas Ranch Sisterhood: Portraits of Women Working the Land 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
102 Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
103 Growing Up in Gulfport: Boomer Memories from Stone’s Ice Cream to Johnny Elmer and the Rockets 2019 E.B. Wheeler Buy
104 Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South 2020 E.B. Wheeler Buy
105 Oklahoma Rodeo Women 2020 E.B. Wheeler Buy
106 Slave Labor on Virginia’s Blue Ridge Railroad 2020 E.B. Wheeler Buy
107 African Americans of Martha’s Vineyard: From Enslavement to Presidential Visit 2020 E.B. Wheeler Buy
108 The Queen of Denver: Louise Sneed Hill and the Emergence of Modern High Society 2020 E.B. Wheeler Buy
109 Connecticut River Shipbuilding 2020 E.B. Wheeler Buy
110 Utah Women: Pioneers, Poets & Politicians 2021 E.B. Wheeler Buy

The American Heritage series is a large-scale local history project with 110 volumes published between 2007 and 2021. Each book focuses on a specific community, ethnic group, or regional tradition within the United States. Topics range from Cherokee pottery and Gullah Geechee heritage to the Irish communities of Portland, Maine, and the Jewish history of Plymouth.

The series covers all regions of the country and a wide variety of cultures: African American history in Alexandria, Virginia; German immigrants in Louisville; Native Americans of East-Central Indiana; San Diego lowriders; and women’s history in states from Oregon to Utah. The books are published by The History Press and draw on local archives, oral histories, and primary sources to document stories that might otherwise go unrecorded.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many books are in the American Heritage series?

There are 110 books in the American Heritage series, published between 2007 and 2021.

What is the first book in the American Heritage series?

The first book in the American Heritage series is Catawba Nation: Treasures in History, published in 2007.

What topics does the American Heritage series cover?

The series covers an enormous range of local American history, from Cherokee basketry to Jewish communities in various cities, African American history in specific towns, immigrant experiences, women’s history, and regional traditions across dozens of states.

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