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Love reading? Do you love reading about history? Well then this group is for you. Recommend your favorite novels, educational books, or genealogy books so others can know about em!

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Non-Fiction

Started by Madehlinne. Last reply by Melinda Jun 3, 2013. 1 Reply 0 Likes

Baker, Mark A.Sons of the Trackless Forest: The Cumberland Long Hunters of the Eighteenth Century(Franklin, TN, Baker's Trace Publishing) 1997; 992 pp.Put on your coonskin caps, readers, and journey…Continue

Women's History

Started by Madehlinne. Last reply by Al (alpobc) Jun 2, 2013. 4 Replies 0 Likes

Women's History Month is March. If you have an interesting book concerning women in history, please post it here.Continue

Books I Own for look ups.

Started by Al (alpobc) May 16, 2013. 0 Replies 0 Likes

I own the following books and am willing to do look ups. Just send me a note with the title of the…Continue

Historical Fiction

Started by Melinda. Last reply by JudithE.Davis Mar 13, 2011. 5 Replies 0 Likes

Add your recommendations for Historical Fiction books here.

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Comment by Carol Hunter Sullivan on May 28, 2015 at 4:36pm: I have in my genealogy collection a book that is a documented saga of these two families written by a cousin of mine, Dan Scott, Sr.

Those Incredible Scotts...And Clays by Daniel L. Scott

Comment by James P. LaLone on November 23, 2014 at 12:43pm: Historical fiction dealing with the Michigan area - http://www.envisionthepast.com/michigan-fiction/

Comment by Cathy Milioto on February 8, 2011 at 7:03pm: Here are my favorite books about the Civil War:

A Treasury of Civil War Stories by Greensburg & Pronzini

Bull Run by Fleishman

Lincoln-A photobiography by Freedman

The Civil War by Bruce Catton

Gettysbury by Newt Gingrich and Wm Forstchen

Civil War Women by McSherry/Waugh/Greensburg

The Life of Billy Yank and Johnny Reb by Bell Irvin Wiley

The Trials of Mrs. Lincoln by Samuel A Schreiner

Comment by Nancy Dalle on February 7, 2011 at 8:27pm: Hello