A list of books I’ve read as part of my research process:
- The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby
- Frommer’s Nashville & Memphis by Linda Romine (Memphis part only)
- A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression by Andrew Coe and Jane Ziegelman
- Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression by Studs Terkel
- A Guide to Historic Downtown Memphis by William Patton
- A Brief History of Memphis by G. Wayne Dowdy
- Haunted Memphis by Laura Cunningham
- Memphis Murder & Mayhem by Teresa R. Simpson
- The Roaring Twenties: A Captivating Guide to a Period of Dramatic Social and Political Change, a False Sense of Prosperity, and Its Impact on the Great Depression by Captivating History
- The Roaring Twenties: A History From Beginning to End by Hourly History
- The Mid-South Fair: Celebrating 150 Years by Robert W. Dye and the Mid-South Fair Historical Committee
- Reconstruction Era: A History from Beginning to End by Hourly History
- Lost Memphis by Laura Cunningham
- Greater Than a Tourist–Memphis Tennessee USA by Claude Chafin
- Memphis Movie Theatres by Vincent Astor
- Memphis Chronicles: Bits of History from The Best Times by John E. Harkins
- Everyone Shapes History by G. Wayne Dowdy