The county library system has six children's books about the history of the U.S. interstate highway system.
I checked them out to see if any were good enough to qualify as "living books" for 20th century American history.
Here are four of the six titles:
- From Trails to Turnpikes
- Eastern Trails: From Footpaths to Turnpikes
- From Trails to Superhighways: The Story of America's Roads
- From Path to Highway: The Story of the Boston Post Road
Four different publishers, four different authors.
(The last two are pretty good, by the way. FTTS:TSOAR, a Messner edition, has some terribly dated language about Native Americans and only takes us 2/3 of the way through the construction of the interstate system, but I know how to work around both those problems. FPTH:TSOTBPR, aimed at younger readers, is by the always excellent Gail Gibbons.)
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