Girls books that may aid in the study of history. They are also lovely and wholesome entertainment. Most are fictional, but after consideration, a few nonfiction titles seemed relevant, so I have included them.
General Nonfiction For Girls
Ten American Girls From History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
Historic Girls: Stories Of Girls Who Have Influenced The History Of Their Times by Elbridge S. Brooks
Heroines That Every Child Should Know by Mabie, Stephens, and Ostertag
Historic Girlhoods by Rupert S. Holland
Heroines of Service by Mary Rosetta Parkman
Nonfiction Colonial & Revolutionary
Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 by Anna Green Winslow
Native American (mostly nonfiction)
Indian Child Life by Therese O. Deming
The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by E. Boyd Smith
The Story of Pocahontas by Charles Dudley Warner
The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Pocahontas Wight Edmunds
The Princess Pocahontas by Virginia Watson
Pocahontas by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by Katherine Chandler (Sacagawea or Sacajawea)
Colonial & Revolutionary
Ruth of Boston by James Otis
Mary of Plymouth by James Otis
Sarah Dillard’s Ride by James Otis
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Maid Sally by Harriet A. Cheever
A Little Maid of Province Town by Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony by Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Ticonderoga by Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia by Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Old Maine by Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Old New York by Alice Turner Curtis
A Little Maid of Virginia by Alice Turner Curtis
Peggy Owens Series by Lucy Foster Madison
Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Edith Gilman Brewster
The Puritan Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Boys and Girls of Colonial Days by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
Civil War (1860’s)
A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter by Alice Turner Curtis
A Daughter of the Union by Lucy Foster Madison
A Confederate Girl’s Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson
World War I (1914-1918)
Mary Lee the Red Cross Girl by Helen Hart
The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls in the British Trenches by Margaret Vandercook
Great Depression (1930’s)
Across the Fruited Plain by Florence Crannell Means
World War II (1940’s)
Nancy Dale, Army Nurse by Ruby Lorraine Radford
Kitty Carter, Canteen Girl by Ruby Lorraine Radford
Sparky Ames and Mary Mason of the Ferry Command by Roy J. Snell
Sally Scott of the Waves by Roy J. Snell
Norma Kent of the WACS by Roy J. Snell