Resources
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
- When
Johnny comes Marching Home Again
overview - links to sheet music, song files and sound recordings - When
Johnny comes marching home; Soldier's Return
1863 sheet music - When
the boys come marching home.
Air- "Johnny fill up the bowl." 1864 song sheet - New Johnny, fill up the bowl!
- White
stars!
By W. H. P. Tune - Johnny fill up the bowl - Ballad
No. 2. Their trophies
By A. Anderson. Air: Johnny fill up the bowl victory. 1864 version - Ballad
No. 3. The Final victory
1864 version - For
Hayes and Wheeler We Are Marching On
By James Nicholson. Tune- Johnny comes marching home Our "Mac" shall march to Washington
Air-"Johnny fill up the bowl."
Johnny Comes Marching Home
Audio file– fiddle version and interview with Henry Reed
- When
Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, hurrah
1965-1975 poster - When
Tommy Comes Marching Home
1953 political cartoon - When
Johnny Comes Marching Home
1972 collage by Anita Siegel
Casey Jones
- Casey
Jones, the Brave Engineer
1909 sheet music - Casey
Jones
Textual transcription - Casey
Jones
Audio file – fiddle and banjo - Casey
Jones
Vocal recording – Byron Collin) - Casey
Jones
1932 vocal recording - Scroll down on this page for a link to an mp3 file. - Casey
Jones
Vocal performance by Jom Holbert - Interview
about Casey Jones
Jom Holbert talks about his version of Casey Jones - Casey
Jones
Audio file – harmonica and guitar
Over There
- Over
There
overview page with historical background and links to sheet music and sound recordings - Over
There, Over Here
Cartoon drawing - Over-there
1944 cartoon drawing by Edwin Marcus - If
They Can Do It Over There -- It Should Be Simple Over Here
1944 political cartoon by Clifford Berryman - Over There - Over Here
1919 educational poster - Our
Country Needs Ships to Carry Our Boys "OverThere" …
1917 poster - Three
Wonderful Letters from Home
1918 sheet music - The
Stars and Stripes
Paris, France. March 8, 1918, Vol. 1 No. 05. Advertisement on bottom right. - Good-bye
Sally, Good Luck to You
1919 sheet music - The Yanks Are Coming!
Library of Congress: Additional Resources for Other Historical Periods
Westward Expansion
- National
Expansion and Reform
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sm2html/sm2essay4.html - Westward,
Ho!
1839 sheet music - My
Home's on the Prairie Lea
1850 sheet music - Ho
for the Kansas Plains
1856 sheet music - Gold
Rush Songs
Transcriptions and notes of nine songs from the Gold Rush era in California in the mid-1800s
Great Depression
- Sunny
California
1941 recording - Associated
Farmers Have A Farm
1940 recording sung to the tune of Old MacDonald - Government
Camp Song
1941 sound recording - Fight
for Union Recognition
1940 song recording sung to the tune of I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
Elections and Political Campaigns
- Political
Campaigns 1820-1860
Background info and links - Seymour
and Blair!
National Democratic campaign song in abc format - Bourbon
Ballads
Written for the New York Tribune by W.A. Croffut. Extra No. 52 - Freedom's
songs! For the Campaign of 1856!
John C. Fremont. An Acrostic. 1856 song sheet - Breckinridge & Lane,
Campaign Song
1860. Tune - Yankee Doodle. 1860 song sheet - Clear
the track!
As sung by the Democratic clubs. Music- "Begone dull care!" c.1856 - We'll
go for Hayes and Wheeler
Air:- "Yankee Doodle" 1876 song - Tilden
and Reform
1876 song - Mr.
Harding We're All for You
1920 sheet music
Social Cultural Movements for Change (Suffrage, Temperance, Prohibition)
Overview Sites
- Historic
American Sheet Music Timeline
1850-1920 - Music
Copyrighted in Federal Courts
1820-1860 - Themes
in Popular Songs
1870-1885 - Social
Reform
1820-1860
Prohibition
- Prohibition
Blues
1917 sheet music - Everyone
Wants a Key to My Cellar
1919 sheet music - Goodbye,
Booze
1939 audio file
Temperance
- Let
Us Pass this Goodly Measure
1885 pro-temperance song - Now
Suppose You Pass this Measure
1885 anti-temperance song - Prohibition
1882 sheet music - Few
Days
lyrics and melodic notes of 1867 song
Suffrage
- We'll
Vote Against the Terrible Men
1869 song - Daughters
of Freedom
1871 sheet music - Daughters
of Freedom
audio file - Shall
Women Vote?
1881 sheet music
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/sm1881.10757 - Suffrage song
Library of Congress: Additional Resources
- Folklore
Music Map of the United States from the Primer of American Music
1946 map created by Dorothea Dix Lawrence - I Hear
America Singing
Portal to the performing arts features music, theater and dance collections of the Library of Congress - Music and Dance Themed Resources
Music related links from across the Library of Congress - Song of America Tour
Resources Outside of the Library of Congress
- American Music Timeline
- American Song: A Cultural and Historical Chronology
- Arts Edge
- Digital History: Historical Music
- Hampsong (Official Thomas Hampson Web Site)
- Lively Arts History Association: Teaching History Through the Performing Arts
- Popular Songs in American History
Tunes, Lyrics, Information, Historical Background and Tune Related Links
(Includes lyrics and midi files for many American songs) - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum - for Teachers
(This site has a lesson plan database) - Thomas Hampson: I Hear America Singing
Lessons from the Teachers Page
- Music and U.S. Reform History: Stand Up and Sing
- Mark Twain's Hannibal
- World War I: What Are We Fighting For Over There?
Tools for Primary Source Analysis
- Primary Source Analysis Tool (PDF, 26 KB)
- Analyzing Sound Recordings (PDF, 55 KB)
- Analyzing Sheet Music and Song Sheets (PDF, 55 KB)
- Thinking About Songs as Historical Artifacts (PDF, 64 KB)
- Analyzing Photographs and Prints (PDF, 55 KB)
- Analyzing Sound Recordings (PDF, 55 KB)
- Analyzing Books and Other Printed Texts (PDF, 61 KB)

