Selected Bibliography
from The State Historical Society of Missouri

Articles in the Missouri Historical Review [REF F550 M691]

• “George Washington Carver National Monument Dedication.” v. 48, no.1 (October 1953), pp. 84-85. [opens in new window]
• “George Washington Carver Centennial Celebrated.” v. 55, no. 1 (October 1960), pp. 56-57. [opens in new window]
• “George Washington Carver National Monument.” v. 55, no.1 (October 1960), inside back cover. [opens in new window]
• Kremer, Gary R. Book review of George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol by Linda O. McMurry. v. 76, no. 3 (April 1982) pp. 355-358. [opens in new window]
• “Missouri Miniatures – George Washington Carver.” v. 38, no. 4 (July 1944), pp. 470-471. [opens in new window]
• “A Missourian Rose From Slave Cabin To World Acclaim.” v. 48, no. 3 (April 1954), pp. 279-281. [opens in new window]

Articles from the Newspaper Collection

• “Missouri History Sparkles in Diamond.” Fulton Sun. Page 1. September 3, 1994.
• “The Carver Story.” The Missouri Times. p. 10. February 4, 1983.
• Obituary. Saint Louis Post-Dispatch. January 6, 1943, p. C3, c. 5

Books

• Albus, Harry James. The Peanut Man: The Life of George Washington Carver in Story Form. Grand Rapids, MI: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1948. [REF F508.1 C256a]
• American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. v. 4, pp. 513-514. [REF 920 Am37 v4]
• Burchard, Peter Duncan. George Washington Carver: For His Time and Ours. “Special History Study: Natural History Related to George Washington Carver National Monument, Diamond, Missouri.” George Washington Carver National Monument, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. 2005. [REF F508.1 C256bu]
• Burchard, Peter Duncan. Carver: A Great Soul. Fairfax, CA: Wise as Serpents Harmless as Doves. 1998. [REF F508.1 C256bu2]
• Christensen, Lawrence O., William E. Foley, Gary R. Kremer, and Kenneth H. Winn, eds. Dictionary of Missouri Biography. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. pp. 154-155. [REF F508 D561 c2]
• Coil, Suzanne M. George Washington Carver. New York: F. Watts, 1990. [REF F508.1 C256co]
• Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973. Supplement 3 (1941-1945) pp. 145-147. [REF 920 D561 supple. 3]
• Elliott, Lawrence. George Washington Carver: The Man Who Overcame. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1966. [REF F508.1 C256e]
• Holt, Rackham. George Washington Carver: An American Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1943. [REF F508.1 C256h]
• Kremer, Gary R. George Washington Carver: A Biography. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011. [REF F508.1 C256kr2 ]
• Kremer, Gary R. ed. George Washington Carver in His Own Words. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1987. [REF F508.1 c256kr]
• McMurry, Linda O. George Washington Carver, Scientist and Symbol. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981. [REF F508.1C256mc]
• Merritt, Raleigh H. From Captivity to Fame, or the Life of George Washington Carver. Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1929. [REF F508.1 C256m]
• Thomas, Henry. George Washington Carver. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1958. [REF F508.1 C256th]
• Who Was Who In America. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company. v. 2 (1943-1950) p. 106. [REF 920 W6201 v2]

Manuscript Collection

• Donnelly, Phil M. Donnelly (1891-1961), Papers, 1944-1957 (C2151)
  This collection contains papers relating to Donnelly’s two terms as Democratic governor of Missouri. Folder 306 includes a four-page “Programme of Carver Day Exercises” for a memorial honoring Carver at Tuskegee Institute, January 5, 1948.
• McReynolds, Allen (1877-1960), Papers, 1842-1970 (C3605)
  Folder 269 contains correspondence from 1942 between Richard Pilant, English professor at Lindenwood College, and McReynolds, a Missouri state senator and trustee of the State Historical Society of Missouri, regarding the possible purchase of the Carver birthplace.

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