Books
The museum contains over 1,500 books and booklets, including histories at both a local and state level:
Connecticut Indians
Newspapers and where to find them in Connecticut
Family Genealogies
Identifying clothing, quilts, pewter and antiques
Register and Manual Connecticut - 1849, 1854, 1861, 1865, 1874,1889, 1892, 1894 - 1903, 1906 - 1920, 1922, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1952, 1955, 1970 - 1975, & 1977
Diaries
Life during Colonial Times
Local authors and illustrators
Local homes
Military Histories - Brookfield listings, plus State records of those from Connecticut that served in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, War with Mexico, and the Civil War
School Books - 2001 Millers Antique Guide
Store ledgers
Miscellaneous items
Featured Books:
Litchfield County, Dated 1851
Connecticut Volunteers in the Civil War, Dated 1864
Life in Danbury by J. M. Bailey, Dated 1873
Fairfield Connecticut by D. Hamilton Hurd, Dated 1881
Connecticut Men in the War of revolution, Dated 1889
History of Danbury 1684, by J. M. Bailey, Dated 1896
Biographical record of Fairfield County by J. H. Beers Co. Dated 1899
History of Newtown by Johnson, Dated 1917
Tryon's Raid of April 1777 by James R. Case, Dated 1927
American Heritage Civil War Book, Dated 1960
Connecticut Attacked: A British Viewpoint, Tryon's Raid, Dated 1974
1703 to 1882 New Milford and Bridgewater by Orcutt
Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
The Covered Bridge by Herbert Wheaton Congdon - Vermont
The Turnpikes of New England by Fredrick J. Wood. A new edition of the 1919 classic
Civil War Volunteer Sons of Connecticut by Blaikie Hines
Civil War Times – Several copies of this magazine
Diaries of Arthur Mansfield 1887, 1889, & 1902
Diary of Sarah Clark Joyce – 1920
My Reflections – Ethel Alaby Greene Anderson
Leavenworth Genealogy by E. W. Leavenworth
Families of Early Milford Connecticut – Complied by Susan Woodruff Abbott
Books about Southbury, Sherman, Roxbury and East Cornwall
Records of the Baptist Church (1846 to 1877) – This is an on going project of collecting items that deal with the church.
Quilt and Quiltmakers Covering Connecticut – The Connecticut Quilt Search Project
Quilts from the Civil War by Barbara Brackman
1880 Brookfield Census – Hard copy, with the entire 1880 census on CD
1790 Census of Fairfield & Litchfield Counties
Books and Information about Horace Clifford Westermann
Lost Diners and Roadside Restaurants of New England and New York by Will Anderson, Copyright 2001
The History of Underclothes by C. Willett and Phyllis Cunnington
Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle
Voices From the Past, A History as told by the New Milford Historical Society’s Portraits and Paintings
A People’s University: The Centennial History of Western Connecticut State University by Herbert F. Janick, PhD
The Newspapers 19th Century America by Leonard E. Fisher
A Lending Library of Civil War Material:
Sponsored by the Brookfield Museum & Historical Society
The Day Lincoln was Shot by Jim Bishop
Sherman, Fighting Prophet by Lloyd Lewis
None Died in Vain by Robert Leckie
Why The South Lost The War by Richard Beringer, Herman Hattaway,
Archer Jones, & William Still, Jr.
Landscape Turned Red, The Battle of Antietam by Stephen W. Sears
Chancellorsville by Stephen W. Sears
Civil War Soldiers, Their Expectations and Their Experiences by Reid Mitchell
Mathew Brady’s Illustrated History of the Civil War by Benson Lossing
More Civil War Curiosities by Webb Garrison
Civil War Trivia Quiz Book by Matt Silverman
Historical Maps of Civil War Battlefields by Michael Sharpe
The American Heritage Picture History of The Civil War, Volume One
The American Heritage Picture History of The Civil War, Volume Two
The Civil War, A Narrative – Fredericksburg to Meridian by Shelby Foote
Lincoln at Gettysburg by Garry Wills
Jefferson, A Revealing Biography by Page Smith
Lee by Clifford Dowdey
Campfire and Battlefields by Rossiter Johnson
The Commanders of the Civil War by William C. Davis
U.S. Grant Album by Lawrence A. Frost
Meet Mr. Lincoln by Richard Hanser and Donald B. Hyatt
Civil War Battles by Curt Johnson & Mark McLauhlin
The Photographic History of the Civil War, Forts and Artillery, The Navies by O. E. Hunt
The Civil War by Robert Paul Jordan
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War, Vol. II by G. F. R. Henderson
Mississippi in the Confederacy, As They Saw It by John K. Bettersworth
Mississippi in the Confederacy, As Seen in Retrospect by James W. Silver
Lincoln’s Own Stories by Anthony Gross
A Treasury of Civil War Stories by Various American Writers
The Causes of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp
Meet General Grant by W. E. Woodward
A Man Named Grant by Helen Todd
Campaigning With Grant by General Horace Porter
The Great Rebellion, Vol. I by J. T. Headley
Great Captain, Three Novels of Abraham Lincoln by Honore’ Morrow
Memoirs of a Volunteer, 1861 – 1863 by John Beatty (Ohio)
Lincoln’s Gadfly, Adam Gurowski by LeRoy Fischer
Abraham Lincoln, The Prairie Years and The War Years by Carl Sanburg
Abraham Lincoln by Benjamin P. Thomas
A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Louis J. Weichmann
Lincoln the Unknown by Dale Carnegie
Lincoln and Men of War Times by A. K. McClure
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Stefan Lorant
Lincoln’s Herndon by David Donald
Abraham Lincoln by James Daugherty
The Lincoln Reader by Paul M. Angle
Lincoln, The Liberal Statesman by J. G. Randall
They Knew Lincoln by John E. Washington
The Story – Life of Lincoln, Memorial Edition by Wayne Whipple
Slavery as a Cause of the Civil War by The Amherst College of American Studies
Robert E. Lee, The Man and the Soldier by Philip Van Doren Stern
Decision in the West, The Atlanta Campaign of 1864 by Albert Castel
The Photographic History of the Civil War, Armies and Leaders, The Cavalry, The Decisive Battles
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Ned Bradford (Paperback)
The Army of the Potomac: Mr. Lincoln’s Army by Bruce Catton
The Army of the Potomac: A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War by Ned Bradford
Mountains Touched With Fire, Battle of Chattanooga by Wiley Sword
Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman by W. Fletcher Johnson
Civil War Commanders by T. J. Stiles
Civil War in Pictures by Fletcher Pratt
Decisive Battles of the Civil War by Lt. Col. Joseph B. Mitchell
Freedom, A Novel of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War by William Safire
House Undivided, The Story of Freemasonry and the Civil War by Allen Roberts
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas by Frederick Douglas
Time on the Cross, the Economics of American Negro Slavery by Robert Fogel & Stanley Engerman
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
Never Were Men So Brave, The Irish Brigade During The Civil War by Susan Provost Beller
A Pictorial History of The Civil War Years by Paul M. Angle
Centennial Album of the Civil War by Marvin H. Pakula
Ashes of Glory, Richmond at War by Ernest B. Furgurson
Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
Ante Bellum by Hinton Rowan Helper and George Fitzhugh
Reconstruction After the Civil War by John Hope Franklin
History of the Civil War 1861 to 1865 by James Ford Rhodes
Picture History of the Civil War by Bruce Catton
Eye of the Storm by Private Robert Knox Sneden
Trial by Fire by Page Smith
The Blue and the Gray by Henry Steele Commager
Soldiers Blue and Gray by James I. Robinson, Jr.
Memoirs of Chaplain Life Edited by Lawrence Frederick Kohl
Battlefields of the Civil War by James V. Murfin
Gettysburg, The Paintings of Mort Kunstler, Text by James M. McPherson
The Civil War, An Interactive Package of Image and Text by Zigzag Multimedia
A Treasury of Civil War Tales by Webb Garrison
Look Away by Harold Coyle – A Novel
Children of Pride Edited by Robert Manson Meyers
Civil War Railroads by George B. Abdill
Train Running for the Confederacy by Walbrook D. Swank
Till Victory is Won, Black Soldiers in the Civil War by Zak Mettger
Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. Henderson
Abraham Lincoln the War Years Vol. III by Carl Sandburg
Abraham Lincoln, the War Years Vol. IV by Carl Sandburg
MAGGIE, Maggie Lindsley’s Journal – Privately Printed
The Battered Stars by Howard Coffin
George B. McClellan, The Young Napoleon by Stephen W. Sears
Jefferson Davis, The Man and His Hour by William C. Davis
The Painful News I Have to Write by Harlan Jessup
Fred and Jennie, a Civil War Love Story by Ernest Barker
Dear Mother From Your Dutiful Son by Ernest Barker
Memorabilia of the Civil War by William C. Davis
The Widow of the South by Robert Hicks
Lee’s Lieutenants, A Study in Command by Douglas S. Freeman
Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton
Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton
The Civil War, A Time-Life Series
Brother Against Brother – The War Begins
First Blood – Fort Sumter to Bull Run
The Blockade – Runners and Raiders
The Road to Shiloh – Early Battles in the West
McClellen’s Peninsular Campaign – Forward to Richmond
Lee Takes Command – From Seven Days to Second Bull Run
Decoying the Yanks – Jackson’s Valley Campaign
The Struggle for Tennessee – Tupelo to Stones River
The Bloodiest Day – The Battle of Antietam
War on the Mississippi – Grant’s Vicksburg Campaign
Gettysburg – The Confederate High Tide
The Fight for Chattanooga – Chickamuga to Missionary Ridge
Battle for Atlanta – Sherman Moves East
The Coastal War – Chesapeake Bay to Rio Grande
Spies, Scouts and Raiders – Irregular Operations
Tenting Tonight – The Soldier’s Life
Confederate Ordeal – The Southern Home Front
Twenty million Yankees – The Northern Home Front
The Allan Nevins Series
Fruits of Manifest Destiny 1847 – 1852
A House Dividing – 1852 – 1857
Douglas, Buchanan, and Party Chaos - 1857 – 185
Prologue to Civil War – 1859 – 1861
The Improvised War - 1861 – 1862
War Becomes Revolution – 1862 – 1863
The Organized War – 1863 – 1864
The Organized War to Victory – 1864 - 1865