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Books About the Liberty Bell and Resources for Students
   

The bibliography below is intended to provide a list of resources to students and other individuals interested in reading further about the Liberty Bell. Many of these materials are readily available in your local library.

In order to obtain any of the resources listed in the Library, please visit the local or community library in your area.

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Books about the Liberty Bell
Venerable Relic: the Story of the Liberty Bell - by David Kimball
Published by Eastern National Park & Monument Association, 1989
The Liberty Bell, a Special History Study - by John C. Paige
Published by the National Park Service, Denver Service Center
Ring in the Jubilee; the Epic of America's Liberty Bell - by Charles Michael Boland
Published by Chatham Press, 1973
Andrew McNair and the Liberty Bell 1776 - by Mary D. Alexander
Published by The University of Chicago Press, 1929
The Liberty Bell; its History and Significance - by Victor Rosewater
Published by D. Appleton and Company, 1926
The Liberty Bell - by Gail Sakuri
Published by Childrens Press, 1996, Cornerstones of Freedom Series
Old Liberty Bell - by Francis Rogers and Alice Beard
Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, 1942
History and Legends of the Old Liberty Bell in Independence Hall in Philadelphia
by Charles Wesley Alexander
Published by C.W. Alexander, 1876
Cast in America - by Justin Kramer
Published by J. Kramer, c1975
The Liberty Bell's Interlude in Allentown, 1777-1778 - by Robert K. Mentzell
Published by Sellesville Historical & Achievement Authority, c1974
The Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Philadelphia - by Charles Shearer Keyser
Published by Press of Dunlap, 1893, 1895, 1901
The Liberty Bell - by William Ross Wallace
Published by J.G. Gregory, 1862
The Bell that Rang for Freedom; the Liberty Bell and its Place in American History
by Olga Wilbourne Hall-Quest
Published by Dutton, 1965
The Story of the Liberty Bell - by Natalie Miller
Published by Childrens Press, 1965, Cornerstones of Freedom Series
The Liberty Bell in Allentown and Allentown's Liberty Bell
by John Baer Stoudt, D.D.
Published by Berkemeyer, Keck & Co., 1927
Issued in connection with the 150th anniversary of the bringing of the Liberty Bell to Allentown for safety, September 24, 1777
 
Newspaper and Magazine Articles
Liberty Bell, a poem by I. Swift
Ind. 59:22, July 6, 1905
As the Bell Wended its Way
Ladies Home Journal 22:19, July 1905
True Story of the Liberty Bell
Ladies Home Journal 27:17, July 1910
Old Liberty Bell
St. Nichols 38:820-1, July 1911
Doubts about the Liberty Bell Crack
Literary Digest 44:237, February 3, 1912
Illness of the Liberty Bell
Literary Digest 50:542, March 13, 1915
Liberty Bell and Diseases of Metals
Scientific American S 79:236-7, April 10, 1915
Liberty Bell of Our Nation
Overland ns 65:510, June 1915
Shall We Mend the Liberty Bell?
Literary Digest 65:29-30, June 26, 1920
Liberty Bell Still Unmended
Literary Digest 66:136-8, September 11, 1920
Birth of the Liberty Bell
Outlook 134:336-8, July 4, 1923
Liberty Bell
American Mercury 3:279-84, November 1924
Liberty Bell Rings Again
National Education Association Journal 15:83, March 1926
Announcing Liberty did not Crack the Bell
Mentor 14:20, July 1926
Pilgrimage to the Liberty Bell
St. Nichols 53:881-3, July 1926
Bell's First Note (cover picture with comment)
Literary Digest 102:20, July 6, 1929
Where the Liberty Bell was Cast
Mentor 17:38-40, July 1929
Destiny and the Liberty Bell
National Republic 21:6-7, June 1933
Biography of the Liberty Bell
New York Times M p6+, June 29, 1941
Bells
Hobbies 46:46, July 1941
Meet a Great American, the Bell
Reader's Digest 41:29-31, August 1942
Liberty Bell History
Hobbies 47:22, September 1942
Liberty Bell
Hobbies 53:160, July 1948
Loud May it Ring to Proclaim Liberty
Mon Mag p18, June 24, 1950
Liberty Bell
Colliers 128:21+, July 7, 1951
Our Liberty Bell
Hobbies 56:29, July 1951
We Know your Voice
Coronet 38:71-2, July 1955
Story of a Bell
Rotarian 88:39, May 1956 (reply by H.E. Snyder, 89:1, July 1956)
Liberty Bell Patents in 1875
Hobbies 66:72, September 1961
Liberty Bell Patents in 1876
Hobbies 66:80, December 1961
Leaving Home
Sr Schol 100:20, March 6, 1972
When I Touched the Liberty Bell
Reader's Digest 102:61-3, February 1973
Whose Fault was It? The Crack in the Liberty Bell
American Heritage 24:104, June 1973 (Reply by J. Hinshaw 24:102, August 1973)
Liberty Bell; Will it be Moved?
U.S. News 75:49, October 1, 1973
After 222 Years, Liberty Bell Gets a New Home
U.S. News 80:28, January 12, 1976
Liberty Bell Rehung in New Home
Sr Schol 108:35, February 24, 1976
Gamma Rays on the Liberty Bell A-Okay
Modern Photography 40:38, July 1976
Science Takes a New Look at the Liberty Bell
Popular Science 209:58-9, July 1976
How Farmers Saved the Liberty Bell; Re-enactment of Rescue by Lehigh County Residents
Farm Journal 100:G2, November 1976
Liberty Bell Sauce Dish
Hobbies 91:29, April 1986

 

Video and Audio
The Liberty Bell; Orchestral-Choral Reminiscence of the Birth of the American Nation. Contains a recording of the full sound of the Liberty Bell (three rings) made in 1959 with special hammers and leather mallets by Columbia Records.
Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Chorus, Conductor Neil Mantle, Margaret Buechner, 1994 and 1995. Available in the Liberty Bell Museum Gift Shop
The Liberty Bell Speaks. Videotape release of the 1975 filmstrip, The Bell Speaks, produced by the National Flag Foundation (1 videotape VHS, 6 minutes)

 

 

   
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