Some book titles may be repeated as a cross-reference.
ADVERTISING/PROPAGANDA
- Encyclopedia of Media and Propaganda in Wartime America
- Historical Dictionary of American Propaganda
- Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947
- Radio Goes to War: the cultural politics of propaganda during World War II
- Radio Wars: truth, propaganda, and the struggle for radio Australia
- Radio's intimate public: Network broadcasting and mass-mediated democracy
- Sold on Radio: Advertisers in the Golden Age of Radio
BIOGRAPHICAL
- A to Z of American women in the performing arts African Americans in the Performing Arts
- Jewish Women in America: A-L
- Notable American women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth Century
COLD WAR
COMEDY
- Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural comedy in the twentieth century
- Eccentrics of Comedy
- Fred Allen's Radio Comedy
- Lum Abner: Rural America and the Golden Age
- Mixed Nuts: America's love affair with comedy teams
- Radio comedy diary: a researcher's guide to the actual jokes and quotes of the top comedy programs of 1947-1950
- Vaudeville, Old and New
DECADES/ERAS
- 1930's, The
- 1940's, The
- 1940's Radio Hour
- America in the 1930's
- America in the 1940s
- America in the 1950s
- American Culture in the 1940's
- American Culture in the 1950's
- America's Great Depression
- Cold War America, 1946 to 1990
- Great Depression in America: a cultural encyclopedia, Volume 1, The
- Hello Everybody: the dawn of American radio
- Historical Dictionary of the 1940's
- Historical Dictionary of the 1950's
- Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression 1929-1940
- Say Goodnight Gracie: the last years of network radio
ENCYLOPEDIAS
- Encyclopedia of Radio
- Encyclopedia of Television (The) [Although the book is about TV, it incorporates a lot of important bio material on several crossover stars; truly an amazing book.]
- Historical Dictionary of American Radio
- + On the Air: the encyclopedia of old-time radio
- Oxford companion to the American musical: theatre, film, and television, The [Despite the title, tons of information about OTR.]
- Screen World Presents the Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965
GAME/QUIZ SHOW
GENERAL
- Great Radio Heroes, The
- Hollywood and Broadcasting: From Radio to Cable
- Radio: The Forgotten MediumRadio Active
- Radio Voices
- Radio's America
- Raised on Radio
HORROR
MISCELLANEOUS
- Agency, The: William Morris and the Hidden History of Show Business
- American Radio Networks Border Radio: Quacks, yodelers, pitchmen, psychics and other amazing...
- Celebrity secrets: government files on the rich and famous
- Descriptive study of the network television Western during the seasons, A [Despite the title, contains a lot of radio information.]
- Emergency Broadcastng and the 1930's American Radio
- Golden Voices of Baseball, The
- Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of Movies, Radio and TV
- Media at War: radio's challenge to the newspapers, 1924-1939
- Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States
- Pittsburgh's Golden Age of Radio
- Points on the Dial: Golden Age Radio Beyond the Networks
- Radio's Captain Midnight: The Wartime Biography
- Radio's Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s
- Radio Live! Television Live!: Those Golden Days When Horses Were Coconuts
- Radio Utopia: Postwar Audio Documentary in the Public Interest
- Superman versus the Ku Klux Klan: The True Story of How the Iconic Superhero Battled the Men of Hate
- This Day in Network Radio
- What's on the Air Tonight: My view of the Golden Age of Radio and other things
- With Amusement for All: a history of American popular culture since 1830
MUSIC
- American Big Bands
- Big Bands and Great Ballrooms: America Is Dancing. . .again
- Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers, A
- Music Men, The: The Guys Who Sang With the Bands and Beyond
- Country Music Goes to War
- Later swing era, The 1942 to 1955
- More Nashville Nostalgia
- Music Men, The: The guys who sang with the band and beyond
- Music of the Post-war Era
- Music of the World War II era
- Swing
- Swing Changes: big-band jazz in New Deal America
- Swing Era, The: the development of jazz, 1930-1945
- Swing, That Modern Sound
- Tin Pan Alley: an encyclopedia of the golden age of American song
NON-U.S. OTR
