Benjamin A. Botkin

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Albert Botkin was an American folklorist and scholar. Early life Botkin was born on February 7, 1901, in East Boston, Massachusetts, to Lithuanian Jewish immigrants. He attended the English High School of Boston and then studied at Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1920 with a B.A. in English. He earned his M.A. in English at Columbia University a year later in 1921, and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1931, where he studied under Louise Pound and William Duncan Strong.

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Benjamin A. Botkin's Published Works

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Lay My Burden Down a Folk History of Slavery (1973) (76)
A Treasury of American Folklore (1944) (36)
A Treasury of Southern Folklore (1950) (19)
A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People (1980) (17)
A Treasury of Western Folklore (1952) (14)
Lay My Burden Down (1947) (11)
Folk-Say: A Regional Miscellany (10)
The people's song book (1948) (10)
A treasury of Southern folklore : stories, ballads, traditions, and folkways of the people of the South (1950) (10)
A Treasury of New England Folklore (1948) (9)
Regionalism: Cult or Culture? (1936) (6)
A Treasury of Railroad Folklore (1954) (5)
Sidewalks of America : folklore, legends, sagas, traditions, customs, songs, stories, and sayings of city folk (1954) (5)
A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South. (1950) (4)
The American play-party song (1937) (4)
Folk-Say. A Regional Miscellany, 1930 (1931) (4)
A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore (1947) (4)
The American play -party song, with a collection of Oklahoma texts and tunes (1938) (3)
Automobile Humor: From the Horseless Carriage to the Compact Car (1968) (3)
A treasury of railroad folklore : the stories, tall tales, traditions, ballads, and songs of the American railroad man (1955) (3)
God's Chillun (1946) (3)
The pocket treasury of American folklore (1950) (3)
A Treasury of New England folklore : stories, ballads, and traditions of the Yankee people (1948) (3)
The Archive of American Folk Song (1944) (2)
A Treasury of Mississippi River folklore : stories, ballads & traditions of the mid-American river country (1984) (2)
New York City folklore : legends, tall tales, anecdotes, stories, sagas, heroes and characters, customs, traditions and sayings (1956) (2)
American Songs for American Children (1944) (2)
Dust on the Folklorists (1944) (2)
FOLKLORE AS A NEGLECTED SOURCE OF SOCIAL HISTORY (1940) (1)
"Folk-Say" and Folklore (1931) (1)
An Anthology of Lizzie Labels (1931) (1)
A Treasury of Western Folklore. (1952) (1)
American folk tales (1963) (0)
American Songs for American Children (1945) (0)
American Songs for American Children (1944) (0)
The American Imagination at Work: Tall Tales and Folk Tales. (1950) (0)
Folk Speech in the Kentucky Mountain Cycle of Percy Mackaye (1931) (0)
The sky's the limit : a selection from a treasury of American folklore (1944) (0)
American Songs for American Children (1944) (0)
Folklore & society : essays in honor of Benj. A. Botkin (1967) (0)
Folk-Say: A Regional Miscellany: 1931@@@The Southwest Scene (1932) (0)
Folk-Song Record Albums (1943) (0)
Zemljanova on Folklore and Democracy (1965) (0)
"No Way to Disremember"@@@Lay My Burden Down (1946) (0)
The Anglo-American Ballad Study Book (1945) (0)
The Lore of the Lizzie Label (1930) (0)
The illustrated book of American folklore : stories, logends, tall tales, riddles, and rhymes (1958) (0)
A treasury of American anecdotes : sly, salty, shaggy stories of heroes and hellions, beguileres and buffoons, spellbinders and scapegoats, gagsters and gossips, from the grassroots and sidewalks of America (1957) (0)
A treasury of Mississippi River folklore : stories, ballads, traditions and folkways of the Mid-American river country (1956) (0)

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