Tried to run a search but the search isn't working, so sorry if there has already been a thread or several on this. I just discovered it.

The Ballad of America: The history of the United States in song and story, by John Anthony Scott, has songs from the colonial days (British and American songs, loosely writing), The Revolutionary era, the early days, what the author calls Jacksonian America (Sea/Immigration, Western expansion, slavery); the Civil War; up to WWI; between the world wars; WWII; and post-WWII. Has lyrics and music, and historical notes throughout. VERY informative, I had no idea that some of the songs I know were so old (I would have thought Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier to be a Civil War song, but it's Revolutionary, for instance, as is The Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn, and so on. Published by Bantam in the edition I have. Fun!