The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial South Dakota, the southern part of Dakota Territory and the State of South Dakota.

Bibliographies

• Laubersheimer, Sue (1985). South Dakota Changing, Changeless, 1889-1989: A Selected Annotated Bibliography with Supplement and Index. South Dakota Humanities Council. ISBN 978-0-9632157-3-4. Recommended by the South Dakota State Archives.^[1]

General histories

South Dakota Magazine. This general-interest magazine covers history, art, and current events of South Dakota.

• Hasselstrom, Linda M. (1994). Roadside History of South Dakota. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87842-262-5.
• Hoover, Herbert T., and Harry F. Thompson. A new South Dakota history (Center for Western Studies, 2005)
• Karolevitz, Robert F.; Hunhoff, Bernie (1988). Uniquely South Dakota. Donning Company. ISBN 978-0-89865-730-2. From the publisher of South Dakota Magazine, with many photographs.
• Miller, John E. (2014). "South Dakota at 125: Interpreting the Past, Assessing the Present, and Imagining the Future". The Great War and the Northern Plains.
• Schell, Herbert S. (2004). History of South Dakota. Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-9715171-3-4.
• Thompson, Harry F. (ed.) (2009). A New South Dakota History (Second ed.). Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies – Augustana College. ISBN 978-0-931170-00-3. ((cite book)): |author= has generic name (help)
• Wishart, David J. (2004). Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-4787-7. complete text online; 900 pages of scholarly articles

Doane Robinson

Doane Robinson was a state historian of South Dakota and the author of several important works on the state's history through the first decade of the 1900s.

• Robinson, Doane (1904). History of South Dakota. B. F. Bowen.
• Robinson, Doane (1905). A Brief History of South Dakota. American Book Company.

American Indian history

• Deloria, Philip J. and Salisbury, Neal (eds.) (2004). A Companion to American Indian History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 1-4051-2131-9. ((cite book)): |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Ronda, James P. (2002). Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-8990-1.
• Holder, Preston (1974). The Hoe and the Horse on the Plains: A Study of Cultural Development Among North American Indians. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-5809-7.

Gold rush and Plains Wars

• Krause, Herbert; Olson, Gary D. (August 1974). Prelude to glory: a newspaper accounting of Custer's 1874 expedition to the Black Hills. Brevet Press. ISBN 978-0-88498-019-3.

Homesteading and agricultural settlement years

• Laskin, David (13 October 2009). The Children's Blizzard. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-186652-4.

Economic history

• Fite, Gilbert. "The Transformation of South Dakota Agriculture: The Effects of Mechanization, 1939–1964". South Dakota History. 19 (3: Fall 1989): 278–305.

Local studies

• Atherton, Lewis Eldon (1966). Main Street on the Middle Border. Quadrangle.
• Harrison, Fraser. Infinite West: Travels in South Dakota (2013) Excerpt
• Miller, John E. Miller. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet (1994) excerpt
• Parker, Watson. Deadwood: The Golden Years (1981) excerpt
• Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (University of Iowa Press, 2002); family life in the town of Presho, 1880s-1930s
• Stock, Catherine McNicol (1 September 1997). Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-0-8078-4689-6. - online edition

Geology

• Conn, Herb; Conn, Jan (June 1981). The Jewel Cave Adventure: Fifty Miles of Discovery in South Dakota. ISBN 0-939748-01-0. (describes the exploration of Jewel Cave National Monument from its discovery to the mid-1980s)

Political history

• Blackorby Edward. Prairie Rebel: The Public Life of William Lemke (University of Nebraska Press, 1955)
• Carlson Paul, and Steve Porter. "South Dakota Congressmen and the Hundred Days of the New Deal". South Dakota History vol, 8, no. 4 (Fall 1978): 327-39.
• Easton Patricia O'Keefe. "Women's Suffrage in South Dakota: The Final Decade, 1911–1920". South Dakota History vol 13 (1983): 206–26.
• Garry, Patrick M., and Candice Spurlin. "History of the 1889 South Dakota Constitution." South Dakota Law Review 59 (2014): 14+.
• Lamar Howard. Dakota Territory, 1861–1899: A Study in Frontier Politics (Yale University Press, 1956)
• Lauck, Jon K. (11 October 2012). Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-8588-0.
• Lauck, Jon; Miller, John E.; Simmons (Jr.), Donald C. (2011). The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture. South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-9822749-2-7.
• Maier, Chris. "The Farmers' Fight for Representation: Third-Party Politics in South Dakota, 1889–1918." Great Plains Quarterly (2014) 34#2 pp: 143-162.
• Miller, John E., “Defining Moments in Twentieth-century South Dakota Political History,” South Dakota History, 42 (Summer 2012), 168–90.

Biographies

• Ingalls Wilder, Laura (November 20, 2014). Pioneer Girl (annotated ed.). South Dakota State Historical Society. ISBN 978-0984504176.
• Hoover, Herbert T.; Zimmerman, Larry J., eds. (1989). South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Chouteau, Jr., to Oscar Howe. Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press. p. 439.
• Norris, Kathleen (1993). Dakota: A Spiritual Geography. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0-395-63320-6. Autobiography of life in northwestern South Dakota.

Societies, organizations, and collections

• "South Dakota State Historical Society". State of South Dakota. Pierre, South Dakota.
  • "South Dakota Digital Archives". South Dakota State Historical Society.
• "Center for Western Studies". Augustana College. Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
• "South Dakota Oral History Center". University of South Dakota. Vermillion, South Dakota. 1950s-present.
• "South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum". South Dakota State University. Brookings, South Dakota. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18. 1882-present.