American painting and its tradition: as represented by Inness, Wyant, Martin, Homer, La Farge, Whistler, Chase, Alexander, Sargent

English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters

Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (Harry John); Koehler, S. R.

This work is a scholarly survey of English painting, supplemented by a concise chapter on American artists.

American Masters of Painting Being Brief Appreciations of Some American Painters

Charles H. Caffin

The Mentor: Makers of American Art, Vol. 1, Num. 45, Serial No. 45

J. Thompson Willing

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Mark Twain’s “Life on the Mississippi” is a first‑hand travel memoir that plunges the reader into the gritty…

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is an autobiographical account attributed to Benjamin Franklin, the eighteenth‑century American…

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

This work is an autobiographical narrative by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved man who became a…