History - American

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…

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a nonfiction meditation on the condition of African Americans at the turn of the twentieth…

Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader

Louise Manly

Louise Manly’s Southern Literature From 1579‑1895 is a scholarly anthology that gathers biographical…

The Critical Period of American History

John Fiske

John Fiske’s The Critical Period of American History is a scholarly narrative that treats the years 1783‑1789…

Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

Alma Lutz

Alma Lutz’s biography of Susan B. Anthony opens with a vivid portrait of a woman caught between the fevered…

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Mary White Rowlandson

The work is a first‑person captivity narrative by Mary White Rowlandson, a Puritan woman of colonial…

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Ulysses S. Grant

The work is the complete memoir of Ulysses S. Grant, a senior United States general and later president, who…

Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier

John Algernon Owens

The work is a first‑person memoir that traces the early life of Willard Glazier against the bleak backdrop of…

The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn Including a new and circumstantial account of the battle of Long island and the loss of New York, with a review of events to the close of the year

Henry Phelps Johnston

The work is a detailed military history of the 1776 campaign surrounding New York and Brooklyn, written by…

Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts

William Bradford

Bradford’s History of “Plimoth Plantation” is a transcription of an original manuscript that records the…

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams’s second volume, History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, continues…

The Book of the National Parks

Robert Sterling Yard

Robert Sterling Yard’s The Book of the National Parks is a comprehensive guide that blends description,…

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life, Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers

A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography is a reference work that gathers concise sketches of notable figures in…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6 (1921) is a scholarly periodical devoted to the study of…

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835

Albert J. Beveridge

Albert J. Beveridge’s fourth volume on John Marshall is a scholarly biography that situates the chief justice…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5 (192 ×) is a scholarly periodical that assembles articles, reports,…

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions

Rupert Hughes

Rupert Hughes’s 1900 volume is a sweeping survey of American musical life at the turn of the century,…

The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner

The work is a scholarly study of the United States’ early territorial expansion, focusing on the New England…

The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

Robert Elliott Flickinger

The work is a historical narrative that traces the emergence of the Choctaw Freedmen’s educational and…

Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes

William H. C. Folsom

Fifty Years in the Northwest is a first‑person memoir that chronicles William H. C.

Democracy in America — Volume 1

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America is a sweeping study of the political and social fabric of the…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 5 (of 5) Operations in West Korea

United States. Marine Corps; Meid, Pat; Yingling, James M.

The work is the fifth and concluding volume of a five‑part official history of United States Marine Corps…