History - American

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War

Stephen Crane

The work is a historical‑fiction narrative set amid the American Civil War, focusing on a young Virginian…

The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin

James Herbert Walker

The work is a contemporary chronicle of the 1889 John Johnstown flood, presented as a sweeping, fact‑laden…

The University of Michigan

Wilfred Byron Shaw

Wilfred Byron Shaw’s work is a concise survey of the University of Michigan’s evolution rather than a…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Booker T. Washington

Up from Slavery is Booker T. Washington’s autobiographical account, assembled from a series of articles that…

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

The Journals of Lewis and Clark present a day‑by‑day record of the Corps of Discovery’s early progress down…

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence is a 1914 anthology that gathers a selection of speeches, addresses, and…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4 (1919) gathers a series of contemporary reports, speeches, and Senate…

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1

A. T. Mahan

This work is a scholarly treatise by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a noted naval historian, that examines how…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the eleventh in a series of folk histories compiled by the Federal Writers’ Project for the…

Comic History of the United States

Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s Comic History of the United States is a illustrated survey that treats American events as a series…

Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave is a first‑person memoir that records the author’s harrowing…

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

Linthicum, Richard; Fallows, Samuel; White, Trumbull

The volume is a sprawling, illustrated chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, assembled by…

Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman

Sarah H. Bradford

The work is a modest, purpose‑driven memoir compiled by Sarah H.

Society as I Have Found It

Ward McAllister

Society as I Have Found It is a sprawling memoir by Ward McAllister, the self‑styled arbiter of New York’s…

The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2

Egerton Ryerson

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Volume 1, is a scholarly, documentary‑style history by Egerton…

The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2

Willis J. Abbot

The Naval History of the United States, Volume 2, by Willis J.

The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

Randolph B. Marcy

The Prairie Traveler is a practical handbook for anyone planning an over‑land journey across the American…

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States

John Marshall

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study by John Marshall, catalogued under the subjects of United…

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States

John Marshall

Marshall’s second volume presents a meticulous military biography of George Washington, focusing on the…

Daily stories of Pennsylvania: Prepared for Publication in the Leading Daily Newspapers of the State...

Frederic Antes Godcharles

Frederic A. Godcharles’s Daily Stories of Pennsylvania is a compact anthology that gathers the “Today’s Story…

Great Britain and the American Civil War

Ephraim Douglass Adams

Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American Civil War is a scholarly examination of how the…

Home Life in Colonial Days

Alice Morse Earle

Alice Morse Earle’s Home Life in Colonial Days is a nineteenth‑century survey of everyday domestic customs in…

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)

Thomas Jefferson

The volume presents a collection of Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence and essays from the late 1780s, a…

Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated

Thomas William Lawson

Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated is a nonfiction exposé that dives into the tangled web of…