History - American

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie

This work is the autobiographical memoir of Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish‑born American industrialist and…

Discourses of Brigham Young

Brigham Young

This volume presents a curated selection of Brigham Young’s public addresses, drawn from the Journal of…

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4: Quaint and Curious Advertisements Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Henry M. Brooks

The Olden Time Series, Vol. 4 gathers “quaint and curious advertisements” taken from the archives of Boston…

Sixty Years in Southern California, 1853-1913 Containing the Reminiscences of Harris Newmark

Harris Newmark

The work is a memoir of Harris Newmark, a longtime resident and businessman who witnessed the growth of Los…

Lincoln's yarns and stories: A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller

Alexander K. McClure

The volume presents a curated anthology of Abraham Lincoln’s “yarns, stories, droll sayings, and witty…

Peter Cooper

Rossiter W. Raymond

The work is a biographical sketch of Peter Cooper, the 19th‑century American inventor, industrialist and…

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

Samuel Adams Drake

Samuel Adams Drake’s Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast is a sprawling travel‑history that sweeps the…

Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker’s Virginia under the Stuarts is a scholarly history of Virginia’s colonial era,…

The Argonauts of California: being the reminiscenses of scenes and incidents that occurred in California in the early mining days

Charles Warren Haskins

Charles Warren Haskins’s The Argonauts of California is a first‑person recollection of the early mining era,…

The Wampanoags in the seventeenth century: An ethnohistorical survey

Catherine Marten

Catherine Marten’s monograph is an ethnohistorical survey that compiles every known documentary and…

Heroes of the Middle West: The French

Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Mary Hartwell Catherwood’s Heroes of the Middle West: The French is a historical narrative that traces French…

James B. Eads

Louis How

The work is a biographical sketch of James Buchanan Eads, written by Louis How in 1900.

American Prisoners of the Revolution

Danske Dandridge

American Prisoners of the Revolution is a scholarly compilation that gathers scattered primary accounts of…

The story of the first trans-continental railroad: Its Projectors, Construction, and History

William Francis Bailey

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical account that traces the conception, promotion, and ultimate…

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6 (December 1862) is a mid‑Civil War periodical that blends literary…

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I

The work is a comprehensive, documentary‑style history of the American woman‑suffrage movement, assembled by…

New Ideals in Rural Schools

George Herbert Betts

George Herbert Betts’s New Ideals in Rural Schools is a scholarly monograph that tackles the persistent…

The History of the Standard Oil Company

Ida M. Tarbell

Ida M. Tarbell’s The History of the Standard Oil Company is a meticulously researched investigative narrative…

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

William T. Hornaday

The book is a forceful appeal for wildlife conservation written in 1912 by the noted zoologist William T.

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 4 (of 5) The East-Central Front

United States. Marine Corps; Hicks, Norman W.; Kuokka, Hubard D.; Montross, Lynn

This volume is the fourth of a five‑part official history of United States Marine Corps operations in the…

Motion pictures, 1940-1949: Catalog of copyright entries

Library of Congress. Copyright Office

This volume is a comprehensive government‑compiled register of every motion‑picture work that received a U.S.

The North-Americans of yesterday: a comparative study of North-American Indian life, customs, and products, on the theory of the ethnic unity of the race

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh’s work is a scholarly comparative study that treats the Indigenous peoples of…

The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912

James H. Blount

James H. Blount’s The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898‑1912 is a dense historical study that…

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States,…