History - American

The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77

Samuel Adams Drake

The work is a detailed military history of the Revolutionary War’s 1776‑77 New Jersey campaign, with a…

The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches

Mather, Cotton; Mather, Increase

The work is a two‑part historical account of the Salem witch trials, first presented by Cotton Mather, D.D.,…

The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 4, Antiquities The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 4

Hubert Howe Bancroft

The volume is a scholarly survey of the monumental archaeology of the Pacific States, positioned as the…

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1

Jefferson Davis

The work is a polemical history of the Confederate States written by Jefferson Davis, the former president of…

The Writings of Thomas Paine, Complete With Index to Volumes I - IV

Thomas Paine

The volume gathers Thomas Paine’s complete political pamphlets, indexed from the first to the fourth series,…

The Federalist Papers

Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James

The Federalist Papers are a series of persuasive essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and…

The Memoirs, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions

Thomas Jefferson

The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy

Annie Heloise Abel

Annie Heloise Abel’s work is a scholarly study of a largely ignored facet of Civil‑War history: the role of…

The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California

Sir Richard Francis Burton

This work is a mid‑nineteenth‑century travelogue by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British officer and…

The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865

C. Perry Patterson

The work is a scholarly study by Caleb Perry Patterson, an adjunct professor of government at the University…

A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia

Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Benjamin Griffith Brawley’s work is a sweeping social history that seeks to trace the experience of…

Cuming's tour to the western country (1807-1809)

Fortescue Cuming

Fortescue Cuming’s Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country is a travel narrative that records a two‑year…

The settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830

Arthur Clinton Boggess

Arthur C. Boggess’s work is a scholarly history of Illinois from its earliest colonial claims through the…

The United States Bill of Rights The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States

United States

The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution

James Henry Stark

Journals of Conrad Weiser (1748), George Croghan (1750-1765), Christian Frederick Post (1758), and Thomas Morris (1764)

Croghan, George; Morris, Thomas; Post, Christian Frederick; Weiser, Conrad

This volume assembles the surviving journals of four frontier figures, Conrad Weiser, George Croghan,…

North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State

Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State is a government‑sponsored reference work produced by the…

Colonel John Brown, of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, the Brave Accuser of Benedict Arnold

Archibald Murray Howe

This work is a nineteenth‑century biography of Colonel John Brown, a Massachusetts farmer‑lawyer‑soldier who…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7 (1922) is a scholarly periodical that opens with a sweeping survey of…

The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Henry M. Brooks

The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2 is a modestly scholarly handbook that assembles excerpts from…

Profile in black and white: A frank portrait of South Carolina

Howard H. Quint

The work is a scholarly examination of race relations in South Carolina, written by Howard H.

Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912. Vol. 1 of 2

John Wilson Townsend

John Wilson Townsend’s Kentucky in American Letters is a sweeping bibliographic survey that maps a century of…

Christopher Columbus and his monument Columbia: being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose

The volume is a nineteenth‑century tribute anthology that gathers together a selection of writings,…

Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1

Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von

The work is a nineteenth‑century travel narrative that chronicles Prince Maximilian of Wied‑Neuwied’s…