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ReadProceedings of the New York Historical Association [1906]
New York State Historical Association. Meeting
The 1906 volume of the Proceedings of the New York Historical Association is a formal record of the Society’s…
ReadWoodworking Tools 1600-1900
Peter C. Welsh
This work is a scholarly survey of American woodworking hand tools from the seventeenth through the early…
ReadBarnum
M. R. Werner
The work is a scholarly biography of Phineas Taylor Barnum, the 19th‑century showman whose life spanned from…
ReadThe Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.
George Parker Winship
The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence
A. T. Mahan
Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence is a scholarly…
ReadThe journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. IX, 1910
Various
The volume is the ninth issue of the American‑Irish Historical Society’s journal, published in 1910, and it…
The History of Dartmouth College
Baxter Perry Smith
The work is a comprehensive institutional history of Dartmouth College, compiled by Baxter P.
ReadHistoric Towns of the Western States
The work is the concluding volume of a multi‑part series that surveys the historic towns of the United…
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886
Various
The volume is a nineteenth‑century regional periodical that blends travelogue, local history, and natural…
ReadThe Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610-1613
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 1: Acadia, 1610‑1613 is a scholarly compilation that gathers…
ReadHistory of Atchison County, Kansas
Sheffield Ingalls
Sheffield Ingalls’s History of Atchison County, Kansas is a comprehensive, chronologically arranged record of…
ReadThe Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
Hiram Martin Chittenden
The work is a comprehensive historical and descriptive survey of Yellowstone National Park, written by Hiram…
ReadAmerican politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date: embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.
Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine); Fenton, Hector T.
The work is a sweeping reference that sets out, from the colonial era onward, a systematic account of every…
ReadTen Years in Washington or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield
Mary Clemmer
Mary Clemmer’s Ten Years in Washington is a sprawling, illustrated memoir that blends personal observation…
ReadHistory of the United States of America, Volume 1 (of 9): During the first administration of Thomas Jefferson
Henry Adams
This volume, the first of Henry Adams’s nine‑part survey of the United States, concentrates on the…
ReadForty-Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1930-1931, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1933.
The Forty‑Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology is a government‑issued compilation of…
Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times
Various
Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 is a contemporary news‑magazine produced by the New York Times…
ReadNarrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 4 (of 8) French Explorations and Settlements in North America and Those of the Portuguese, Dutch, and Swedes 1500-1700
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
The second volume of History of Woman Suffrage continues the exhaustive chronicle begun in the first book,…
ReadSeventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891
The Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, issued by the Government Printing Office in 1891, is a…
ReadUnited States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. Bush
United States. Presidents
The volume is a straightforward compilation of the United States’ presidential inaugural addresses, beginning…
ReadAll in a Life-time
Morgenthau, Henry; Strother, French
All in a Life‑time is the autobiographical memoir of Henry Morgenthau, a future United States diplomat whose…
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
The book is a collection of letters written between 1862 and 1868 by a handful of New‑England volunteers who…
ReadNarrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 5 (of 8) The English and French in North America 1689-1763