History - American

The Romance of the Colorado River: The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh’s work is a first‑hand chronicle of the Colorado River’s early exploration,…

Travels into North America, Volume 3 (of 3)

Pehr Kalm

This third volume of Pehr Kalm’s Travels into North America continues the Swedish naturalist’s detailed…

Leyte: The Return to the Philippines

M. Hamlin Cannon

This volume is the fifth installment of the United States Army’s official World War II series, specifically…

Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

George Francis Dow

George Francis Dow’s “Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony” is a modestly scholarly compilation…

The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles

Allen, James Edgar; Reidy, John J.

The volume is a contemporary account of the Moro Campaign in Mindanao, compiled by war correspondent James…

De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera

Pietro Martire d' Anghiera

De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 is the first half of Pietro Martire d’Anghiera’s eight‑decade chronicle of the New…

The History of the Post Office in British North America

William Smith

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of the postal system in British North America, written by…

A History of American Literature

Percy Holmes Boynton

Percy H. Boynton’s A History of American Literature is a scholarly survey that maps the development of…

Frederick Douglass

Booker T. Washington

This volume is a scholarly biography of Frederick Douglass, written by Booker T.

Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)

Lucius M. Sargent

The work is a nineteenth‑century miscellany on death, funerary customs, and the occasional macabre anecdote.

Eccentricities of genius: Memories of Famous Men and Women of the Platform and Stage

James B. Pond

Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States

James Elbert Cutler

James Elbert Cutler’s work is a scholarly investigation into the American practice of lynching, presented as…

Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights

Kelly Miller

Kelly Miller’s History of the World War for Human Rights is a sweeping, illustrated survey that intertwines a…

Columbus and Other Heroes of American Discovery

N. D'Anvers

Columbus and Other Heroes of American Discovery is a nineteenth‑century reference work that sets out to trace…

Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island

James D. Knowles

James D. Knowles’s memoir is a scholarly biography of Roger Williams, the controversial founder of Rhode…

Pioneers in Canada

Harry Johnston

Harry Johnston’s Pioneers in Canada is a sweeping historical survey that traces the European incursion into…

The Goslings: A Study of the American Schools

Upton Sinclair

The Goslings is a polemical study of American public education written by Upton Sinclair, the famed…

The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896

William Arthur Shaw

The work is a scholarly survey of European metallic money from the medieval period through the nineteenth…

United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul

Arundel Cotter

The work is a nonfiction account that blends personal observation with a broad corporate history.

The Life of the Rev. George Whitefield, Volume 1 (of 2)

L. Tyerman

Luke Tyerman’s two‑volume biography of George Whitefield opens with a vigorous defense of its scope and…

Violence and the Labor Movement

Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter’s Violence and the Labor Movement is a scholarly survey of the long‑standing debate within…

France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 1: A Half-Century of Conflict

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol.

The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence

Benson John Lossing

Benson John Lossing’s The Pictorial Field‑Book of the Revolution is a hybrid of travelogue, illustrated…

American Men of Mind

Burton Egbert Stevenson

American Men of Mind is a biographical survey that attempts to assess the intellectual contributions of the…