History - American

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 2

A. T. Mahan

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812, Volume 2, is a scholarly study by Alfred Thayer Mahan that…

The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life

Frank Everett Stevens

Frank E. Stevens’s work is a comprehensive historical study of the Black Hawk War and the life of its…

An Undivided Union

Optic, Oliver; Stratemeyer, Edward

An Undivided Union is a juvenile adventure set amid the turmoil of the American Civil War, written by Oliver…

My Bondage and My Freedom

Frederick Douglass

The work is an autobiographical account by Frederick Douglass, the former enslaved person from Maryland who…

Three years in the Sixth Corps: A concise narrative of events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the close of the rebellion, April, 1865

George T. Stevens

George T. Stevens’s work is a first‑hand regimental history of the Union’s Sixth Corps, written by a veteran…

Albert Gallatin

John Austin Stevens

John Austin Stevens’s work on Albert Gallatin is a scholarly biography that situates the Swiss‑born statesman…

The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1

Willis J. Abbot

The work is a nineteenth‑century naval chronicle that records the fledgling United States’ maritime exploits…

The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States

Harry Best

Harry Best’s work is a scholarly survey of the social standing and educational prospects of deaf Americans at…

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863

George Byron Merrick

Old Times on the Upper Mississippi is a first‑person memoir by George Byron Merrick, a “cub” steamboat pilot…

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine’s Common Sense is a polemical pamphlet printed in Philadelphia in early 1776, aimed at the…

Benjamin Franklin

John T. Morse, Jr.

The work is a scholarly biography of Benjamin Franklin, positioned as the opening volume of a larger series…

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a nonfiction study of New York’s tenement districts, written by a…

France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s third volume in the “France and England in North America” series offers a detailed…

Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men

Various

The volume is a collection of biographical sketches that celebrate the men who helped shape New Hampshire’s…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3 (1918) is a scholarly periodical that gathers a variety of articles,…

All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography

Ida M. Tarbell

All in the Day’s Work is an autobiographical memoir by Ida M.

As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century

Marian Gouverneur

Marian Gouverneur’s work is a sprawling recollection of American social life in the nineteenth century,…

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 5 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 volume is a scholarly biography of George Washington, written by John Marshall, and it opens with a…

Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings

W. P. Strickland

Old Mackinaw is a nineteenth‑century historical and geographical compendium that treats the Mackinac Island…

Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy

Walt Whitman

The volume gathers a series of Whitman’s nonfiction pieces, opening with a vivid meditation on the…

Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 1 (of 2)

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power’s two‑volume work is a travelogue that records his observations of North America during the…

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III is a documentary record of the American women’s‑rights movement in the…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the second part of the South Carolina section of the United States Work Projects…

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Francis Hobart Herrick

The work is a scholarly biography of John James Audubon that blends narrative with extensive documentary…