History - American

The Civil War Through the Camera

Henry W. Elson

The work is a pictorial chronicle of the American Civil War, assembled by Henry W.

The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career

Vespucci, Amerigo; Casas, Bartolomé de las; Columbus, Christopher

The volume is a scholarly collection that brings together the surviving letters of Amerigo Vespucci, the…

Glacier National Park [Montana]

United States. Department of the Interior

The work is an official guide produced by the United States Department of the Interior that combines park…

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is a scholarly survey of the United States Navy’s role in the War of 1812, written by Theodore…

Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams

Adams, John; Adams, Abigail

This volume assembles the surviving correspondence between John Adams and his wife Abigail during the…

History of the United States

Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin); Beard, Mary Ritter

The work is a comprehensive high‑school textbook of United States history, authored by Charles A.

Canyons of the Colorado

John Wesley Powell

John Wesley Powell’s Canyons of the Colorado is a first‑hand scientific report of the 1869‑1872 surveys of…

Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, LLD. F.R.S., late president of the American Philosophical Society, &c.: Interspersed with Various Notices of Many Distinguished Men : With an Appendix, Containing Sundry Philosophical and Other Papers, Most of Which Have Not Hitherto Been Published

William Barton

The work is a biographical memoir of David Rittenhouse, the distinguished astronomer, mathematician and…

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863

Abraham Lincoln

This volume is a primary‑source collection of Abraham Lincoln’s official papers and writings from 1862‑1863,…

Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Thomas J. Wertenbaker’s Give Me Liberty is a scholarly narrative that traces Virginia’s political evolution…

"The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution

Franklin Hichborn

Franklin Hichborn’s The System, as Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution is a nonfiction chronicle…

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President

Ward Hill Lamon

Ward Hill Lamon’s work is a self‑conscious attempt to produce the most authentic biography of Abraham Lincoln…

The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763

Reginald W. Jeffery

The work is a compact scholarly survey of the political development of the Thirteen English colonies from the…

Music and Some Highly Musical People

James M. Trotter

James M. Trotter’s Music and Some Highly Musical People is a nineteenth‑century survey that blends a modest…

Original Photographs Taken on the Battlefields during the Civil War of the United States

Francis Trevelyan Miller

This volume presents the first extensive photographic record of the American Civil War, assembled by the…

The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is an extended essay that sets out to demonstrate how African‑American labor, culture, and…

The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

Charles Morris

The work is a sober, documentary‑style chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the conflagration…

Old Taverns of New York

W. Harrison Bayles

Woman's work in America

The work is a scholarly anthology that sets out to document the various fields in which American women have…

The war against Germany: Europe and adjacent areas

Kenneth E.; United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History Hunter

This volume is a pictorial supplement to the United States Army’s official World War II history series,…

Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray

William Wood

Captains of the Civil War is a scholarly chronicle that treats the American conflict of 1861‑1865 as a series…

Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert

James H. McClintock

James H. McClintock’s Mormon Settlement in Arizona is a scholarly survey of the Latter‑Day Saints’ expansion…

The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners

Samuel Peter Orth

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of labor organization in the United States, anchored in a…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the third part of the Texas section of the United States Work Projects Administration’s “Slave…