History - American

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 3 (of 8) English Explorations and Settlements in North America 1497-1689

The Story of Cooperstown

Ralph Birdsall

The work is a selective local history of Cooperstown, New York, presented as a “faithful record” that…

The Struggle for Missouri

John McElroy

John McElroy’s The Struggle for Missouri is a dense historical study that situates Missouri’s early statehood…

The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s two‑volume work is a scholarly history of the Pontiac uprising and the wider Indian War…

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919

Moore, Joel R. (Joel Roscoe); Jahns, Lewis E.; Mead, Harry H.

This volume is a first‑hand historical account of the American North Russian Expedition of 1918‑1919,…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 3 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

The work is a scholarly survey of maritime commerce, the third installment in a four‑volume series that…

The Thirty-Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865

Alfred S. Roe

The work is a regimental history of the Thirty‑Ninth Massachusetts Infantry, compiled after the Civil War by…

The Spirit Lake Massacre

Thomas Teakle

Thomas Teakle’s work is a detailed historical study of the 1857 Spirit Lake Massacre, set against the broader…

An Artilleryman's Diary

Jenkins Lloyd Jones

An artilleryman’s diary, written by Jenkin Lloyd Jones, offers a first‑person account that blends personal…

The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 1 of 2)

William E. Barton

The work is a two‑volume biography of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, compiled by a close…

James Russell Lowell, A Biography; Vol 2/2

Horace Elisha Scudder

Horace Elisha Scudder’s second volume of James Russell Lowell, A Biography is a scholarly study that situates…

The North American Indian, Vol. 1

Edward S. Curtis

Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian, Vol. 1 is a scholarly survey of the tribes that still retain…

Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont); Vaughan, Mary C.

The work is a meticulously compiled record of women’s contributions to the Union cause during the American…

New-England's rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country

Josselyn, John, active 1630-1675

The work is a nineteenth‑century re‑edition of John Josselyn’s seventeenth‑century natural history of New…

Cotton is king, and pro-slavery arguments: comprising the writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this important subject

The volume assembles the pro‑slavery essays of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe and…

Pioneers of the Old Southwest: A Chronicle of the Dark and Bloody Ground

Constance Lindsay Skinner

The work is a scholarly narrative of early American frontier history, assembled from primary sources such as…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 1

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the second part of the United States Work Projects Administration’s extensive oral‑history…

Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.

Philip Vickers Fithian

The work is a combined journal and correspondence by Philip Vickers Fithian, a New Jersey‑born scholar who,…

The new freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

Woodrow Wilson

The work is a political manifesto assembled from the speeches President Woodrow Wilson delivered during his…

Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln

This volume gathers the public speeches and private correspondence of Abraham Lincoln from the early days of…

Vigilante Days and Ways The pioneers of the Rockies; the makers and making of Montana and Idaho

Nathaniel Pitt Langford

Your National Parks, with Detailed Information for Tourists

Mills, Enos A.; Schmeckebier, Laurence Frederick

This work is a sweeping guide to the United States and Canadian national parks, written by Enos A.

The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

Mark Twain

The work is a contemporary newspaper essay published in the New York Tribune on August 28, 1868, in which the…

History of the Origin, Formation, and Adoption of the Constitution of the United States, Vol. 1 With Notices of Its Principle Framers

George Ticknor Curtis

Curtis’s work is a scholarly survey of the United States’ constitutional development, beginning with the…