History - American

The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 03, March, 1888

Various

The American Missionary, Volume 42, No. 03, March 1888, is a periodical issued by the American Missionary…

The dead towns of Georgia

Charles C. Jones, Jr.

Charles C. Jones, Jr.’s The Dead Towns of Georgia is a nineteenth‑century historical survey that chronicles…

Illustrations of the manners, customs, & condition of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 (of 2) With letters and notes, written during eight years of travel and adventure among the wildest and most remarkable tribes now existing

George Catlin

George Catlin’s work is a sprawling illustrated travelogue that records his eight‑year odyssey among the…

Stories of the Badger State

Reuben Gold Thwaites

Stories of the Badger State is a curated collection of historical sketches that aims to foster civic pride…

China collecting in America

Alice Morse Earle

The work is a memoir‑like guide to the hobby of hunting for antique porcelain and pottery in New England,…

The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September 1787. Volume 1

James United States. Constitutional Convention (1787); Madison

This volume presents the verbatim journal kept by James Madison during the Philadelphia convention of…

Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time

Henry Edward Krehbiel

Henry Edward Krehbiel’s Chapters of Opera is a sprawling historical and critical record of New York’s lyric…

The Remarkable History of the Hudson's Bay Company Including that of the French Traders of North-Western Canada and of the North-West, XY, and Astor Fur Companies

George Bryce

George Bryce’s work is a comprehensive survey of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s final eighty‑year chapter,…

Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences

Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

America's War for Humanity

Thomas Herbert Russell

America’s War for Humanity is a richly illustrated chronicle of the United States’ participation in World War…

The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People

Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston’s The Beginners of a Nation is a scholarly survey of the English colonizing effort from the…

A History of Kansas

Anna E. Arnold

A History of Kansas is a school‑oriented narrative that sets out to give young readers a concise,…

Proceedings [of the] fourth National Conservation Congress [at] Indianapolis, October 1-4, 1912

United States. National Conservation Congress

American Historical and Literary Curiosities: Second Series, Complete

J. Jay Smith

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume V, Indiana Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume presents a series of oral histories collected by the United States Work Projects Administration,…

The Invention of the Sewing Machine

Grace Rogers Cooper

Grace Rogers Cooper’s work is a scholarly monograph that forms volume 254 of the U.S.

The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen

Simon Wolf

The work is a scholarly survey of Jewish participation in the American Revolutionary, War of 1812, Mexican,…

War Poetry of the South

War Poetry of the South is a curated anthology of verse written during and after the American Civil War,…

The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States

Martin Robison Delany

Martin Robison Delany’s work is a polemical treatise that seeks to lay out “great truths” about the status of…

The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 2

George Warburton

The work is a detailed historical narrative of the French and British struggle for control of North America…

Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. The Narrative of Alvar Nunez Cabeca de Vaca. The Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando De Soto by the Gentleman of Elvas

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century; Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, active 16th century; Knight of Elvas

The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism

Paul F. Brissenden

The work is a contemporary historical survey of the Industrial Workers of the World, written in 1919 by Paul…

The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

The volume is a curated anthology of poems and illustrations that honor Abraham Lincoln, assembled by Osborn…

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan

Frederic Courtland Penfield

Frederic C. Penfield’s East of Suez is a travel‑essay collection that blends personal observation with a…