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Cover of The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9)
 Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 1 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

Thomas Jefferson

The first volume of this nine‑part series presents the complete collected writings of Thomas Jefferson,…

Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States

Burial Mounds of the Northern Sections of the United States

Cyrus Thomas

The work is a scholarly survey of the burial mounds erected by the mound‑building peoples of the United…

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Americanism

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is a political address by Theodore Roosevelt that frames itself as a celebration of “Americanism”…

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times

History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times

Gustavus Myers

Gustavus Myers’ History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol.

Cover of Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects

Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

This volume is a collection of declassified FBI memoranda, telegrams and correspondence from the summer of…

Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria

Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria

Gay Montague Moore

Gay Montague Moore’s work is a richly detailed historical survey of Alexandria, Virginia, with a particular…

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The Architecture of Colonial America

Harold Donaldson Eberlein

Harold D. Eberlein’s The Architecture of Colonial America is a scholarly survey that maps the built…

Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France

Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France

Parker, Gilbert; Bryan, Claude Glennon

History of American Literature

History of American Literature

Reuben Post Halleck

The work is a scholarly survey of American literary development, organized into seven chapters that trace the…

The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation

The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation

Charles A. Eastman

Charles A. Eastman’s The Soul of the Indian offers a personal, ethnographic portrait of pre‑contact Native…

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228

A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228

Mindeleff, Victor; Mindeleff, Cosmos

This work is a scholarly survey of Pueblo architecture focused on the Tusayan and Cibola provinces, presented…

Cover of Industrial Cuba
 Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and Labour

Industrial Cuba Being a Study of Present Commercial and Industrial Conditions, with Suggestions as to the Opportunities Presented in the Island for American Capital, Enterprise, and Labour

Robert P. Porter

Robert P. Porter’s Industrial Cuba is a government‑commissioned report that reads more like a comprehensive…

The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses

The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses

William Larrabee

The Railroad Question is a nineteenth‑century treatise that blends historical survey with a polemic on…

Vermont: A Study of Independence

Vermont: A Study of Independence

Rowland Evans Robinson

Rowland Evans Robinson’s Vermont: A Study of Independence is a historical survey that opens with a vivid…

Cover of Bartholomew de Las Casas; His Life, Apostolate, and Writings

Bartholomew de Las Casas; His Life, Apostolate, and Writings

Francis Augustus MacNutt

The work is a scholarly biography of Bartolomé de las Casas, the 16th‑century Dominican friar who championed…

The Story of a Pioneer

The Story of a Pioneer

Shaw, Anna Howard; Jordan, Elizabeth Garver

The work is a biographical memoir that traces the life of Anna Howard Shaw from her Scottish ancestry through…

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Cubists and Post-Impressionism

Arthur Jerome Eddy

Cover of Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers

Silvio A. Bedini

Silvio A. Bedini’s Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers is a scholarly survey of the tools…

Cover of Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America

Edmund Burke

This volume presents Edmund Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation with America” together with a substantial…

Cover of The Scandinavian Element in the United States University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 111, No. 3, September, 1914

The Scandinavian Element in the United States University of Illinois Studies in the Social Sciences, Vol. 111, No. 3, September, 1914

Kendric Charles Babcock

The work is a scholarly essay that treats the Scandinavian contribution to American development as a distinct…

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Historic towns of the southern states

The work is the third and concluding volume of a three‑part series on historic American towns, this one…

Diary in America, Series One

Diary in America, Series One

Frederick Marryat

Frederick Marryat’s Diary in America is a first‑person travel narrative that sets out to correct what he sees…

Cover of André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.

André Michaux's Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96; François André Michaux's Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802; Thaddeus Mason Harris's Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803.

Michaux, André; Harris, Thaddeus Mason; Michaux, François André

This volume gathers three early‑American travel narratives, André Michaux’s Kentucky journal (1793‑96),…

Cover of Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, tomo II

Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, tomo II

Juan Ortega Rubio

Este tomo II de Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días de Juan Ortega Rubio es…