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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

The work is a sprawling compilation of Benjamin Franklin’s scientific correspondence and experimental notes,…

Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe

William Bingley

Our Presidents and how we make them

Alexander K. McClure

This work is a sweeping political history that treats every United States presidential election as a mirror…

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915

Various

Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains is a historical…

Negro Migration during the War

Emmett J. Scott

Emmett J. Scott’s Negro Migration during the War is a scholarly study that examines the massive internal…

George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities

Paul Leland Haworth

Paul Leland Haworth’s work is a scholarly biography that treats George Washington not as a commander or…

The story of a border city during the Civil War

Galusha Anderson

Galusha Anderson’s work is a first‑person testimony that seeks to record the “unvarnished tale” of St.

The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers

Henry Childs Merwin

The work is a scholarly biography that intertwines the life of Bret Harte with a broader portrait of…

Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1

Edmund Flagg

Edmund Flagg’s The Far West (1838) is a travelogue that records a young journalist’s 1836‑37 journey through…

The American Revolution

John Fiske

John Fiske’s “The American Revolution” is a comprehensive, two‑volume scholarly work that treats the conflict…

The Beginner's American History

D. H. Montgomery

The Beginner’s American History is a straightforward instructional work that opens with a detailed,…

Races and Immigrants in America

John R. Commons

A History of Trade Unionism in the United States

Selig Perlman

Selig Perlman’s A History of Trade Unionism in the United States is a scholarly survey that traces the…

Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

Herman Melville

Melville’s Battle‑Pieces and Aspects of the War is a sprawling poetic chronicle of the American Civil War,…

The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters

Bliss Perry

The work is a scholarly survey of American literary history, positioning itself as a “chronicle of great…

Loafing along Death Valley trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places

William Caruthers

The work is a first‑person memoir that blends personal recollection with a sketch of the largely forgotten…

A system of practical medicine. By American authors. Vol. 1: Pathology and general diseases

This first volume of A System of Practical Medicine presents a sweeping survey of pathology and general…

A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This work is a documentary companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel, assembling the factual sources,…

The prisoners' memoirs, or, Dartmoor prison: containing a complete and impartial history of the entire captivity of the Americans in England, from the commencement of the last war between the United States and Great Britain, until all prisoners were released by the treaty of Ghent. Also a particular detail of all occurrences relative to the horrid massacre at Dartmoor, on the fatal evening of the 6th of April, 1815.

C. Andrews

The work is a first‑hand chronicle of American captives taken during the War of 1812, compiled by Charles…

The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1

Daniel Webster

The work is a comprehensive collection of Daniel Webster’s public speeches and legal arguments, assembled to…

Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials

Theodore Roosevelt

The Promise of American Life

Herbert David Croly

Herbert David Croley’s The Promise of American Life is a nonfiction study that situates the United States…

The Horse of America in His Derivation, History, and Development

John Hankins Wallace

John H. Wallace’s work is a scholarly survey of the horse’s origins, migrations, and breeding, with a…