History - American

Chronicles of border warfare: or, A history of the settlement by the whites, of north-western Virginia, and of the Indian wars and massacres, in that section of the state

Alexander Scott Withers

Chronicles of Border Warfare is a nineteenth‑century historical account that traces the settlement of…

The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697)

John M. Taylor

The work is a scholarly history of witchcraft accusations in Connecticut from 1647 to 1697, presented as a…

The Battle with the Slum

Jacob A. Riis

Jacob A. Riis’s The Battle with the Slum is a nonfiction follow‑up to his groundbreaking 1889 expose How the…

Old English Patent Medicines in America

Griffenhagen, George B.; Young, James Harvey

The work is a scholarly historical study of early American patent medicines that originated in England.

The journal of the American-Irish Historical Society, Vol. VII, 1907

Various

The volume is a formal record of the American‑Irish Historical Society’s seventh year, published at the close…

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

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the thirteenth installment of the United States Work Projects Administration’s “Slave…

France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s “France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World” is a…

One Hundred Years in Yosemite: The Story of a Great Park and Its Friends

Carl Parcher Russell

One Hundred Years in Yosemite is a scholarly chronicle that traces the development of America’s first…

The History of Tammany Hall Second Edition

Gustavus Myers

The work is a painstakingly researched narrative of New York’s most notorious political machine, Tammany…

Under Four Administrations, from Cleveland to Taft Recollections of Oscar S. Straus ...

Oscar S. Straus

The work is an autobiographical memoir by Oscar S. Straus, a former U.S.

The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States

Walter L. Fleming

The work is a historical narrative that treats the immediate post‑war South as a landscape of ruin and…

The Library and Society: Reprints of Papers and Addresses

The volume is a collected series of papers and addresses that trace the emergence of the modern public…

A Minor War History Compiled from a Soldier Boy's Letters to "the Girl I Left Behind Me": 1861-1864

Martin A. Haynes

This work is a personal chronicle assembled from the letters of Martin A.

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It

Hinton Rowan Helper

The work is a polemical treatise on the institution of slavery, written in 1857 by Hinton Rowan Helper, a…

A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.

Roger Williams

This work is a seventeenth‑century linguistic manual and ethnographic sketch compiled by Roger Williams, the…

Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, Volume 02 (of 14), 1899

Mississippi Historical Society

The volume is a scholarly essay published by the Mississippi Historical Society in 1899, forming the second…

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 7 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

Thomas Jefferson

The Colored Regulars in the United States Army

T. G. Steward

The work is a meticulously compiled historical account of African‑American soldiers who fought in the Cuban…

Harriet, the Moses of Her People

Sarah H. Bradford

The work is a biographical sketch of Harriet Tubman, presented as a tribute to the “Moses of her people.”…

The five republics of Central America: their political and economic development and their relations with the United States

Dana Gardner Munro

Dana Gardner Munro’s study is a systematic survey of the five Central American republics, written from the…

Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2)

Herndon, William Henry; Weik, Jesse William

The work is a biographical study of Abraham Lincoln compiled by his former law partner William H.

History of the United States of America, Volume 6 (of 9): During the first administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

The work is a scholarly chronicle of the United States’ early nineteenth‑century foreign policy, focusing on…

On the Border with Crook

John Gregory Bourke

John Gregory Bourke’s On the Border with Crook is a first‑person account that blends memoir, military…

Indian Linguistic Families of America, North of Mexico Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 1-142

John Wesley Powell

The work is a scholarly report issued by the Bureau of Ethnology in 1891, presenting the seventh annual…