History - American

Jefferson and Hamilton: The struggle for democracy in America

Claude G. Bowers

Claude G. Bowers’s work is a sweeping, nonfiction narrative that frames the early Republic as a grand drama…

The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1

George Warburton

The work is a sweeping historical survey of the struggle for dominance in North America up to 1763, focusing…

The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1

John Charles Dent

John Charles Dent’s The Story of the Upper Canadian Rebellion, Volume 1 is a nineteenth‑century historical…

The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 8, 1918 The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919

United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces

The Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, No. 1 (February 8, 1918) is the inaugural issue of the American Expeditionary…

Expansion and Conflict

William Edward Dodd

William E. Dodd’s Expansion and Conflict is a scholarly survey of American political, economic, and social…

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 02 (of 15), American (2)

Charles Morris

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality, Volume 02, is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that frames…

Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology

John D. Baldwin

The book is a nineteenth‑century survey of the pre‑Columbian remains that scholars of the time called…

Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties

William Denison Lyman

Lyman’s History of Old Walla Walla County, Volume 2 is a regional reference work that chronicles the…

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents

This volume is a scholarly compilation of primary sources that illuminate the intertwined worlds of…

Union and Democracy

Allen Johnson

Allen Johnson’s Union and Democracy is a scholarly survey of the United States from the end of the…

Old Fort Snelling, 1819-1858

Marcus Lee Hansen

Marcus L. Hansen’s work is a scholarly history of Old Fort Snelling, the United States military outpost…

The New Nation

Frederic L. Paxson

Frederic L. Paxson’s The New Nation is a scholarly survey of United States history from the end of the Civil…

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Jasper Danckaerts

The volume presents the 1679‑1680 journal of Jasper Danckaerts, a Dutch‑born Labadist envoy, together with…

Lincoln's Birthday: a comprehensive view of Lincoln as given in the most noteworthy essays, orations and poems, in fiction and in Lincoln's own writings

This volume is a curated anthology that gathers the most noteworthy essays, orations, fiction, and poems…

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States

John Marshall

The work is a multi‑volume biography of George Washington, compiled by John Marshall and organized into a…

Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835 A study of the evolution of the northwestern frontier, together with a history of Fort Dearborn

Milo Milton Quaife

Milo Milton Quaife’s work is a scholarly history of Chicago’s earliest years, tracing the region’s…

A New Guide for Emigrants to the West

John Mason Peck

John Mason Peck’s “A New Guide for Emigrants to the West” is a practical reference work aimed at those who…

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons is a first‑hand account of Union soldiers’ suffering in…

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

T. C. De Leon

Four Years in Rebel Capitals offers a self‑conscious, almost apologetic, survey of Confederate life from the…

The Roswell Report: Case Closed

James McAndrew

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is an official Air Force investigation that builds on a 1994 declassification…

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

A Woman who went to Alaska

May Kellogg Sullivan

The work is a first‑person memoir that chronicles a woman’s eighteen‑month sojourn among the roughest mining…

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

A. T. Mahan

From the outset, this work presents itself as a reflective memoir by Alfred Thayer Mahan, the famed United…

A Portrait of Old George Town

Grace Dunlop Peter

This work is a historical portrait of Georgetown, Washington, D.C., written by Grace Glasgow Dunlop Ecker and…