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ReadFootprints of the Red Men Indian geographical names in the valley of Hudson's river, the valley of the Mohawk, and on the Delaware: Their Location and the Probable Meaning of Some of Them.
Edward Manning Ruttenber
Edward Manning Ruttenber’s work is a scholarly survey of the Indian place‑names that once marked the valleys…
The Story of the Great War, Volume 5 Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
George Spring Merriam
The work is a nineteenth‑century historical study that treats the development of American slavery from its…
ReadLights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
James Dabney McCabe
James Dabney McCabe’s work is a sprawling, fact‑filled guide to nineteenth‑century New York, framed as a…
ReadRecollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847-1865
Ward Hill Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon’s Recollections of Abraham Lincoln, 1847‑1865 is a memoir‑like compilation that gathers…
What eight million women want
Rheta Childe Dorr
Rheta Childe Dorr’s What Eight Million Women Want is a polemical social‑science work that opens with a bold…
The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia
Cousins, Frank; Riley, Phil M.
The book is a scholarly survey of Philadelphia’s surviving colonial‑era architecture, written by Frank…
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
H. C. Yarrow
The work is a scholarly ethnographic report by Dr. H. C. Yarrow, an assistant surgeon of the U.S.
ReadHistory of the United States of America, Volume 5 (of 9): During the first administration of James Madison
Henry Adams
The work is a scholarly chronicle of the United States during James Madison’s first administration, written…
ReadSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume X, Missouri Narratives
United States. Work Projects Administration
This volume is the tenth in the United States Work Projects Administration’s “Slave Narratives: A Folk…
ReadThe Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
Azel Ames
Ames’s work is a scholarly reconstruction of the Mayflower’s 1620‑1621 voyage, presented as a “log” that…
ReadAdobe days: being the truthful narrative of the events in the life of a California girl on a sheep ranch and in El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles while it was yet a small and humble town; together with an account of how three young men from Maine in eighteen hundred and fifty-three drove sheep and cattle across the plains, mountains and deserts from Illinois to the Pacific coast; and the strange prophecy of Admiral Thatcher about San Pedro harbor
Sarah Bixby Smith
Adobe Days is a memoir‑like chronicle that weaves together personal recollection, family genealogy, and early…
ReadPrehistoric Indians of the Southwest
H. M. Wormington
The book is a scholarly overview of the prehistoric peoples who inhabited the American Southwest, written by…
ReadA Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3
De Alva Stanwood Alexander
This three‑volume work is a scholarly survey of New York’s partisan turbulence from the colony’s final years…
ReadThe war against Japan: Pictorial record
Hunter, Kenneth E.; Tackley, Margaret E.; United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History
The War Against Japan: Pictorial Record is a meticulously compiled visual history of the Pacific campaign,…
ReadFather Duffy's story: a tale of humor and heroism, of life and death with the Fighting Sixty-ninth
Francis Patrick Duffy
Father Duffy’s Story is a first‑person chronicle of the 165th Infantry, the famed “Irish 69th,” during World…
ReadNarrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 1 (of 8) Aboriginal America
Narrical and Critical History of America, Volume 1 is a scholarly compendium that intertwines bibliographic…
ReadA History of the Comstock Silver Lode & Mines Nevada and the Great Basin Region; Lake Tahoe and the High Sierras
Dan De Quille
This work is a compact guide to the silver mines of the Comstock Lode and the surrounding Great Basin,…
ReadThe Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West
Irving, Washington; Bonneville, Benjamin Louis Eulalie de
The work is a first‑person narrative of the explorer‑soldier Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville, presented…
ReadThe Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Florence Howe Hall
The work is a historical memoir that intertwines the emergence of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” with the…
ReadHistory of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians During the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c.
U. J. Jones
Uriah James Jones’s work is a nineteenth‑century regional history that sets out to fill the gaps left by…
ReadAbraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address
Abraham Lincoln
This work is the text of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, a formal presidential speech delivered…
ReadSlave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 3
United States. Work Projects Administration
Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
Buchanan’s Journal of Man, December 1887, Volume 1, Number 11 is a periodical that blends scientific…