History - American

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 2

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the second half of the Arkansas section of the United States Work Projects Administration’s…

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

Juan Ortega Rubio

Este tomo I es una crónica histórica que pretende abarcar la evolución de América desde sus orígenes hasta la…

History of the United States of America, Volume 2 (of 9): During the first administration of Thomas Jefferson

Henry Adams

The work is a scholarly chronicle of early‑19th‑century American politics, the second of nine volumes that…

The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 6, March, 1885

Various

The Bay State Monthly, Volume 2, No. 6 (March 1885) is a periodical devoted to the history of New England…

History of Kershaw's Brigade With Complete Roll of Companies, Biographical Sketches, Incidents, Anecdotes, etc.

D. A. Dickert

This volume is a regimental history of Kershaw’s Brigade, the South Carolina formation that fought from First…

Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839

Fanny Kemble

Fanny Kemble’s Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation offers a first‑hand, nineteenth‑century diary…

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa

Joseph H. Alexander

Across the Reef: The Marine Assault of Tarawa is a detailed military history that concentrates on the…

The Black Experience in America

Norman Coombs

Norman Coombs’s The Black Experience in America offers a socio‑cultural survey of African‑American history,…

Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party)

Francis S. Drake

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of primary material concerning the 1773 shipment of tea to the…

The Norse discoverers of America: the Wineland sagas translated & discussed

G. M. Gathorne-Hardy

The work is a scholarly edition that combines translation of the early Icelandic sagas with a detailed…

The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 1 (of 2)

Hazard Stevens

Hazard Stevens’s two‑volume biography of his brother, General Isaac Ingalls Stevens, opens with a solemn…

Some Problems of the Peace Conference

Haskins, Charles Homer; Lord, Robert Howard

The work is a scholarly collection of eight lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in early 1920, later…

History of the United States of America, Volume 7 (of 9): During the second administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

This volume is the seventh of Henry Adams’s nine‑part chronicle of United States history, concentrating on…

The Mayflower Compact

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies

John Dickinson

The work is a collection of political pamphlets written by John Dickinson, the Pennsylvania “Farmer,”…

The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism

Allan Nevins

Allan Nevins’s The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism is a scholarly chronicle that treats the New York…

A Biography of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher

Beecher, William Constantine; Beecher, H. W., Mrs.; Scoville, Samuel

This work is a family‑produced biography of the famed 19th‑century preacher Henry Ward Beecher, compiled by…

Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies

Adams, John; Leonard, Daniel

Novanglus and Massachusettensis is a two‑part political pamphlet first issued in 1774‑75, bringing together…

The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention

Wallace Bruce

The work is a nineteenth‑century guidebook that treats the Hudson River as a living chronicle of three…

True Stories of History and Biography

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This work is a juvenile biography that uses the imagined travels of a sturdy oak chair to link young readers…

The life of Adoniram Judson

Edward Judson

Edward Judson’s work is a biographical narrative that chronicles the life of his father, the missionary…

The History of the First West India Regiment

A. B. Ellis

The work is a detailed military history of the First West India Regiment, compiled by Alfred Burdon Ellis, a…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 6

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the second part of the United States Work Projects Administration’s “Slave Narratives: A Folk…

The Conquest of New France; A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars

George McKinnon Wrong

George McKinnon Wrong’s The Conquest of New France is a sweeping historical narrative that traces the clash…