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Cover of Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

James Mooney

James Mooney’s “Myths of the Cherokee” is a scholarly compilation drawn from fieldwork conducted between 1887…

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief

The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief

Morrison Heady

The work is a nineteenth‑century juvenile biography that frames George Washington’s early life as “The Farmer…

Seven and nine years among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

Seven and nine years among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography

Edwin Eastman

This work presents itself as an autobiographical sketch by Edwin Eastman, a self‑described “tyro” author,…

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

Dame Shirley

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851‑52 present a series of twenty‑three epistolary fragments…

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Morford, Henry; Armstrong, William H.; Frick, Jacob G.

Red‑Tape and Pigeon‑Hole Generals is a first‑hand collection of sketches drawn by Union soldiers during the…

Beginnings of the American People

Beginnings of the American People

Carl L. Becker

The work is a multi‑volume survey of American history that sets out to trace the “beginnings, development,…

Cover of Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History

Old Rail Fence Corners: The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History

Old Rail Fence Corners is a locally‑focused historical compilation that blends a map of vanished Minnesota…

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

George Alfred Townsend

George Alfred Townsend’s work is a hybrid of travelogue, personal memoir and war reportage, assembled from…

The Federalist Papers

The Federalist Papers

Hamilton, Alexander; Jay, John; Madison, James

The Federalist Papers are a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay in the…

Public School Education

Public School Education

Michael Müller

This work is a polemical treatise on American public schooling written by Michael Müller, a Catholic…

Cover of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4

United States. Work Projects Administration

This volume is the fourth installment of the Arkansas section of the United States Work Projects…

Cover of Powers of the President during crises

Powers of the President during crises

Smith, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm); Cotter, Cornelius P.

The work is a scholarly study of the United States president’s emergency authority, tracing statutory…

Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2)

Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 2 (of 2)

Tyrone Power

The work is a travelogue that blends observation, anecdote, and occasional satire, chronicling a series of…

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

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

United States. Work Projects Administration

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 2, is a…

Cover of Fifty years in Wall Street

Fifty years in Wall Street

Henry Clews

"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

John Allister Currie

The book is a first‑hand account by Colonel John Allister Currie, a Member of Parliament and veteran of the…

Cover of Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

United States. Warren Commission

The work is the official report of the President’s Commission, commonly known as the Warren Commission,…

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

Z. F. Smith

Z.F. Smith’s work is a scholarly history of the Battle of New Orleans, presented as the nineteenth Filson…

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865

Leander Stillwell

Leander Stillwell’s manuscript is a first‑person account of a Union infantryman’s service from enlistment in…

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees

The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees

Mary Caroline Crawford

The work is a collection of concise, illustrated sketches that aim to supply a readable compendium of the…

Monopolies and the People

Monopolies and the People

Charles Whiting Baker

Charles Whiting Baker’s Monopolies and the People is a nonfiction survey of the rise of trusts and…

Cover of The party battles of the Jackson period

The party battles of the Jackson period

Claude G. Bowers

Claude G. Bowers’s work is a scholarly, partisan chronicle of the turbulent eight years of Andrew Jackson’s…

Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time

Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time

James R. Gilmore

Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time is a Civil‑War‑era narrative that blends travelogue, social…

Cover of The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson In Which is Told the Part Taken by the Rockbridge Artillery in the Army of Northern Virginia

Edward Alexander Moore

The work is a first‑hand memoir by Edward Alexander Moore, a private cannon crewman in the Rockbridge…

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