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The Navy of the American Revolution: Its administration, its policy, and its achievements

Charles Oscar Paullin

Charles Oscar Paullin’s work is a scholarly survey of the United States Navy’s formative years, focusing on…

Democracy in America — Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville’s second volume of Democracy in America is a systematic study of how the principle of…

Ride Proud, Rebel!

Andre Norton

The work is a juvenile‑fiction narrative set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, written by Andre…

Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Walter L. Fleming

Walter L. Fleming’s work is a scholarly survey of Alabama’s transition from the ante‑bellum era through the…

Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965

Morris J. MacGregor

The work is a scholarly administrative history that traces the dismantling of legal, administrative, and…

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

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Cover of A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison: Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.

A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison: Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.

Benjamin Waterhouse

This work is a first‑person journal kept by Benjamin Waterhouse, a young Massachusetts surgeon who served…

Infantry Drill Regulations, United States Army, 1911 Corrected to April 15, 1917 (Changes Nos. 1 to 19)

United States. War Department

The work is an official United States Army manual that codifies infantry drill, tactics, and related…

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

J. Wilkinson

John Wilkinson’s “The Narrative of a Blockade‑runner” is a first‑hand memoir that blends personal…

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays

James Russell Lowell

The work is a political essay by James Russell Lowell, taken from the fifth volume of his collected prose and…

American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt

Edward Stratemeyer

This work is a juvenile biography of Theodore Roosevelt, compiled by Edward Stratemeyer and catalogued under…

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political

Franklin K. Lane

The volume presents a curated selection of Franklin K. Lane’s personal and official correspondence, drawn…

A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy with a Tragic Interlude

Cyrus Townsend Brady

This work is a Civil‑War novel that mixes a light‑hearted romance with a somber vignette about a Confederate…

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851

Various

Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July 1851, gathers a series of essays and historical sketches that…

Blue Ridge Country

Jean Thomas

The work is a sweeping regional study that treats the Blue Ridge as both a physical landscape and a cultural…

Cover of The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

The Greatest Highway in the World Historical, Industrial and Descriptive Information of the Towns, Cities and Country Passed Through Between New York and Chicago Via the New York Central Lines. Based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

New York Central Railroad Company

The book is a promotional handbook produced by the New York Central Railroad Company in collaboration with…

Os deputados brasileiros nas Côrtes Geraes de 1821

Manuel Emílio Gomes de Carvalho

Esta obra, escrita por Manuel Emílio Gomes de Carvalho, é um estudo histórico que se concentra nos deputados…

Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky

John S. C. Abbott

John S. C. Abbott’s “Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky” is a biographical sketch that situates its…

Charles Carleton Coffin: War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman

William Elliot Griffis

This work is a biographical tribute to Charles Carleton Coffin, the 19th‑century war correspondent, traveler,…

The Gulf and Inland Waters The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.

A. T. Mahan

The work is a detailed historical study of Union and Confederate naval operations along the Gulf of Mexico…

The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525

Arthur James Weise

Arthur J. Weise’s The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 is a scholarly survey of early Atlantic…

The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells‑Barnett’s The Red Record is a meticulously compiled statistical expose that documents the brutal…

The History of Orange County New York

This volume presents itself as a thorough compilation of Orange County’s past, promising a “most complete”…

The Future of the American Negro

Booker T. Washington

The work is a nonfiction treatise by Booker T. Washington that examines the present and future condition of…