History - American

Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies

Seth Curtis Beach

The volume gathers concise portraits of five notable women, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Mary L.

Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820)

Alice Morse Earle

Two‑Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 is a scholarly survey of early American dress, compiled by…

Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post

Thomas Rainey

Thomas Rainey’s Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post is a polemical treatise that sets out, in a…

They Who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration

Mary Antin

They Who Knock at Our Gates is a polemical treatise that frames the immigration question as a moral test of…

Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California

Caroline C. Leighton

Caroline C. Leighton’s Life at Puget Sound is a sprawling travelogue that blends personal narrative with…

The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes

J. Q. Howard

The work is a biographical study of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th‑century president, written by J. Q. Howard.

Carl and the Cotton Gin

Sara Ware Bassett

The book is a juvenile‑fiction tale set in a close‑knit urban neighborhood, introducing the reader through a…

Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c.

John Frost

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of biographical sketches and frontier narratives that celebrates…

The Indian Question

Francis Amasa Walker

Francis A. Walker’s The Indian Question is a historical‑political study that opens with a sweeping, polemical…

The founding of New England

James Truslow Adams

The work is a scholarly survey of New England’s colonial origins, written by James Truslow Adams and first…

Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Travel to California by the Ox-team Method

Wm. Audley Maxwell

Crossing the Plains, Days of ’57 is a first‑person narrative of an 1857 overland emigrant party that travels…

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

Wayne Whipple

The work is a biographical sketch that assembles anecdotes, family recollections, and contemporary testimony…

The American Empire

Scott Nearing

Scott Nearing’s The American Empire is a sweeping historical study that traces the United States from its…

The North Americans of Antiquity Their origin, migrations, and type of civilization considered

John T. Short

The North Americans of Antiquity is a scholarly survey of the earliest peoples of the United States, Mexico,…

Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863

Sir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle

Arthur James Lyon Fremantle’s Three Months in the Southern States, April‑June 1863, is a first‑hand travel…

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

G. F. R. Henderson

The work is a scholarly biography that intertwines the military history of the American Civil War with the…

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony

Alice Turner Curtis

A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony is a juvenile historical narrative set against the backdrop of the…

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading A compendium of valuable information and wise suggestions that will inspire noble effort at the hands of every race-loving man, woman, and child.

Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading presents itself as a wide‑ranging compendium of essays,…

Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

Carlton McCarthy

This work is a Confederate‑focused regimental history and personal narrative by Carlton McCarthy, a veteran…

Colleges in America

John Marshall Barker

Colleges in America is a scholarly survey of the development and purpose of higher education in the United…

Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive

Alfred Burnett

Incidents of the War is a collection of letters, sketches and anecdotes by Alfred Burnett, a Cincinnati‑based…

History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians

Old Humphrey

This work is a nineteenth‑century compilation on the peoples of North America, assembled by the prolific…

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

W. E. B. Du Bois

The work is a scholarly monograph that sets out, in a systematic fashion, the United States’ long‑term effort…

History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams’s work is a scholarly history that sets out to trace the experience of…