History - American

The Greater Love

George T. McCarthy

The Greater Love is a first‑person account by George T. McCarthy, a U.S.

Roster of the Rainbow division (Forty-Second) Major General Wm. A. Mann commanding

Harold Stanley Johnson

Harold Stanley Johnson’s work is a straightforward military register, compiled in the autumn of 1917 for the…

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

William Still

William Still’s The Underground Railroad is a nineteenth‑century compilation of first‑hand testimonies,…

Great Indian Chief of the West; Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk

Benjamin Drake

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that sets out to chronicle the Sauk and Fox peoples,…

The art of music, Vol. 04 (of 14): Music in America

The Art of Music, Volume 4, “Music in America,” is a scholarly survey that treats the development of American…

Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

This volume is a scholarly survey of early Spanish exploration and its impact on the sedentary Pueblo peoples…

The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2)

Dean C. Worcester

Dean C. Worcester’s The Philippines: Past and Present is a first‑hand chronicle that blends travelogue,…

McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908

Various

This volume is a first‑hand chronicle of a theatrical troupe’s eight trans‑Atlantic tours between 1883 and…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878

Various

This volume of Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science presents a series of essays that treat…

Plantation sketches

Margaret Devereux

Margaret Devereux’s Plantation Sketches is a modest collection of reminiscences that began as bedtime stories…

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880

Various

Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26 (August 1880), is a periodical anthology…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume III, Number 1 (January 1863) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

The Story of the Sun: New York, 1833-1918

Frank Michael O'Brien

Frank Michael O’Brien’s “The Story of the Sun” is a corporate biography that treats the New York Sun as a…

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916

Various

The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1 (January 1916) is a scholarly periodical that opens with a detailed…

Unitarianism in America: A History of its Origin and Development

George Willis Cooke

George Willis Cooke’s work is a scholarly survey of Unitarianism’s rise in the United States, framed by the…

France and England in North America, Part II: The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s France and England in North America, Part II is a scholarly history that concentrates on…

The Pilgrim fathers of New England: A History

W. Carlos Martyn

The work is a nineteenth‑century historical narrative that treats the Pilgrim Fathers as the heroic founders…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics

Various

The September 1866 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a miscellany of essays, poetry and short fiction…

Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17

John T. Schlebecker

This volume is a scholarly catalogue produced by the Smithsonian Institution’s Division of Agriculture and…

Highways and Highway Transportation

George R. Chatburn

George R. Chatburn’s Highways and Highway Transportation is a scholarly overview of the evolution of roads…

John Deere's Steel Plow

Edward C. Kendall

Edward C. Kendall’s work is a scholarly study of the invention and early development of John Deere’s steel…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 2 (of 8) Spanish Explorations and Settlements in America from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century

A military dictionary: or, Explanation of the several systems of discipline of different kinds of troops, infantry, artillery, and cavalry: The Principles of Fortification, and All the Modern Improvements in the Science of Tactics: comprising the pocket gunner, or little bombardier, the military regulations of the United States: The Weights, Measures, and Monies of All Nations: the technical terms and phrases of the art of war in the French language: particularly adapted to the use of the military institutions of the United States

William Duane

The work is a sprawling reference manual that bills itself as a “Military Dictionary” covering everything…

Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men Comprising Biographical Sketches of Pioneer Settlers and Prominent Citizens

The work is a biographical compendium that tells the story of Cleveland’s growth through the lives of its…