History - American

The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876

J. F. Loubat

The work is a scholarly survey of the United States’ official medals from the nation’s founding through the…

The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War

Annie Heloise Abel

Annie Heloise Abel’s work is a scholarly study of the political and military maneuvering that placed Indian…

Race Distinctions in American Law

Gilbert Thomas Stephenson

The work is a scholarly survey of how American statutes, constitutional provisions, and court rulings have…

Colonial Records of Virginia

Various

The volume is a compiled set of colonial‑era documents concerning Virginia’s early history, drawn from copies…

Stephen Arnold Douglas

William Garrott Brown

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of Stephen A. Douglas, written by William Garrott Brown, and it…

The Life and Adventures of Nat Love Better Known in the Cattle Country as "Deadwood Dick"

Nat Love

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Nat Love, the African‑American cowboy who earned the nickname…

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years

Ida Husted Harper

This volume is a contemporary biography of Susan B. Anthony, compiled by Ida Husted Harper while Anthony was…

The Negro in the United States; a selected bibliography. Compiled by Dorothy B. Porter

Dorothy Porter Wesley

The work is a scholarly bibliography compiled by Dorothy B.

Adair's History of the American Indians

James Adair

James Adair’s History of the American Indians is a nineteenth‑century reprint of the original 1775 London…

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century

Annie Lash Jester

An extensive historical study, Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century presents a detailed…

The Adventures of Daniel Boone: the Kentucky rifleman

Francis L. Hawks

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical narrative that treats Daniel Boone as a larger‑than‑life…

George Washington

Calista McCabe Courtenay

This work is a biographical narrative that traces George Washington’s early life from his childhood on the…

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner, Omnibus gathers the fiery pamphlets and speeches of the American Anti‑Slavery…

A history of Canada, 1763-1812

Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas

Charles Prestwood Lucas’s work is a scholarly survey of Canada’s formative years from the 1763 proclamation…

First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1879-1880, Government Printing Office 1881

The First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology is a governmental document issued by the Smithsonian…

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

The volume is a scholarly compilation assembled under the auspices of the American Historical Association in…

Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol. I.

Squier, E. G. (Ephraim George); Davis, E. H.

The work is a scholarly memoir issued as the inaugural volume of the “Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge”…

Secret armies: the new technique of Nazi warfare

John L. Spivak

John L. Spivak’s Secret Armies is a polemical investigation into Nazi espionage and propaganda networks that,…

Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects

Charles Wentworth Upham

This work is a scholarly reconstruction of the Salem witch‑craft prosecutions, presented in two volumes by…

The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

Katharine Duncan Morse

The book is a first‑person wartime diary presented as a series of unsent letters from a young American…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The November 1864 issue of The Atlantic Monthly presents a vivid, first‑person account of the Union’s…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 6 (of 8) The United States of North America, Part I

Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete

William T. Sherman

This work is the autobiographical memoir of General William Tecumseh Sherman, a Union commander whose life…

Plymouth memories of an octogenarian

William T. Davis

William T. Davis’s Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian is a personal chronicle that doubles as a local…