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The Frontier in American History

Frederick Jackson Turner

The work is a scholarly study of the United States’ early territorial expansion, focusing on the New England…

Comic History of the United States

Bill Nye

Bill Nye’s *Comic History of the United States* is a illustrated survey that treats American events as a…

The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2

Egerton Ryerson

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Volume 1, is a scholarly, documentary‑style history by Egerton…

Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States

John Ludlum McConnel

Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States is a mid‑nineteenth‑century sketchbook…

Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska

Hudson Stuck

Hudson Stuck’s Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled is a first‑person travel narrative that chronicles a winter…

The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions

Randolph B. Marcy

The Prairie Traveler is a practical handbook for anyone planning an over‑land journey across the American…

Home Life in Colonial Days

Alice Morse Earle

Alice Morse Earle’s Home Life in Colonial Days is a nineteenth‑century survey of everyday domestic customs in…

The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1

Willis J. Abbot

The work is a nineteenth‑century naval chronicle that records the fledgling United States’ maritime exploits…

Impressions of America During the Years 1833, 1834 and 1835. Volume 1 (of 2)

Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power’s two‑volume work is a travelogue that records his observations of North America during the…

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

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…

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…

Tin-types taken in the streets of New York: A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life

Lemuel Ely Quigg

The work is a series of vignettes that capture the bustling, often chaotic life of turn‑of‑the‑century New…

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…

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

Francis Parkman

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

J. F. Loubat

Colonial Records of Virginia

Various

Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska

Charles Warren Stoddard

A short history of Pittsburgh : 1758-1908

Samuel Harden Church

The United States Constitution

United States

The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77

Samuel Adams Drake

The government class book Designed for the instruction of youth in the principles of constitutional government and the rights and duties of citizens.

Andrew W. Young

Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)

The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 2 of 2

Egerton Ryerson