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From revolution and republic to slavery, civil war, and the shaping of a continent, this bookshelf sweeps through the drama of American history in voices that still thunder today. Founding documents, battlefield memories, frontier journeys, and Frederick Douglass’s searing testimony come together in a story of ideals tested by conflict and change. Step in for a vivid ride through the struggles, landscapes, and turning points that forged the United States.
533 Audiobooks
Abolition Fanaticism in New York Speech of a Runaway Slave from Baltimore, at an Abolition Meeting in New York, Held May 11, 1847
by Frederick Douglass
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
by Thomas Jefferson
The Federalist Papers
by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to George W. Bush
by United States. Presidents
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
by Charles A. Eastman
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
by Charles A. Eastman
Jailed for Freedom
by Doris Stevens
The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation
by Carry Amelia Nation
Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America
by Susan Fenimore Cooper
Democracy in America — Volume 1
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America — Volume 2
by Alexis de Tocqueville
Edison: His Life and Inventions
by Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin
The United States Constitution
by United States
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy
by Annie Heloise Abel
Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth
by Alice Morse Earle
Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck
by Harrison Williams
The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners
by Samuel Peter Orth
Stories of the Badger State
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
The Story of a Pioneer
by Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Garver Jordan
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
by Silvio A. Bedini
This Country of Ours
by H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
American Military Insignia, 1800-1851
by (James Duncan) J. Duncan Campbell
A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River
by Barlow Cumberland
The Age of Invention: A Chronicle of Mechanical Conquest
by Holland Thompson
The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry
by Burton Jesse Hendrick
The History of the Negro Church
by Carter Godwin Woodson
Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917. To be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training
by United States. War Department
Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2
by Various Authors
The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway
by Archer Butler Hulbert
The century of Columbus
by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
John Marshall and the Constitution, a Chronicle of the Supreme Court
by Edward Samuel Corwin
Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes
by Jane Addams
The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny
by Orestes Augustus Brownson
The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg Railroad
by Edward Hungerford
Hospital Sketches
by Louisa May Alcott
United States Census Figures Back to 1630
by United States. Bureau of the Census
The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors
by Ralph Delahaye Paine
The Twin Hells A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and Missouri Penitentiaries
by John N. (John Newton) Reynolds
Trinity Site: 1945-1995. A National Historic Landmark, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
by White Sands Missile Range (N.M.). Public Affairs Office
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It
by James J. (James John) Davis
Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
by active 1602 Edward Hayes
Letters from England, 1846-1849
by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
The Jubilee of the Constitution Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical Society
by John Quincy Adams
Project Trinity, 1945-1946
by Carl R. Maag, Steve Rohrer
The Romance of a Great Store
by Edward Hungerford
Liberty in the Nineteenth Century
by Frederic May Holland
How Members of Congress Are Bribed
by J. Hampton (Joseph Hampton) Moore
Henry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military Academy
by Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Clay's Remarks in House and Senate
by Henry Clay
North-Pole Voyages Embracing Sketches of the Important Facts and Incidents in the Latest American Efforts to Reach the North Pole, from the Second Grinnell Expedition to That of the Polaris
by Zachariah Atwell Mudge
Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution
by Thomas Hart Benton
Copyright Law of the United States of America Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code
by Library of Congress. Copyright Office, United States
Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839
by John C. (John Caldwell) Calhoun
John Jacob Astor
by Elbert Hubbard
A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York
by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis
Monopolies and the People
by D. C. Cloud
Notes of an Itinerant Policeman
by Josiah Flynt
Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker
by Charles R. (Charles Rumford) Walker
The leaven in a great city
by Lillian William Betts
Arguments before the Committee on Patents of the House of Representatives, on H. R. 11943, to Amend Title 60, Chapter 3, of the Revised Statutes of the United States Relating to Copyrights May 2, 1906.
by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Patents
Life on the Mississippi
by Mark Twain
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
by Stephen Crane
Common Sense
by Thomas Paine
The Story of the Mormons, from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901
by William Alexander Linn
The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896
by William Arthur Shaw
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
by Abraham Lincoln
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 7: 1863-1865
by Abraham Lincoln
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863
by Abraham Lincoln
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
by Charles Morris
Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time
by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Given November 19, 1863 on the battlefield near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA
by Abraham Lincoln
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
by Various Authors
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851
by Various Authors
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields
by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds
Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Transcendentalism in New England: A History
by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Trinity Site
by National Atomic Museum (U.S.)
U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses
by United States. Presidents
The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England
by Carl L. (Carl Lotus) Becker
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany
by Robert Green Ingersoll
The Story of Wellesley
by Florence Converse
The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740
by Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta) Fries
My Friends at Brook Farm
by John Van der Zee Sears
How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation
by Martha W. (Martha Woodroof) Hiden
Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches An Account of the Big Game of the United States and its Chase with Horse, Hound, and Rifle
by Theodore Roosevelt
The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America
by Ellsworth Huntington
The Story of the Pony Express
by Glenn D. (Glenn Danford) Bradley
The City of Domes : a walk with an architect about the courts and palaces of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, with a discussion of its architecture, its sculpture, its mural decorations, its coloring and its lighting, preceded by a history of its growth
by John D. (John Daniel) Barry
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 09 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Political
by Robert Green Ingersoll