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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.
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A Woman who went to Alaska
by May Kellogg Sullivan
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
by Various Authors
The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief
by Morrison Heady
Slavery and four years of war : a political history of slavery in the United States, together with a narrative of the campaigns and battles of the Civil War in which the author took part, 1861-1865. Vols. 1-2
by Joseph Warren Keifer
Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield Twentieth President of the United States, Including Full and Accurate Details of His Eventful Administration, Assassination, Last Hours, Death, Etc., Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters
by E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown
The Battle of April 19, 1775 in Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington, Cambridge, Somerville and Charlestown, Massachusetts
by Frank Warren Coburn
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3
by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jr. Joseph Smith
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
by James Dabney McCabe
A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-slavery and reform papers.
by Henry David Thoreau
Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 3 and appendix
by Prinz von Maximilian Wied
Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific
by Stuart Daggett
西海紀遊草
by Zhen Lin
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Ordnance
The Romance of the Colorado River : The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons
by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow
The Virginia Company Of London, 1606-1624
by Wesley Frank Craven
The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive
by Hiram Martin Chittenden
Afloat on the Ohio : an historical pilgrimage of a thousand miles in a skiff, from Redstone to Cairo
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. 1. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Warren Commission (15 of 26): Hearings Vol. XV (of 15)
by United States. Warren Commission
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767 and 1768
by Jonathan Carver
Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons
by John Fletcher
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
by Burton Jesse Hendrick
De la Démocratie en Amérique, tome premier et augmentée d'un Avertissement et d'un Examen comparatif de la Démocratie aux États-Unis et en Suisse
by Alexis de Tocqueville
The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 3
by Samuel Adams
Henry Hudson: A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements
by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes
by Abraham Tomlinson
Popular Law-making A study of the origin, history, and present tendencies of law-making by statute
by Frederic Jesup Stimson
The Story of My Life and Work
by Booker T. Washington
Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
by Gabriel Franchère
The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations
by Harry Perry Robinson
State of the Union Addresses
by George Bush
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison
by Benjamin Harrison
State of the Union Addresses
by Bill Clinton
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 04, April, 1896
by Various Authors
Scenes and Adventures in the Semi-Alpine Region of the Ozark Mountains of Missouri and Arkansas
by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier
by Frank H. (Frank Hayward) Severance
Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
by Pardee Butler
State of the Union Addresses
by George Washington
Daniel Webster
by Henry Cabot Lodge
A Brief History of the United States
by Joel Dorman Steele
The Champlain tercentenary : Final report of the New York Lake Champlain tercentenary commission
by New York (State). Lake Champlain Tercentenary Commission, Henry Wayland Hill
From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin
by William Makepeace Thayer
Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands
by John C. (John Carsten) Chapin
The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West
by Emerson Hough
The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915
by Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve
The land of gold; or, Three years in California
by Walter Colton
Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850 Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California
by John Woodhouse Audubon
From Farm Boy to Senator Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel Webster
by Jr. Horatio Alger
A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870
by William Cullen Bryant
Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin
by Archer Butler Hulbert
The Story of Bacon's Rebellion
by Mary Newton Stanard
Theodore Roosevelt An Address Delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge Before the Congress of the United States
by Henry Cabot Lodge
With Poor Immigrants to America
by Stephen Graham
The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830
by Edwin Erle Sparks
The American Child
by Elizabeth McCracken
Canada; its Defences, Condition, and Resources Being a third and concluding volume of "My Diary, North and South"
by Sir William Howard Russell
George Washington
by Ferdinand Schmidt
The Great Intendant : A Chronicle of Jean Talon in Canada, 1665-1672
by Thomas Chapais
Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.
by Mark Twain
Observations on the new constitution, and on the Federal and State conventions, by a Columbian patriot
by Mercy Otis Warren
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890
by Various Authors
Washington Crossing the Delaware
by Henry Fisk Carlton
A Dialogue in Hades A Parallel of Military Errors, of Which the French and English Armies Were Guilty, During the Campaign of 1759, in Canada
by chevalier de James Johnstone Johnstone
The Eagle's eye
by Courtney Ryley Cooper, William J. (William James) Flynn
From trail to railway through the Appalachians
by Albert Perry Brigham
The Voyage of the Oregon from San Francisco to Santiago in 1898
by active 1898 R. Cross
Notes of an Itinerant Policeman
by Josiah Flynt
Piracy off the Florida Coast and Elsewhere
by Samuel A. (Samuel Abbott) Green
The Battle of Gettysburg, 1863
by Samuel Adams Drake
John Jasper: The unmatched Negro philosopher and preacher
by William E. (William Eldridge) Hatcher
España y los Estados Unidos de Norte América : a propósito de la guerra
by Agustín Aragón
Eight days in New-Orleans in February, 1847
by Albert James Pickett
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Washington, its sights and insights [1903]
by Harriet Earhart Monroe
The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign
by Louis Wiltz Kemp, Edward W. Kilman
Gage's Instructions
by Henry De Berniere, Thomas Gage
The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Katherine Chandler
Narrative of Henry Box Brown Who Escaped from Slavery Enclosed in a Box 3 Feet Long and 2 Wide
by Henry Box Brown
Tales of the Trail: Short Stories of Western Life
by Henry Inman
The Country's Need of Greater Railway Facilities and Terminals Address Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Railway Business Association, New York City, December 19, 1912
by James J. (James Jerome) Hill
The Young Continentals at Trenton
by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre
Vie de Franklin
by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
by Francis Parkman
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
by James Russell Lowell
The liberty minstrel
by George Washington Clark
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680
by Jasper Danckaerts
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
by Edmund Burke