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History - American

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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The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation

by Carry Amelia Nation

Petals Plucked from Sunny Climes

by A. M. (Abbie M.) Brooks

The Interest of America in Sea Power, Present and Future

by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. 5: Quebec, 1632-1633

Strange True Stories of Louisiana

by George Washington Cable

Following the color line : An account of Negro citizenship in the American democracy

Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 17 (of 20)

by Charles Sumner

The Life of La Fayette, the Knight of Liberty in Two Worlds and Two Centuries

by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

The Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution

by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

Diary of an Enlisted Man

by Lawrence Van Alstyne

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

by Ezra Meeker, Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

by American Anti-Slavery Society

Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890

by John P. (John Percival) Jones

The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)

by Justin Harvey Smith

John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series

by Jr. (John Torrey) John T. Morse

A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River

by Barlow Cumberland

An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872, and on the Trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, the Inspectors of Election by Whom Her Vote was Received.

by Anonymous

Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College

by William Robert Lee Smith

John Brown's Raid

by United States. National Park Service

The Home Life of Poe

by Susan Archer Talley Weiss

Life of Kit Carson, the Great Western Hunter and Guide

by Charles Burdett

A Confederate Girl's Diary

by Sarah Morgan Dawson

"Buffalo Bill" from Prairie to Palace: An Authentic History of the Wild West

by John M. Burke

The Arena, Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897

by Various Authors

Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to his father and his youngest sister, 1857-78

by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I.

by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

On the Trail of Grant and Lee

by Frederick Trevor Hill

The Hearth-Stone: Thoughts Upon Home-Life in Our Cities

by Samuel Osgood

Journal history of the Twenty-ninth Ohio Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865 : its victories and its reverses : and the campaigns and battles of Winchester, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Atlanta, the march to the sea, and the campaign of the Carolinas, in which it bore an honorable part

by J. Hamp (John Hamilton) SeCheverell

The war against Germany: Europe and adjacent areas

by Kenneth E. Hunter, United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History

Spanish America, Vol. 1 (of 2)

by Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle

A Study of Army Camp Life during American Revolution

by Mary Hazel Snuff

The Path of Empire: A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power

by Carl Russell Fish

Rambles in the Mammoth Cave, during the Year 1844 By a Visiter

by Alexander Clark Bullitt

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy

by Various Authors

House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692

by William P. (William Phineas) Upham

The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island

by John Rodgers Jewitt

The Oregon Territory, Its History and Discovery

by Travers Twiss

The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide

by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Alexander Hamilton

by Charles A. (Charles Arthur) Conant

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren

An Englishman's travels in America : his observations of life and manners in the free and slave states

by John Benwell

The Famous Missions of California

by William Henry Hudson

Slavery Ordained of God

by F. A. (Frederick Augustus) Ross

The Making of a Trade School

by Mary Schenck Woolman

The War After the War

by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Whip and Spur

by George E. (George Edwin) Waring

Behind the Mirrors: The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington

by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert

Strange stories of the Civil War

by Robert Shackleton, L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden, William Drysdale, G. A. Forsyth, John Habberton, William J. Henderson, Lucy C. (Lucy Cecil) Lillie, Howard Patterson