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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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Makers and Romance of Alabama History

by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley

Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia

by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Lest We Forget: World War Stories

by John G. (John Gilbert) Thompson, Inez Bigwood

Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 2

by Prinz von Maximilian Wied

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VI, November 1850, Vol. I

by Various Authors

The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln

by Helen Nicolay

The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia An Archeological and Historical Investigation of the Port Town for Stafford County and the Plantation of John Mercer, Including Data Supplied by Frank M. Setzler and Oscar H. Darter

by C. Malcolm Watkins

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

by James Willard Schultz

Project Trinity, 1945-1946

by Carl R. Maag, Steve Rohrer

The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters

by Bliss Perry

American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)

The Olivia Letters Being Some History of Washington City for Forty Years as Told by the Letters of a Newspaper Correspondent

by Emily Edson Briggs

The Children of the Poor

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

The Gilded Man (El Dorado) and other pictures of the Spanish occupancy of America

by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier

State of the Union Addresses

by Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt

Reports of the Committee on the Conduct of the War Fort Pillow Massacre. Returned Prisoners.

by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Daniel W. (Daniel Wheelwright) Gooch, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Wade

Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground

by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg

The American Missionary — Volume 34, No. 7, July, 1880

by Various Authors

The Mormon Menace: The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite

by John Doyle Lee, Alfred Henry Lewis

John Brown, Soldier of Fortune: A Critique

by Hill Peebles Wilson

The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics

by Solon J. (Solon Justus) Buck

All in a Life-time

by Henry Morgenthau, French Strother

An Account of Two Voyages to New-England, Made During the Years 1638, 1663

by active 1630-1675 John Josselyn

Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 13 (of 20)

by Charles Sumner

Woodrow Wilson's Administration and Achievements

by Frank B. Lord, James William Bryan

Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South

by Timothy Thomas Fortune

"The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution

by Franklin Hichborn

The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain

by Charles W. (Charles William) Colby

The Birth of the Nation, Jamestown, 1607

by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

Historia de las Indias (vol. 2 de 5)

by Bartolomé de las Casas

The Makers of Canada: Champlain

by N.-E. (Narcisse-Eutrope) Dionne

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896

by Various Authors

Webster's Seventh of March Speech and the Secession Movement, 1850

by Herbert Darling Foster

Nathan Hale

by Jean Christie Root

McClure's Magazine December, 1895

Dewey and Other Naval Commanders

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon, the Home of Washington

by Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union

Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 07 (of 20)

by Charles Sumner

Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.

by Charles Seymour

A Letter to the Hon. Samuel A. Eliot, Representative in Congress From the City of Boston, In Reply to His Apology For Voting For the Fugitive Slave Bill.

by Franklin Dexter

Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 1

by Elizabeth Sarah Kite

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

by Various Authors

Historical Sketches of Colonial Florida

by Richard L. Campbell

Our Part in the Great War

by Arthur Gleason

Cynthia Ann Parker The Story of Her Capture at the Massacre of the Inmates of Parker's Fort; of Her Quarter of a Century Spent Among the Comanches, as the Wife of the War Chief, Peta Nocona; and of Her Recapture at the Battle of Pease River, by Captain L. S. Ross, of the Texian Rangers

by James T. DeShields

The Pan-Angles A Consideration of the Federation of the Seven English-Speaking Nations

by Sinclair Kennedy

The American Judiciary

by Simeon E. (Simeon Eben) Baldwin

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Founder of the Colony of Georgia, in North America.

by Thaddeus Mason Harris

Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872

by William Frederick Poole, George Buchanan

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No.394, August, 1848

by Various Authors

William Bradford of Plymouth

by Albert Hale Plumb

The History of University Education in Maryland The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891). With supplementary notes on university extension and the university of the future

by Bernard C. (Bernard Christian) Steiner

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 1

by James Athearn Jones

A Traveller in War-Time

by Winston Churchill

Abraham Lincoln

by Baron Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood

Historic doorways of Old Salem

by Mary Harrod Northend

Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico

by John M. (John Maxwell) Corbett

Reminiscences of Peace and War

by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor

Colorado—The Bright Romance of American History

by F. C. Grable

Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon

by George Gibbs

Commodore Paul Jones

by Cyrus Townsend Brady

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term)

Life in the Far West

by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton

The Friendly Club and Other Portraits

by Francis Parsons

The Battle of Atlanta and Other Campaigns, Addresses, Etc.

by Grenville Mellen Dodge

The Uncensored Letters of a Canteen Girl

by Katharine Duncan Morse

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880

by Various Authors

What's What in America

by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

Proclaim Liberty!

by Gilbert Seldes

The United States in the Light of Prophecy Or, an Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17

by Uriah Smith

Once Upon a Time in Connecticut

by Caroline Clifford Newton

The Country-Life Movement in the United States

by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

Charter and Supplemental Charter of the Hudson's Bay Company

by Hudson's Bay Company

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

by Various Authors

John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies

by George Bryce

Memoirs of Orange Jacobs

by Orange Jacobs

An Englishman's View of the Battle between the Alabama and the Kearsarge An Account of the Naval Engagement in the British Channel, on Sunday June 19th, 1864

by Frederick Milnes Edge

Thirteen months in the Rebel Army : being a narrative of personal adventures in the infantry, ordnance, cavalry, courier, and hospital services; with an exhibition of the power, purposes, earnestness, military despotism, and demoralization of the South

by William G. Stevenson

History of the missions of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions to the oriental churches, Volume I.

by Rufus Anderson

The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration [1920 ed.]

by W. Stewart (William Stewart) Wallace

A gallop among American scenery or, Sketches of American scenes and military adventure

by Augustus E. (Augustus Ely) Silliman

Sketches of Indian Character Being a Brief Survey of the Principal Features of Character Exhibited by the North American Indians; Illustrating the Aphorism of the Socialists, that "Man is the creature of circumstances"

by James Napier Bailey

The Twenty-fifth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers in the War of the Rebellion : history, reminiscences, description of battle of Irish Bend, carrying of pay roll, roster

by George P. (George Perkins) Bissell, Samuel K. (Samuel Kimball) Ellis, Henry Hill Goodell, Thomas McManus

Memoir of Roger Williams, the Founder of the State of Rhode-Island

by James D. (James Davis) Knowles

The Wyoming Military Establishment. A History of the Twenty-fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia An Address Before the Tioga Point Historical Society, Delivered December 3rd, 1901

by Charles Tubbs

Atlanta: A Twentieth-Century City

by Atlanta Chamber of Commerce

Historia de las Indias (vol. 5 de 5)

by Bartolomé de las Casas

Other Fools and Their Doings, or, Life among the Freedmen

by H. N. K. (Harriet Newell Kneeland) Goff

Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons

by John C. (John Carsten) Chapin

Half a Man: The Status of the Negro in New York

by Mary White Ovington

Stories of New Jersey

by Frank R. Stockton

Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848

by J. D. (Jacob D.) Green

Wonderland; or, Alaska and the inland passage With a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad

by John Hyde, Frederick Schwatka

Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer

by G. Moxley (Gilbert Moxley) Sorrel

Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 2 (of 2) Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States

by Auguste Levasseur

Bridge Disasters in America: The Cause and the Remedy

by George L. (George Leonard) Vose

Twenty-five years in the West

by E. (Erasmus) Manford

Minority Report of the Committee on Railways in Relation to the Hoosac Tunnel and the Railroads Leading Thereto With a bill to incorporate the State Board of Trustees of the Hoosac Tunnel Railroad; also the speech delivered by Hon. E. P. Carpenter in the Senate of Massachusetts, June 3, 1873, in support of the same

by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on Railways and Canals

Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle, as She Saw it from the Belfry

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

State of the Union Addresses

by Woodrow Wilson