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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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Historical sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers First Brigade, First Division, Sixth Corps
by Edward Livingston Campbell
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable
by Jean S. Remy
The History of Badlands National Monument and the White River (Big) Badlands of South Dakota
by Ray H. Mattison, Robert A. Grom
Cliff Dwellings of the Mesa Verde: A Study in Pictures
by Don Watson
John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884.
by Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe
A campaign in Mexico
by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Scribner
A Survivor's Recollections of the Whitman Massacre
by Matilda Sager
Conservation Archaeology of the Richland/Chambers Dam and Reservoir
by L. Mark Raab, Randall W. Moir
Forest, Rock, and Stream A series of twenty steel line-engravings
by Nathaniel Parker Willis
Hand-book on cheese making
by George E. Newell
State of the Union Addresses
by Zachary Taylor
Campaign and battle of Lynchburg, Va.
by Charles Minor Blackford
Frontier Folk
by George Booth
Bob Taylor's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, April 1905
by Various Authors
Africa and the American Flag
by Andrew H. (Andrew Hull) Foote
The Coming of the White Men: Stories of How Our Country Was Discovered
by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
From Dixie to Canada: Romances and Realities of the Underground Railroad
by H. U. (Homer Uri) Johnson
An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre An Account of the Expedition in Pursuit of the Hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the Spring of 1883
by John Gregory Bourke
Life and bloody career of the executed criminal, James Copeland, the great Southern land pirate
by J. R. S. (James Robert Soda) Pitts
Reminiscences of the Cleveland Light Artillery
by Anonymous
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
The Mentor: Game Birds of America, Vol. 1, Num. 34, Serial No. 34
by Edward Howe Forbush
Report of Mr. Wood's Visit to the Choctaw and Cherokee Missions. 1855
by George W. (George Warren) Wood
Essays in American history
by Henry Ferguson
American slavery, and the means of its abolition
by Jonathan Ward
Fighting Germany's Spies
by French Strother
The Pennsylvania Journal of prison discipline and philanthropy (Vol. VIII, No. III, July 1853)
by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons
History of the Seventh Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
by R. C. (Richard C.) Rankin
The Past and the Present Condition, and the Destiny, of the Colored Race: A Discourse Delivered at the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Female Benevolent Society of Troy, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1848
by Henry Highland Garnet
Canada
by Beckles Willson
Brief for the higher education of the negro
by Kelly Miller
"Morgan's Men," a Narrative of Personal Experiences
by Henry Lane Stone
Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner Being an Ephemeris Regularly Kept by an Officer of the Confederate States Army
by Beckwith West
The Ways of a Worker of a Century Ago as Shown by the Diary of Joseph Lye, Shoemaker
by Fred A. Gannon
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 01
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson
"White man bery unsartin": "Nigger haint got no friends, no how"; the blackest chapter in the history of the Republican Party; the men who robbed and combined to rob the freedmen of their hard earnings.
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
Love and tea: A comedy-drama of colonial times in two acts
by Anna Phillips See
Our Pilgrim Forefathers: Thanksgiving Studies
by Loveday A. Nelson
The Deeds Carillon and Carillon Park
by Anonymous
Chicago and its cess-pools of infamy
by Samuel Paynter Wilson
The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 6, June 1883
by Various Authors
Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Infantry.)
by Thomas Edward Merchant
Personal Recollections of Chickamauga A Paper Read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States
by James R. (James Richards) Carnahan
Tacoma: Electric City of the Pacific Coast, 1904
by Louis W. Pratt
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835
by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge
Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier
by John Algernon Owens
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume II, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4
by United States. Work Projects Administration
The New Nation
by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson
State of the Union Addresses (1790-2008)
by United States. Presidents
The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
by Various Authors
Thirteen Chapters of American History represented by the Edward Moran series of Thirteen Historical Marine Paintings
by Theodore Sutro
The Old Pike A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon
by Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield) Searight
The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five
by C. G. (Charles Gilbert) Hine
Old-Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth
by Alice Morse Earle
Abraham Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Volume 1 (of 2)
by William Henry Herndon, Jesse William Weik
The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
by Theodore Roosevelt
The clipper ship era an epitome of famous American and British clipper ships, their owners, builders, commanders, and crews, 1843-1869
by Arthur H. Clark
The Three Charters of the Virginia Company of London With Seven Related Documents; 1606-1621
by Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation
Highways and Highway Transportation
by George R. Chatburn
Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America
by Albert C. Manucy
West Point An Intimate Picture of the National Military Academy and of the Life of the Cadet
by Robert C. (Robert Charlwood) Richardson
The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett
by Moncure Daniel Conway
Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7
by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 5 (of 5) Operations in West Korea
by United States. Marine Corps, Pat Meid, James M. Yingling
The Story of a Pioneer
by Anna Howard Shaw, Elizabeth Garver Jordan
The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style
by Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Francis Hobart Herrick
The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape
by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson
Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers
by Silvio A. Bedini
New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915
by Various Authors
Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After
by Henry Bascom Smith
Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia
by Carrie Hunter Willis, Etta Belle Walker
Stories Of Ohio
by William Dean Howells
Problems in American Democracy
by Thames Williamson
Quaint and Historic Forts of North America
by John Martin Hammond
Papers of the American Negro Academy. (The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers, No. 18-19.)
by Archibald Henry Grimké, John Wesley Cromwell, Lafayette M. Hershaw, William Pickens, Arthur Alfonso Schomburg, T. G. (Theophilus Gould) Steward
A History of Trade Unionism in the United States
by Selig Perlman
No Man's Land: A History of El Camino Real
by Louis Raphael Nardini
First Offensive: The Marine Campaign for Guadalcanal
by Henry I. Shaw
The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897, vol. 3 (of 4)
by John Randolph Spears
The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 03, July, 1900
by Various Authors
The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897, vol. 1 (of 4)
by John Randolph Spears
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
by Various Authors
Life and marvelous adventures of Wild Bill, the Scout being a true an exact history of all the sanguinary combats and hair-breadth escapes of the most famous scout and spy America ever produced.
by James W. (James William) Buel
The Seventh Regiment: A Record
by George L. Wood
The Iron Puddler: My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came of It
by James J. (James John) Davis
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Manassas (Bull Run) National Battlefield Park, Virginia [1953]
by Francis Wilshin
From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
by Jon T. Hoffman
The Great North-Western Conspiracy in All Its Startling Details
by I. Winslow Ayer
Famous Prima Donnas
by Lewis Clinton Strang