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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.

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Jim White

by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

by Edmund F. (Edmund Farwell) Slafter

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

by Lulu Wightman

by Christian A. (Christian Abraham) Fleetwood

by Rachel Baker Gale, George M. (George Melville) Baker

by Herbert Asbury

by Ezra S. (Ezra Stiles) Gannett

by American Oil Company

by Thomas Dove Foster

by Newton Macmillan

by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association

by Walden Kelly

by Charles Grafton Page

by Joseph P. Cullen

by Theodore Roosevelt

by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

by Philadelphia Brigade Association

by Francis Warrington Dawson

by Phoebe Yates Pember

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Barack Obama

by E. A. (Edward Alexander) Sutherland

by Richard M. McMurry

by Kirkland Hart Day

by Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons

by Robert A. Kishpaugh

by Robert Rutherford Drummond

by Various Authors

by John K. Shellenberger

by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

by William Edward Dodd

by Various Authors

by Abner Doubleday

by Nat Love

by Various Authors

by William Garrott Brown

by Sheffield Ingalls

by John Adams, Abigail Adams

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Joel Cook

by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith

by United States. Work Projects Administration
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by New York State Historical Association. Meeting

by Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine) Cooper, Hector T. (Hector Tyndale) Fenton

by Paul F. (Paul Frederick) Brissenden

by C. S. (Constantine Samuel) Rafinesque

by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

by Annie Heloise Abel

by Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) Straus

by Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts) Wells, Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Samuel Finley Breese Morse

by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

by United States. Warren Commission

by Francis Parkman

by John D. Sherwood

by John M. (John Metcalf) Taylor

by Henry Adams

by Thomas Jefferson

by Joseph H. Alexander

by Abraham Lincoln

by Henry Chandlee Forman

by Kenneth Macgowan, Joseph A. Hester

by Charles A. (Charles Anderson) Dana

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley

by William A. (William Augustus) Mowry, Arthur May Mowry

by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell

by William Elliot Griffis

by William Larrabee

by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

by Sir William Howard Russell

by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

by Joel Cook

by George Ticknor Curtis

by John Stanley Cameron

by Warren H. (Warren Hugh) Wilson

by Frederic Courtland Penfield

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

by C. V. (Catherine Van Valkenburg) Waite

by Maud Howe Elliott

by Asbury Harpending

by Martin Van Buren