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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 Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials Illustrated by a Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe
by M. V. B. Perley
Personal Recollections of Distinguished Generals
by William Franklin Gore Shanks
Evidences of Progress Among Colored People
by G. F. Richings
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 15 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
The Grimké sisters : Sarah and Angelina Grimké, the first American women advocates of abolition and woman's rights
by Catherine H. Birney
Wau-Bun: The "Early Day" of the North-West
by Mrs. John H. Kinzie
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
by Various Authors
Why Lincoln Laughed
by Russell H. Conwell
The Dangerous Classes of New York, and Twenty Years' Work Among Them
by Charles Loring Brace
The Scholfield Wool-Carding Machines
by Grace Rogers Cooper
Unique Ghost Towns and Mountain Spots
by Caroline Bancroft
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 03, March, 1896
by Various Authors
The Pocahontas-John Smith Story
by Pocahontas Wight Edmunds
The History of Virginia, in Four Parts
by Robert Beverley
A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. V Canada—Part I, Historical
by Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas
Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans
by Charles Henry Hart
The History of the Confederate War, Its Causes and Its Conduct, Volume 2 (of 2) A Narrative and Critical History
by George Cary Eggleston
Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations
by Charles Hemstreet
Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1
by George S. (George Sewall) Boutwell
Verdadera historia de los sucesos de la conquista de la Nueva-España (1 de 3)
by Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town
by John T. (John Tackett) Goolrick
The Cleveland Era: A Chronicle of the New Order in Politics
by Henry Jones Ford
Virginia: the Old Dominion As seen from its colonial waterway, the historic river James, whose every succeeding turn reveals country replete with monuments and scenes recalling the march of history and its figures from the days of Captain John Smith to the present time
by Frank W. Hutchins, Cortelle Hutchins
The American Red Cross Bulletin (Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1909)
by American National Red Cross
The Sea Rovers
by Rufus Rockwell Wilson
A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky
by Ambrose Bierce
Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D.
by Brantz Mayer
Liberation: Marines in the Recapture of Guam
by Cyril J. O'Brien
Historic Waterways—Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
Postal Riders and Raiders
by W. H. Gantz
New Witnesses for God (Volume 3 of 3)
by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
by Various Authors
The Hoosiers
by Meredith Nicholson
Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West
by Russell Doubleday
The Future of Road-making in America
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Adventures in Alaska
by Samuel Hall Young
In Tamal Land
by Helen Bingham
Labor's Martyrs: Haymarket 1887, Sacco and Vanzetti 1927
by Vito Marcantonio
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819
by Richard Lee Mason
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896
by Various Authors
Round Cape Horn Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, from Maine to California in the Year 1852
by J. (Joseph) Lamson
Monopolies and the People
by D. C. Cloud
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 36, July 15, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
Lincoln in Caricature
by Rufus Rockwell Wilson
State of the Union Addresses
by Thomas Jefferson
The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 02, April, 1900
by Various Authors
History of the United States of America, Volume 2 (of 9) : During the first administration of Thomas Jefferson
by Henry Adams
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884
by Various Authors
Colonial dames and good wives
by Alice Morse Earle
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4
by Various Authors
Portrait and Biography of Parson Brownlow, The Tennessee Patriot
by William Gannaway Brownlow
Problems of Expansion As Considered in Papers and Addresses
by Whitelaw Reid
The Rise and Fall of Anarchy in America From its Incipient Stage to the First Bomb Thrown in Chicago
by George N. McLean
The Lumberjack Sky Pilot
by Thomas D. (Thomas Davis) Whittles
Magna Carta, and Other Addresses
by William D. (William Dameron) Guthrie
Emerson on Sound Money A Speech, 1896
by Willis George Emerson
Buckskin Mose Or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide.
by George W. Perrie
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 04, April, 1888
by Various Authors
The Story of Old Fort Dearborn
by J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour) Currey
Address by Honorable William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highways Transport Committee Council of National Defense
by United States. Council of National Defense. Highways Transport Committee
Three Prize Essays on American Slavery
by R. B. (Richard Bowers) Thurston, A. C. (Abraham Chittenden) Baldwin, Timothy Williston
The story of Kentucky
by Rice S. Eubank
Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-7
by Henri Joutel
Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society for the Year 1867
by Charles Edwin Mayo, Henry M. (Henry Mower) Rice, A. J. (Alfred James) Hill, Gideon H. (Gideon Hollister) Pond
William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services
by Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch
The Song of the Rappahannock: Sketches of the Civil War
by Ira Seymour Dodd
Chattanooga or Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge from Moccasin Point
by Jr. Bradford Ripley Wood
Harper's Round Table, January 12, 1897
by Various Authors
The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill
by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre
The history of Company C, Seventh Regiment, O.V.I
by Theodore Wilder
Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly
by Various Authors
Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895
by Various Authors
Harlow Niles Higinbotham A memoir with brief autobiography and extracts from speeches and letters
by Harriet Monroe
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming (1984)
by United States. National Park Service
The impending crisis : conditions resulting from the concentration of wealth in the United States
by Basil A. Bouroff
Siege of Washington, D.C., written expressly for little people
by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams
The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890
by Various Authors
Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884
by Myron Eells
State of the Union Addresses
by William H. (William Howard) Taft
The Mentor: Great American Inventors, Vol. 1, Num. 29, Serial No. 29
by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce
Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782
by Lucinda Lee Orr
Stone's River: The Turning-Point of the Civil War
by Wilson J. Vance
On the Border with Andrew Jackson
by John T. (John Thomas) McIntyre
"Colony,"--or "Free State"? "Dependence,"--or "Just Connection"? "Empire,"--or "Union"?
by Alpheus Henry Snow
The southern cross : A play in four acts
by Foxhall Daingerfield