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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 Amy Blanche Bramwell, H. Millicent Hughes

by Abraham Epstein

by Thomas D. (Thomas Dudley) Duncan

by Fred Brandt, Andrew Y. Wood

by Archer Butler Hulbert

by Various Authors

by Edgar Fahs Smith

by Abel D. Streight

by chevalier de Charles Hippolyte Paravey

by Anonymous

by Various Authors

by Amanda Alcenia Strickland Washington

by David Burr, Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

by Various Authors

by Hugo de Vries

by George Fuermann

by B. M. (Beale Melanchthon) Schmucker

by John Alexander Martin

by George Wood Wingate

by Various Authors

by Jesse Walter Fewkes

by Anonymous

by Allen Ripley Foote

by John Call Dalton

by Various Authors

by Edward Goodbird, Gilbert Livingstone Wilson

by William Wells Brown

by Various Authors

by G. (Gregorio) Pérez Gomar

by John Robertson Henry

by Washington Irving

by United States. National Park Service

by United States. National Park Service

by Abraham Kuyper

by Various Authors

by Tyko Hagman

by Various Authors

by Henry M. (Henry Moore) Neil

by James Marion Shull

by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Various Authors

by Philadelphia. Board of health

by John Austin Stevens

by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

by Thomas Rainey

by R. J. (Robert J.) Creswell

by George T. McCarthy

by Walter McClintock

by George Frisbie Hoar

by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska

by Martin I. J. (Martin Ignatius Joseph) Griffin

by Arthur Clinton Boggess

by William Edmond Pulsifer

by Mary Ritter Beard

by William Caruthers

by Samuel Stehman Haldeman

by Bessie Louise Pierce

by Charles H. L. (Charles Haven Ladd) Johnston

by Ellen H. (Ellen Hardin) Walworth

by Reuben Gold Thwaites

by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond

by Andrew W. (Andrew White) Young

by William Jackson Hammond, Margaret F. Hammond

by Richard B. (Richard Biddle) Irwin

by Josiah Quincy

by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

by Robert O. Harland

by John V. (John Veasey) Lane

by active 1629-1635 William Wood

by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

by Mississippi Historical Society

by John William Burgess

by Baron Thomas Wodehouse Legh Newton

by Various Authors

by Emmett J. (Emmett Jay) Scott

by Charles King

by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

by Pleasant A. Stovall

by Laurence Hutton

by Joseph Wild

by Josiah Gregg

by Martha Ann Brett Samuel, Ray Samuel

by Laura C. (Laura Carter) Holloway

by Florence Howe Hall

by Graf von Johann Heinrich Bernstorff

by Heywood Broun

by Joel Cook

by Walter Allen