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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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Why we are at war : messages to the Congress, January to April 1917
by Woodrow Wilson
Tumacacori National Monument, Arizona
by United States. National Park Service
Kitchener's Mob: Adventures of an American in the British Army
by James Norman Hall
Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.
by Mark Twain
Fifteen Institute Lessons in Language, Arithmetic, and U.S. History
by William Francis Lewis Sanders
Young Folks Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, March 1902 An Illustrated Monthly Journal for Boys & Girls
by Various Authors
The History of the Standard Oil Company
by Ida M. (Ida Minerva) Tarbell
The new freedom : a call for the emancipation of the generous energies of a people
by Woodrow Wilson
The Boys of '98
by James Otis
George Washington: Farmer Being an Account of His Home Life and Agricultural Activities
by Paul Leland Haworth
The History of Louisiana, Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina Containing a Description of the Countries That Lie on Both Sides of the River Missisippi
by Le Page du Pratz
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
by William Wood
Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans
by Sherwin Cody
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
President Wilson's Addresses
by Woodrow Wilson
Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure
by William Pittenger
Colonial days in old New York
by Alice Morse Earle
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XV, Tennessee Narratives
by United States. Work Projects Administration
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2
by Alexander Hewatt
Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
by Helen Campbell
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
by Henry Ketcham
The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address
by Abraham Lincoln
Under the Liberty Tree: A Story of The 'Boston Massacre'
by James Otis
Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover
by William Maxwell Evarts
The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 05, May, 1889
by Various Authors
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 3, March 1881
by Various Authors
The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 7, July, 1881
by Various Authors
A Sketch of the 29th Regiment of Connecticut Colored Troops
by Isaac J. Hill
The Souls of Black Folk
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
The county regiment : a sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War
by Dudley Landon Vaill
The Great Conspiracy, Complete
by John Alexander Logan
Washington's Masonic Correspondence As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress
by George Washington
Life of Wm. Tecumseh Sherman. Late Retired General. U. S. A.
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862
by Abraham Lincoln
The loyalists of America and their times : from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 2 of 2
by Egerton Ryerson
Father Duffy's story : a tale of humor and heroism, of life and death with the Fighting Sixty-ninth
by Francis Patrick Duffy
Our Foreigners: A Chronicle of Americans in the Making
by Samuel Peter Orth
John Brown: An Address at the 14th Anniversary of Storer College
by Frederick Douglass
The Old Northwest: A Chronicle of the Ohio Valley and Beyond
by Frederic Austin Ogg
Revolutionary Heroes, and Other Historical Papers
by James Parton
A popular history of the United States of America, Vol. 2 (of 2) : from the discovery of the American continent to the present time
by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
"Prison Life in Andersonville" With Special Reference to the Opening of Providence Spring
by John Levi Maile
The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States.
by comte de Agénor Gasparin
State of the Union Addresses
by William McKinley
American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States
by Ebenezer Davies
Relation originale du voyage de Jacques Cartier au Canada en 1534
by Jacques Cartier
History of the United States of America, Volume 4 (of 9) : During the second administration of Thomas Jefferson
by Henry Adams
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 10
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith, John F. (John Fanning) Watson
State of the Union Addresses
by John Adams
The Taking of Louisburg, 1745
by Samuel Adams Drake
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark
Home Life in Colonial Days
by Alice Morse Earle
Drum-Taps
by Walt Whitman
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire
by Charles Morris
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
by Alice Morse Earle
Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
North America — Volume 1
by Anthony Trollope
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, Florence Howe Hall
Stories Of Georgia
by Joel Chandler Harris
The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross (Vol. 2 of 2)
by William E. (William Eleazar) Barton
Frederick Douglass A Biography
by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest
by Edward A. (Edward Austin) Johnson
A Short History of the United States for School Use
by Edward Channing
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858
by Abraham Lincoln
The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution
by James M. (James Montgomery) Beck
State of the Union Addresses
by John F. (John Fitzgerald) Kennedy
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
The French in the Heart of America
by John H. (John Huston) Finley
A History of Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas Being an Account of the Early Settlements, the Civil War, the Ku-Klux, and Times of Peace
by William Monks
The Spirit of Lafayette
by James Mott Hallowell
Letters from England, 1846-1849
by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
The Lone Star Defenders : a chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade
by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron
Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.
by Mark Twain
The Battle and the Ruins of Cintla
by Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison) Brinton
The Forty-Niners: A Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado
by Stewart Edward White
An Address to Free Coloured Americans
by Anti-slavery Convention of American Women
The Deserter
by Charles King
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 20
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 55, November 25, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
Correspondence, between the late Commodore Stephen Decatur and Commodore James Barron, which led to the unfortunate meeting of the twenty-second of March
by Stephen Decatur, James Barron
The American Goliah
by Anonymous
Pueblo Bonito: Chaco Culture National Historic Park, New Mexico
by Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 19. Second Series
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
by Alma Lutz
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XIV, South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
by United States. Work Projects Administration
Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, No. 17
by John T. Schlebecker
The United States Constitution
by United States
Brief History of English and American Literature
by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
Paul Jones
by Hutchins Hapgood