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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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The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
Lincoln's yarns and stories : A complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller
by Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly) McClure
The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919
by Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore, Lewis E. Jahns, Harry H. Mead
Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, and Canada
by Henry A. (Henry Anthony) Murray
Stage-coach and Tavern Days
by Alice Morse Earle
The History of Cuba, vol. 1
by Willis Fletcher Johnson
John Brown
by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends
by Sophie Lee Foster
Mob Rule in New Orleans Robert Charles and His Fight to Death, the Story of His Life, Burning Human Beings Alive, Other Lynching Statistics
by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert
by James H. McClintock
Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
by Various Authors
The Personality of American Cities
by Edward Hungerford
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
by Archibald Henderson
U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 1 (of 5) The Pusan Perimeter
by Lynn Montross, Nicholas A. Canzona, United States. Marine Corps
The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence
by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Dutch and English on the Hudson: A Chronicle of Colonial New York
by Maud Wilder Goodwin
The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative
by Robert Lansing
The house on Henry Street
by Lillian D. Wald
A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: William McKinley
by William McKinley
The century of Columbus
by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Immigration : A world movement and its American significance
by Henry Pratt Fairchild
A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume I.
by Stephen M. Ostrander
Ceremonies of the Pomo Indians
by S. A. (Samuel Alfred) Barrett
George Washington, Volume II
by Henry Cabot Lodge
The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
by Henry M. (Henry Mason) Brooks
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
by Annie Russell Marble
The Brothers' War
by John C. (John Calvin) Reed
The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812
by William Wood
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 1
by John McElroy
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand, the Renowned Missouri "Bushwacker" and Unconquerable Rob Roy of America Being his Complete Confession
by Samuel S. Hildebrand
Los Indios, su Historia y su Civilización
by Antonio Batres Jáuregui
A Jewish Chaplain in France
by Lee J. (Lee Joseph) Levinger
Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860
by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett
Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution
by Thomas Hart Benton
A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865
by Thomas Hughes
Our Changing Constitution
by Charles W. (Charles Wheeler) Pierson
Brave Deeds of Union Soldiers
by Samuel Scoville
Three Visitors to Early Plymouth Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven years
by Emmanuel Altham, John Pory, Isaack de Rasieres
State of the Union Addresses
by James Madison
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
by Various Authors
New-Englands plantation : with the sea journal and other writings
by Francis Higginson
Early explorers of Plymouth Harbor, 1525-1619
by Henry F. (Henry Forbush) Howe
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 21. Second Series
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith
Address of President Roosevelt at the laying of the corner stone of the office building of the House of Representatives, Saturday, April 14, 1906
by Theodore Roosevelt
The tragedy of Monomoy Beach : The graveyard of the Atlantic
by Clarkson P. (Clarkson Paine) Bearse
Orville Southerland Cox, Pioneer of 1847
by Adelia B. Cox Sidwell
Welcome to the ransomed; or, Duties of the colored inhabitants of the District of Columbia
by Daniel Alexander Payne
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts
by William Bradford
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General, United States Army — Complete
by Philip Henry Sheridan
True Stories of History and Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
George Washington's Rules of Civility Traced to their Sources and Restored by Moncure D. Conway
by George Washington, Moncure Daniel Conway
Heroes of the Middle West: The French
by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
by Samuel Adams Drake
Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 02 (of 20)
by Charles Sumner
Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound
by Emily Inez Denny
Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience
by L. P. (Linus Pierpont) Brockett, Mary C. Vaughan
Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01
by John G. (John George) Nicolay, John Hay
Adair's History of the American Indians
by James Adair
The First Seventeen Years: Virginia 1607-1624
by Jr. Charles E. Hatch
The Southern war poetry of the Civil War
by Esther Parker Ellinger
The Glory of the Coming What Mine Eyes Have Seen of Americans in Action in This Year of Grace and Allied Endeavor
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
Harriet, the Moses of Her People
by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford
The March of Portola and the Discovery of the Bay of San Francisco
by Zoeth Skinner Eldredge, E. J. (Eusebius Joseph) Molera
A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade
by William Dobein James
Historia natural y moral de las Indias (vol. 1 of 2)
by José de Acosta
The Story of Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
A Story of the Red Cross; Glimpses of Field Work
by Clara Barton
The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America
by Hudson Stuck
History of Morgan's Cavalry
by Basil Wilson Duke
The works of Alexander Hamilton (vol. 1 of 7) : comprising his correspondence, and his political and official writings, exclusive of the Federalist, civil and military.
by Alexander Hamilton
The Fireside Chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Radio Addresses to the American People Broadcast Between 1933 and 1944
by Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) Roosevelt
The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners
by Samuel Peter Orth
At home in the Smokies : a history handbook for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee
by United States. National Park Service, Wilma Dykeman, James Stokely
History of the United States, Volume 6
by Elisha Benjamin Andrews
The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 02, February, 1896
by Various Authors
Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians
by Benjamin Drake
Three addresses on the relations subsisting between the white and colored people of the United States
by Frederick Douglass
Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 01 (of 15), American (1)
by Charles Morris
State of the Union Addresses
by Calvin Coolidge
The Jubilee of the Constitution Delivered at New York, April 30, 1839, Before the New York Historical Society
by John Quincy Adams
My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life
by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor
Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
by Various Authors
Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or, the Pretended Riot Explained
by William Apess
State of the Union Addresses
by Benjamin Harrison
History of the Gatling Gun Detachment, Fifth Army Corps, at Santiago With a Few Unvarnished Truths Concerning that Expedition
by John H. (John Henry) Parker
Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Demobilization : our industrial and military demobilization after the armistice, 1918-1920
by Benedict Crowell, Robert Forrest Wilson
Cape Cod and All the Pilgrim Land, June 1922, Volume 6, Number 4 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Interests of Southeastern Massachusetts
by Various Authors
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920 America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and Filosophy
by Various Authors
John Jacob Astor
by Elbert Hubbard
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons — Volume 2
by John McElroy
An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois Also, Genundewah, a Poem
by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, William H. C. (William Howe Cuyler) Hosmer
Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pa.
by Edward M. Riley