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The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …

Upper Canada Sketches

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Thomas Conant

This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario),…

History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik

Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

The Complete Confectioner

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Hannah Glasse

The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is fro…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard

The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

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Various

This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…

Man and Nature on the Broads

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Arthur Henry Patterson

From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…

A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie

This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …

The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829

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Richard B. Morris

In this short (58 page) work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred du…

History of The New York Times, 1851-1921

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Elmer Holmes Davis

A beautifully written and witty history of The New York Times, and of newspaper publishing in general, from the 1850s to 1921 by three-time …

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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Various

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the Unit…

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett

The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of c…

True Stories of Girl Heroines

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Evelyn Everett-Green

Twenty short stories retelling the heroic deeds of teenaged girls and young women from history. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle

The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 2

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William E. Barton

Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a h…

The American Postal Service, Second Edition

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Louis Melius

The history of the postal service in the United States goes back to the colonial period, but was established more formally with the issuing …

Frostiana: or a history of the River Thames in a frozen state

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George Davis

The frost fair of 1814 began on 1 February, and lasted four days. A printer named George Davis published a 124-page book, "Frostiana; o…

Woman and the Republic

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Helen Johnson

First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…

The Great White North

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Helen S. Wright

Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS

Kidnapped in London

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Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen

Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…

Modern (19th C)

Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen