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• Contemporary American Composers (Boston: L. C. Page and Co., 1900), by Rupert Hughes (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and MIDI)
• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Neil Gould (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, by Catherine Parsons Smith (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Life and Letters of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, by Octavia Hensel, His Friend and Pupil (Boston: O. Ditson and Co., c1870), by Mary Alice Seymour (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)

• Victor Herbert: A Theatrical Life (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008), by Neil Gould (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• Rockin' My Life Away: Listening to Jerry Lee Lewis, by Jimmy Guterman (HTML with commentary at guterman.com)

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, by Rupert Hughes
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Haydn, by J. Cuthbert Hadden (Gutenberg text)

• Brian Eno: His Music and the Vertical Color of Sound (1989), by Eric Tamm (zipped Word files with commentary at erictamm.com)

• Masters of French Music, by Arthur Hervey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Johann Sebastian Bach: His Work and Influence on the Music of Germany, 1685-1750 (3 volumes; London: Novello and Co.; New York: H. W. Gray, 1899), by Philipp Spitta, trans. by Clara Bell and J. A. Fuller-Maitland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org

• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (frame-dependent page images at Harvard)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (1871), by James Dabney McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man, by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)

• The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (partial serial archives)

• Hero Tales From American History, by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg text)
• Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text)

• A Biography of Maurice F. O'Connell: The Story of an American Hero, by Perry T. Ryan (illustrated HTML at newclovercreek.org)
• Campaigning With Grant, by Horace Porter (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
• Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-1995, by William Gardner Bell (HTML at US Army CMH)
• A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1876), by Frederick Whittaker (page images at Wisconsin)
• Dwight David Eisenhower: The Centennial, by United States Army (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)
• Eisenhower's Legacy: The Report of the Legacy Committee on Dwight David Eisenhower's Military Achievements, Presidential Accomplishments, and Lifetime of Public Service (2003), by Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Committee (illustrated HTML and PDF at eisenhowermemorial.org)
• Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, by Philip Henry Sheridan (Gutenberg text)
• Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution, by Robert K. Wright and Morris J. MacGregor (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)
• The Taste of War: Soldiering in World War II, by Alfred De Grazia (HTML at grazian-archive.com)

• Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman, by Martha Summerhayes (Gutenberg text)

• Historical Arkansas (ca. 1919), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Memorial Chapter No. 48 (Little Rock, Ark.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas (c1908), by Josiah Hazen Shinn
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only?
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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