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An American History (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eleanor Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
A Brief History of the United States (ca.1909), by John Bach McMaster (Gutenberg text)
A First Book in American History: With Special Reference to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans (New York: American Book Company, c1889), by Edward Eggleston (page images at Pitt)
Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People (Philadelphia and Chicago: International Publishing Co., 1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at Google; US access only)
Formation of the Union, 1750-1829, by Albert Bushnell Hart (Gutenberg text)
The Frontier in American History, by Frederick Jackson Turner
- frame-dependent HTML at Virginia
- simpler HTML at Virginia
The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union (1871), by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)
Historians on America: Decisions that Made a Difference (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Paul Malamud (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)
A History of the American People (5 volumes; Harper and Brothers, c1902), by Woodrow Wilson
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
A History of the United States (London: Chatto and Windus, 1919), by Cecil Chesterton, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
History of the United States, From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Peace With Mexico, in 1848 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by William Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
History of the United States, or Republic of America, Exhibited in Connexion With its Chronology and Progressive Geography (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1828), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at Google)
Introductory American History (1912), by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton (Gutenberg text)
The Leading Facts of American History (revised edition, 1920), by D. H. Montgomery (HTML at usgennet.org)
The Memorial Story of America: Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years From 1492 to 1892 (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. Winston and Co., 1892), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, John Heyl Vincent, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Francis Newton Thorpe, Theodore Sandford Doolittle, Albert Shaw, and Anna Laurens Dawes (page images at HathiTrust)
Our Own Country: Its History and Achievements, and the Story of Our Great Men and Women (Philadelphia et al.: Monarch Book co., c1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, Francis Newton Thorpe, and Anna Laurens Dawes
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
"Sam": or, The History of Mystery, by Charles W. Webber (page images at MOA)
Stories of American Life and Adventure, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
The Story of Our Nation, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
This Country of Ours, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1917), by H. E. Marshall, illust. by A. C. Michael (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
The Thrilling Story of the World's Giant Republic, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
U.S.A. History in Brief (Learner English edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), by Susan Wallach (PDF and audio with commentary at america.gov)
The War Myth in United States History (third printing; New York: Vanguard Press; Association to Abolish War, 1934), by C. H. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1801-1809

Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, by Allen Johnson (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1809-1817

Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, by Allen Johnson (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1815-1861

Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States (1835), by E. S. Abdy (illustrated HTML at jmisc.net)
A Journey in North America, Described in Familiar Letters to Amelia Opie (Norwich: Printed for Private Circulation, by Josiah Fletcher, 1841), by Joseph John Gurney (page images in Germany)
Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion (New York: D. Appleton, 1866), by James Buchanan (page images at kyvl.org)
Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (HTML and page images at LOC)
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)
Way-Side Glimpses, North and South (New York: Rudd and Carleton, 1860), by Lillian Foster (page images at MOA)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1817-1825

Jefferson and His Colleagues: A Chronicle of the Virginia Dynasty, by Allen Johnson (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1849-1877

Twenty Years of Congress, From Lincoln to Garfield: With a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 (Norwich, CT: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1884-1886), by James Gillespie Blaine
- Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Village Life in America, 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War, As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl (second edition, 1913), by Caroline Cowles Richards and Margaret E. Sangster (illustrated HTML at wordowner.com)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1865-1898

The Sequel of Appomattox: A Chronicle of the Reunion of the States, by Walter L. Fleming (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1865-1921

My Memories of Eighty Years, by Chauncey M. Depew (Gutenberg text)
Since the Civil War (1920), by Charles Ramsdell Lingley (Gutenberg text)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1933-1945

The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933-1942: An Administrative History, by John C. Paige (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 1945-

America in Vietnam: The Fifteen-Year War, by John Francis Guilmartin (HTML at Ohio State)

Filed under: United States -- History -- 19th century

Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
- illustrated HTML at Virginia
- Gutenberg text

Filed under: United States -- History -- 20th century

Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century America (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1964), ed. by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and Everett Walters (PDF at Ohio State)
Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
- illustrated HTML at Virginia
- Gutenberg text

Filed under: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
Address by W. E. Poulson, Camp 8 U. C. V., to the Chicago Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy (1906), by W. E. Poulson (multiple formats at archive.org)
Gettysburg Address, by Abraham Lincoln (multiple editions)
Address Delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Historian General, United Daughters of the Confederacy: Wrongs of History Righted (1914), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)
The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
America's Caesar (online edition), by Greg Loren Durand (HTML at americasceasar.com)
The Battle-Pieces of Herman Melville (New York et al.: T. Yoseloff, c1963), by Herman Melville, ed. by Hennig Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
Catholics and the Civil War: Essays (Milwaukee, 1945), by Benjamin J. Blied, contrib. by Peter Leo Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
A Complete History of the Great Rebellion, or, The Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865 (New York: Hurst and o., c1866), by James Moore (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Conflict of Truth: A Sermon Preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Camden, N.J. April 30, 1865 (Camden, NJ.: S. Chew, 1865), by V. D. Reed (HTML and page images at Emory)
The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So. Ca. to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States Together with the Statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
- HTML and TEI at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
Dixie (1903), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Dixie Chapter No. 395 (multiple formats at archive.org)
Facts and Falsehoods Concerning the War on the South, 1861-1865 (by "George Edmonds"; Memphis: A. R. Taylor and Co., c1904), by Elizabeth Avery Meriwether
- multiple formats at archive.org
- page images at HathiTrust
Free Masonry and the War (Richmond: Chas. H. Wynne, 1865), by Freemasons Grand Lodge of Virginia (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1863), by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
The Heritage of the Civil War (New York: Workers Age Publishing Assocation, ca. 1932), by Will Herberg (PDF with rotated pages at archive.org)
Heroism of the Rank and File: Eulogy, Pronounced at the Memorial Service of Post Sumner, no. 24, and Post Winthrop, no. 28, G.A.R., May 31, 1868, in Commemoration of the Union Soldiers Slain in the War for Our Union, by A. J. H. Duganne (multiple formats at archive.org)
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1917), by James Ford Rhodes (HTML at Bartleby)
The History of the Civil War in the United States: Its Cause, Origin, Progress and Conclusion (Jones Brothers, Zeigler, McCurdy and Co. edition, 1865), by Samuel M. Smucker and L. P. Brockett (page images at MOA)
History of the Great Rebellion, by Thomas Prentice Kettell (page images at MOA)
Karl Marx and the Civil War; A Rejuvenation of Has-Beens; The Completeness of the Sweep (People's pocket series #162; Girard, KS: Appeal to Reason, ca. 1921), by Hermann Schlüter and Henry M. Tichenor (multiple formats at archive.org)
Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911), by I. E. Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, by William T. Sherman (Gutenberg text)
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Jacob D. Cox
- volume 1: Gutenberg text
- volume 2: Gutenberg text
National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War, by Gilbert Haven (page images at MOA)
Our Triumph and Our New Duties, by Cortlandt Parker (page images at MOA)
The Photographic History of the Civil War, in Ten Volumes (New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911), ed. by Francis Trevelyan Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rebellion in the United States, or, The War of 1861: Being a Complete History of Its Rise and Progress, Commencing with the Presidential Election (2 volumes, possibly from slightly different editions; 1862-63), by Jennett Blakeslee Frost (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
The Record of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham on Abolition, the Union, and the Civil War (Cincinnati: J. Walter and Co., 1863), by Clement L. Vallandigham (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1881), by Jefferson Davis
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
Sermons on Recent National Victories, and the National Sorrow, by Edward Payson Powell (page images at MOA)
Sermons on Slavery and the Civil War (page images at MOA)
A Short History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Belford Co., 1890), by Jefferson Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)
Speech of Hon. George A. Gordon, of Chatham, on the Constitutionality of the Conscription Laws, Passed by the Congress of the Confederate States, by George Anderson Gordon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Speech of Hon. William A. Graham, of Orange, In the Convention of North-Carolina, Dec. 7th, 1861, on the Ordinance Concerning Test Oaths and Sedition, by William A. Graham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Spirit of the South Towards Northern Freemen and Soldiers Defending the American Flag Against Traitors of the Deepest Dye, by William Lloyd Garrison (page images at MOA)
The Uprising of a Great People: The United States in 1861; To Which is Added, A Word of Peace on the Difference Between England and the United States (new American edition from the author's revised edition, 1862), by Agénor Gasparin, trans. by Mary L. Booth (Gutenberg text)

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