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• Reading Fiction in Antebellum America: Informed Response and Reception Histories, 1820-1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by James L. Machor (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

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• After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Vernon Lionel Shetley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
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• The 19th century : A history. (Harper, 1880), by Robert Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États Unis (C. Gosselin; [etc., etc.], 1840), by Michel Chevalier and Charles Gosselin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plague of kaiserdom (California State Printing Office, 1918), by William V. Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old and the new century : an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its ninety-sixth anniversary, Tuesday, November 20, 1900 (Printed for the Society, 1900), by Marvin Richardson Vincent and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Division and reunion, 1829-1889 (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Randolph (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Henry Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little visits with great Americans; or, Success ideals and how to attain them (Success, 1905), by Orison Swett Marden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)

• Catalogue of the library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893. (Printed for the Society [Baltimore, Press of Deutsch lithographing & printing co.], 1893), by Long Island Historical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• The red moon (Neale Publishing Company, 1910), by Eugenie Jones Bacon and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman of Yesterday, by Caroline Atwater Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of Peace, by Irving Bacheller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life, by B. F. Craig (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanderings of French Ed, by J. Adelard René (Gutenberg ebook)

• ...Uncle Sam's soldiers; a story of the war with Spain (D. Appleton and company, 1899), by Oscar P. Austin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)
• The American review of history and politics, and general repository of literature and state papers (Printed for Farrand and Nicholas, 1811), by Robert Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Religion and the founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress ;, 1998), by James H. Hutson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revivalism and social reform; American Protestantism on the eve of the Civil War. (Harper & Row, 1957), by Timothy Lawrence Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• My portfolio : a collection of essays (Charles Scribner, 1882), by Austin Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• A half-century of the Unitarian controversy : with particular reference to its origin, its course, and its prominent subjects among the Congregationalists of Massachusetts : with an appendix (Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1857), by George Edward Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abriss einer Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche in Amerika im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (Steinkopf, 1889), by Adolf Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Separation or continuity, which? (Baltimore : H.H. Smith, [1893], 1893), by I. L. Thomas and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Christianity at the close of the nineteenth century. Essay before the Alumni Association of the General Theological Seminary. June 4, 1895. ([New York, 1895), by William Barroll Frisby (page images at HathiTrust)
• American fraternal greetings to the Wesleyan conferences in Ireland and England (Western Methodist Book Concern, 1898), by J. W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the truth of the Christian religion (Printed for the author by Joseph Israel, 1811), by William Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer church; or, The story of a new parish in the West. (Hurd and Houghton;, 1868), by Montgomery Schuyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorized report of the proceedings of the ... congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ... <1884-1885> (Thomas Whittaker, 1884), by Church Congress in the United States and Episcopal Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• State and prospects of religion in America : being a report made at the conference of the Evangelical alliance, in Paris, August 25th, 1855. (R. Carter & Brothers, 1856), by Robert Baird and France) Evangelical Alliance. Conference (1855 : Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Report of] the Foreign Committee of the Board of Missions to the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ([Foreign Mission Rooms, Protestant Episcopal Church], 1876), by Episcopal Church. Board of Missions. Foreign Committee and S. D. Denison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement and appeal of the Foreign Committee : containing : 1st The Epiphany appeal : 2d List of books, etc, on foreign missions : 3d Societies of women auxiliary to the Board of Missions : 4th Parish missionary societies--a paper by Rev. J.E. Sampson, Vicar of York, England : 5th Gleanings from the missionary field, being incidents and facts illustrative of the character and progress of the work of foreign missions. (Cushing, Bardua & Co., Printers and Stationers, 1871), by Episcopal Church. Board of Missions. Foreign Committee and William Hobart Hare (page images at HathiTrust)

• China Relief Expedition (Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., 1903), by Aaron Simon Daggett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of American Privateers (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Edgar Stanton Maclay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Russian America and international relations from the 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries (Wilson Center, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1979), by N. N. Bolkhovitinov, American Historical Association, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, and Alaska) Conference on Russian America (1979 : Sitka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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 (Gutenberg ebook)

• Sutter of California : a biography (Halcyon House, 1938), by Julian Dana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Joaquin Murieta: a study of social conditions in early California (1927), by Richard Gerald Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "This is my own, my native land." (Independent Press, 1956), by Stephen G Hust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mericos H. Whittier, his career; the story of a California oil pioneer, civic leader and humanitarian whose noteworthy career won him honor among men. (Los Angeles, Calif., 1940), by Guy Woodward Finney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The shadow of the Cabrillos : a tale of Montecito (Union Press, 1892), by Winifred D Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• Homestead Meadows : a hike into history. (Forest Service [Region 2], U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1994), by United States Forest Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Life and Travels, by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• John Reynolds (1912), by Jessie McHarry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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