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• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Sharon O'Dair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Visions of Global America and the Future of Critical Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Daniel T. O'Hara (PDF at Ohio State)
• Interpretive Conventions: The Reader in the Study of American Fiction (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Steven Mailloux (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1986), by Mark Krupnick (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller ("a film book"; London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Dragan Kujundzic (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Wayne C. Booth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)

• Moving Places: A Life at the Movies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Jonathan Rosenbaum (HTML at UC Press)

• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)

• My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Wayne C. Booth (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Rhetoric and Pluralism: Legacies of Wayne Booth (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), ed. by Frederick J. Antczak (PDF at Ohio State)

• The First Sail: J. Hillis Miller ("a film book"; London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Dragan Kujundzic (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)

• A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance (2 volumes; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961), by Bernard Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Longinus in England, Bis Zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German, with English and Greek quotations; Berlin: Mayer und Müller, 1917), by Alfred Rosenberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Fusion of Horatian and Aristotelian Literary Criticism, 1531-1555 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1946), by Marvin T. Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Critical Prefaces of the French Renaissance (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1950), by Bernard Weinberg (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Seductive Reasoning: Pluralism as the Problematic of Contemporary Literary Theory (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Ellen Rooney
  • PDF and Epub at Cornell Open
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Lytton Strachey (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1943), by Max Beerbohm (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2002), by John McGowan (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Novel Professions: Interested Disinterest and the Making of the Professional in the Victorian Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Jennifer Ruth (PDF at Ohio State)

• Victorian Art Criticism and the Woman Writer (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by John Paul M. Kanwit (PDF at Ohio State)

• Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1984), by Nina Baym (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Philology and its Histories (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Sean Alexander Gurd (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rewriting Chaucer: Culture, Authority, and the Idea of the Authentic Text, 1400-1602 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1999), ed. by Thomas A. Prendergast and Barbara Kline (PDF at Ohio State)

• Literary Coteries and the Making of Modern Print Culture, 1740-1790 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, c2016), by Betty A. Schellenberg
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The King James Version Defended (originally published 1956; published with preface by Letis in 1983), by Edward F. Hills, contrib. by Theodore P. Letis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism (1922), by Donald Lemen Clark (Gutenberg text)

• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Sublime: A Study of Critical Theories in XVIII-Century England (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1935), by Samuel Holt Monk (page images at HathiTrust)

• Toward a Working-Class Canon: Literary Criticism in British Working-Class Periodicals, 1816-1858 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Paul Thomas Murphy (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Coleridge's Biographia Literaria: Text and Meaning (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1989), by Frederick Burwick (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Aesthetic and Critical Theories of John Ruskin, by George P. Landow (HTML at Victorian Web)

• 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 at state.gov)
• 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 at state.gov)
• The Age of Reinterpretation (reprinted from the American Historical Review; Washington: Service Center for Teachers of History, c1961), by C. Vann Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abridged History of the United States, or Republic of America (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinati: Derby, Bradley and Co., 1848), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An American History (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eleanor Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Nation: A History (28 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904-1918), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart, contrib. by Edward Potts Cheyney, Livingston Farrand, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Charles McLean Andrews, Evarts Boutell Greene, Reuben Gold Thwaites, George Elliott Howard, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Andrew C. McLaughlin, John Spencer Bassett, Edward Channing, Kendric Charles Babcock, Frederick Jackson Turner, William MacDonald, George Pierce Garrison, Theodore Clarke Smith, French Ensor Chadwick, James K. Hosmer, William Archibald Dunning, Edwin Erle Sparks, Davis Rich Dewey, John Holladay Latané, Frederic Austin Ogg, and David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Brief History of the United States (ca.1909), by John Bach McMaster (Gutenberg text)
• An Elementary History of Our Country (28th impression; Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1922), by Eva March Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Elementary History of the United States (revised edition; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1884), by G. P. Quackenbos, ed. by John D. Quackenbos
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)
• Forward Looking Lessons in U. S. History (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Puc. Co., 1919), by William Jeremiah Savage
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: American (v1 and 2 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and page images
• History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the American People (5 volumes; Harper and Brothers, c1902), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at archive.org
• A History of the American People (documentary edition, 10 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1917-1918), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VI (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VIII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IX (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume X (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
• A History of the United States (6 volumes; New York: Macmillan, c1905-1925), by Edward Channing
  • Volume I (The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660; 1907 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1760): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The American Revolution, 1761-1789): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Period of Transition, 1815-1848): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865; 1959 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (in various reprints): page images at HathiTrust
• 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 (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1847), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)
• The New Eclectic History of the United States (New York et al.: American book Co., c1890), by M. E. Thalheimer (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
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1492-1828 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Homer C. Hockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "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)
• The Rise of American Civilization (original edition of 2 volumes; New York: Macmillan, 1927), by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard, illust. by Wilfred Jones
  • Volume I (The Agricultural Era): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II (The Industrial Era): page images at HathiTrust
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union (1871), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1829-1925 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Arthur M. Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Hitching Posts to Parking Meters, 1620-1960; With Historical Data, Family Memoirs and a Genealogical Registe (Colorado Springs: The author, 1961), by Ida Pearl Barker Bloss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
• 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)
• True Stories of Our Pioneers: The Heroic Deeds and Devoted Lives of the Fathers and Mothers of America, Embracing the Principal Episodes in the Struggle of the White Race and the Red Men for the Possession of the New World (c1904), by Augustus Lynch Mason, contrib. by John Clark Ridpath and Trumbull White (multiple formats at Indiana)

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