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• The Americanist (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Daniel Aaron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best of Times, Worst of Times: Memoirs of a Political Education (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Walter Laqueur (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• The Highbrow in American Politics: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Role of the Intellectual in Politics (1982), by David B. Kopel (PDF files with commentary at davekopel.com)
• The Education of Henry Adams (Washington: The author, 1907), by Henry Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Education of Henry Adams, by Henry Adams, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge (Gutenberg text and Librivox audio)
• The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by Henry Adams, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• Literary Industries: A Memoir, by Hubert Howe Bancroft, contrib. by William Nemos (HTML at LOC)
• Life of William Hickling Prescott (Ticknor and Fields, 1864), by George Ticknor and William Hickling Prescott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transition : a sentimental story of one mind and one era (Garden City publishing company, inc., 1932), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The education of Henry Adams (Modern Library, 1931), by Henry Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Transition : a sentimental story of one mind and one era (Simon and Schuster, 1927), by Will Durant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Marcus Benjamin : a sketch. (s.n., 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of the New-York historical society, on the announcement of the death of William Hickling Prescott, February MDCCCLIX. ([New York, 1859), by New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• A life of Francis Parkman (G.N. Morang, 1900), by Charles Haight Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• An estimate of Carter G. Woodson and his work in connection with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1926), by Kelly Miller and inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new historians : a booklet about the authors of the chronicles of America. (Yale University Press, 1920), by Allen Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recollections of my father Barrett Wendell : August 23, 1855-February 8, 1921 (E.W. Osborne?, 1921), by Edith Wendell Osborne (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915 : an autobiography, with a memorial address delivered November 7, 1915, by Henry Cabot Lodge. (Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916., 1916), by Charles Francis Adams and Henry Cabot Lodge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence of George Bancroft and Jared Sparks, 1823-1832, illustrating the relationship between editor and reviewer in the early nineteenth century (Dept. of history of Smith college, 1917), by George Bancroft, John Spencer Bassett, and Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peter Parley's Own Story: From the Personal Narrative of the Late Samuel G. Goodrich, ("Peter Parley"), by Samuel G. Goodrich (Gutenberg ebook)
• William Hickling Prescott, by Harry Thurston Peck (Gutenberg ebook)
• Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D., by Brantz Mayer (Gutenberg ebook)

• An estimate of Carter G. Woodson and his work in connection with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1926), by Kelly Miller and inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)

• A life of Francis Parkman (Little, Brown, 1905), by Charles Haight Farnham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of William Hickling Prescott : historian of Spain, Mexico and Peru (David Clapp and Son, printers, 1868), by Charles Henry Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Henry Wheatland : born January 11, 1812, died February 27, 1893 : founder of the Essex Institute, 1847-1848; its secretary and treasurer, 1848-1868; its president, 1868-1893. (Essex Institute, 1893), by Essex Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir of Henry Wheatland, M.D., (J. Wlson, 1895), by William Phineas Upham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memorial to Capt. Samuel A'Court Ashe in Capitol Square, Raleigh, N.C. (s.n., 1941), by Heriot Clarkson (page images at HathiTrust)

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

• The Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century (2004), by Thomas Bender, Philip M. Katz, Colin Palmer, and American Historical Association (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• The Education of Historians in the United States (1962), by Dexter Perkins and John L. Snell (illustrated HTML at historians.org)
• History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (hypertext edition), by David Levin (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• The historical profession in the United States. (Macmillan, 1963), by W. Stull Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• American masters of social science. (H. Holt and company, 1927), by Howard Washington Odum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Present status of modern European history in the United States (The University of North Carolina press, 1926), by Chester Penn Higby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Total omitters of realities (Ann Arbor, Mich., 1944), by Earle W. Dow (page images at HathiTrust)
• The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft literary industries. (History Co., 1890), by Hubert Howe Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final program. (The University of Texas, 1958), by Tex.) International Congress of Historians of the United States and Mexico (2nd : 1958 : Austin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Correspondence of George Bancroft and Jared Sparks, 1823-1832, illustrating the relationship between editor and reviewer in the early nineteenth century (Dept. of history of Smith college, 1917), by George Bancroft, John Spencer Bassett, and Jared Sparks (page images at HathiTrust)

• The life and writings of Jared Sparks : comprising selections from his journals and correspondence (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893), by Herbert B. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Directory of NPS historians (National Park Service, 1995), by United States National Park Service and United States. Park History Program (page images at HathiTrust)

• An estimate of Carter G. Woodson and his work in connection with the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Inc. (The Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1926), by Kelly Miller and inc Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (page images at HathiTrust)

• American archaeology in the mideast : a history of the American schools of oriental research (American Schools of Oriental Research, 1983), by Philip J. King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choosing an archeological consultant. (National Park Service :, 1987), by United States National Park Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Southern California Academy of Sciences (Southern California Academy of Sciences, 1919), by Southern California Academy of Sciences (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Adam Chaser (original magazine version, published in The Popular Magazine, 1925), by B. M. Bower (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Henry Fitzgilbert Waters (Boston, 1914), by Robert S. Rantoul and Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Henry Fitzgilbert Waters (Boston, 1914), by Robert S. Rantoul and Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memoir of George Livermore : prepared agreeably to a resolution of the Massachusetts Historical Society (Press of John Wilson and Son, 1869), by Charles Deane and Massachusetts Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)

• CMH (U.S. Army, Center of Military History, 2008), by Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)

• The state of the American record : a report on how well Americans are documenting their history (National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1994), by Gerald George and United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission (page images at HathiTrust)

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