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• United States -- History -- 19th century

• Writing for Immortality: Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2014), by Anne E. Boyd (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by James McIntosh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Jennifer S. Tuttle and Carol Farley Kessler (PDF at Ohio State)
• Uncommon Women: Gender and Representation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writing (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by Laura Laffrado (PDF at Ohio State)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick (New York: Harper and Bros., 1872), by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, ed. by Mary E. Dewey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, by George Lewis Prentiss, contrib. by E. Prentiss (Gutenberg text)

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

• Women Poets and the American Sublime (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1990), by Joanne Feit Diehl (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Sylvia Plath: New Views on the Poetry (originally published 1979; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), ed. by Gary Lane (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Celebration With Anaïs Nin (electronic edition; originally published 1973), ed. by Valerie Harms (illustrated HTML at anaisnin.com)
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman: New Texts, New Contexts (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Jennifer S. Tuttle and Carol Farley Kessler (PDF at Ohio State)
• I Made You to Find Me: The Coming of Age of the Woman Poet and the Politics of Poetic Address (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Jane Hedley (PDF at Ohio State)
• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)
• Learning From Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Paula M. L. Moya (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997), by Jeanne Rosier Smith (HTML at UC Press)
• Dialogues/Dialogi: Literary and Cultural Exchanges Between (Ex) Soviet and American Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1994), by Susan Hardy Aiken, Adele Marie Barker, M. M. Koreneva, and E. A. Stetsenko (page images at HathiTrust)

• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore (Gutenberg text)

• Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)

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

• Religion and the Founding of the American Republic (Washington: Library of Congress, 1998), by James H. Hutson, contrib. by Jaroslav Pelikan (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)

• A History of American Privateers (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1899), by Edgar Stanton Maclay
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Hanging the Sheriff: A Biography of Henry Plummer, by R. E. Mather and F. E. Boswell (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The True Life of Billy the Kid (originally printed 1881; Happy Hours Brotherhood reprint #5 with commentary, c1945), by Don Jenardo, contrib. by Jeff Dykes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The True Life of Billy the Kid (Five Cent Wide Awake Library #451; New York: F. Tousey, 1881), by Don Jenardo (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acting Naturally: Mark Twain in the Culture of Performance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Randall K. Knoper (HTML at UC Press)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)

• Neither Fugitive Nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (New York and London: NYU Press, c2009), by Edlie L. Wong (PDF files with commentary at JSTOR)
• Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Karen Sánchez-Eppler (HTML at UC Press)
• The Light and Truth of Slavery: Aaron's History (Worcester, MA: The author, ca. 1843), by Aaron
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872), by William Still
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Frederick Douglass (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt
  • illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Frederick Douglass (based on an 1899 edition, with some 21st-century annotations), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• Pictures of Slavery in Church and State: Including Personal Reminiscences, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, etc. etc.; With an Appendix, Containing the Views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on Slavery (second edition; Philadelphia: The author, 1857), by John Dixon Long, contrib. by John Wesley and Richard Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)
• 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)

• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel H. Bishop (Gutenberg text)

• Memoirs, Historical and Edifying, of a Missionary Apostolic of the Order of Saint Dominic Among Various Indian Tribes and Among the Catholics and Protestants in the United States of America (Chicago: W. F. Hall Printing Co., 1915), by Samuel Mazzuchelli, trans. by Mary Benedicta Kennedy, contrib. by John Ireland
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• Coal and Empire: The Birth of Energy Security in Industrial America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2015), by Peter A. Shulman (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

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