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• Antebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (New York: Fordham University Press, 2018), by Cristin Ellis (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

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

• Debating Humanity: Towards a Philosophical Sociology (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017), by Daniel Chernilo (PDF and HTML with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• A Gay Humanist Manifesto (c2011), by Alan Keslian (PDF in the UK)
• The Philosophy of Humanism (eighth edition, 1997), by Corliss Lamont (PDF at corliss-lamont.org)
• Humanist Manifesto II (c1973), by Paul Kurtz and Edwin H. Wilson (HTML with commentary at americanhumanist.org)
• Humanism and Classical Crisis: Anxiety, Intertexts, and the Miltonic Memory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2014), by Jacob Blevins (PDF at Ohio State)
• Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Aldo D. Scaglione (HTML at UC Press)
• Religion Without Revelation (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1927), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Antike Humanität (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1897), by Max Schneidewin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literary Ethics: An Oration Delivered Before the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, July 24, 1838, by Ralph Waldo Emerson (HTML at emersoncentral.com)

• China, Russia, USA: State-Capitalism and Marx's Humanism, or, Philosophy and Revolution (with an appendix on Rosa Luxemburg's Accumulation of Capital; Detroit: News and Letters, 1967), by Raya Dunayevskaya (page images at HathiTrust)

• Humanism and New World Ideals (with the full text of A Humanist Manifesto, as originally published in The New Humanist; Yellow Springs, OH: Antioch Press, ca. 1933), by Oliver Leslie Reiser (page images at Harvard)
• The Genesis of a Humanist Manifesto, by Edwin H. Wilson (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Church's Mission and Post-Modern Humanism, by M. M. Thomas (HTML at religion-online.org)

• Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America (2007), by Sarah H. Beckjord (PDF at PSU)

• Territories of History: Humanism, Rhetoric, and the Historical Imagination in the Early Chronicles of Spanish America (2007), by Sarah H. Beckjord (PDF at PSU)

• Rereading the Renaissance: Petrarch, Augustine, and the Language of Humanism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Carol E. Quillen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Humanistica Lovaniensia (partial serial archives)
• The Humanist (partial serial archives)
• The Hobgoblin (1999-2012) (partial serial archives)

• Die Vadianische Briefsammlung der Stadtbibliothek St. Gallen (letters in Latin and German, notes in German; published in 7 parts in Mitteilungen zur Vaterländischen, 1890-1913), by Joachim Vadianus, ed. by Emil Arbenz
  • Part I (1508-1518), with other journal volume content: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part II (1519-1522), with other journal volume content: page images at archive.org
  • Parts III and IV (1523-1530, and supplements for 1509-1530), with other journal volume content: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Parts IV and V (1526-1540, and supplements for 1516-1538), with other journal volume content: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Parts VI and VII (1541-1551, and supplements for 1513-1550): multiple formats at archive.org

• Ekphrasis: The Illusion of the Natural Sign (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Murray Krieger, illust. by Joan Krieger (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Cities Built to Music: Aesthetic Theories of the Victorian Gothic Revival (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1984), by Michael Bright
  • PDF at Ohio State
  • PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press

• The Pacifist Ethic and Humanism (Chicago: Student Peace Union, ca. 1961), by Philip G. Altbach (page images at Pitt)
• The Living Questions of the Age, by James B. Walker (page images at MOA)

• Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media, by Marvin N. Olasky (PDF at AWS)

• A Secular Humanist Declaration (1980), by Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism (Buffalo, N.Y.), contrib. by Paul Kurtz (HTML at secularhumanism.org)

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• River Basin Surveys Papers (partial serial archives)
• Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• 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 Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• 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)

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