America
Here are entered works discussing collectively the lands of the Western Hemisphere. Works on that portion of the earth's surface consisting of North and South America and adjacent islands and oceans, with approximate boundaries at longitudes 20⁰W and 160⁰E, are entered under Western Hemisphere.
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- America -- Antiquities
- America -- Bibliography
- America -- Biography
- America -- Civilization
- America -- Commerce
- America -- Congresses
- America -- Description and travel
- America -- Discovery and exploration
- America -- Early accounts to 1600
- America -- Early works to 1800
- America -- Foreign relations
- America -- History
- America -- In literature
- America -- Juvenile literature
- America -- Languages
- America -- Literatures
- America -- Maps
- America -- Politics and government
- America -- Social conditions
- Anti-communist movements -- America
- Antiquities, Prehistoric -- America
- Archaeological dating -- America
- British -- America
- Cartography -- America
- Catholic Church -- America
- Chinese -- America
- City dwellers -- America
- Colonies -- America
- Craniology -- America
- Diseases -- America
- Diseases and history -- America
- Domestic animals -- America
- Enslaved persons -- America
- Ethnicity -- America
- Ethnology -- America
- Explorers -- America
- Franciscans -- America
- Group identity -- America
- Huguenots -- America
- Insects -- America
- Jews -- America
- Lead -- Environmental aspects -- America
- Lead poisoning -- America
- Legends -- America
- Medical geography -- America
- Medicine -- America
- Mineral industries -- Environmental aspects -- America
- Modernism (Literature) -- America
- Natural history -- America
- Plants -- America
- Prehistoric peoples -- America
- Printing -- America
- Propaganda, Anti-communist -- America
- Rare books -- America
- Social justice -- America
- Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975 -- Knowledge -- America
- Women -- America
- Working class -- America
- Baquaqua, Mahommah Gardo
- Columbus, Christopher
- Americas
- New World
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A Voice to America: or, The Model Republic, Its Glory, or Its Fall, by Thomas Bangs Thorpe (page images at MOA)
- University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology (1903-1964) (partial serial archives)
- Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History: An Address, Delivered Before the New York Historical Society, at its Forty-Second Anniversary, 17th November 1846 (New York: Press of the Historical Society, 1847), by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg text)
- Quatre Lettres sur le Mexique: Exposition Absolue du Système Hiéroglyphique Mexicain; La Fin de Pȧge de Pierre; Époque Glaciaire Temporaire; Commencement De Pȧge de Bronze; Origines de la Civilisation Et des Religions de L'antiquité; (Collection de Documents Dans les Langues Indigenes v4, in French, with an English appendix by Rafinesque on the Lenape; Paris: F. Brachet; Mexico: Juan Buxo y Cia., 1868), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg, contrib. by C. S. Rafinesque
- Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper and Bros., c1871), by John D. Baldwin (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
- Atlantis in America (London: E. Benn Ltd., 1925), by Lewis Spence
- Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology) (partial serial archives)
- Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology (partial serial archives)
- Prehistoric America (5 volumes; Chicago: American Antiquarian Office, 1898-1905), by Stephen D. Peet
- Volume 1 (The Mound Builders, second edition): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2 (Emblematic Mounds and Animal Effigies): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3 (The Cliff Dwellers and Pueblos): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4 (Ancient Monuments and Ruined Cities): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5 (Myths and Symbols): multiple formats at archive.org
- Bibliothèque Mexico-Guatémalienne: Précédée d'un Coup d'Oeil sur les Études Américaines dans leurs Rapports avec les Études Classiques et Suivie du Tableau par Ordre Alphabétique des Ouvrages de Linguistique Américaine Contenus dans le même Volume (in French; Paris: Maisonneuve et cie, 1871), by abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: J. C. Colt.; et al., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (Cincinnati: N. G. Burgess and Co., 1839), by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey and Charles Pettit McIlvaine, illust. by James A. Cleveland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Lost Atlantis and Other Ethnographic Studies (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1892), by Daniel Wilson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Woman's Wanderings in the Western World: A Series of Letters Addressed to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M.P., By His Daughter (London: Saunders, Otley and Co., 1861), by Mrs. Bromley
- A Young Traveller's Journal of a Tour in North and South America During the Year 1850 (London: T. Bosworth, 1852), by Victoria Welby (page images at HathiTrust)
- &c. (London: T. Bosworth, 1853), by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Autobiographical Sketch of a Teacher's Life: Including a Residence in the Northern and Southern States, California, Cuba and Peru (1875), by C. E. Holt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850, by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (page images at MOA)
- As Duas Americas (second edition, in Portuguese; Lisbon: J. Bastos, 1900), by Candido Costa, illust. by António Ramalho
- The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada, by Stephen Leacock (Gutenberg text)
- European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
- European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
- The Men Who Found America, by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson, illust. by E. Roscoe Shrader and Herbert Moore (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery, by Filson Young (Gutenberg text)
- Los Caballeros del Dorado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Clasical Espanola, 1915), by Ciro Bayo (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of Old Europe and Young America (Chicago and New York: Rand McNally, c1922), by William H. Mace and Edwin P. Tanner, illust. by Homer Wayland Colby, B. F. Williamson, and Frank T. Merrill (illustrated HTML at usgennet.org)
- The Ranks of Death: A Medical History of the Conquest of America (New York: Coward-McCann, c1947), by P. M. Ashburn and Frank Davis Ashburn (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Discovery of America By Christopher Columbus, and the Origin of the North American Indians (1836), by John McIntosh (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The History of Hernando de Soto and Florida: or, Record of the Events of Fifty-Six years, from 1512 to 1568 (3 volumes in 1, including Vega's History of the Conquest of Florida; Philadelphia: Collins, 1881), by Barnard Shipp, contrib. by Garcilaso de la Vega (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Vikings of the Pacific: The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward (New York and London: Macmillan, 1905), by Agnes C. Laut (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
- The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
- Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium Apud Louanienses Medicum & Mathematicum Insignẽ, Iam Demum ab Omnibus Vindicata Mendis, ac Nonnullis Quoque Locis Aucta, Figurísque Nouis Illustrata: Additis Eiusdem Argumenti Libellis Ipsius Gẽmae Frisii (in Latin; Paris: Viuantium Gaultherot, 1553), by Peter Apian, contrib. by Frisius Gemma
- La Cosmographia de Pedro Apiano (with related works, in Spanish; Anuers: I. Withagio, 1575), by Peter Apian, ed. by Frisius Gemma, contrib. by Francisco López de Gómara and Gerónimo Girava (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida, As Told by a Knight of Elvas, and in a Relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, Factor of the Expedition (2 volumes; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1904), ed. by Edward Gaylord Bourne, trans. by Buckingham Smith, contrib. by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Luys Hernández de Biedma, and Rodrigo Ranjel (page images at HathiTrust)
- Parte Primera de la Crónica del Perú, Que Trata de las Demarcación de sus Provincias: La Descripción Dellas; Las Fundaciones de las Nuevas Ciudades; Los Ritos y Costumbres de los Indios; Y Otras Cosas Extrañas Dignas de Ser Sabidas (only part published around authors lifetime; in Spanish; 1553), by Pedro de Cieza de León (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Il Primo Viaggio Intorno al Globo di Antonio Pigafetta, e le Sue Regole sull'Arte del Navigare; Giraloamo Benzoni e la Sua Historia del Mondo Nuovo (in Italian; Rome: Auspice il Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, 1894), by Antonio Pigafetta, ed. by Andrea Da Mosto, contrib. by Marco Allegri
- Narrative of Some Things of New Spain and of the Great City of Temestitan, Mexico, ed. by Marshall H. Saville (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at ibiblio.org)
- The Discovery of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh (Gutenberg text)
- The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, by Walter Raleigh (HTML at Fordham)
- The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Fanny Bandelier (HTML at PBS)
- The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536 (New York: A. S. Barnes and Co., 1905), by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, ed. by Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, trans. by Fanny Bandelier, contrib. by Marca da Nizza and Antonio de Mendoza
- Narrative of the Proceedings of Pedrarias Davila in the Provinces of Tierra Firme or Catilla del Oro, and of the Discovery of the South Sea and the Coasts of Peru and Nicaragua (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1865), by Pascual de Andagoya, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Second Part of the Chronicle of Peru (London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1883), by Pedro de Cieza de León, ed. by Clements R. Markham (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Segunda Parte de la Crónica del Perú, Que Trata del Señorío de los Incas Yupanquis y de Sus Grandes Hechos y Gobernación (in Spanish; Madrid: Imp. Manuel Gines Hernandez, 1880), by Pedro de Cieza de León, ed. by Marcos Jiménez de la Espada
- The Seventeen Years Travels of Peter De Cieza, Through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the Large Provinces of Cartagena and Popayan in South America: From the City of Panama, on the Isthmus, to the Frontiers of Chile, Now First Translated From the Spanish, and Illustrated With a Map, and Several Cuts (London, 1709), by Pedro de Cieza de León, trans. by John Stevens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- L'Histoire Naturelle et Generalle des Indes, Isles, et Terre Ferme de la Grand Mer Oceane (in French; Paris: Imp. de M. de Vascosan, 1555), by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, trans. by Jean Poleur (page images at Gallica)
- Challenge to the Americas (Headline Books #26; New York: Foreign Policy Association, c1940), by John I. B. McCulloch, illust. by Bunji Tagawa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- El Sistema Internacional Americano (2 volumes in Spanish; Buenos Aires: Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales, 1925-1926), by Lucio Manuel Moreno Quintana (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- In the American Grain (New York: A. and C. Boni, 1925), by William Carlos Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
- Peter Parley's Pictorial History of North and South America (Hartford: The Peter Parley Pub. Co., W. W. House, c1858), by Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
- The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org
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