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• United States -- History -- 18th century

• Books and the founding fathers (Library of Congress, 1989), by George H. Nash and Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

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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)
• Reading for moral progress : 19th century institutions promoting social change (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997), by Donald G. Davis, John Mark Tucker, David M. Hovde, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and Conference on Faith and History (1994 : Messiah College) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Getting the books out : papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (Center for the Book, Library of Congress :, 1987), by Chicago Conference on the Book in 19th-century America (1985), Michael R. Hackenberg, and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Mid-Century Child and Her Books (New York: Macmillan, 1926), by Caroline M. Hewins
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• A reason of the hope (National Publishing Company, 1896), by Robert South Barrett, Fred. W. M. Holliday, Shirley Plantation Records (University of Virginia), and D.C.) National Publishing Company (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Talking books : pioneering and beyond (National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 1988), by Marilyn Lundell Majeska and Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of the development of the American story-book (C.E. Goodspeed, 1911), by Rosalie V. Halsey, Daniel Berkeley Updike, and Merrymount Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's stories in American literature 1660-[1896] (C. Scribner's sons, 1895), by Henrietta Christian Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860, by Henrietta Christian Wright (Gutenberg ebook)
• Forgotten Books of the American Nursery: A History of the Development of the American Story-Book, by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey (Gutenberg ebook)

• Reading and Disorder in Antebellum America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by David M. Stewart (PDF at Ohio State)

• A discourse on some events of the last century : delivered in the Brick Church in New Haven on Wednesday, January 7, 1801. (Printed by Ezra Read, 1801), by Timothy Dwight, YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inland sea (F.M. Lupton Publishing Co., 1800), by James Fenimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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 (Library of Congress ;, 1998), by James H. Hutson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Russian America and international relations from the 18th to the first half of the 19th centuries (Wilson Center, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, 1979), by N. N. Bolkhovitinov, American Historical Association, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, and Alaska) Conference on Russian America (1979 : Sitka (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial days and ways as gathered from family papers (Century Co., 1901), by Helen Evertson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The first white man of the West; or, The life and exploits of Col. Dan'l Boone, the first settler of Kentucky (E. Morgan, 1850), by Timothy Flint (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa, by Thomas Bluett (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Colonial days and ways as gathered from family papers (Century Co., 1901), by Helen Evertson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of American Colleges and Their Libraries in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Bibliographical Essay (University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Occasional Paper #140; 1979), by David S. Zubatsky (page images at HathiTrust)

• Vignettes of the 18th century in America : arts and decorations of the Colonial and Federal periods. (E.P. Schmidt, 1960), by Milwaukee Art Center and National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Wisconsin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and times of the Most Rev. John Carroll, Bishop and first Archbishop of Baltimore embracing the history of the Catholic Church in the United States, 1763-1815 : with portraits, views and fac-similes (John G. Shea, 1888), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)

• Child Life in Colonial Days (New York and London: Macmillan, 1915), by Alice Morse Earle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Child life in colonial days (Macmillan, 1927), by Alice Morse Earle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Anglican episcopate and the American colonies (Longmans, Green, 1902), by Arthur Lyon Cross (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Maj. Andre (Privately printed, 1867), by John André (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proceedings of a board of general officers held by order of His Excellency Gen. Washington, commander in chief of the Army of the United States of America respecting Major John André, adjutant general of the British Army, contrib. by John André (Gutenberg ebook)

• The American deists : voices of reason and dissent in the early republic (University Press of Kansas, 1992), by Kerry S. Walters (page images at HathiTrust)

• A study in Massachusetts ecclesiastical law 1691-1780 (1908), by Susan Martha Reed (page images at HathiTrust)

• The learning of liberty : the educational ideas of the American founders (University Press of Kansas, 1993), by Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The learning of liberty : the educational ideas of the American founders (University Press of Kansas, 1993), by Lorraine Smith Pangle and Thomas L. Pangle (page images at HathiTrust)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The execution of Major André (1890), by Herbert Haines (page images at HathiTrust)

• The background of American federalism. (American Political Science Association, 1918), by Andrew C. McLaughlin (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Equality of the Sexes (as published in The Massachusetts Magazine, 1790), by Judith Sargent Murray (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Edwin J. Perkins (PDF at Ohio State)

• American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Edwin J. Perkins (PDF at Ohio State)

• No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2019), by Rachel B. Herrmann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The furniture of our forefathers (Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916), by Esther Singleton and Russell Sturgis (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Irish schoolmasters in the American colonies, 1640-1775 : with a continuation of the subject during and after the War of the Revolution / by John C. Linehan and Thomas Hamilton Murray. (American-Irish Historical Society, 1898), by John C. Linehan and Thomas Hamilton Murray (page images at HathiTrust)

• References to Jews in the Newport mercury, 1758-1786 (American Jewish Archives, 1961), by Irwin S. Rhodes (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lebensbilder aus der Geschichte der christlichen Kirche. Für lutherische Leser Nordamerikas ausgewählt und bearbeitet. (Concordia publishing house, 1912), by E. A. Wilh. Krauss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Contributions to the history of medical education and medical institutions in the United States of America. 1776-1876. Special report. (Govt. print. off., 1877), by N. S. Davis and United States Office of Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Army Medical Department, 1775-1818 (Center of Military History, U.S. Army :, 1990), by Mary C. Gillett and Center of Military History (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

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