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• Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw and Bonnie Nichols (PDF at nea.gov)

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• To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence (2007), by National Endowment for the Arts (PDF at nea.gov)
• The Republic of Letters: Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin on Books, Reading, and Libraries, 1975-1987 (Washington: Library of Congress, 1989), by Daniel J. Boorstin, ed. by John Young Cole (HTML at loc.gov)
• The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture From Consumerism to Control (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), by Theodore G. Striphas (zipped PDF with commentary at thelateageofprint.org)
• The Delicious Vice: Pipe Dreams and Fond Adventures of an Habitual Novel-Reader Among Some Great Books and Their People (second edition; Chicago: The Prairieland Publishing Co., 1918), by Young Ewing Allison (Gutenberg text)
• The Guide to Reading, ed. by Lyman Abbott and Asa Don Dickinson (Gutenberg text)
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), by Theodore Roosevelt
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • HTML at Bartleby

• 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)

• 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)

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

• American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Shelley Streeby (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Romance and the Erotics of Property: Mass-Market Fiction for Women (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1988), by Jan Cohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America (Washington: National Endowment for the Arts, 2004), by Tom Bradshaw and Bonnie Nichols (PDF at nea.gov)

• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)

• Books About the Negro for Children: The James Weldon Johnson Collection, the New York Public Library (reprinted from American Unity; New York: New York Public Library, 1944), by Augusta Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children as Authors (ca. 1936), by Utica Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: A History, Together With the Complete List of 1324 Books Published for American Armed Forces Overseas (New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., ca. 1948), contrib. by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War Two, by Daniel J. Miller (illustrated HTML at Virginia)

• Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970: Bicentennial Edition (last public domain edition of HSUS; 1975), by U.S. Census Bureau
  • PDF files at census.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957: A Statistical Abstract Supplement (1960), by U.S. Census Bureau
  • PDF files at census.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Statistics of the United States, 1789-1945: A Supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States (may be mislabeled on cover page; 1949), by U.S. Census Bureau
  • PDF files at census.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (2012 and prior editions), by U.S. Census Bureau (PDF files at census.gov)
• The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States (3 volumes; New Orleans: Office of De Bow's Review; et al., 1852-1853), by J. D. B. De Bow
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • all volumes: page images at MOA

• The American Year Book (partial serial archives)

• Decennial Census: Local Government Uses of Housing Data (Briefing report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Census and Population, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, 1987), by United States General Accounting Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• Health Statistics from the U.S. National Health Survey, Series B (partial serial archives)
• Health Statistics from the U.S. National Health Survey, Series D (full serial archives)
• Health Statistics from the U.S. National Health Survey, Series A (full serial archives)
• Changes in Cigarette-Related Disease Risks and Their Implications for Prevention and Control, by National Cancer Institute (U.S.) (PDF files at cancer.gov)

• Health, United States, by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (partial serial archives)

• Report on the Vital Statistics of the United States, by James Wynne (page images at MOA)
• The War and the Trend of National Vitality (New York: Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, 1917), by Elmer Ellsworth Rittenhouse (page images here at Penn)

• The Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural, Transportation, and Other Interests of California: Being a Report on that State for 1890 Made to S. G. Brock, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics (Washington: GPO, 1891), by Thomas J. Vivian and United States Department of the Treasury Bureau of Statistics (page images at HathiTrust)

• Facts and Figures About Michigan, by Frank James Bramhall (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, by Richard Edwards (page images at MOA)

• Explaining the Increase in Unemployment Compensation for Ex-Servicemembers During the Global War on Terror (c2008), by David S. Loughran and Jacob Alex Klerman (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• The War on Marijuana in Black and White (with correction made Sep 2013; New York: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013), by Ezekiel Edwards, Will Bunting, and Lynda Garcia (PDF with commentary at aclu.org)

• Artificial Insemination: Practice in the United States: Summary of a 1987 Survey (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases and What Can be Done About Them (two parts, 2000 and 2002), by James S. Liebman, Jeffrey Fagan, and Valerie West (PDF files with commentary at the Justice Project)

• Health Insurance Among Children of Unemployed Parents, by Jacob A. Klerman (PDF at rand.org)

• Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1995), by National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.) (PDF at cdc.gov)

• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, by Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics (partial serial archives)
• Kids Count Data Book 2002: State Profiles of Child Well-Being, by Annie E. Casey Foundation (PDF files with commentary at aecf.org)

• Health Insurance Among Children of Unemployed Parents, by Jacob A. Klerman (PDF at rand.org)

• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics, by United States Bureau of Justice Statistics (HTML at Albany)

• Forecasting the Yield and the Price of Cotton (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Henry Ludwell Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report: Ninth Circuit Task Force on Racial, Religious & Ethnic Fairness (electronic edition, 1997), by United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (HTML and PDF at uscourts.gov)

• In the Crossfire: The Impact of Gun Violence on Public Housing Communities (ca. 2000), by United States Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• Final Report: Ninth Circuit Task Force on Racial, Religious & Ethnic Fairness (electronic edition, 1997), by United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit) (HTML and PDF at uscourts.gov)

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