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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, by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
• On "culture" and "a liberal education" with lists of books which can aid in acquiring them, by Jesse Lee Bennett ... (Baltimore, The Arnold company, 1922), by Jesse Lee Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Why read" : an address delivered before the Insurance Society of New York. ([New York? : s.n., 1919]), by William Herbert Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading at risk : a survey of literary reading in America : executive summary / National Endowment for the Arts. (Washington, D.C. : National Endowment for the Arts, [2004]), by National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book-lover: A Guide to the Best Reading, by James Baldwin (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open, by Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Abandoned Country; or, Frank Reade, Jr., Exploring a New Continent., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• From Zone to Zone: Or, The Wonderful Trip of Frank Reade, Jr., with His Latest Air-Ship, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lost in the Atlantic Valley; Or, Frank Reade, Jr., and His Wonder, the "Dart", by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr.'s Search for the Silver Whale: Or, Under the Ocean in the Electric "Dolphin", by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Transient Lake; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Adventures in a Mysterious Country, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr., Fighting the Terror of the Coast, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Galleon's Gold; or, Frank Reade, Jr.'s Deep Sea Search., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Sunken Isthmus; or, Frank Reade, Jr., in the Yucatan Channel., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade Jr. and His Engine of the Clouds: Or, Chased Around the World in the Sky, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr., and His Electric Ice Ship; or, Driven Adrift in the Frozen Sky., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade Jr.'s Air Wonder, The "Kite"; Or, A Six Weeks' Flight Over the Andes, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade Jr.'s Submarine Boat; or, to the North Pole Under the Ice., by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade, Jr., and His New Steam Man; or, the Young Inventor's Trip to the Far West: Frank Reade Library Vol. I, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frank Reade and His Steam Horse, by Luis Senarens (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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)
• Reading at risk : a survey of literary reading in America : executive summary / National Endowment for the Arts. (Washington, D.C. : National Endowment for the Arts, [2004]), by National Endowment for the Arts (page images at HathiTrust)

• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)
• Interest factors in primary reading material, (New York city, Teachers college, Columbia university, 1921), by Fannie Wyche Dunn (page images at HathiTrust)

• State course of study for the rural and graded schools in the state of Missouri, 1913. (Jefferson City, Mo., The H. Stephens printing company, [1913]), by Missouri. Department of Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• Reading course for kindergarten teachers. ([Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1918]), by United States. Office of Education. Kindergarten Division (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
• Biographical annals of the civil government of the United States. From original and official sources. By Charles Lanman ... (Washington, J. M. Morrison, 1887), by Charles Lanman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A statistical and chronological view of the United States of North America, and the several states and territories carefully compiled from the latest authorites, for the proprietor, by M.R. Bartlett ... (New York, Printed by Sleight & Van Norden, 1833), by M. R. Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• 100 great battles of the rebellion; a detailed account of regiments and batteries engaged--casualties, killed, wounded and missing, and the number of men in action in each regiment; also, all the battles of the revolution, war of 1812-5, Mexican war, Indian battles, American-Spanish war, and naval battels. (Hobeken, N.J., 1906), by W Kremer (page images at HathiTrust)

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