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• "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" and "Probable Cause": Historical Perspectives on the Anglo-American Law of Evidence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Barbara J. Shapiro (HTML at UC Press)

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• Fiber Evidence and the Wayne Williams Trial (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, 1984), by Harold A. Deadman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Justice Harlan Dissents! A Statement (1961), by Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government and John M. Harlan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), by National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community (multiple formats at NAP)
• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dark Side: Secret Origins of Evidence in US Criminal Cases (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2018), by Sarah St. Vincent (HTML and PDF at hrw.org)

• Searching and Seizing Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence in Criminal Investigations (second edition, 2002), by United States Department of Justice (HTML at cybercrime.gov)

• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Eavesdropping on Hell: Historical Guide to Western Communications Intelligence and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (second edition; Fort George G. Meade, MD: Center for Cryptologic History, National Security Agency, 2005), by Robert J. Hanyok (PDF at nsa.gov)

• Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (updated and expanded edition; Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2007), by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Eva Landau (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• Warrantless Wiretapping: Hearings Before the Subcommitee on Administrative Practive and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Second Congress, Second Session, on Practices and Procedures of the Department of Justice for Warrantless Wiretapping and Other Electronic Surveillance, June 29, 1972. (Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Electronic Surveillance and Civil Liberties (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Summary of Task Force Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities Disclosed in Rockefeller Commission Report (redacted draft; originally top secret; 1977), contrib. by George W. Calhoun and United States Department of Justice (PDF at gwu.edu)
• Report on Inquiry into CIA-Related Electronic Surveillance Activities (redacted copy; originally top secret; 1976), by United States Department of Justice (PDF at documentcloud.org)

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Third Degree: A Detailed and Appalling Exposé of Police Brutality (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1930), by Emanuel Henry Lavine (page images at HathiTrust)

• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)

• Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003: Report (Rept. 108-321 Part 1; no further parts known to be published; 2003), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
  • text and PDF at congress.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• U.S.A. History in Brief (Learner English edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), by Susan Wallach (PDF at state.gov)
• Historians on America: Decisions that Made a Difference (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Paul Malamud (PDF at state.gov)
• The Age of Reinterpretation (reprinted from the American Historical Review; Washington: Service Center for Teachers of History, c1961), by C. Vann Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the United States (6 volumes; New York: Macmillan, c1905-1925), by Edward Channing
  • Volume I (The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660; 1907 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1760): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The American Revolution, 1761-1789): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Period of Transition, 1815-1848): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865; 1959 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (in various reprints): page images at HathiTrust
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1492-1828 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Homer C. Hockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Elementary History of Our Country (28th impression; Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1922), by Eva March Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An American History (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eleanor Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Nation: A History (28 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904-1918), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart, contrib. by Edward Potts Cheyney, Livingston Farrand, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Charles McLean Andrews, Evarts Boutell Greene, Reuben Gold Thwaites, George Elliott Howard, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Andrew C. McLaughlin, John Spencer Bassett, Edward Channing, Kendric Charles Babcock, Frederick Jackson Turner, William MacDonald, George Pierce Garrison, Theodore Clarke Smith, French Ensor Chadwick, James K. Hosmer, William Archibald Dunning, Edwin Erle Sparks, Davis Rich Dewey, John Holladay Latané, Frederic Austin Ogg, and David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Brief History of the United States (ca.1909), by John Bach McMaster (Gutenberg text)
• A First Book in American History: With Special Reference to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans (New York: American Book Company, c1889), by Edward Eggleston (page images at Pitt)
• Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People (Philadelphia and Chicago: International Publishing Co., 1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at Google; US access only)
• Formation of the Union, 1750-1829, by Albert Bushnell Hart (Gutenberg text)
• Forward Looking Lessons in U. S. History (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Puc. Co., 1919), by William Jeremiah Savage
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: American (v1 and 2 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and page images
• A History of the American People (5 volumes; Harper and Brothers, c1902), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at archive.org
• A History of the American People (documentary edition, 10 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1917-1918), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VI (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VIII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IX (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume X (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
• A History of the United States (London: Chatto and Windus, 1919), by Cecil Chesterton, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the United States, From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Peace With Mexico, in 1848 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by William Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the United States, or Republic of America, Exhibited in Connexion With its Chronology and Progressive Geography (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1828), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at Google)
• Introductory American History (1912), by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton (Gutenberg text)
• The Leading Facts of American History (revised edition, 1920), by D. H. Montgomery (HTML at usgennet.org)
• The Memorial Story of America: Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years From 1492 to 1892 (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. Winston and Co., 1892), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, John Heyl Vincent, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Francis Newton Thorpe, Theodore Sandford Doolittle, Albert Shaw, and Anna Laurens Dawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Own Country: Its History and Achievements, and the Story of Our Great Men and Women (Philadelphia et al.: Monarch Book co., c1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, Francis Newton Thorpe, and Anna Laurens Dawes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• "Sam": or, The History of Mystery, by Charles W. Webber (page images at MOA)
• Stories of American Life and Adventure, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Our Nation, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• This Country of Ours, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
• This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1917), by H. E. Marshall, illust. by A. C. Michael (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Thrilling Story of the World's Giant Republic, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1829-1925 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Arthur M. Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union (1871), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
• From Hitching Posts to Parking Meters, 1620-1960; With Historical Data, Family Memoirs and a Genealogical Registe (Colorado Springs: The author, 1961), by Ida Pearl Barker Bloss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
• The War Myth in United States History (third printing; New York: Vanguard Press; Association to Abolish War, 1934), by C. H. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• True Stories of Our Pioneers: The Heroic Deeds and Devoted Lives of the Fathers and Mothers of America, Embracing the Principal Episodes in the Struggle of the White Race and the Red Men for the Possession of the New World (c1904), by Augustus Lynch Mason, contrib. by John Clark Ridpath and Trumbull White (multiple formats at Indiana)

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