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• "This is a War for the Utter Extinction of Slavery": The Civil War Letters of James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, Hospital Steward, 1st Michigan Colored Infantry (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2020), by James Benjamin Franklin Curtis, ed. by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Great Sit-Down Strike (New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1937), by William W. Weinstone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Men of Progress: Embracing Biographical Sketches of Representative Michigan Men, by Evening News Association (Detroit) (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
• Michigan Biographies (2 volumes, 1924), by Michigan Historical Commission
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Volume II (L-Z): multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
• General History of the State of Michigan (Detroit: R. D. S. Tyler and Co., 1873), by Charles R. Tuttle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at MOA
• The Red Book of Michigan: A Civil, Military and Biographical History, by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• A Gallery of Pen Sketches in Black and White of Our Michigan Friends "As We See 'Em.", by Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of Michigan
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of Barry County; With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Men (Grand Rapids, MI: Reed-Tangler Co., ca. 1912), by William W. Potter, Ford Hicks, and Edward Butler (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Herring Lake, With an Introductory Legend, The Bride of Mystery, by John Harris Howard (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• A Century of Conquest, 1852-1952: St. Alphonsus Parish, Dearborn, 1952 (Kingsport, TN: Printed by Kingsport Press, 1952), by Maurice W. Geary (page images at HathiTrust)

• History of Livingston Co. Michigan, With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts and Abbott, 1880) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Many Moons: Petoskey, Michigan Centennial, 1852-1952 (Petoskey, MI: Petoskey Public Schools, 1952) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (third local volume of a Michigan history set, ca. 1928; for earlier two statewide volumes, see Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes), ed. by George N. Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Past and Present of Washtenaw County, Michigan; Together With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Prominent and Leading Citizens and Illustrious Dead (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Pub. co., 1906), by Samuel W. Beakes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic Michigan, Land of the Great Lakes (2 statewide volumes plus a third local volume that varies per set; third volume in this set dedicated to Washtenaw County; Dayton, OH: National Historical Association, ca. 1924-1926), ed. by George N. Fuller and Byron Alfred Finney (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sun-Chaser: Marvin J. Vann, an American Life (2006), by James Wyatt Cook (HTML at Michigan)

• Our Golden Jubilarian: Father A. X. M. Sharpe (special issue of the Sacred Heart Guardian; Dearborn, MI: Sacred Heart Parish, 1949) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Aunt Sally, or, The Cross the Way of Freedom: A Narrative of the Slave-Life and Purchase of the Mother of Rev. Isaac Williams of Detroit, Michigan (Cincinnati: American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1858), by Isaac Williams (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Autobiography of Woodbridge N. Ferris, by Woodbridge N. Ferris (HTML at ferris.edu)

• Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1998), by Sunnie Wilson and John Cohassey (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1988), by Christopher H. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Into the Latter-day Light: An Autobiography (Independence, MO: Herald Publishing House, 1929), by John J. Cornish (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giving It All Away: The Story of William W. Cook and His Michigan Law Quadrangle (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2011), by Margaret A. Leary (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• The Bark Covered House, or Back in the Woods Again, by William Nowlin
  • multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov
  • Gutenberg text

• An Italian Portrait Gallery: Being Brief Biographies of Scholars Illustrious Within the Memory of Our Grand-Fathers for the Published Monument of Their Genius (Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1935), by Paolo Giovio, trans. by Florence Alden Gragg (HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (c1931), by Lytton Strachey (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Biographical Sketches (New York: Leypoldt and Holt, 1869), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Biographical Sketches (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1863), by Nassau William Senior
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• A Book of Worthies, Gathered From the Old Histories and Now Written Anew (London: Macmillan and Co, 1869), by Charlotte M. Yonge (multiple formats at Google)
• Brief Biographies (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861; with illustrations added for the online edition), by Samuel Smiles (illustrated HTML with commentary in the UK)
• Classic Memoirs (revised edition, 3 volumes; New York: Colonial Press, c1901), contrib. by George Saintsbury and Robert Arnot
  • Volume 1 (De Commines et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (Earl of Clarendon et al): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3 (Charles V et al): multiple formats at archive.org
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great (14 volume Memorial edition, 1916), by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg texts)
• The One Great Society: A Book of Recollections (New York et al.: Fleming H. Revell Co., c1918), by Frederick Henry Lynch (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus, OH: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (St. Louis: J. and H. Miller, 1856), by Thomas H. Prescott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travel (Columbus OH: J. and H. Miller, 1857), by Thomas H. Prescott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Curiosities of Human Nature (Boston: J. E. Hickman, ca. 1843), by Samuel G. Goodrich (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women, With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers (Springfield, MA: King-Richardson Pub. Co., 1897), ed. by William C. King, contrib. by C. H. Parkhurst (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Fame in the 20th Century (electronic edition, with complete text and some illustrations of print edition; 2010), by Clive James (HTML at clivejames.com)

• Index to Profile Sketches in New Yorker Magazine (Boston: F. W. Faxon Co., 1946), by Thomas Shuler Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
• Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
  • Volume IV: page images at Google
• Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)

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