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• The Highbrow in American Politics: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Role of the Intellectual in Politics (1982), by David B. Kopel (PDF files with commentary at davekopel.com)
• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Walden edition; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Henry David Thoreau (PDF files with images at walden.org)

• The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Judy Kutulas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd: Counterfeit Heroes and Unhappy Truths (New York and London: New York University Press, c1995), by Ronald Suresh Roberts (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• An Answer to the Renegades: Critique of Anti-Marxism (ca. 1941), by Revolutionary Workers League of the U.S. (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Neil Jumonville (HTML at UC Press)

• The Highbrow in American Politics: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the Role of the Intellectual in Politics (1982), by David B. Kopel (PDF files with commentary at davekopel.com)

• Life of Henry David Thoreau (London: W. Scott, 1896), by Henry S. Salt
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Genius Ignored: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Bach, Thoreau, Melville, Van Gogh, Nabokov, and Casablanca (last revised 2018), by Lucius Furius (illustrated HTML at humanist-art.org)
• Essays Before a Sonata, by Charles Ives (Gutenberg text)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Philosophers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Alfred I. Tauber (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Walden: or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), by Henry David Thoreau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Thoreau Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Henry David Thoreau and the Moral Agency of Knowing (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001), by Alfred I. Tauber (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Thoreau's Flute: A Poem (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Oriole Press, 1950), by Louisa May Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Maine Woods, by Henry David Thoreau (HTML at monadnock.net)

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, by Henry David Thoreau
  • HTML at walden.org
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, by Henry David Thoreau
  • HTML at walden.org
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt: First British Convert, Scribe for Zion (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2009), by Ronald G. Watt
  • PDF with commentary at usu.edu
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Century Aboriginal Family (2010), by Gordon Briscoe (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)

• Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (London: Printed for Treuttel and Wurtz, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Years' Exile: or, Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself During the Years 1810, 1811, 1812 and 1813 (New York: Collins and Co. and C. S. Van Winkle, 1821), by Madame de Staël, ed. by Auguste-Louis Staël-Holstein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))
• Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, Who Have Been Celebrated for Their Writings or Skill in the Learned Languages, Arts and Sciences (Oxford: Printed by W. Jackson for the author, 1752), by George Ballard (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2011), by Ann Oakley (HTML at Bloomsbury Academic (registration optional))
• A Woman of Wit and Wisdom: A Memoir of Elizabeth Carter, One of the "Bas Bleu" Society (1717-1806) (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by Alice C. C. Gaussen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, c1999), by Kato Shuichi, trans. by Chia-ning Chang (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• A Character of Hugh Legaré (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1985), by Michael O'Brien (PDF at Tennessee)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Philadelphia et al.: G. Maclean, 1871), by James D. McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (Cincinnati and Chicago: E. Hannaford and Co.; San Francisco: F. Dewing and Co., 1872), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Republican Court: or, American Society in the Days of Washington (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1855), by Rufus W. Griswold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something of Men I Have Known; With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective (second edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1909), by Adlai E. Stevenson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• The Life of Jacob Persinger, Who Was Taken by the Shawnee Indians When An Infant; With a Short Account of the Indian Troubles in Missouri, and a Sketch of the Adventures of the Author (reprint; originally published 1861), by Joseph Persinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon
  • HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • HTML at Evans TCP
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

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