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• The Syntax of Class: Writing Inequality in Nineteenth-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Amy Schrager Lang (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)
• Homicide in American Fiction, 1798-1860: A Study in Social Values (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c1957), by David Brion Davis (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (Boston: J. P. Jewett and Co., 1854), by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work (Boston, MA: J.P. Jewett and Co.; et al., 1853), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Beside you in time : sense methods & queer sociabilities in the American 19th century (Durham : Duke University Press, 2019., 2019), by Elizabeth Freeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work., by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Slavernij: Vervolg en Sleutel op De Negerhut (in Dutch), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)

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• Distancing English: A Chapter in the History of the Inexpressible (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Page Richards (PDF at Ohio State)
• Exotic Nations: Literature and Cultural Identity in the United States and Brazil, 1830-1930 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Renata R. Mautner Wasserman (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Fifteen Jugglers, Five Believers: Literary Politics and the Poetics of American Social Movements (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Thomas Vernon Reed (HTML at UC Press)
• Where the World is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Kim Savelson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Sharon O'Dair (page images at HathiTrust)

• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore
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• The 19th century : A history. (Harper, 1880), by Robert Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire et description des voies de communication aux États Unis (C. Gosselin; [etc., etc.], 1840), by Michel Chevalier and Charles Gosselin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unpublished orations : "The discovery of the Columbia River, and the Whitman controversy" ; "The Crispus Attucks memorial", and "Columbus memorial" (Boston : The Bibliophile Society, MDCDIX [1909], 1909), by John Fiske, W. H. W. Bicknell, William P. Trent, Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co, and Mass.) Bibliophile Society (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The plague of kaiserdom (California State Printing Office, 1918), by William V. Cowan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old and the new century : an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its ninety-sixth anniversary, Tuesday, November 20, 1900 (Printed for the Society, 1900), by Marvin Richardson Vincent and New-York Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Division and reunion, 1829-1889 (Longmans, Green, 1907), by Woodrow Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Randolph (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Henry Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little visits with great Americans; or, Success ideals and how to attain them (Success, 1905), by Orison Swett Marden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 1 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them, ed. by Orison Swett Marden (Gutenberg ebook)

• Catalogue of the library of the Long Island Historical Society, 1863-1893. (Printed for the Society [Baltimore, Press of Deutsch lithographing & printing co.], 1893), by Long Island Historical Society. Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• The red moon (Neale Publishing Company, 1910), by Eugenie Jones Bacon and Neale Publishing Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Woman of Yesterday, by Caroline Atwater Mason (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Hand-Made Gentleman: A Tale of the Battles of Peace, by Irving Bacheller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pen Pictures, of Eventful Scenes and Struggles of Life, by B. F. Craig (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wanderings of French Ed, by J. Adelard René (Gutenberg ebook)

• ...Uncle Sam's soldiers; a story of the war with Spain (D. Appleton and company, 1899), by Oscar P. Austin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Littell's Living Age (partial serial archives)
• The American review of history and politics, and general repository of literature and state papers (Printed for Farrand and Nicholas, 1811), by Robert Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Calendar of the Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia (2006), by University of Virginia Library (frame-dependent HTML at Virginia)

• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
• Richard Allen and Absalom Jones (Baltimore: Church Advocate Press, 1916), by George F. Bragg (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Religion and the founding of the American Republic (Library of Congress ;, 1998), by James H. Hutson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Revivalism and social reform; American Protestantism on the eve of the Civil War. (Harper & Row, 1957), by Timothy Lawrence Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• My portfolio : a collection of essays (Charles Scribner, 1882), by Austin Phelps (page images at HathiTrust)
• A half-century of the Unitarian controversy : with particular reference to its origin, its course, and its prominent subjects among the Congregationalists of Massachusetts : with an appendix (Crosby, Nichols, and Co., 1857), by George Edward Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abriss einer Geschichte der evangelischen Kirche in Amerika im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (Steinkopf, 1889), by Adolf Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Separation or continuity, which? (Baltimore : H.H. Smith, [1893], 1893), by I. L. Thomas and Charles Simpson Butcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Christianity at the close of the nineteenth century. Essay before the Alumni Association of the General Theological Seminary. June 4, 1895. ([New York, 1895), by William Barroll Frisby (page images at HathiTrust)
• American fraternal greetings to the Wesleyan conferences in Ireland and England (Western Methodist Book Concern, 1898), by J. W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on the truth of the Christian religion (Printed for the author by Joseph Israel, 1811), by William Beauchamp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pioneer church; or, The story of a new parish in the West. (Hurd and Houghton;, 1868), by Montgomery Schuyler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorized report of the proceedings of the ... congress of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States ... <1884-1885> (Thomas Whittaker, 1884), by Church Congress in the United States and Episcopal Church (page images at HathiTrust)
• State and prospects of religion in America : being a report made at the conference of the Evangelical alliance, in Paris, August 25th, 1855. (R. Carter & Brothers, 1856), by Robert Baird and France) Evangelical Alliance. Conference (1855 : Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Report of] the Foreign Committee of the Board of Missions to the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church. ([Foreign Mission Rooms, Protestant Episcopal Church], 1876), by Episcopal Church. Board of Missions. Foreign Committee and S. D. Denison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Statement and appeal of the Foreign Committee : containing : 1st The Epiphany appeal : 2d List of books, etc, on foreign missions : 3d Societies of women auxiliary to the Board of Missions : 4th Parish missionary societies--a paper by Rev. J.E. Sampson, Vicar of York, England : 5th Gleanings from the missionary field, being incidents and facts illustrative of the character and progress of the work of foreign missions. (Cushing, Bardua & Co., Printers and Stationers, 1871), by Episcopal Church. Board of Missions. Foreign Committee and William Hobart Hare (page images at HathiTrust)

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