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• Military history, Modern
• 20th century

• Land-Based Air Power in Third World Crises (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1986), by David R. Mets
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Postmodern War: The New Politics of Conflict (New York and London: Guilford Press, c1997), by Chris Hables Gray (PDF files with commentary at chrishablesgray.org)
• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Firepower in Limited War (second printing, 1993), by Robert H. Scales (page images at Google)
• The Air Campaign: Planning for Combat (Washnigton: National Defense University Press, 1988), by John A. Warden (PDF at dtic.mil)
• Wars of the Third Kind: Conflict in Underdeveloped Countries (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Edward E. Rice (HTML at UC Press)
• Modern Irregular Warfare, in Defense Policy and as a Military Phenomenon, by Friedrich August Heydte, trans. by George Gregory (PDF at wlym.com)

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

• Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places, by Archibald Forbes (Gutenberg text)
• Notes of a War Correspondent, by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Fresh Perspectives on the "War on Terror" (2008), ed. by Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Against Freedom: The War on Terrorism in Everyday New Zealand Life (2007), by Valerie Morse (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)
• The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm (second edition, 2002), ed. by Jim A. Davis and Barry R. Schneider (PDF at hsdl.org)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)
• The United States and the Persian Gulf: Reshaping Security Strategy for the Post-Containment Era (2003), ed. by Richard Sokolsky (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Behind the Wire: An Update to Ending Secret Detentions (New York: Human Rights First, 2004-2005), by Deborah Pearlstein and Priti Patel (PDF at The Rendition Project)
• The Secrecy Problem in Terrorism Trials (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Serrin Turner and Stephen J. Schulhofer (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Assessing the New Normal: Liberty and Security for the Post-September 11 United States (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), ed. by Fiona Doherty and Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at humanrightsfirst.org)
• Caught in the Crossfire: The Iraq War and the Media, a Diary of Claims and Counterclaims (c2003), by Anthony Löwstedt (PDF with commentary at IPI)
• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)
• A Year of Loss: Reexamining Civil Liberties Since September 11 (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2002), ed. by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Educing Information: Interrogation, Science and Art: Foundations for the Future (Phase 1 report, 2006), by National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.) (PDF at fas.org)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• America and the Misshaping of a New World Order (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2010), ed. by Giles B. Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Roger Douglas
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Thomas J. Harrison (HTML at UC Press)
• Revenge of the Aesthetic: The Place of Literature in Theory Today (Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000), ed. by Michael Clark (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• The Aesthetics of Paradoxism (second edition, 2002), by Titu Popescu, trans. by Florentin Smarandache, Lucian Popescu, and Paul Georgelin (PDF at UNM)
• Flight From Eden: The Origins of Modern Literary Criticism and Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Steven Cassedy (HTML at UC Press)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Selected Plays of Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee (includes Inherit the Wind; Auntie Mame; The Gang's All Here; Only in America; A Call on Kuprin; Diamond Orchid; The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail; First Monday in October; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1995), by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, ed. by Alan Woods (PDF at Ohio State)
• Kumu Kahua Plays (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1983), ed. by Dennis Carroll (PDF and Epub with commentary at Hawaii)
• Alice in Blunderland: A Farce in One Act for Four Male and Two Female Performers (Boston: W. H. Baker, c1903), by William Lincoln Balch (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Provincetown Plays (Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Co., c1921), ed. by George Cram Cook and Frank Shay, contrib. by George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Pendleton King, James Oppenheim, Neith Boyce, Hutchins Hapgood, Floyd Dell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Rostetter, Rita Wellman, and Wilbur Daniel Steele (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Provincetown Plays, First Series (New York: F. Shay, 1916), ed. by Frank Shay, contrib. by Eugene O'Neill, Louise Stevens Bryant, and Floyd Dell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Provincetown Plays, Third Series (New York: Frank Shay, 1916), contrib. by Neith Boyce, Alfred Kreymborg, and Eugene O'Neill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Writers on America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2002), ed. by George Clack (PDF at state.gov)
• Health and Wealth (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1908), by Elbert Hubbard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Brand of Silence: A Detective Story (published under "Harrington Strong" pseudonym; New York: Chelsea House, 1919), by Johnston McCulley (Gutenberg text)

• The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), ed. by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Second Book of the Authors Club: Liber Scriptorum (New York: Authors Club, 1921) (page images at CMU)

• The North American Review (partial serial archives)

• You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-41 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by John Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets (originally New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1927; reprinted Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2023), ed. by Countee Cullen, illust. by Aaron Douglas (PDF at unl.edu)
• American Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Verse (Munich: K. Wolff Verlag, c1923), ed. by Leonora Speyer, contrib. by Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Anna Hempstead Branch, Witter Bynner, Adelaide Crapsey, Emily Dickinson, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), T. S. Eliot, John Gould Fletcher, Robert Frost, Orrick Johns, Alfred Kreymborg, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Edwin Markham, Edgar Lee Masters, Edna St. Vincent Millay, William Vaughn Moody, Marianne Moore, Rose Cecil O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Lola Ridge, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, Ridgely Torrence, Louis Untermeyer, William Carlos Williams, and Elinor Wylie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Poets' Corner)
• Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920, and Year Book of American Poetry, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (HTML at Michigan)
• The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver (New York: Printed For Frank Shay (Flying Cloud Press), 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Bellman Book of Verse, 1906-1919 (Minneapolis: Bellman Co., 1919), ed. by William C. Edgar (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (based on the 1948 edition), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML with commentary in Germany)
• The Book of Repulsive Women: 8 Rhythms and 5 Drawings (New York: Guido Bruno, 1915), by Djuna Barnes (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• A Few Figs from Thistles (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at terrenceberres.com
  • Gutenberg text
• Modern American Poets (London: Martin Secker, 1922), ed. by Conrad Aiken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Navigable Waterways, by Pamela Alexander (HTML at CAPA)
• The New Poetry: An Anthology (New York: Macmillan, 1917), ed. by Harriet Monroe and Alice Corbin Henderson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• Precipitations (New York: Nicholas L. Brown, 1920), by Evelyn Scott
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • Gutenberg text
• Second April, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • HTML at Michigan
  • Gutenberg text
• The Second Book of Modern Verse, ed. by Jessie B. Rittenhouse (Gutenberg text)
• Sudden Hunger, by Debra Bruce (HTML at CAPA)
• Vigils (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1921), by Aline Kilmer
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Anthology of Massachusetts Poets, ed. by William Stanley Braithwaite (Gutenberg text)
• Modern American Poetry: An Introduction (1919 edition), ed. by Louis Untermeyer (HTML at Bartleby)
• Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology, by Richard Aldington, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), John Gould Fletcher, F. S. Flint, D. H. Lawrence, and Amy Lowell
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Poet's Corner

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