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• Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1994), by Frederick Michael Dolan (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• Our Enemy, The State, by Albert Jay Nock (PDF at mises.org)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Federalist: A Classic on Federalism and Free Government (originally published 1960; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gottfried Dietze (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics (New York and London: New York University Press, 1998), by Mark E. Kann (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Adams Federalists (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Manning Julian Dauer (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (6 volumes; Philadelphia: Dept. of History, University of Pennsylvania, 1900-1906), ed. by Herman Vandenburg Ames (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Nationality of Her Own: Women, Marriage, and the Law of Citizenship (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Candice Lewis Bredbenner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Manhood, Citizenship, and the National Guard: Illinois, 1870-1917 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Eleanor L. Hannah (PDF at Ohio State)

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Stranger Citizens: Migrant Influence and National Power in the Early American Republic (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by John McNelis O'Keefe (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Coors Connection: How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism (Boston: South End Press, c1991), by Russ Bellant, contrib. by Chip Berlet (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Conservative Movement: Then and Now (Heritage Lectures #1; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c1980), by Russell Kirk (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Resurgence of Conservatism in Anglo-American Democracies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1988), ed. by Barry Cooper, Allan Kornberg, and William Mishler, contrib. by Joel Smith, Neil Nevitte, Marilyn B. Hoskin, Roy E. Fitzgerald, Norman C. Thomas, William James Booth, F. L. Morton, A. Kenneth Pye, James E. Alt, Ivor Crewe, Donald Searing, Mark N. Franklin, Roger Gibbins, Harold D. Clarke, Henry W. Chappell, William R. Keech, Michael Allen Gillespie, Michael Lienesch, and Morris P. Fiorina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier (based on the 1988 edition), by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (HTML at Virginia)

• The Story of Civil Liberty in the United States (New York: Vanguard Press, American Civil Liberties Union, c1927), by Leon Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blacks in the Jewish Mind: A Crisis of Liberalism (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Seth Forman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Bennington and the Green Mountain Boys: The Emergence of Liberal Democracy in Vermont, 1760-1850 (originally published 1996; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Robert E. Shalhope (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1991), by Courtney Brown (PDF with commentary at courtneybrown.com)

• Inequality in Early America (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, c1999), ed. by Carla Gardina Pestana and Sharon V. Salinger (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Publishing)

• The Eagle's Talons: The American Experience at War (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1988), by Dennis M. Drew and Donald M. Snow
  • PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Seriatim: The Supreme Court Before John Marshall (New York and London: New York University Press, c1998), by Scott Douglas Gerber (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• The Politics of Judicial Interpretation: The Federal Courts, Department of Justice, and Civil Rights, 1866-1876 (with a new introduction; New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Robert J. Kaczorowski (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• History of the United States Capitol: A Chronicle of Design, Construction, and Politics, by William C. Allen (PDF files at gpo.gov)

• Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1997), by Jonathan M. Atkins (PDF at Tennessee)

• Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age (c2008), ed. by Allison H. Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Joshua Levy, contrib. by Esther Dyson (HTML and PDF with commentary at personaldemocracy.com)

• Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Tully (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Forming American Politics: Ideals, Interests, and Institutions in Colonial New York and Pennsylvania (originally published 1994; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Alan Tully (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Presidential Lightning Rods: The Politics of Blame Avoidance (originally published 1994; open access edition with new author preface Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2021), by Richard Ellis (PDF and Epub at ku.edu)

• The Olive Branch, or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic: A Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and Harmony (ninth edition; Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1817), by Mathew Carey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Olive Branch, or Faults on Both Sides, Federal and Democratic: A Serious Appeal on the Necessity of Mutual Forgiveness and Harmony (tenth edition, improved; Philadelphia: M. Carey and Son, 1818), by Mathew Carey (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Parties, Politics, and the Sectional Conflict in Tennessee, 1832-1861 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1997), by Jonathan M. Atkins (PDF at Tennessee)

• History of Political Conventions in California, 1849-1892 (Publications of the California Sttae Library #1; 1893), by Winfield J. Davis
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Party Spirit in a Frontier Republic: Democratic Politics in Ohio, 1793-1821 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Donald J. Ratcliffe (PDF at Ohio State)

• Platforms of the Republican and Copperhead Parties; Grant and Colfax's Letters of Acceptance; Blair's Threat of Civil War; What the Copperhead Platform Means (1868), by Union Republican Congressional Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Demagogues: Twentieth Century (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1959), by Reinhard H. Luthin, contrib. by Allan Nevins (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism: Challenging Growth, Markets, Inequality, and Resentment (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by David M. Ricci (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• Owen Lattimore and the "Loss" of China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Robert P. Newman (HTML at UC Press)

• Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (the McCarthy hearing transcripts, 1953-1954 (5 volumes plus an index); made public in 2003), by United States Senate Committee on Government Operations Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, ed. by Donald A. Ritchie, Beth Bolling, and Diane B. Boyle, contrib. by Joseph McCarthy
  • Volume 1: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 2: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 3: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 4: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Volume 5: PDF and text at govinfo.gov
  • Index volume: PDF and HTML at govinfo.gov
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union Intelligence During the Civil War, by P. K. Rose (HTML at webharvest.gov)

• Clandestine Service History: The Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956 (written in 1967; redacted declassified version released 2017), by United States Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Operations (PDF at cia.gov)
• Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, 2010), by Richard Breitman and Norman J. W. Goda
  • PDF at archives.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust
• J. Edgar Hoover and the Anti-Interventionists: FBI Political Surveillance and the Rise of the Domestic Security State, 1939-1945 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Douglas M. Charles (PDF at Ohio State)

• The American as Anarchist: Reflections on Indigenous Radicalism (originally published 1978; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by David De Leon (PDF files at Project MUSE)

• Long Road to Harpers Ferry: The Rise of the First American Left (London: Pluto Press, c2018), by Mark A. Lause (Epub at OAPEN)

• Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies: A Conversation with Richard Rorty (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2002), by Richard Rorty, Derek Nystrom, and Kent Puckett (PDF with commentary at prickly-paradigm.com)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at flvc.org)

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