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• Home is the Sailor (Birmingham, AL: Vulcan Press, 1955), by Herbert Hartley and Clint Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Competition in Coastal Seas: An Evaluation of Foreign Maritime Activities in the 200-Mile EEZ (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• R&D in the Maritime Industry: A Supplement to An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (OTA-BP-O-35; 1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1983), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Alternative Approaches to Cargo Policy: A Supplement to an Assessment of Maritime Trade and Technology (1985), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Annual Report of the Federal Maritime Commission, by United States Federal Maritime Commission (full serial archives)

• Record of American and Foreign Shipping (partial serial archives)

• Causes of the Reduction of American Tonnage and the Decline of Navigation Interests, by United States House of Representatives (page images at MOA)

• American Maritime Cases (partial serial archives)
• Reports of Cases Relating to Maritime Law (partial serial archives)

• The Law of Salvage (Mount Kisco, NY: Baker, Voorhis and Co., 1958), by Martin J. Norris (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Reassessment of the Marine Salvage Posture of the United States (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Miscellaneous Essays and Occasional Writings of Francis Hopkinson, Esq. (3 volumes; Philadelphia: Printed by T. Dobson, 1792), by Francis Hopkinson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Convoy: A Funeral Train (Chicago: America First Committee, 1941), by America First Committee (PDF at ajcarchives.org)

• Ship Registers and Enrollments of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790-1939 (2 typescript volumes, second titled "Ship Licenses Issued to Vessels Under Twenty Tons and Ship Licenses on Enrollments Issued Out of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island"; Providence: National Archives Project, 1938-1941), by Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sailing Days on the Penobscot: The River and Bay As They Were in the Old Days (with a record of vessels built there; publication #24; Salem, MA: Marine Research Society, 1932), by George S. Wasson and Lincoln Colcord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Some Merchants and Sea Captains of Old Boston: Being a Collection of Sketches of Notable Men and Mercantile Houses Prominent During the Early Half of the Nineteenth Century in the Commerce and Shipping of Boston (c1918), by State Street Trust Company (Boston) (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)

• Ship Registers and Enrollments of Newport, Rhode Island, 1790-1939 (2 typescript volumes, second titled "Ship Licenses Issued to Vessels Under Twenty Tons and Ship Licenses on Enrollments Issued Out of the Port of Newport, Rhode Island"; Providence: National Archives Project, 1938-1941), by Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #22; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Cerinda W. Evans
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Paths of Inland Commerce: A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, by Archer Butler Hulbert (Gutenberg text)

• The Transportation Revolution, 1815-1860 (4th volume in "Economic History of the United States" series; New York and Toronto: Rinehart and Co., c1951), by George Rogers Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Octopus (Golden Gate edition; New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1903), by Frank Norris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Octopus: A Story of California, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)

• Voyage of the Paper Canoe: A Geographical Journey of 2500 Miles, From Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, During the Years 1874-5, by Nathaniel H. Bishop
  • illustrated HTML at Robroy
  • Gutenberg text

• The Railroad Builders, A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, by John Moody (Gutenberg text)
• An Engineer's Recollections (reprinted from Engineering News-Record; c1936), by John F. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Steam Over Scranton: The Locomotives of Steamtown (1991), by Gordon Chappell (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Passenger Train in the Motor Age: California's Rail and Bus Industries, 1910-1941 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1993), by Gregory Lee Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rural Railroads (includes reprint of Corliss' "Trails to Rails"; Cunningham's "Rural Railroads - Greene County" compilation; and an epilogue, "From Rails to Trails"; Carrollton, IL: Eileen Smith Cunningham Reprints, ca. 1976), ed. by Eileen Smith Cunningham, contrib. by Carlton J. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sapbush Run: An Informal History of the Black River and Utica Railroad (Boonville, NY: Black River Books, 1948), by Thomas C. O'Donnell, contrib. by Walter D. Edmonds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conquering the Wilderness: The Building of the Adirondack and St. Lawrence Railroad by William Seward Webb, 1891-92 (Norwood, MA: Privately printed, 1932), by Charles Howard Burnett (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A Century of Subways: Celebrating 100 Years of New York's Underground Railways (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), by Brian J. Cudahy (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

• A History of Railroads in Tompkins County (third edition, 2008), by Hardy Campbell Lee, Winton Rossiter, and John Marcham (PDF with commentary at Cornell)

• Central Wisconsin's Railroads: Past and Future (1981), by Ray Specht (page images at mpl.org)

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; With Special Reference to the Life of Alexander F. Whitney (New York: A. and C. Boni, c1936), by Walter Flavius McCaleb (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Daniel Willard and Progressive Management on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1991), by David M. Vrooman (PDF at Ohio State)

• History of Railroad Strikes: A History of the Railroad Revolt of 1877; the American Railroad Union Strike on the Great Northern in 1894 and its Participation in the Pullman Car Strikes of the Same Year; the Eight-Hour-Day Strike of 1917 and the Runaway Switchmen's Strike of 1920 (Washington: Brotherhood Pub. Co., 1935), by O. D. Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2006), by Mark H. Rose, Bruce Edsall Seely, and Paul F. Barrett (PDF at Ohio State)

• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• Queen of the Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1994), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats at wayne.edu)

• Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1991), by Mark L. Thompson (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• U.S.A. History in Brief (Learner English edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), by Susan Wallach (PDF at state.gov)
• Historians on America: Decisions that Made a Difference (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Paul Malamud (PDF at state.gov)
• The Age of Reinterpretation (reprinted from the American Historical Review; Washington: Service Center for Teachers of History, c1961), by C. Vann Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American History (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eleanor Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Nation: A History (28 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904-1918), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart, contrib. by Edward Potts Cheyney, Livingston Farrand, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Charles McLean Andrews, Evarts Boutell Greene, Reuben Gold Thwaites, George Elliott Howard, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Andrew C. McLaughlin, John Spencer Bassett, Edward Channing, Kendric Charles Babcock, Frederick Jackson Turner, William MacDonald, George Pierce Garrison, Theodore Clarke Smith, French Ensor Chadwick, James K. Hosmer, William Archibald Dunning, Edwin Erle Sparks, Davis Rich Dewey, John Holladay Latané, Frederic Austin Ogg, and David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Brief History of the United States (ca.1909), by John Bach McMaster (Gutenberg text)
• An Elementary History of Our Country (28th impression; Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1922), by Eva March Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A First Book in American History: With Special Reference to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans (New York: American Book Company, c1889), by Edward Eggleston (page images at Pitt)
• Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People (Philadelphia and Chicago: International Publishing Co., 1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at Google; US access only)
• Formation of the Union, 1750-1829, by Albert Bushnell Hart (Gutenberg text)
• Forward Looking Lessons in U. S. History (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Puc. Co., 1919), by William Jeremiah Savage
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: American (v1 and 2 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and page images
• History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the American People (5 volumes; Harper and Brothers, c1902), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at archive.org
• A History of the American People (documentary edition, 10 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1917-1918), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VI (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VIII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IX (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume X (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
• A History of the United States (6 volumes; New York: Macmillan, c1905-1925), by Edward Channing
  • Volume I (The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660; 1907 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1760): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The American Revolution, 1761-1789): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Period of Transition, 1815-1848): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865; 1959 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (in various reprints): page images at HathiTrust
• A History of the United States (London: Chatto and Windus, 1919), by Cecil Chesterton, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the United States, From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Peace With Mexico, in 1848 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by William Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the United States, or Republic of America, Exhibited in Connexion With its Chronology and Progressive Geography (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1828), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at Google)
• Introductory American History (1912), by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton (Gutenberg text)
• The Leading Facts of American History (revised edition, 1920), by D. H. Montgomery (HTML at usgennet.org)
• The Memorial Story of America: Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years From 1492 to 1892 (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. Winston and Co., 1892), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, John Heyl Vincent, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Francis Newton Thorpe, Theodore Sandford Doolittle, Albert Shaw, and Anna Laurens Dawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Own Country: Its History and Achievements, and the Story of Our Great Men and Women (Philadelphia et al.: Monarch Book co., c1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, Francis Newton Thorpe, and Anna Laurens Dawes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1492-1828 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Homer C. Hockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Sam": or, The History of Mystery, by Charles W. Webber (page images at MOA)
• Stories of American Life and Adventure, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Our Nation, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• This Country of Ours, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
• This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1917), by H. E. Marshall, illust. by A. C. Michael (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Thrilling Story of the World's Giant Republic, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union (1871), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1829-1925 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Arthur M. Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Hitching Posts to Parking Meters, 1620-1960; With Historical Data, Family Memoirs and a Genealogical Registe (Colorado Springs: The author, 1961), by Ida Pearl Barker Bloss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
• The War Myth in United States History (third printing; New York: Vanguard Press; Association to Abolish War, 1934), by C. H. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• True Stories of Our Pioneers: The Heroic Deeds and Devoted Lives of the Fathers and Mothers of America, Embracing the Principal Episodes in the Struggle of the White Race and the Red Men for the Possession of the New World (c1904), by Augustus Lynch Mason, contrib. by John Clark Ridpath and Trumbull White (multiple formats at Indiana)

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