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• Interviewer's Manual (revised edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1976), by University of Michigan Survey Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)

• Murder in America: A History (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1997), by Roger Lane (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Spirit of American Economics: A Study in the History of Economic Ideas in the United States Prior to the Great Depression (with a supplement on the development of Canadian economic ideas; New York: Committee on the Study of Economic Thought, dist. by the John Day Co., c1943), by J. F. Normano, contrib. by Arthur R. M. Lower (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Short History of American Capitalism (c2002), by Meyer Weinberg (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Wayback Machine)

• Courts and Commerce: Gender, Law, and the Market Economy in Colonial New York (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Deborah A. Rosen (PDF from Ohio State University Press)

• The Age of Big Business: A Chronicle of the Captains of Industry, by Burton J. Hendrick (Gutenberg text)
• A History of American Manufactures from 1608 To 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Mechanic Arts and Manufactures, From the Earliest Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution; and Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, With a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census (2 volumes; Philadelphia: E. Young and Co., 1861-1864), by J. Leander Bishop, contrib. by Edwin T. Freedley and Edward Young
  • Volume I: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume II: page images at HathiTrust
• A History of American Manufactures from 1608 To 1860: Exhibiting the Origin and Growth of the Principal Mechanic Arts and Manufactures, from the Earliest Colonial Period to the Adoption of the Constitution; And Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, With a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census (third edition, 3 volumes; Philadelphia: E. Young and Co.; London: S. Low, Son, and Co., 1868), by J. Leander Bishop, contrib. by Edwin T. Freedley and Edward Young (page images at Wisconsin)

• The Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972, by Charles D. Bright (illustrated HTML at generalatomic.com)

• Slipstream: The Autobiography of an Air Craftsman (New York et al.: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1950), by Eugene E. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Distribution of Labor In War (1918), by Edward Gray (page images here at Penn)

• Following in Footsteps or Marching Alone? How Institutional Differences Influence Renewable Energy Policy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Srinivas C. Parinandi (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850 (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, 1932), by Henry Walcott Boynton (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Brief History of Beacon Press (2003), by Susan Wilson (PDF files at beacon.org)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870: The Papers of William Charvat (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by William Charvat, ed. by Matthew J. Bruccoli, contrib. by Howard Mumford Jones (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Brief History of Beacon Press (2003), by Susan Wilson (PDF files at beacon.org)

• Proofs of Genius: Collected Editions from the American Revolution to the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Amanda A. Gailey (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)

• Publishing Blackness: Textual Constructions of Race Since 1850 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2013), ed. by George Hutchinson and John K. Young (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Training of an American: The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1855-1913 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928), by Burton J. Hendrick, contrib. by Walter Hines Page (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• Bookwomen: Creating an Empire in Children's Book Publishing, 1919-1939 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), by Jacalyn Eddy (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)
• Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c2006), ed. by James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand (PDF with commentary at Wisconsin)

• The Politics of Business in California, 1890-1920 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1977), by Mansel G. Blackford (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Pictorial Booklet on Early Jamestown Commodities and Industries (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #23; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by J. Paul Hudson, illust. by Sidney E. King
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Public Image of Big Business in America, 1880-1940: A Quantitative Study in Social Change (originally published 1975; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Louis Galambos, contrib. by Barbara Barrow Spence (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• The Cybernetics Group (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Steve J. Heims (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)

• Is a Crime Wave Coming? (1946), by Thorsten Sellin (illustrated HTML at historians.org)

• Economics, From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science: The Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran (second edition; Denton, TX: University of North Texas Libraries, 2015), ed. by Susan McHargue Dadres, Mona S. Hersh-Cochran, and David J. Molina (HTML and PDF at unt.edu)

• A Strategy for Assessing Science: Behavioral and Social Research on Aging (2006), ed. by Irwin Feller and Paul C. Stern (page images at NAP)

• Speaking of Liberty (2003), by Llewellyn H. Rockwell (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Race, Liberalism, and Economics (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), ed. by David C. Colander, Robert E. Prasch, and Falguni A. Sheth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liberal Analysis and Federal Power, by Tom Hayden (PDF at MSU)
• Objections to Conservatism (Heritage Lectures #3; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c1981), contrib. by Russell Kirk, Lewis H. Lapham, Philip M. Crane, Carl Gershman, Ernest Van den Haag, Paul Weyrich, George F. Gilder, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul Johnson, Shirley Robin Letwin, Lester H. Hunt, Tom G. Palmer, and Aram Bakshian (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• Hitler Was a Liberal (New York: Constitutional Educational League, c1949), by Joseph P. Kamp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Background Papers # 1, 2 and 3, Summer Institute of the Student League for Industrial Democracy (1958), by Student League for Industrial Democracy (U.S.), contrib. by George F. Kennan, André Schiffrin, and Carol Sheingorn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Government (Houston: OpenStax, c2016), by Glen S. Krutz, ed. by Sylvie Waskiewicz (PDF with commentary at openstax.org)
• Objections to Conservatism (Heritage Lectures #3; Washington: Heritage Foundation, c1981), contrib. by Russell Kirk, Lewis H. Lapham, Philip M. Crane, Carl Gershman, Ernest Van den Haag, Paul Weyrich, George F. Gilder, Ben J. Wattenberg, Paul Johnson, Shirley Robin Letwin, Lester H. Hunt, Tom G. Palmer, and Aram Bakshian (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Study of Politics: The Present State of American Political Science (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1959), by Charles S. Hyneman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Estimating the Effects of Social Interventions (1981), by Charles M. Judd and David A. Kenny (PDF at davidakenny.net)
• The Cybernetics Group (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1991), by Steve J. Heims (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press)
• No Basis: What the Studies Don't Tell Us About Same-Sex Parenting (2001), by Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai (PDF with commentary at archive.org)

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