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• Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The Rise of Quakerism in Amsterdam, 1655-1665 (Swarthmore College monographs on Quaker history #4, 1938), by William I. Hull (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Later Periods of Quakerism (2 volumes; London: Macmillan and Co., 1921), by Rufus M. Jones
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers (2 volumes; London: L. Hinde, 1753), by Joseph Besse
  • Volume I: HTML and page images at Earlham
  • Volume II: HTML and page images at Earlham
• The Quakers in the American Colonies (London: Macmillan, 1911), by Rufus M. Jones, Isaac Sharpless, and Amelia M. Gummere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Rebel Saints (New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1925), by Mary Agnes Best
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Declaration of the Sad and Great Persecution and Martyrdom of the People of God, Called Quakers, in New-England, for the Worshipping of God (1661), by Edward Burrough, ed. by Paul Royster (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
• The Truth Exalted in the Writings of That Eminent and Faithful Servant of Christ, John Burnyeat (London: Printed for T. Northcott, 1691), by John Burnyeat (HTML and page images at Earlham)

• God's Mighty Power Magnified, As Manifested and Revealed in His Faithful Handmaid Joan Vokins; Also Some Account of Her Exercises, Works of Faith, Labour of Love, and Great Travels in the Work of The Ministry, for the Good of Souls (new edition; Cockermouth, Cumbria: D. Fidler, 1871), by Joan Vokins, ed. by Oliver Sansom
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Friends Historical Association (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of Friends' Historical Society of Philadelphia (full serial archives)

• The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society (partial serial archives)

• Letters, &c., of Early Friends, Illustrative of the History of the Society From Nearly its Origin to About the Period of George Fox's decease, With Documents Respecting its Early Discipline, Also Epistles of Counsel and Exhortation, &c. (London: Harvey and Darton, 1841), ed. by Abram Rawlinson Barclay (HTML and page images at Earlham)

• Religious Seekers and the Advent of Mormonism (c1988), by Dan Vogel (HTML at Signature Books)

• The General History of the Quakers: Containing the Lives, Tenents, Sufferings, Tryals, Speeches and Letters of the Most Eminent Quakers, Both Men and Women, From the First Rise of That Sect Down to This Present Time (London: Printed for J. Dunton, 1696), by Gerardus Croese and George Keith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Life of William Allen, With Selections From His Correspondence (Philadelphia: H. Longstreth, 1847), by William Allen
  • Volume 1: HTML at Earlham
  • Volume 2: HTML at Earlham

• The General History of the Quakers: Containing the Lives, Tenents, Sufferings, Tryals, Speeches and Letters of the Most Eminent Quakers, Both Men and Women, From the First Rise of That Sect Down to This Present Time (London: Printed for J. Dunton, 1696), by Gerardus Croese and George Keith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Extracts From the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, From 1759-1807, A.D. (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1889), by Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, ed. by Henry D. Biddle (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers and Their Meeting House, 1754-1936 (first edition; Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Co., c1936), by Douglas Summers Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century (New York: E.P. Dutton and Co.; London: Grant Richards, 1901), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (1902), by George Paston (Gutenberg text)
• Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century (London: Grant Richards; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1902), by George Paston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• New Views of Christianity, Society, and the Church, by Orestes Augustus Brownson (HTML at terrenceberres.com)
• What I Believe, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constantine Popoff (HTML at nonresistance.org)
• The New Epoch for Faith (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1901), by George A. Gordon (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Star Papers: or, Views and Experiences of Religious Subjects, by Henry Ward Beecher (page images at MOA)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• German Rationalism, In Its Rise, Progress, and Decline, In Relation To Theologians, Scholars, Poets, Philosophers, and the People: A Contribution to the Church History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (New York: C. Scribner, 1865), by K. R. Hagenbach, ed. by William Leonard Gage and J. H. W. Stuckenberg (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special Correspondent (Boston: Lothrop Publishing Company, 1901), by James Creelman (illustrated HTML at cardinalbook.com)
• Story of One Hundred Years: A Matchless Record of the Greatest Century of Historic Time (Philadelphia: Globe Bible Pub. Co., c1900), by Daniel B. Shepp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia Política y Diplomática, Desde la Independencia de los Estados Unidos Hasta Nuestros Dias (1776-1895) (in Spanish; Madrid: A. Romero, 1897), by Jerónimo Bécker
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Ironclads in Action: A Sketch of Naval Warfare From 1855 to 1895, With Some Account of the Development of the Battleship in England (2 volumes (American and British imprints), 1896), by Herbert Wrigley Wilson, contrib. by A. T. Mahan
  • Volume I: page images at Google; US access only
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• Naval Leadership in the Atlantic World: The Age of Reform and Revolution, 1700-1850 (London: University of Westminster Press, c2017), ed. by Richard Harding and Agustín Guimerá Ravina (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)

• Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier (c2008), by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), by Nicole Myers Turner (HTML with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), by Nicole Myers Turner (HTML with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867 (Washington: US Army Center of Military History, 2011), by William A. Dobak (PDF with commentary at army.mil)

• Letters and Diary of Laura M. Towne, Written From the Sea Islands of South Carolina, 1862-1884 (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1912), by Laura M. Towne, ed. by Rupert Sargent Holland (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: The A.M.E. Book Concern, 1928), by William H. Heard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church (Xenia, OH: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881), by David Smith, contrib. by David Alexander Payne (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D., by Isaac Lane (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Origins of Agnosticism: Victorian Unbelief and the Limits of Knowledge (originally published 1987; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Bernard V. Lightman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• The Village Labourer, 1760-1832: A Study in the Government of England before the Reform Bill (1920 edition), by J. L. Hammond and Barbara Bradby Hammond (HTML at McMaster)

• Representative Magazines of the Civil War and Reconstruction Period (Masters thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1922), by Lillian Charlotte Niemann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez (multiple formats at Indiana)

• The Story of the Filibusters; To Which is Added the Life of Colonel David Crockett (London: T. F. Unwin, 1891), by James Jeffrey Roche (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The War in Nicaragua (Mobile, AL and New York: S. H. Goetzel and Co., 1860), by William Walker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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