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• The Staircase (2 volumes; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1992), by John A. Templer
  • Volume 1 (History and Theories): PDF files with commentary at MIT Press
  • Volume 2 (Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design): PDF files with commentary at MIT Press

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• The Staircase (2 volumes; Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1992), by John A. Templer
  • Volume 1 (History and Theories): PDF files with commentary at MIT Press
  • Volume 2 (Studies of Hazards, Falls, and Safer Design): PDF files with commentary at MIT Press
• Common-Sense Stair Building and Handrailing (Chicago: F. J. Drake and Co., c1913), by Fred T. Hodgson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Stair-Building and the Steel Square: A Manual of Practical Instruction in the Art of Stair-Building and Hand-Railing, and the Manifold Uses of the Steel Square (Chicago: American Technical Society, 1917), by Fred T. Hodgson and Morris Williams (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls, With a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration (Greenwich, CT: Literary Collector Press, 1905), by Kate Sanborn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Hints on Household Taste in Furniture, Upholstery and Other Details (second edition; London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869), by Charles L. Eastlake (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Candace Wheeler: The Art and Enterprise of American Design, 1875-1900 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2001), by Amelia Peck and Carol Irish (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• David and Bathsheba: Ten Early Sixteenth-Century Tapestries from the Cluny Museum in Paris (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1974), by J. L. Schrader (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, 1878), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Tapestry (London: Pub. for the Committee of Council on Education, by Chapman and Hall, 1889), by Alfred de Champeaux, trans. by Mrs. R. F. Sketchley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530-1830 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2004), ed. by Elena Phipps, Johanna Hecht, and Cristina Esteras Martín, contrib. by Luisa Elena Alcalá, Tom Cummins, Joyce Denney, Sophie Desrosiers, Teresa Gisbert, Heidi King, Sabine MacCormack, Natalia Majluf, José de Mesa, Kenneth Mills, Juan M. Ossio A., Frank Salomon, and Luis Eduardo Wuffarden (multiple formats at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google Books)

• A Guide to the Wrightsman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1979), by James Parker and Clare Le Corbeiller (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico de Montefeltro (c2008), by Robert Kirkbride (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico de Montefeltro (c2008), by Robert Kirkbride (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)

• Out of Time: History and Evolution in Anthropological Discourse (second edition, with new afterword; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1996), by Nicholas Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• University of California Publications in History (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Historical Studies (partial serial archives)
• Harvard Theological Studies (partial serial archives)
• Yale Historical Publications: Miscellany (partial serial archives)
• Beacon Lights of History (15 volumes, 1902), by John Lord (Gutenberg and archive.org volumes)
• Collected Papers: Historical, Literary, Travel and Miscellaneous (5 volumes; Cambridge: At the University press, 1921), by Adolphus William Ward (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Eye-Witness (London: Eveleigh Nash, 1908), by Hilaire Belloc (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1891), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Helps for Students of History (partial serial archives)
• Historic Oddities and Strange Events (London: Methuen and Co., 1889), by S. Baring-Gould
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Lectures and Essays, by Charles Kingsley (Gutenberg text)
• Historical Mysteries (second edition; London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1905), by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Historical Sketches (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1906-9), by John Henry Newman
  • volume I: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume II: HTML at newmanreader.org
  • volume III: HTML at newmanreader.org
• Historische Werke (15 volumes in German; 1821-1828), by A. H. L. Heeren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures and Essays, by Goldwin Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Man in History: An Oration for the Columbian Year (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1893), by John Clark Ridpath (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• The New History: Essays Illustrating The Modern Historical Outlook (New York: Macmillan, 1912), by James Harvey Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Secrets of the Past (New York: Brentano's, 1910), by Allen Upward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ten Great Events in History, by James Johonnot (Gutenberg text)
• Ten Great Events in History (Historical series book 4 part 2; New York: D. Appleton, 1887), by James Johonnot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
• Mooted Questions of History (revised edition; Boston: Marlier and Co., 1902), by Humphrey J. Desmond (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fifty Famous Stories Retold (New York et al: American Book Co., c1896), by James Baldwin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Reviews in History (1996-) (full serial archives)

• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

• Teaching History in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013), by T. Mills Kelly (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Pastplay: Teaching and Learning History with Technology (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), ed. by Kevin B. Kee (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
• Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005), by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (HTML with commentary at gmu.edu)

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