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• Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Katie N. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)

• Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Katie N. Johnson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1999), ed. by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• History of the American Theatre (3 volumes; Philadelphia: Globe Printing House, 1888-1891), by George Oberkirsh Seilhamer
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (Before the Revolution): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (During the Revolution and After): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (New Foundations): multiple formats at archive.org
• The Romance of the American Theatre (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1913), by Mary Caroline Crawford
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century US American Actor (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Harry Watkins, ed. by Amy Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs
  • multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

• American Dresses 1790-1900: Identification and Significance of 148 Extant Dresses (second edition, expanded; Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 2020), by Elsie Frost McMurry, ed. by Susan W. Greene, illust. by Cathie Simpson (PDF at Cornell)

• Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Paula Marie Seniors (PDF at Ohio State)

• Reading the Juggler of Notre Dame: Medieval Miracles and Modern Remakings (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Jan M. Ziolkowski (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Vision's Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004), by Peter Lurie (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2023), by Joseph B. Entin (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
• The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Martin M. Winkler (PDF at Ohio State)

• Haute Couture (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1995), by Richard Martin and Harold Koda (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Toward a Theater of the Oppressed: The Dramaturgy of John Arden (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1995), by Javed Malick (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)

• The Theatre of the Real: Yeats, Beckett, and Sondheim (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Gina Masucci MacKenzie (PDF at Ohio State)

• After Brecht: British Epic Theater (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1994), by Janelle G. Reinelt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Adrian Frazier (HTML at UC Press)

• Detroit on Stage: The Players Club, 1910-2005 (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2007), by Marijean Levering (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2010), by James F. Wilson (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by William B. Worthen (HTML at UC Press)

• Bolshevik Festivals, 1917-1920 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by James Von Geldern (HTML at UC Press)

• Change and Continuity in Twentieth-Century America (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1964), ed. by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner, and Everett Walters (PDF at Ohio State)
• The War and its Results: An Address Delivered at a Grange Meeting and Patriotic Rally Held at Thompson, Windham County, Connecticut, August 9, 1918 (ca. 1918?), by Isaac N. Mills (page images here at Penn)
• Last of the Great Scouts: The Life Story of William F. Cody, "Buffalo Bill", by Helen Cody Wetmore (Gutenberg text)

• A Visual History, 1940-1963: Political Cartoons by Clifford Berrman and Jim Berryman (Washington: National Archives and Records Administration, ca. 2019), by Clifford Kennedy Berryman and James Thomas Berryman (PDF at archives.gov)

• Forum and Century (partial serial archives)

• Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier (based on the 1988 edition), by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe (HTML at Virginia)
• Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (New York and London: New York University Press, c1997), by Stephen M. Feldman (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Betrayal of the Church: Apostasy and Renewal in the Mainline Denominations (1986), by Edmund W. Robb and Julia Robb (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Final Months of the War With Japan: Signals Intelligence, U.S. Invasion Planning, and the A-Bomb Decision (1998), by Douglas J. MacEachin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Changing Nature of Geostrategy, 1900-2000: The Evolution of a New Paradigm (Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, Air Force Research Institute, 2015), by Tal Tovy (PDF with commentary at Air University Press)
• Eisenhower as Strategist: The Coherent Use of Military Power in War and Peace (1993), by Steven Metz (PDF with commentary at armywarcollege.edu)
• The United States Army in Somalia, 1992-1994 (PDF at US Army CMH)

• Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2021), by Riché Richardson (PDF at OAPEN)

• American Airpower Comes of Age: General Henry H. "Hap" Arnold's World War II Diaries (2 volumes; Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 2002), by Henry Harley Arnold, ed. by John W. Huston
  • Volume 1: PDF with commentary at Air University Press
  • Volume 2: PDF with commentary at Air University Press

• Blind Landings: Low-Visibility Operations in American Aviation, 1918-1958 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006), by Erik M. Conway (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• 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)

• Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), by David H. Price (page images at HathiTrust)

• Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Carl R. Weinberg (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)
• The McCarthy Record (c1952), by Wisconsin Citizens' Committee on McCarthy's Record (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Good Fight Continues: World War II Letters From the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (New York and London: New York University Press, c2006), ed. by Peter N. Carroll, Michael Nash, and Melvin Small
  • multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

• Mission 66 Visitor Centers: The History of a Building Type (2000), by Sarah Allaback (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Distinction and Denial: Race, Nation, and the Critical Construction of the African American Artist, 1920-40 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Mary Ann Calo (page images at HathiTrust)

• After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by Vernon Lionel Shetley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Facts and Fascism (New York: In Fact, c1943), by George Seldes, contrib. by Helen Seldes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2019), by Errol Anthony Henderson (PDF files 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)
• Presidential Lightning Rods: The Politics of Blame Avoidance (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, c1994), by Richard Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

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