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• Tales and Sketches for the Fireside, by the Best American Authors: Selected from Putnam's magazine (New York: A. Dowling, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Examined Life: Family, Community, Work in American Literature (Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, c1989), by Jim Wayne Miller (PDF at appstate.edu)
• Civilization in the United States: An Inquiry by Thirty Americans (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), ed. by Harold Stearns (multiple formats at archive.org)
• American Contributions to Civilization, and Other Essays and Addresses (New York: The Century Co., 1898), by Charles William Eliot
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Our America (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), by Waldo David Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1866 edition), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
• Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1875 edition), by John William Draper (page images at MOA)
• America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat, by Wu Tingfang (Gutenberg text)
• Confessions of a Barbarian (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1910), by George Sylvester Viereck
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 (Utica, NY: Press of L. C. Childs and Son, c1899), by Arthur Bird
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Conquest of a Continent: or, The Expansion of Races in America (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1933), by Madison Grant, contrib. by Henry Fairfield Osborn
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Letters and Leadership (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1918), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The gulf of misunderstanding; (New York, Boni & Liveright, [c1920]), by Tancredo Pinochet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse pronounced at the Capitol of the United States in the Hall of representatives before the American historical society, (Washington, Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1837), by Levi Woodbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unto the hills; some of America's problems, (Boston, Mass., The Stratford company, 1922), by Edward N. Dingley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and resources in America. (Washington, D.C., 1871), by Arinori Mori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the future civil policy of America. (New York, Harper & brothers, [1865]), by John William Draper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palingenesy. National regeneration. (St. Louis, G. Knapp & co., printers, 1864), by Truman M. Post (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ideals of America; (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1919), by City club of Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• American ideals, character and life. (Chautauqua, N.Y., Chautauqua press, [1915]), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at HathiTrust)
• America and Europe. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1857), by Adam Gurowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• American beginnings in Europe, (New York, Chicago [etc.] C. Scribner's sons, [c1919]), by Wilbur Fisk Gordy (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse concerning the influence of America on the mind; (Philadelphia, A. Small, 1823), by Charles Jared Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States of America compared with some European countries, particularly England: (New-York, Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1825), by John Henry Hobart (page images at HathiTrust)
• America rules the world, (San Francisco, International printing co., 1904), by Etienne Joseph David (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early American spirit, (New York, A.D.F. Randolph & company, 1878), by Richard S. Storrs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse pronounced at the Capitol of the United States, in the Hall of representatives, before the American historical society, January 30, 1836, by the Hon. Lewis Cass ... To which are prefixed its constitution and the names of its officers. (Washington, P. Thompson, 1836), by Lewis Cass (page images at HathiTrust)
• An anniversary discourse, delivered before the New-York historical society, Thursday, Dec. 13, 1827. (New-York, G. and C. Carvill, 1828), by Joseph Blunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brother Jonathan's epistle. (Boston, White and Potter, printers, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The true principles of American greatness, comprehended in an address delivered before the members of the Kensington institute, Washington assembly, and Jefferson literary association, on the 8th day of March, A.D. 1839. With copious explanatory addenda, and catalogue of reference. By the Rev. George Montgomery West. (Philadelphia [J. Perry, printer], 1839), by George Montgomery West (page images at HathiTrust)
• A discourse on the formation and development of the American mind. Delivered before the literary societies of Lafayette college, at Easton, Pa., on the 20th September 1837. And now published at their request ... By Robert J. Breckinridge ... (Baltimore, R. J. Matchett, printer, 1837), by Robert J. Breckinridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• American progress: (Cincinnati, E. Shepard, 1846), by Gamaliel Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The age of concentration; ([n. p.] Printed for private circulation, 1907), by George Frederick Parker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A discourse pronounced at the Capitol of the United States, (Washington, Printed by P. Force, 1837), by Levi Woodbury (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early American spirit, (New York, A. D. F. Randolph & co., 1875), by Richard S. Storrs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Institutional history of the United States, (Danville, Ind., Indiana publishing company, 1897), by J. A. Joseph (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and resources in America. (Washington, D.C., 1871), by Arinori Mori (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural history of man : and the rise and progress of philosophy / a series of lectures delivered by Alexander Kinmont. (Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1891), by Alexander Kinmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Providence in America; or, The problems of self-government. (Sandusky, Ohio, The Alvord Peters co., [1898]), by Clarence A. Vincent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twelve lectures on the natural history of man, and the rise and progress of philosophy. (Cincinnati, U. P. James, 1839), by Alexander Kinmont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Civilization in the United States: An inquiry by thirty Americans, ed. by Harold Stearns (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America, by Madison Grant, contrib. by Henry Fairfield Osborn (Gutenberg ebook)
• What's What in America, by Eugene V. Brewster (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Spirit of America, by Henry Van Dyke (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Twentieth Century American: Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations, by Harry Perry Robinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Appearances: Being Notes of Travel, by G. Lowes Dickinson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin, by James F. Muirhead (Gutenberg ebook)

• America: A Sketch of the Political, Social, and Religious Character of the United States of North America, in Two Lectures, by Philip Schaff (page images at MOA)

• These Days of Large Things: The Culture of Size in America, 1865-1930 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Michael Tavel Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Future in America: A Search After Realities (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), by H. G. Wells
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1926), by Thomas Beer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character and Opinion in the United States: With Reminiscences of William James and Josiah Royce and Academic Life in America, by George Santayana (Gutenberg ebook)

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