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• The Generals of October (electronic edition, 2007), by John T. Cullen (HTML with commentary at johntcullen.com)

• On Point II, Transition to the New Campaign: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003-January 2005 (Fort Leavenworth, KS : Combat Studies Institute Press, 2008), by Donald P. Wright and Timothy R. Reese
  • PDF at fdlp.gov
  • illustrated HTML at globalsecurity.org

• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2015), ed. by Richard D. Hooker and Joseph J. Collins (multiple formats at NDU Press)

• Fresh Perspectives on the "War on Terror" (2008), ed. by Miriam Gani and Penelope Mathew (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Against Freedom: The War on Terrorism in Everyday New Zealand Life (2007), by Valerie Morse (PDF with commentary at Rebel Press)
• Afghanistan and the Future of Warfare: Implications for Army and Defense Policy (2002), by Stephen D. Biddle (multiple formats at Google)
• The Gathering Biological Warfare Storm (second edition, 2002), ed. by Jim A. Davis and Barry R. Schneider (PDF at hsdl.org)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)
• The United States and the Persian Gulf: Reshaping Security Strategy for the Post-Containment Era (2003), ed. by Richard Sokolsky (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• Behind the Wire: An Update to Ending Secret Detentions (New York: Human Rights First, 2004-2005), by Deborah Pearlstein and Priti Patel (PDF at The Rendition Project)
• The Secrecy Problem in Terrorism Trials (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2005), by Serrin Turner and Stephen J. Schulhofer (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Assessing the New Normal: Liberty and Security for the Post-September 11 United States (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2003), ed. by Fiona Doherty and Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at humanrightsfirst.org)
• Caught in the Crossfire: The Iraq War and the Media, a Diary of Claims and Counterclaims (c2003), by Anthony Löwstedt (PDF with commentary at IPI)
• Know Thy Enemy: Profiles of Adversary Leaders and Their Strategic Cultures (second edition, 2003), ed. by Barry R. Schneider and Jerrold M. Post (PDF files at af.mil)
• The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press, c2003), by Magnus Fiskesjö (PDF at prickly-paradigm.com)
• A Year of Loss: Reexamining Civil Liberties Since September 11 (New York: Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, c2002), ed. by Michael McClintock (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Educing Information: Interrogation, Science and Art: Foundations for the Future (Phase 1 report, 2006), by National Defense Intelligence College (U.S.) (PDF at fas.org)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)
• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• America and the Misshaping of a New World Order (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, c2010), ed. by Giles B. Gunn and Carl Gutiérrez-Jones (HTML and PDF with commentary at UC Press)

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), by Roger Douglas
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• 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)

• Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018), by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts (PDF (mouse over "open access" link to reveal) with commentary at OUP)

• An Evangelical Manifesto: A Declaration of Evangelical Identity and Public Commitment (Washington: Evangelical Manifesto Steering Committee, c2008) (PDF at osguinness.com)

• America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Desmond Meade
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • HTML at openresearchlibrary.org

• Make It New: Reshaping Jazz in the 21st Century (Amherst, MA: Lever Press, c2019), by Bill Beuttler
  • HTML and Epub with commentary at Lever Press
  • HTML and PDF at JSTOR
  • HTML at Project MUSE

• Making News at the New York Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Nikki Usher (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Making News at the New York Times (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2014), by Nikki Usher (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2015), ed. by Richard D. Hooker and Joseph J. Collins (multiple formats at NDU Press)

• Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010), by Kevin Stein (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)

• Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age (c2008), ed. by Allison H. Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Joshua Levy, contrib. by Esther Dyson (HTML and PDF with commentary at personaldemocracy.com)

• Rebooting America: Ideas for Redesigning American Democracy for the Internet Age (c2008), ed. by Allison H. Fine, Micah L. Sifry, Andrew Rasiej, and Joshua Levy, contrib. by Esther Dyson (HTML and PDF with commentary at personaldemocracy.com)

• Qualified Hope: A Postmodern Politics of Time (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2009), by Mitchum Huehls (PDF at Ohio State)

• A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism: Challenging Growth, Markets, Inequality, and Resentment (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), by David M. Ricci (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Desmond Meade
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • HTML at openresearchlibrary.org

• Lessons Encountered: Learning From the Long War (Washington: National Defense University Press, 2015), ed. by Richard D. Hooker and Joseph J. Collins (multiple formats at NDU Press)

• America's Disenfranchised: Why Restoring Their Vote Can Save the Soul of Our Democracy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c2021), by Desmond Meade
  • HTML at Project MUSE
  • HTML at openresearchlibrary.org

• Afro-Future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-Wave Trajectory (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), ed. by Marleen S. Barr (PDF at Ohio State)

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• U.S.A. History in Brief (Learner English edition; Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), by Susan Wallach (PDF at state.gov)
• Historians on America: Decisions that Made a Difference (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2007), ed. by George Clack and Paul Malamud (PDF at state.gov)
• The Age of Reinterpretation (reprinted from the American Historical Review; Washington: Service Center for Teachers of History, c1961), by C. Vann Woodward (page images at HathiTrust)
• An American History (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Eleanor Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Nation: A History (28 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904-1918), ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart, contrib. by Edward Potts Cheyney, Livingston Farrand, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Charles McLean Andrews, Evarts Boutell Greene, Reuben Gold Thwaites, George Elliott Howard, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Andrew C. McLaughlin, John Spencer Bassett, Edward Channing, Kendric Charles Babcock, Frederick Jackson Turner, William MacDonald, George Pierce Garrison, Theodore Clarke Smith, French Ensor Chadwick, James K. Hosmer, William Archibald Dunning, Edwin Erle Sparks, Davis Rich Dewey, John Holladay Latané, Frederic Austin Ogg, and David Maydole Matteson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Brief History of the United States (ca.1909), by John Bach McMaster (Gutenberg text)
• An Elementary History of Our Country (28th impression; Boston et al.: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1922), by Eva March Tappan
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A First Book in American History: With Special Reference to the Lives and Deeds of Great Americans (New York: American Book Company, c1889), by Edward Eggleston (page images at Pitt)
• Footprints of Four Centuries: The Story of the American People (Philadelphia and Chicago: International Publishing Co., 1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie (page images at Google; US access only)
• Formation of the Union, 1750-1829, by Albert Bushnell Hart (Gutenberg text)
• Forward Looking Lessons in U. S. History (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Puc. Co., 1919), by William Jeremiah Savage
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: American (v1 and 2 of a larger series; Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1908), by Charles Morris
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML, and page images
• History of the American Frontier, 1763-1893 (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1924), by Frederic L. Paxson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the American People (5 volumes; Harper and Brothers, c1902), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at archive.org
• A History of the American People (documentary edition, 10 volumes; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1917-1918), by Woodrow Wilson
  • Volume I (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (The Swarming of the English): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (Colonies and Nation): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VI (The Founding of the Government): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VIII (Critical Changes and Civil War): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IX (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume X (Reunion and Nationalization): multiple formats at Google
• A History of the United States (6 volumes; New York: Macmillan, c1905-1925), by Edward Channing
  • Volume I (The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660; 1907 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (A Century of Colonial History, 1660-1760): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (The American Revolution, 1761-1789): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Federalists and Republicans, 1789-1815): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (The Period of Transition, 1815-1848): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (The War for Southern Independence, 1849-1865; 1959 reprint): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (in various reprints): page images at HathiTrust
• A History of the United States (London: Chatto and Windus, 1919), by Cecil Chesterton, contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• History of the United States, From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to the Peace With Mexico, in 1848 (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, and Co., 1852), by William Grimshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the United States, or Republic of America, Exhibited in Connexion With its Chronology and Progressive Geography (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1828), by Emma Willard (multiple formats at Google)
• Introductory American History (1912), by Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton (Gutenberg text)
• The Leading Facts of American History (revised edition, 1920), by D. H. Montgomery (HTML at usgennet.org)
• The Memorial Story of America: Comprising the Important Events, Episodes, and Incidents Which Make Up the Record of Four Hundred Years From 1492 to 1892 (Philadelphia and Chicago: J. Winston and Co., 1892), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, John Heyl Vincent, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, William Campbell Preston Breckinridge, Francis Newton Thorpe, Theodore Sandford Doolittle, Albert Shaw, and Anna Laurens Dawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our Own Country: Its History and Achievements, and the Story of Our Great Men and Women (Philadelphia et al.: Monarch Book co., c1895), by Hamilton Wright Mabie and Marshal H. Bright, contrib. by John Sherman, J. K. Upton, Henry L. Dawes, Frances E. Willard, Alexander K. McClure, Francis Newton Thorpe, and Anna Laurens Dawes
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1492-1828 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Homer C. Hockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Sam": or, The History of Mystery, by Charles W. Webber (page images at MOA)
• Stories of American Life and Adventure, by Edward Eggleston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Our Nation, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• This Country of Ours, by H. E. Marshall (Gutenberg text)
• This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States (New York: George H. Doran Company, c1917), by H. E. Marshall, illust. by A. C. Michael (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Thrilling Story of the World's Giant Republic, From the Earliest Discoveries to the Present Time (Philadelphia: National Pub. Co., c1902), by Ella Hines Stratton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1920), by Frederick Jackson Turner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Frontier in American History (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1921), by Frederick Jackson Turner (Gutenberg text and page images)
• The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union (1871), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)
• Political and Social History of the United States, 1829-1925 (New York: Macmillan, 1925), by Arthur M. Schlesinger (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Hitching Posts to Parking Meters, 1620-1960; With Historical Data, Family Memoirs and a Genealogical Registe (Colorado Springs: The author, 1961), by Ida Pearl Barker Bloss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Glory Trail: The Great American Migration and Its Impact on Natural Resources (1958), by Ernest Swift (PDF unl.edu)
• The War Myth in United States History (third printing; New York: Vanguard Press; Association to Abolish War, 1934), by C. H. Hamlin (page images at HathiTrust)
• True Stories of Our Pioneers: The Heroic Deeds and Devoted Lives of the Fathers and Mothers of America, Embracing the Principal Episodes in the Struggle of the White Race and the Red Men for the Possession of the New World (c1904), by Augustus Lynch Mason, contrib. by John Clark Ridpath and Trumbull White (multiple formats at Indiana)

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