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• United States -- History, Comic, satirical, etc.

• It All Started with Columbus: Being an Unexpurgated, Unabridged, and Unlikely History of the United States from Christopher Columbus to the Present for Those Who, Having Perused a Volume of History in School, Swore They Would Never Read Another (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill Book Co., c1953), by Richard Armour, illust. by Campbell Grant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Nye's History of the United States (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1894), by Bill Nye, illust. by Frederick Burr Opper (PDF at djm.cc)
• Comic History of the United States: Pictorial History of the United States, in Which Many Facts are Given, Not to be Found in Any Other Book (published under "Herod Otis" pseudonym; New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1861), by Willis P. Hazard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present. (Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870), by John D. Sherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• God's country; : a short history, (A. A. Knopf, 1929), by Ralph Barton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches from the civil war in North America, 1861, '62, '63, (W. Abbatt, 1917), by Adalbert John Volck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Highlights; : a cartoon history of the nineteen twenties, by Rollin Kirby; a selection of his cartoons in the World, with a foreword by Walter Lippmann, frontispiece portrait by Albert Sterner. (W. F. Payson, 1931), by Rollin Kirby and Henry B. Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ugglians at large; : second book of Ugg.:. (Philosophical Library, 1959), by L. M. Fallaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of judges. (J. Dickson printer, 1868) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A parody outline of history (George H. Doran Company, 1921), by Donald Ogden Stewart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Nye's history of the United States. (J.B. Lippincott Co., 1894), by Bill Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of the history of Bawlfredonia : containing an account of the discovery and settlement, of that great southern continent; and of the formation and progress of the Bawlfredonian commonwealth. (Printed for the American booksellers, 1819), by Jonas Clopper (page images at HathiTrust)
• From alphabetical soup to WPA nuts (M. Miller, 1939), by Byron Hunt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Nye's History of the United States (Thompson & Thomas, 1894), by Bill Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bill Nye's history of the United States. (Chatto & Windus, 1899), by Bill Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parade of the presidents (W. E. Rudge, 1928), by Charles Forrest Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• It all started with Columbus, being an unexpurgated, unabridged, and unlikely history of the United States from Christopher Columbus to John F. Kennedy for those who, having perused a volume of history in school, swore they would never read another. (McGraw-Hill, 1961), by Richard Armour (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the United States (Thompson & Thomas, 1906), by Bill Nye, Frederick Burr Opper, and Thompson & Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plu-ri-bus-tah : a song that's-by-no-author, a deed without a name (Rudd & Carleton, 1857), by Q. K. Philander Doesticks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fragments of the history of Bawlfredonia : containing an account of the discovery and settlement of the great southern continent, and of the formation and progress of the Bawlfredonian commonwealth (Printed for the American booksellers, 1819), by Jonas Clopper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The adventures of Uncle Sam, in search after his lost honor. (Printed by S. Richards, 1816), by Frederick Augustus Fidfaddy (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Bull and Uncle Sam; or, The Alabama fever. Its origin, progress, and method of treatment. (Charles H. Clarke, 1872), by John Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mother Goose in Gridiron rhyme; a collection of alphabets, rhymes, tales and jingles. (The Gridiron Press, 1911), by D.C.) Gridiron Club (Washington (page images at HathiTrust)
• King Grover. Chronicles of his reign, according to Simonides, the scribe of the tribe of Lechay. (Pub. by the author, 1894), by James S. Biery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some humors of American history (The Society, 1913), by James Ford Rhodes and American Antiquarian Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• U. S. comik histry. (G. Gregory, printer, 1889), by Robert Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Sam and his lawsuits (North River Press, 1944), by John Polesworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plu-ri-bus-tah : a song that's by no author : a deed without a name (T. B. Peterson, 1856), by Q. K. Philander Doesticks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bricktop's comic history of America. (M. J. Ivers & co., 1893), by Bricktop and Thomas Worth (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Bull and Brother Jonathan. (M. Carey and Son, 1836), by James Kirke Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• The uncle of Uncle Sam : an outline of American history improved by a dash of sensible nonsense (Bonner Press, 1936), by Egiste Bonner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Uncle Sam takes a tonic (Meador publishing company, 1943), by Grace Gamble Cameron (page images at HathiTrust)
• An elegant history of political parties (Duffield and Co., 1928), by Samuel H. Ordway and F. Wenderoth Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Midwest farming, as portrayed by a selection from Ding's cartoons. (Pioneer Hi-bred Corn Co., 1960), by Jay N. Darling (page images at HathiTrust)
• The diverting history of John Bull and Brother Jonathan. (Harper, 1835), by James Kirke Paulding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rosie in squanderland; or, Billions for votes. (Paisley press, 1936), by Joseph Lewis Stackpole and Franklin D. Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present, by John D. Sherwood, illust. by Harry Scratchly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mother Goose in Gridiron Rhyme: A collection of alphabets, rhymes, tales and jingles: With 80 illustrations, by D.C.) Gridiron Club (Washington (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Comic History of the United States, by Livingston Hopkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Comic History of the United States, by Bill Nye, illust. by Frederick Burr Opper (Gutenberg ebook)

• Hail Columbia! Historical, comical and centennial (Photo-lith. by the Graphic co.], 1876), by Walter Francis Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Mexico made easy : with words of modern syllables (Rockwell F. Clancy, 1923), by Holling Clancy Holling (page images at HathiTrust)

• Knickerbocker's history of New York; Knickerbocker miscellanies. (Collier, 1904), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of New York, from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch dynasty (G. Routledge & Co., 1850), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)

• Settlement of Rhode Island. (The Graphic co. photo-lith., 1874), by Charles Thurber Miller and Walter Francis Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Onion (original humor articles from 1996 onward) (partial serial archives)

• The Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O'Reilly (47th regiment, New York Volunteers) (New York: Carleton, 1864), by Charles G. Halpine
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  • HTML at Northwestern
• Humorous Incidents of the Civil War, by A. C. McLeary (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• War letters of a disbanded volunteer. Embracing his experiences as honest Abe's bosom friend and unofficial adviser ... (F.A. Brady, 1864), by Joseph Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Major Jack Downing of the Downingville Militia. (Bromley & Co., J.F. Feeks, 1864), by Charles Augustus Davis and Seba Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Bull and Uncle Sam; or, The Alabama fever. Its origin, progress, and method of treatment. (Charles H. Clarke, 1872), by John Bull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death, the devil and the doctor, on the war. (Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1862), by Samuel Silsbee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abraham Africanus I : his secret life, as revealed under the mesmeric influence : mysteries of the White House. (J.F. Feeks, 1864), by Alexander Del Mar and John F. Feeks & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville militia ... (Van Evrie, Horton & co., 1866), by Charles Augustus Davis and Seba Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Lincoln katechismus, worin die Schönheiten und Excentritäten des Despotismus vollständig dargestellt sind : Ein Wegweiser zur Präsidentenwahl von 1864. (J.F. Feeks, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experience of a young private Confederate soldier (s.n., 1902), by A. C. McLeary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The histori ov Magnus Maha'rba and the Blak Dragun (Printed for the Filolojikal gemána, 1908), by Nathan Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia, by Seba Smith (Gutenberg ebook)

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