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• Up and Down California in 1860-1864, by William Henry Brewer, ed. by Francis P. Farquhar (HTML at LOC)
• Five Views: An Ethnic Historic Site Survey for California, by California Department of Parks and Recreation (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• Florida History and the Arts (full serial archives)

• Georgia Place-Names (third edition, 1999), by Kenneth K. Krakow (PDF files at kenkrakow.com)

• Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia (third edition, 2001), contrib. by Warren Upham (searchable HTML at mnhs.org)

• Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State (WPA guide, 1939), by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Nebraska (PDF at unl.edu)

• In the Land of Frozen Fires: A History of Occupation in El Malpais Country, by Neil C. Mangum (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• The Catskills (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by T. Morris Longstreth (illustrated HTML at catskillarchive.com)

• Forts and Firesides of the Mohawk Country, New York: The Stories and Pictures of Landmarks of the Pre-Revolutionary War Period Throughout the Mohawk Valley and the Surrounding Country Side, Including Some Historic and Genealogical Mention During the Post-War Period (Philadelphia: E. E. Brownell, 1943), by John J. Vrooman, ed. by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Historical Collections of Ohio, by Henry Howe (page images at MOA)

• An Illustrated History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Political and Military, From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time (Harrisburg, PA: De Witt C. Goodrich and Co., 1876), by William Henry Egle (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ghost Towns of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor Co., c1953), by Dick King (page images at Portal to Texas History)

• The Rending of Virginia: A History (with new introduction; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2000), by Granville Davisson Hall, contrib. by John E. Stealey (PDF files at Newfound Press)
• How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation (Jamestown 350th Anniversary Historical Booklet #19; Williamsburg: Virginia 350th Anniversary Celebration Corporation, c1957), by Martha W. Hiden
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Along the Right-of-Way to Burlington, by Charles H. Damaske (page images at Wisconsin)

• The History of Fond du Lac County, As Told by its Place-Names (1976), by Ruth Shaw Worthing (page images at Wisconsin)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources (1876), by James D. McCabe (page images at MOA)

• Prehistoric Pottery of the Eastern United States (looseleaf series from the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1950s), ed. by James B. Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Financing of Aswan High Dam in Egypt: Hearing Before the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session. January 26, 1956 (Washington: GPO, 1956), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations (page images at HathiTrust)

• America the Vulnerable: Our Military Problems and How to Fix Them (Philadelphia: Foreign Policy Research Institute, ca. 2002), ed. by John F. Lehman and Harvey Sicherman (PDF with commentary at fpri.org)
• Conventional Coercion Across the Spectrum of Operations: The Utility of U.S. Military Forces in the Emerging Security Environment (Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2002), by David E. Johnson, Karl P. Mueller, and William H. Taft (PDF files at rand.org)
• Hearings, Relating to H.R. 959, Amending the Internal Security Act of 1950 (Obstruction of Armed Forces) (Washington: GPO, 1969), by United States House Committee on Internal Security (page images at HathiTrust)

• Critics and Crusaders (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1948), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critics and Crusaders: A Century of American Protest (New York: H. Holt and Co. c1947), by Charles Allan Madison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Champions of Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Joseph Cottler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of Freedom (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929), by McAlister Coleman, contrib. by Norman Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American Men of Action (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns (Gutenberg text)
• Famous Americans of Recent Times (Boston: Fields, Osgood and Co., 1871), by James Parton (page images at MOA)
• The Gloved Hand: A Detective Story (1913), by Burton Egbert Stevenson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made: or, The Struggles and Triumphs of Our Self-Made Men (1871), by James D. McCabe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Men of Our Day (Philadelphia et al.: Ziegler and McCurdy, c1872), by L. P. Brockett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Men of Our Day (from the 1872 edition; preface and other supplementary material omitted), by L. P. Brockett (HTML with commentary at all-biographies.com)
• Men of our Times: or, Leading Patriots of the Day (Hartford: Hartford Pub. Co; et al., 1868), by Harriet Beecher Stowe (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• Pioneers of Progress (Chicago: T. A. Bland and Co., 1906), by T. A. Bland (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• With Americans of Past and Present Days, by J. J. Jusserand (HTML at Bartleby)
• The Compendium of American Genealogy (partial serial archives)
• Annie Nelles: or, The Life of a Book Agent (Cincinnati: The author, 1868), by Annie Nelles Dumond (frame-dependent page images at Harvard)
• Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860, by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (first edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1856), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Success Factor, by Fred Good (HTML at homestead.com)
• Twelve Men (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Biographical Review of Prominent Men and Women of the Day (c1888), by Thomas William Herringshaw (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Memories of Fifty Years: Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed With Scenes and Incidents Occuring During a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest (Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen and Haffelfinger; Macon, GA: J. W. Burke and Co., 1870), by W. H. Sparks (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Account of the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson, Now or Late of Kachecky, in New-England: Who, With Four of Her Children and Servant-maid, Was Taken Captive By the Indians, and Carried Into Canada (London: Printed and sold by Samuel Clark ... , 1760), by Elizabeth Hanson and Samuel Bownas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 (all 17 volumes of Slave Narratives (pub. 1941), with additional material and commentary), by Federal Writers' Project (page images at LOC)
• A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings, and Surprizing Deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro Man (Boston: Green and Russell, 1760), by Briton Hammon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Star of the West, or, National Men and National Measures (second edition; Boston: J. French and Co.; New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, 1857), by Anna Ella Carroll (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Debate by the Philalethic Society of St. Louis University, on Monday, February 21, 1870 (On the Subject: "Ought the national capital to be removed to St. Louis?"), by St. Louis University Philalethic Society (page images at MOA)
• Washington and its Romance (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1923), by Thomas Nelson Page, illust. by Walter O. Reese and Emily Shaw Reese (page images at HathiTrust)

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