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• The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 (Main Currents in American Thought v1; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Vernon Louis Parrington (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of American Literature, 1607-1765 (2 volumes; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1880), by Moses Coit Tyler
  • Volume I (1607-1676): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1676-1765): multiple formats at archive.org

• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (second edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1932), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (first edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1931), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1964), by Richard Beale Davis (PDF at Tennessee)

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

• Chic Ironic Bitterness (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by R. Jay Magill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Humanities in American Life: Report of the Commission on the Humanities (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980), by Commission on the Humanities (HTML at UC Press)
• The Imaginary Puritan: Literature, Intellectual Labor, and the Origins of Personal Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992), by Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse (HTML at UC Press)
• America's Coming-of-Age (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1915), by Van Wyck Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American Renaissance (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1973), by Lawrence Buell
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Republic of Intellect: The Friendly Club of New York City and the Making of American Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), by Bryan Waterman (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Roads to Rome: The Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Jenny Franchot (HTML at UC Press)
• The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860 (Main Currents in American Thought v2; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1927), by Vernon Louis Parrington (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Monthly Magazine, and American Review (full serial archives)

• Conversations With Walt Whitman (New York: E. P. Coby and Co., 1895), by Sadakichi Hartmann, contrib. by Walt Whitman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton (originally published 1999; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by James Turner (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture, 1776-1876, by John Rogers Haddad (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at gutenberg-e.org)

• The American Review, and Literary Journal (partial serial archives)
• The American Whig Review (full serial archives)

• Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (second edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1932), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Kentucky Literature, 1750-1840 (first edition; Frankfort: Kentucky State Historical Society, 1931), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Mark Twain: Son of Missouri (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1934), by Minnie M. Brashear (page images at HathiTrust)

• Intellectual Life in Jefferson's Virginia, 1790-1830 (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1964), by Richard Beale Davis (PDF at Tennessee)
• My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Cari M. Carpenter (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Long War: The Intellectual People's Front and Anti-Stalinism, 1930-1940 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1995), by Judy Kutulas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Neil Jumonville (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)
• Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1991), by William P. Leahy (PDF at Georgetown)

• Adventures in Contentment, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Adventures in Contentment (New York: Hurst and Co., 1907), by David Grayson, illust. by Thomas Fogarty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Possessions, by David Grayson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (first edition, 1945), by Richard Wright, contrib. by Dorothy Canfield Fisher (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• As He Lay Dead, a Bitter Grief (as originally published in Life Magazine, July 20, 1962), by William Styron (page images at Google)

• Onions in the Stew (c1955), by Betty Bard MacDonald (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Smart Set (partial serial archives)

• Introduction to Managing Digital Assets: Options for Cultural and Educational Organizations (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c1999), by Diane Zorich (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Men of Letters in Colonial Maryland (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1972), by J. A. Leo Lemay (PDF at Tennessee)

• Adapting to America: Catholics, Jesuits, and Higher Education in the Twentieth Century (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1991), by William P. Leahy (PDF at Georgetown)

• In Search of American Jewish Culture (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c1999), by Stephen J. Whitfield (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), ed. by David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Secularism, Spirituality, and the Future of American Jewry (Washington: Ethics and Public Policy Center, c1999), ed. by Elliott Abrams and David G. Dalin (PDF at eppc.org)
• Imagining the American Jewish Community (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2007), by Jack Wertheimer (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Diaspora and Zionism in Jewish American Literature: Lazarus, Syrkin, Reznikoff, and Roth (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2002), by Ranen Omer-Sherman (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
• Witness Through the Imagination: Jewish American Holocaust Literature (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by S. Lillian Kremer (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• The Resonance of Dust: Essays on Holocaust Literature and Jewish Fate (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Edward Alexander (PDF at Ohio State)

• Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), ed. by Mary Chapman and Glenn Hendler (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

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