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Sketchbook USA (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2008), ed. by George Clack, Mildred Sola Neely, and Raphael Calis (PDF at state.gov)
Pop Culture Versus Real America (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010), ed. by Jonathan Margolis, Martin J. Manning, and Megan A. Wong (PDF at america.gov)
Following Tradition: Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c1998), by Simon J. Bronner (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
Kinship With Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Judith Schachter (HTML at UC Press)
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930 (c2007), by Sarah A. Gordon (illustrated HTML and PDF at gutenberg-e.org)
Hey Rub-A-Dub-Dub: A Book of the Mystery and Terror and Wonder of Life (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920), by Theodore Dreiser (multiple formats at Indiana)
Paris in America, by Édouard Laboulaye, trans. by Mary L. Booth (page images at MOA)
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers: Voices of American Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 1992), ed. by Richard E. Meyer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
The Private World of High Society (New York: D. McKay Co., c1960), by Lucy Kavaler (page images at HathiTrust)
Ab-o'th-Yate in Yankeeland: The Results of Two Trips to America (based on the 1885 edition, with added illustrations), by Benjamin Brierley (illustrated HTML in the UK)
America To-Day: Observations and Reflections (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1899), by William Archer (Gutenberg text)
An American Journey (New York: Lovell, Gestefeld and Co., 1892), by Edward B. Aveling (multiple formats at archive.org)
What I Saw in America (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922), by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
A Year in the Great Republic (London: Ward & Downey, 1887), by E. Katherine Bates
- volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
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)
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
Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865

Domestic Manners of the Americans (4th edition; London and New York: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1832), by Frances Milton Trollope (multiple formats at archive.org)
Observations on Professions, Literature, Manners and Emigration, in the United States and Canada: Made During a Residence There in 1832 (London: Whittaker, Treacher, 1833), by Isaac Fidler (multiple formats at archive.org)
Society in America (3 volumes; Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Harriet Martineau
American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman and Hall, 1842), by Charles Dickens
- volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations Of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States (1857), by John Benwell (Gutenberg text)
The Englishwoman in America (London: J. Murray, 1856), by Isabella L. Bird
- multiple formats at archive.org
- Gutenberg text
The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853), by Fredrika Bremer, trans. by Mary Howitt (page images at Wisconsin)
Journal of a Residence in America (Paris: A. and W. Galignani, 1835), by Fanny Kemble (multiple formats at archive.org)
Views of Society and Manners in America, in a Series of Letters From That Country to a Friend in England, During the Years 1818, 1819, and 1820 (second edition; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822), by Frances Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman and Hall, 1874), by Charles Dickens, illust. by Marcus Stone (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Frances Milton Trollope (Gutenberg text)
Society in America, by Harriet Martineau (HTML at Pfeiffer)
Retrospect of Western Travel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), by Harriet Martineau
America As I Found It, by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan (page images at MOA)
Diary in America, by Frederick Marryat
- series one: Gutenberg text
- series two: Gutenberg text
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America: Strolling Peddlers, Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Players, and Others, From the Beginning to the Civil War (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1927), by Richardson Little Wright (page images at HathiTrust)
Hawkers and Walkers in Early America: Strolling Peddlers, Preachers, Lawyers, Doctors, Players, and Others, From the Beginning to the Civil War (second edition; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1927), by Richardson Little Wright (multiple formats at Google)

Filed under: United States -- Social life and customs -- 1865-1918

Your United States: Impressions of a First Visit (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1912), by Arnold Bennett, illust. by Frank Craig (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Farthest West: Life and Travel in the United States (London: John Long Ltd., 1910), by C. Reginald Enock (page images in Germany)
My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People (St. Louis: Blair Publishing Co., 1895), by James Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
My Native Land: The United States, Its Wonders, Its Beauties, and Its People (1903), by James Cox (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Our American Cousins: Being Personal Impressions of the People and Institutions of the United States (London: W. Scott, 1883), by W. E. Adams (HTML in the UK)
Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., c1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Three Visits to America (New York: Fowler and Wells Co., ca. 1884), by Emily Faithfull (illustrated HTML in the UK)
Triumphant Democracy: or, Fifty Years' March of The Republic (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1886), by Andrew Carnegie (page images at HathiTrust)
A Daughter of the Samurai (originally published 1925; this edition Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2022), by Etsuko Sugimoto, contrib. by Christopher Morley, illust. by Tekisui Ishi (PDF with commentary at unl.edu)
America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat, by Wu Tingfang (Gutenberg text)
New America (1867 edition), by William Hepworth Dixon (page images at MOA)
The American Scene (London: Chapman and Hall, 1907), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)
People of Destiny: Americans As I Saw Them at Home and Abroad (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1920), by Philip Gibbs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
American Notes, by Rudyard Kipling
- illustrated HTML at Virginia
- Gutenberg text

Filed under: United States -- Social life and customs -- 1918-1945

People of Destiny: Americans As I Saw Them at Home and Abroad (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1920), by Philip Gibbs (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Setting the Table for Julia Child: Gourmet Dining in America, 1934-1961 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011), by David Strauss (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

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