Free American History Ebooks Online
Here is a list of online books about American History in various formats available for free:
- A Basic Call to Consciousness: The Hau De No Sau Nee Address to the Western World by Six Nations (HTML at ratical.com)
- Abolitionism Unveiled: or, Its Origin, Progress, and Pernicious Tendency Fully Developed by Henry Field James (page images at MOA)
- A Boy’s Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865 by Thomas Hughes (HTML and TEI at UNC) +
- Abraham Lincoln: An Essay by Carl Schurz (HTML at Naked Word)
- Abraham Lincoln: An Horatian Ode by Richard Henry Stoddard (page images at MOA)
- A Brand Plucked From the Fire: An Autobiographical Sketch by Julia A. J. Foote (HTML at nypl.org)
- A Brief History of King Philip’s War, 1675-1677 (1891) by George Madison Bodge (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Campaign in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan by Frank S. Edwards (HTML at Kansas)
- A Catechism, To Be Taught Orally To Those Who Cannot Read: Designed Especially for the Instruction of the Slaves in the Prot. Episcopal Church by Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Account of the Death of Sitting Bull and of the Circumstances Attending It by James McLaughlin (HTML at PBS)
- A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison by Paul Jennings (HTML at gemlink.com)
- A Colored Man’s Reminiscences of James Madison (1865 edition, with commentary) by Paul Jennings (HTML at jmu.edu)
- A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society, ed. by Gerald David Jaynes and Robin M. Williams (page images at NAP)
- A Comprehensive View of our Country and Its Resources by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)
- A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument by George Bourne (HTML at TEI at UNC)
- A Confederate Girl’s Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson (ilustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at MOA)
- Address Illustrative of the Nature and Power of the Slave States, and the Duties of the Free States by Josiah Quincy (page images at MOA)
- A Defence of Virginia, and Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending Contests Against the Sectional Party by Robert Lewis Dabney (page images at MOA)
- A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton, 1905) by Mary Chesnut (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Admiral Farragut by Alfred Thayer Mahan (HTML and Wordperfect with commentary at encompass.net)
- Adventures in the Wilds of the United States and British American Provinces by Charles Lanman (page images at MOA)
- Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium: Being Notes of Eight Years’ Travels and Residence in Europe With His North American Indian Collection (1852) by George Catlin
- A Free and Impartial Exposition of the Causes Which Led to the Failure of the Confederate States to Establish Their Independence by Robert Tansill (page images at MOA)
- A History of America by Bill Hutton (illustrated HTML at chbooks.com)
- A History of the Amistad Captives, ed. by John Warner Barber (illustrated HTML at Mystic Seaport)
- Alaska, and Missions on the North Pacific Coast (New York: Dodd Mead and Company, c1880) by Sheldon Jackson (page images at LOC)
- Alternatives by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wellington Publications)
- America, and American Methodism by Frederick James Jobson (page images at MOA)
- America As I Found It by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan (page images at MOA)
- America: A Sketch of the Political, Social, and Religious Character of the United States of North America, in Two Lectures by Philip Schaff (page images at MOA)
- American Indian Stories (Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921) by Zitkala-Sa (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy by William Gannaway Brownlow (page images at MOA)
- American Military History (1989) by United States Army (HTML at US Army CMH)
- American Notes by Rudyard Kipling
- American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman and Hall, 1842) by Charles Dickens
- American Notes for General Circulation (London: Chapman and Hall, 1874) by Charles Dickens (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat by Wu T’ingfang (Gutenberg text)
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- Among the Cotton Thieves by Edward Bacon (page images at MOA)
- 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 (page images at canadiana.org)
- An Address to the Negroes in the State of New-York by Jupiter Hammon (HTML at Virginia)
- A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery by Moses Roper (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Narrative of the Capitivity and Sufferings of Benjamin Gilbert and His Family: Who Were Surprised By the Indians and Taken From Their Farms on the Frontiers of Pennsylvania in the Spring, 1780 by Benjamin Gilbert (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Narrative of the Negro (1912) by Leila Amos Pendleton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work (J. Nichols and Co., c. 1901) by Booker T. Washington (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology (New York: Harper, 1871) by John Dennison Baldwin (page images at canadiana.org)
- An Essay on Liberty and Slavery by Albert Taylor Bledsoe (page images at MOA)
- An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of AMerican Females (second edition, 1837) by Catharine E. Beecher (HTML at Virginia)
- An Essay on the Propagation of the Gospel: In Which There Are Numerous Facts and Arguments Adduced to Prove That Many of the Indians in America Are Descended From the Ten Tribes (1801) by Charles Crawford (page images at canadiana.org)
- An Inquiry Into the Origin of the Antiquities of America (New York: Colt, Burgess, 1839) by John Delafield, contrib. by James Lakey (page images at canadiana.org)
- An Introduction to the Black Panther Party by John Brown Society (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- A Northern Presbyter’s Second Letter to Ministers of the Gospel of All Denominations on Slavery by Nathan Lord (page images at MOA)
- Anthony Burns: A History (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1856) by Charles Emery Stevens (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Anti-Carnegie: Scraps and Comments by M. F. Campbell and J. C. Campbell (HTML at boondocksnet.com)
- Anticipations of the Future, to Serve as Lessons for the Present Time by Edmund Ruffin (page images at MOA)
- A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David Thoreau (text at msstate.edu)
- A Political Text-Book for 1860 by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
- A Rebel’s Recollections by George Cary Eggleston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Are the Indians Dying Out? Preliminary Observations Relating to Indian Civilization and Education (1877), ed. by John Eaton (page images at canadiana.org)
- Are These Cats Red? The Black Panthers by Courtney Kent (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- A Review of Pierce’s Administration by Anna Ella Carroll (page images at MOA)
- A Review of the Rev. Moses Stuart’s Pamphlet on Slavery, Entitled Conscience and the Constitution by Rufus W. Clark (page images at MOA)
- A Scriptural, Ecclesiastical, and Historical View of Slavery, From the Days of the Patriarch Abraham, to the Nineteenth Century by John Henry Hopkins (page images at MOA)
- A Scriptural Examination of the Institution of Slavery in the United States by Howell Cobb (page images at MOA)
- A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and A History of His Brigade by William Dobein James (Gutenberg text)
- A Soldier’s Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate by Randolph Harrison McKim (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Soldier’s Story: Prison Life and Other Incidents in the War of 1861-’65 by Miles O. Sherrill (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Southern Girl in ’61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator’s Daughter by Louise Wigfall Wright (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Southern Woman’s Story by Phoebe Yates Pember (HTML at jewish-history.com)
- A Southern Woman’s War Time Reminiscences by Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Start in Life. A Journey Across America. Fruit Farming in California. by Charles Finch Dowsett (HTML at LOC)
- A Straight Deal: or, The Ancient Grudge by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)
- A Summary View of the Rights of British America by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at Virginia)
- At Gettysburg: or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle by Tillie Pierce Alleman (text at Indiana)
- Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States by Jubal Anderson Early (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Autobiography by Thomas Jefferson (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
- Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll by John W. Carroll (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, & England (London: John Snow, 35 Paternoster Row, 1855) by Samuel Ringgold Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White by Andrew Dickson White
- Autobiography of Asa Biggs by Asa Biggs, ed. by R. D. W. Connor (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Auto-Biography of Lemuel Sawyer by Lemuel Sawyer (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Veteran of 1812: The Life of James FitzGibbon (Toronto, Montreal: C.W. Coates, W. Briggs, 1894) by Mary Agnes FitzGibbon (page images at canadiana.org)
- A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Voter’s Version of the Life and Character of Stephen Arnold Douglas by Robert Bruce Warden (page images at MOA)
- A Woman’s Life-Work: Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura Smith Haviland (HTML and page images at LOC)
- A Woman’s War Record, 1861-1865 by Septima Maria Levy Collis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Woman’s Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman’s Army on the March to the Sea by Dolly Sumner Lunt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- A Year of American Travel by Jessie Benton Frémont (HTML at LOC)
- Behind the Scenes: or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley
- Belden, the White Chief: or, Twelve Years Among the Wild Indians of the Plains by George P. Belden (page images at MOA)
- Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison by Belle Boyd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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- Bill and Report of John A. Bingham by John Armor Bingham (page images at MOA)
- Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903 by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Biography of an American Bondman, ed. by Josephine Brown (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
- Black Liberation (Cultural and Revolutionary Nationalism) by Earl Ofari (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Boots and Saddles: or Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth B. Custer (HTML at nakedword.org)
- Boston Slave Riot, and Trial of Anthony Burns (page images at MOA)
- Broken Gloom: Sketches of the History, Character, and Dying Testimony of Beneficiaries of the Colored Home, in the City of New-York (New York: J.F. Trow, 1851) by Mary W. Thompson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- By the Prophet of the Earth: Ethnobotany of the Pima by Leonora Scott Muse Curtin (illustrated HTML at Arizona)
- Cabeza de Vaca’s Adventures in the Unknown Interior of Americaby Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Cyclone Covey (HTML at Eldritch Press)
- Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of Warby Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at MOA)
- Camps and Firesides of the Revolution, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Mabel Hill (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters by George Fitzhugh (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Capt. Thomas E. King, or, A Word to the Army and the Country (Charleston, S.C.: South Carolina Tract Society, 1864) by Joseph Clay Stiles (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota by Wilhelmina Buce Carrigan (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Cause and Contrast: An Essay on the American Crisis (Richmond, Va.: West & Johnston, 1862) by T. W. MacMahon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Changing Numbers, Changing Needs: American Indian Demography and Public Health by Gary D. Sandefur, Ronald R. Rindfuss, and Barney Cohen (page images at NAP)
- Colonial Children, ed. by Albert Bushnell Hart and Blanche E. Hazard (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Commanding Generals and Chiefs of Staff, 1775-1995 by William Gardner Bell (HTML at US Army CMH)
- Common Sense by Thomas Paine
- Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at MOA)
- Condition of the Indian Tribes by United States Congress Joint Special Committee to Inquire into the Condition of the Indian Tribes (page images at MOA)
- Congressional Intervention in Regard to Slavery in the Terrtoriesby Lawrence O’Brien Branch (page images at MOA)
- Conscience and the Constitution With Remarks on the Recent Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster in the Senate of the United States on the Subject of Slavery by Moses Stuart (page images at MOA)
- Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker by Benjamin Banneker (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Cotton is King by David Christy (page images at MOA)
- Coup D’Etat in America: The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy (revised, expanded electronic edition) by Michael Canfield and A. J. Weberman (HTML at weberman.com)
- Credo for Rioters and Looters by Eldridge Cleaver (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Dahcotah, Or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snellingby Mary Henderson Eastman, contrib. by C.M. Kirkland (page images at canadiana.org)
- David Brainerd by David Brainerd, ed. by Jonathan Edwards (HTML and RTF at CCEL)
- Despotism in America: An Inquiry into the Nature, Results, and Legal Basis of the Slave-Holding System in the United States by Richard Hildreth (page images at MOA)
- Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Richard Taylor (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Deterring Democracy (1992 edition; includes post-Gulf War afterword) by Noam Chomsky (HTML at zmag.org)
- Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes by Rutherford Birchard Hayes, ed. by Charles Richard Williams (HTML with commentary at ohiohistory.org)
- Diary of a Refugee, ed. by Frances Fearn, illust. by Rosalie Urquhart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Leon (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Diary of Brigadier-General Marcus J. Wright, C.S.A., April 23, 1861 – February 26, 1863 by Marcus Joseph Wright (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Discovery of Stone Implements in Glacial Drift in North America (1878) by Thomas Belt (page images at canadiana.org)
- Drake’s Great Armada by Walter Bigges (HTML at BiblioBytes)
- Dwight David Eisenhower: The Centennial by United States Army (illustrated HTML at US Army CMH)
- Echoes from a Pioneer Life (Atlanta: A. B. Caldwell, 1922) by Jared Maurice Arter (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Eight Years in Congress, From 1857 to 1865 by Samuel Sullivan Cox (page images at MOA)
- Essay on Slavery by Thomas J. Taylor (page images at MOA)
- Essays From the Minister of Defense by Huey P. Newton (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Essays on the Present Crisis in the Condition of the American Indians (Boston: Perkins & Marvin, 1829) by Jeremiah Evarts (page images at canadiana.org)
- Ethnography and Philology of the Hidatsa Indians by Washington Matthews (page images at MOA)
- Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina (Boston: Published by H. B. Skinner) by Thomas H. Jones (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Experience of a Confederate Chaplain by Alexander Davis Betts (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Extract from a Speech by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice-President of the Confederate States, Delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, January 1861 by Alexander Hamilton Stephens (page images at MOA)
- Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen by New England Freedmen’s Aid Society (page images at MOA)
- Extracts of Letters of Major-Gen’l Bryan Grimes, to His Wife: Written while in Active Service in the Army of Northern Virginia by Bryan Grimes (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Fagots from the Camp Fire by Louis J. Dupré (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Famous Americans of Recent Times by James Parton (page images at MOA)
- Farewell Address by George Washington (HTML and page images with commentary at Virginia)
- Fifty Years in Chains: or, The Life of an American Slave (New York: H. Dayton, 1859) by Charles Ball (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Final Report of the Assassinations Records Review Board by United States Assassinations Records Review Board (HTML and PDF at Indiana)
- Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography by Robert Russa Moton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Forget-Me-Nots of the Civil War by Laura Elizabeth Lee Battle (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Forgotten Founders: Benjamin Franklin, the Iroquois, and the Rationale for the American Revolution by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.com)
- Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac by Daniel G. Crotty (page images at MOA)
- Four Years Under Marse Robert by Robert Stiles (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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- Freedom v. Slavery by John Hutchins (page images at MOA)
- From a New England Woman’s Diary in Dixie in 1865 by Mary Ames (illustrated HTML at TEI at UNC)
- From Log Cabin to the Pulpit: or Fifteen Years in Slavery by William H. Robinson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or, Struggles for Freedomby Lucy Ann Delany (HTML at nypl.org)
- Fugitive Slave Law: The Religious Duty of Obedience to Law by Ichabod Smith Spencer (page images at MOA)
- George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography by Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin (zipped text at kmf.org)
- Geronimo: His Own Story by Geronimo, ed. by S. M. Barrett (illustrated HTML in the Netherlands)
- God Against Slavery by George Barrell Cheever (page images at MOA)
- God our Refuge and Strength in This War: A Discourse Before the Congregations of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches, on the Day of Humiliation, Fasting and Prayer, Appointed by President Davis, Friday, Nov. 15, 1861 (Richmond: W. Hargrave White, 1861) by Thomas Verner Moore (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Harriet, The Moses of Her People (second edition, 1886) by Sarah H. Bradford (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Hero Tales From American History by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt (Gutenberg text)
- His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexis in the United States of America During the Winter of 1871-72 (Cambridge, MA: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1872) (page images at LOC)
- History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, and Parkman (hypertext edition) by David Levin (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- History of the Administration of President Lincoln by Henry J. Raymond (page images at MOA)
- History of the Great Rebellion by Thomas Prentice Kettell (page images at MOA)
- History of the Life of Rev. Wm. Mack Lee, Body Servant of General Robert E. Lee by William Mack Lee (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan by Andrew J. Blackbird
- History of the Sioux War and Massacres of 1862 and 1863 by Isaac V. D. Heard (page images at MOA)
- Hohokam Indians of the Tucson Basin by Linda M. Gregonis and Karl J. Reinhard (illustrated HTML at Arizona)
- Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, ed. by Hallie Quinn Brown (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
- Hospital Sketches (1863 edition) by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- How a One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil Warby John S. Robson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- How It Was: Four Years Among the Rebels by Julia Morgan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Huey Newton Talks to the Movement by Students for a Democratic Society and Huey P. Newton (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Humorous Incidents of the Civil War by A. C. McLeary (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs, ed. by Lydia Maria Child
- Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman (HTML at Virginia)
- Indian Civilization by Stanley Pumphrey (page images at MOA)
- Indian Games: An Historical Research (1886) by Andrew McFarland Davis (page images at canadiana.org)
- Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles Alexander Eastman (Gutenberg text)
- Indian Life and Indian History By an Indian Author (Boston: A. Colby, 1858) by George Copway (page images at canadiana.org)
- Indian Migrations, As Evidenced By Language: Comprising the Huron-Cherokee Stock, the Dakota Stock, the Algonkins, the Chahta-Muskoki Stock, the Moundbuilders, the Iberians (1883)by Horatio Hale (page images at canadiana.org)
- Indian Story and Song From North America (London, Boston: D. Nutt; Small, Maynard, 1900) by Alice Cunningham Fletcher (page images at canadiana.org)
- Indian Why Stories by Frank B. Linderman (Gutenberg text)
- In Indian Tents : Stories Told By Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Mimac Indians to Abby L. Alger (Boston: Roberts, 1897) by Abby Langdon Alger (page images at canadiana.org)
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- Intelligence in the War of Independence by United States Central Intelligence Agency (frame-dependent HTML at odci.gov)
- Intimate Letters of Carl Schurz, 1841-1869 by Carl Schurz (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Is Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible? by Isaac Allen (page images at MOA)
- I’ve Been to the Mountaintop by Martin Luther King (HTML at Stanford)
- James Otis, The Pre-Revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath (Gutenberg text)
- John Cabot, the Discoverer of North America and Sebastian, His Son: a Chapter of the Maritime History of England Under the Tudors, 1496-1557 (London: Stevens, 1896) by Henry Harrisse (page images at canadiana.org)
- Klatsassan: and Other Reminiscences of Missionary Life in British Columbia (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1873) by Robert Christopher Lundin Brown (page images at canadiana.org)
- La Follette’s Autobiography: A Personal Narrative of Political Experiences by Robert M. La Follette (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Leaven for Doughfaces: or, Threescore and Ten Parables Touching Slavery by Darius Lyman (page images at MOA)
- Leaves from the Diary of an Army Surgeon by Thomas T. Ellis (page images at MOA)
- Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, As Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States by William Andrew Smith (page images at MOA)
- Legends of the Kaw: The Folk-Lore of the Indians of the Kansas River Valley by Carrie De Voe (illustrated HTML at Kansas)
- Legends of the Northwest (1881) by Hanford Lennox Gordon (page images at canadiana.org)
- Letter of Commodore Stockton on the Slavery Question by Robert Field Stockton (page images at MOA)
- Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: Written During Eight Year’s Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America, in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39 (1841) by George Catlin
- Letters for the People, on the Present Crisis by Frederick Starr (page images at MOA)
- Letters From An American Farmer by J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (HTML at Virginia)
- Letter to the Hon. Wm. C. Rives of Virgina, on Slavery and the Union by Nathan Appleton (page images at MOA)
- Liberal Analysis and Federal Power by Tom Hayden (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Liberty or Slavery: The Great National Question by Richard Bowers Thurston, Abraham Chittenden Baldwin, and Timothy Williston (page images at MOA)
- Life Among the Indians by George Catlin (page images at canadiana.org)
- Life and Adventures of Col. L. A. Norton by Lewis Adelbert Norton (HTML at LOC)
- Life and Liberty in America: or, Sketches of a Tour in the United States and Canada, in 1857-8 by Charles Mackay (page images at MOA)
- Life and Public Services of Martin R. Delany by Frank A. Rollin (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881) by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life Gleanings by Thomas Joseph Macon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life in the Confederate Army… and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life by Arthur Peronneau Ford and Marion Johnstone Ford (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1834) by Black Hawk, ed. by J. B. Patterson (page images at canadiana.org)
- Life of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak or Black Hawk (1833 edition)by Black Hawk (page images at canadiana.org)
- Life of Stephen A. Douglas: To Which are Added His Speeches and Reports by Henry Martyn Flint (page images at MOA)
- Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet : With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians (Cincinnati: E. Morgan, 1841) by Benjamin Drake (page images at canadiana.org)
- Life of Isaac Mason As a Slave by Isaac Mason (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut: Written by Himself (Hartford: Case, Lockwood, 1868) by James Mars (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life of Mary F. McCray, Born and Raised a Slave in the State of Kentucky by S. J. McCray (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Life of Thomas Jefferson (revised electronic edition) by B. L. Rayner, ed. by Eyler Coates (HTML at Geocities)
- Life on the Old Plantation in Ante-Bellum Days, or, A Story Based on Facts (1911) by Irving Lowery (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Lights and Shadows of Army Life by William W. Lyle (page images at MOA)
- Lincoln: An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
- Lincoln and Seward by Gideon Welles (page images at MOA)
- Lincoln Memorial: The Journeys of Abraham Lincoln by William Turner Coggeshall (page images at MOA)
- Liquor and Lincoln (1862) by A Physician (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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- List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, With Index to Authors and Titles by Smithsonian Institution (HTML at Smithsonian)
- Lives of Celebrated American Indians (Boston: Rand and Mann, 1849) by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (page images at canadiana.org)
- “Marse Henry”: An Autobiography by Henry Watterson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Massachusetts in Mourning by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (page images at MOA)
- Maryland Slavery and Maryland Chivalry by J. S. Lame (page images at MOA)
- Melungeons and Other Mestee Groups (electronic edition) by Mike Nassau (HTML at GeoCities)
- Memoir and Memorials: Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-General, C. S. A. by Elisha Franklin Paxton, ed. by John Gallatin Paxton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Memoirs of Margaret Jane Blake of Baltimore, Md., and Selections in Prose and Verse. (Philadelphia: Press of Innes & Son, 1897) by Sarah R. Levering (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Memoirs of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, &c. in the Captivity of John Gyles, Esq., Commander of the Garrison on St. George’s River (1736) by John Gyles (page images at canadiana.org)
- Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumnerby United States Congress (page images at MOA)
- Memorial of Edward C. D. Lines, Late Captain of Co. C, 2g Reg’t Kansas Cavalry, ed. by Charles B. Lines (illustrated HTML at Kansas)
- Memories of Childhood’s Slavery Days by Annie L. Burton
- HTML and TEI at UNC
- HTML at nypl.org
- Message to the Black Movement by Black Liberation Army (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Military Reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C. S. A. by William Robertson Boggs, ed. by William K. Boyd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Mission of the North American People, Geographical, Social, and Political by William Gilpin (page images at MOA)
- Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformersby D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
- Modern Reform Examined: or, The Union of North and South on the Subject of Slavery by Joseph Clay Stiles (page images at MOA)
- “Morgan’s Men”: A Narrative of Personal Experiences by Henry Lane Stone (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
- My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell (page images at MOA)
- My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington by Rose O’Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience by Booker T. Washington (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Life and Travels by Levi Branham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians by George Armstrong Custer
- My Manse During the War: A Decade of Letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, Editor of the Methodist Protestant by Thomas Bloomer Balch (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- My Memories of Eighty Years by Chauncey M. Depew (Gutenberg text)
- Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin
- Narrative of Facts in the Case of Passmore Williamson (page images at MOA)
- Narrative of Henry Watson, A Fugitive Slave (Boston: Published by Bela Marsh, 1848) by Henry Watson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave by James Williams (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians by Fanny (Wiggins) Kelly (page images at MOA)
- Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson’s Island, Ohioby Henry Elliot Shepherd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850 edition) by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1878 edition) by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert (HTML at LOC)
- Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written By Himself by Henry Bibb (HTML at Virginia)
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845) by Frederick Douglass
- Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown by Henry Box Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of the Life of John Quincy Adams, When in Slavery, and Now as a Freeman by John Quincy Adams (HTML at TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America by Moses Grandy (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of the Life of Thomas Cooper (1832) by Isaac T. Hopper (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke, During a Captivity of More than Twenty-Five Years, Among the Algerines of Kentucky, One of the So Called Christian States of North America (Boston: David H. Ela, Printer, 1845) by Lewis Garrard Clark (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave (1849 UK edition) by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Narratives of Colored Americans (New York: W. W. Wood & Co., 1875) by Abigail Mott and M. S. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- National Sermons: Sermons, Speeches and Letters on Slavery and Its War by Gilbert Haven (page images at MOA)
- National Vietnam Examination by Students for a Democratic Society and Inter-University Committee for Debate on Foreign Policy (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography by Bruce E. Johansen (HTML at ratical.com)
- Negro Slavery Unjustifiable by Alexander McLeod (page images at MOA)
- New America (1867 edition) by William Hepworth Dixon (page images at MOA)
- New Dangers to Freedom, and New Duties for its Defenders by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
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- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (first edition, 1797) by Benjamin Smith Barton (page images at canadiana.org)
- New Views of the Origin of the Tribes and Nations of America (second edition, 1798) by Benjamin Smith Barton (page images at canadiana.org)
- New World Notes: Being an Account of Journeyings and Sojournings in America and Canada (1875) by John Clay (page images at canadiana.org)
- Notes on North America, Agricultural, Economical, and Social by James F. W. Johnston (page images at MOA)
- Notes on Primitive Man in Ontario (Toronto: Warwick & Rutter, 1895) by David Boyle (page images at canadiana.org)
- Notes on the Indian Tribes of British North America and the Northwest Coast by Alexander Caulfield Anderson (page images at canadiana.org)
- Nurse and Spy in the Union Army by Sarah Emma E. Edmundson (page images at MOA)
- 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 (page images at canadiana.org)
- Ohio Boys in Dixie (page images at MOA)
- Old Indian Days by Charles Alexander Eastman (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- Old Plantation Days (1902) by W. Mallory (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861-1865 by John H. Worsham (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- On the Origin of the Native Races of America: A Dissertation By Hugo Grotius; A Treatise of Foreign Languages and Unknown Islands By Peter Albinus (1884) by Hugo Grotius and Peter Albinus, trans. by Edmund Goldsmid (page images at canadiana.org)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston by James Freeman Clarke (page images at MOA)
- Oration Delivered Before the City Government and Citizens of Boston by Richard Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- Oration on the Centennial Anniversary of the Declaration of independence by Robert C. Winthrop (page images at MOA)
- Organization of a New Indian Territory, East of the Missouri Riverby George Copway (page images at MOA)
- Origin and Traditional History of the Wyandotts: and Sketches of Other Indian Tribes of North America, True Traditional Stories of Tecumseh and His League, in the Years 1811 and 1812 (Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1870) by Peter Dooyentate Clarke (page images at canadiana.org)
- Ought American Slavery to be Perpetuated? A Debate Between Rev. W. G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne by William Gannaway Brownlow and Abram Pryne (page images at MOA)
- Our Country: Its Peril and Its Deliverance by Robert J. Breckinridge (page images at MOA)
- Our Danger and Our Duty (Columbia, S. C.: Southern Guardian Steam-power Press, 1862) by James Henley Thornwell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Our National Discipline by Marvin Richardson Vincent (page images at MOA)
- Our National Parks by John Muir
- Our Triumph and Our New Duties by Cortlandt Parker (page images at MOA)
- Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (WWW edition) by Arthur Kroker (HTML at freedonia.com)
- Paris in America by Edouard Laboulaye, trans. by Mary L. Booth (page images at MOA)
- Personal and Political Ballads by Frank Moore (page images at MOA)
- Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses S. Grant
- Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, For Four years and four Months a Prisoner (for Charity’s Sake) in Washington Jail by Daniel Drayton (page images at MOA)
- Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee by J. William Jones (page images at MOA)
- Personal Reminiscences of Early Days in California, With Other Sketches by Stephen Johnson Field (HTML at LOC)
- Plantation Life Before Emancipation by Robert Q. Mallard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Poems Relating to the American Revolution (with notes by Evert Duyckinck) by Philip Freneau (HTML and SGML at Michigan)
- Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett (page images at MOA)
- Presumed Guilty: How and Why the Warren Commission Framed Lee Harvey Oswald (1976 edition) by Howard Roffman (HTML at ratical.com)
- Primitive Industry, Or, Illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone and Clay of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America (Salem, Mass.: G.A. Bates, 1881.) by Charles Conrad Abbott (page images at canadiana.org)
- Prison Life and Reflections by George Thompson (page images at MOA)
- Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of Concord fight, April 19, 1875 (page images at MOA)
- Proceedings of the Bible Convention of the Confederate States of America (1862) by Bible Convention of the Confederate States of America (HTML at TEI at UNC)
- Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive Slave Bill, the Abolition of the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia, and the Imprisonment of Free Colored Seamen in the Southern Ports by United States Senate (page images at MOA)
- Psychiatry’s Betrayal: In the Guise of Help: Creating Racism by Church of Scientology (illustrated HTML at cchr.org)
- Rachel and the New World: A Trip to the United States and Cubaby Leon Beauvallet (page images at MOA)
- Rambles in the Path of the Steam-Horse by Eli Bowen (page images at MOA)
- Reagan’s America by Lloyd DeMause (illustrated HTML at xoom.com)
- Recent Speeches and Addresses (1851-1855) by Charles Sumner (page images at MOA)
- Recollections and Letters of General Robert E. Lee by Robert E. Lee (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Sep 2000)
- Recollections Grave and Gay by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of a Busy Life by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
- Recollections of a Naval Life, Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers “Sumter” and “Alabama” by John McIntosh Kell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollecions of a Long Life, 1829-1915 by Isaac Stephenson (HTML and page images at LOC)
- Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Warsby Dabney Herndon Maury (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond, April 2d, 1865 by John Archibald Campbell (HTML at UNC)
- Reflections on America by Jacques Maritain (HTML at Notre Dame)
- Relation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Slavery by Charles King Whipple (page images at MOA)
- Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, Giving an Account of Her Call to Preach the Gospel by Jarena Lee (HTML at nypl.org)
- Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War by Frank Alexander Montgomery (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade by Lot D. Young (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)
- Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers by Susie King Taylor (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
- Reminiscences of the Civil War by John Brown Gordon (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Report of Mr. Wood’s Visit to the Choctaw and Cherokee missions (1855) by George W. Wood (page images at MOA)
- Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Session of the Conference Convention, for Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. Chittenden (page images at MOA)
- Report of the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Warren Commission (HTML in Germany)
- Report of the Proceedings of a Meeting held at Concert Hall, Philadelphia, on Tuesday Evening, November 3, 1863, To Take Into Consideration the Condition of the Freed People of the Southby Pennsylvania Freedmen’s Relief Association (page images at MOA)
- Report [of] the Select Committee of the Senate Appointed to Inquire into the Late Invasion a by United States Senate Select Committee on the Harper’s Ferry Invasion (page images at MOA)
- Retrieving African-American Women’s History: A Methodological Guide to Manuscript Sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University by Jennifer Morgan, ed. by Virginia Daley (HTML at Duke)
- Reuben Maddison: A True Story (Birmingham, England: B. Hudson, 1835) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Review of Webster’s Speech on Slavery by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
- Rights and Duties of the United States Relative to Slavery Under the Laws of War by David Lee Child (page images at MOA)
- Royalty in the New World: or, The Prince of Wales in America by Kinahan Cornwallis (page images at MOA)
- Rules of Civility by George Washington, ed. by John Allan Murray (HTML and page images with commentary at Virginia)
- Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft and Ellen Craft
- “Sam”: or, The History of Mystery by Charles W. Webber (page images at MOA)
- Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
- Sermons on Recent National Victories, and the National Sorrowby Edward Payson Powell (page images at MOA)
- Sermons on Slavery and the Civil War (page images at MOA)
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- Shall the Territories be Africanized? by James Harlan (page images at MOA)
- Sinfulness of American Slavery by Charles Elliott (page images at MOA)
- Sir Francis Drake Revived by Philip Nichols (HTML at BiblioBytes)
- Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations (New York : Dodd, Mead, c1891) by William Elliot Griffis (page images at canadiana.org)
- Six Historic Americans by John Remsburg (HTML at infidels.org)
- Sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry and Some Incidents and Scenes Remembered by Wiley C. Howard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Sketches of Slave Life: or, Illustrations of the ‘Peculiar Institution’by Peter Randolph (page images at MOA)
- Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry by William Wirt (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (London: Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1863) by Francis Fedric (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slavery by William Ellery Channing (HTML at edgenet.net)
- Slavery among the Puritans: A Letter to the Rev. Moses Stuart by Benjamin Ferris (page images at MOA)
- Slavery and the Remedy: or, Principles and Suggestions for a Remedial Code by Samuel Nott (page images at MOA)
- Slavery and the War: A Historical Essay by Henry Darling (page images at MOA)
- Slavery in the United States (New York: John S. Taylor, 1837) by Charles Ball (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Slavery in the United States of America by Henry Sherman (page images at MOA)
- Slavery: Letters and Speeches by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
- Slavery, or Involuntary Servitude: Does it Legally Exist in the State of New York? (page images at MOA)
- Slavery: What It Was, What It Has Done, What It Intends To Doby Cydnor Bailey Tompkins (page images at MOA)
- Sociology for the South: or, The Failure of Free Society by George Fitzhugh (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Some Observations on the Situation, Disposition, and Character of the Indian Natives of This Continent (1784) by Anthony Benezet (page images at canadiana.org)
- Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa by Thomas Bluett (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Some Recollections of Our Antislavery Conflict by Samuel J. May (page images at MOA)
- Some Reminiscences by William Lawrence Royall (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Southern Hatred of the American Government, the People of the North, and Free Institutions by William Lloyd Garrison (page images at MOA)
- Southern Slavery Reduces Northern Wages by George M. Weston (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. C. C. Clay, Jr., On Slavery Issues by Clement Claiborne Clay (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. Daniel Webster, on Mr. Clay’s Resolutions by Daniel Webster (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. Francis W. Kellogg, of Michigan, in the House of Representatives, June 12, 1860 by Francis William Kellogg (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. J. Collamer, of Vermont, On Slavery in the Territories by Jacob Collamer (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. Stephen A. Douglas on the “Measures of Adjustment” by Stephen Arnold Douglas (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. Thomas L. Clingman, of North Carolina, Against the Revolutionary Movement of the Anti-Slavery Party by Thomas Lanier Clingman (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. W.A. Richardson, of Illinois, Delivered in Burlington, New Jersey, Tuesday Evening, July 17, 1860 by William Alexander Richardson (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Hon. William A. Graham, of Orange, In the Convention of North-Carolina, Dec. 7th, 1861, on the Ordinance concerning Test Oaths and Sedition by William A. Graham (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Speech of the Hon. William B. Reed, on the Presidential Questionby William B. Reed (page images at MOA)
- Speech of Horace Mann, of Massachusetts on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories, and the Consequences of a Dissolution of the Union by Horace Mann (page images at MOA)
- Speeches, Lectures, and Letters by Wendell Phillips (page images at MOA)
- Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, Delivered During the Summer of 1858 by Jefferson Davis (page images at MOA)
- State of the Country: Speech of Hon. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi, In the Confederate Senate, December 24, 1863 by Albert Gallatin Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Statistical Exhibit of Strength of Volunteer Forces Called Into Service During the War With Spain by United States Adjutant General’s Office (HTML and Word at US Army CMH)
- Studies on Slavery, in Easy Lessons by John Fletcher (page images at MOA)
- Summer Rambles in the West by E. F. Ellet (page images at MOA)
- Tales From the Totems of the Hidery (1899) by James Deans, ed. by Oscar Lovell Triggs (page images at canadiana.org)
- The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-’65 by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
- The American Crisis by Thomas Paine (HTML at LibertyOnline)
- The American Idea, and What Grows Out of It by E. H. Chapin (page images at MOA)
- The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln: and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary by United States Department of State (page images at MOA)
- The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin (searchable HTML at Bibliomania)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (from the Collier edition of 1909) by Benjamin Franklin, ed. by Charles W. Eliot (HTML at Virginia)
- The Beothucks, or Red Indians, the Aboriginal Inhabitants of Newfoundland by James Patrick Howley (illustrated HTML at mun.ca)
- The Bible Gives No Sanction to Slavery (page images at MOA)
- The Bible View of Slavery by Morris Jacob Raphall (text at digex.net)
- The Bivouac and the Battlefield: or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and Maryland by George Freeman Noyes (page images at MOA)
- The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs (Gutenberg text)
- The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements (1863) by William Wells Brown (HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)
- The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay (Gutenberg text)
- The Causes of the American Civil War by John Lothrop Motley (page images at MOA)
- The Central Eskimo by Franz Boas (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Christian Idea of Civil Government by Francis Vinton (page images at MOA)
- The Christian Martyrs: or, The Conditions of Obedience to the Civil Government by Jacob Gilbert Forman (page images at MOA)
- The Church and Slavery by Albert Barnes (page images at MOA)
- The Church and the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States by Robert Livingston Stanton (page images at MOA)
- The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution, With Sketches of Several Distinguished Colored Persons; To Which Is Added a Brief Survey of the Condition And Prospects of Colored Americans (Boston: Robert F. Wallcut, 1855) by William Cooper Nell (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Condition of Affairs in Indian Territory and California by Charles Cornelius Coffin Painter (HTML at LOC)
- The Decorative Art of the Indians of the North Pacific Coast by Franz Boas (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1919) by Bartlett Yancey Malone, ed. by William Whatley Pierson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Discovery of Guiana by Walter Raleigh (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Aug 2000)
- The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guianaby Walter Raleigh (HTML at Fordham)
- The Doom of Slavery in the Union: Its Safety Out of It by John Townsend (page images at MOA)
- The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
- The Emigrant’s Guide (London: W. Cobbett, 1829) by William Cobbett (page images at canadiana.org)
- The End of an Era by John Sergeant Wise (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Englishwoman in America (London: J. Murray, 1856) by Isabella Lucy Bishop (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina by John Andrew Jackson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years (Boston: Bazin and Chandler, 1862) by Thomas H. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Fire and Hammer of God’s Word Against the Sin of Slavery by George Barrell Cheever (page images at MOA)
- The Founding of Quebec: From the “Voyages” of Samuel De Champlain by Samuel de Champlain (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Four Kings of Canada: Being a Succinct Account of the Four Indian Princes Lately Arrived From North America (1891) (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
- The Fugitive Slave Bill: or, God’s Laws Paramount to the Laws of Men by Nathaniel Colver (page images at MOA)
- The Fugitive Slave Law: A Sermon by Charles Peck Bush (page images at MOA)
- The Function and Place of Conscience in Relation to the Laws of Men by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
- The Genius of Huey P. Newton by Huey P. Newton (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- The German-Americans: An Ethnic Experience by Willi Paul Adams (illustrated HTML at iupui.edu)
- The Golden Hour by Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at MOA)
- The Great Fraud Upon the Public Credulity in the Organization of the Republican Party Upon the Ruins of the “Whig Party” (page images at MOA)
- The Great Republic: A Descriptive, Statistical, and Historical View of the States and Territories of the American Union by James Dabney McCabe (page images at MOA)
- The Healing of a Nation by David Loye (page images at iuniverse.com)
- The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett CSA by George Edward Pickett, contrib. by La Salle Corbell Pickett (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography by William Pickens (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Higher Law, In Its Relations to Civil Government: With Particular Reference to Slavery, and the Fugitive Slave Law by William Hosmer (page images at MOA)
- The History of Historical Writing in America by John Franklin Jameson (HTML in Italy)
- The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are Dependent on the Province of New-York in America, and Are the Barrier Between the English and French in That Part of the World (1747) by Cadwallader Colden (page images at canadiana.org)
- The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves by Octavia Victoria Rogers Albert (HTML at nypl.org)
- The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper (page images at MOA)
- The Imperial Japanese Mission, 1917 by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (HTML at Kansas)
- The Indian Miscellany by William Wallace Beach (page images at MOA)
- The Indian Question by Francis Amasa Walker (page images at MOA)
- The Indian Races of North and South America (1864 edition) by Charles De Wolf Brownell (page images at MOA)
- The Indians of Los Angeles County: Hugo Reid’s Letters of 1852by Hugo Reid, ed. by Robert F. Heizer (HTML at LOC)
- The Indians of Southern California in 1852 by Benjamin Davis Wilson, ed. by John Walton Caughey (HTML at LOC)
- The Indian’s Side of the Indian Question (Boston : D. Lothrop, c1887) by William Barrows (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Industry of the Freedmen of America by National Freedmen’s Aid Union (page images at MOA)
- The Irish in America by John Francis Maguire (page images at MOA)
- The Iroquois Book of Rites (Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1883) by Horatio Hale (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Iroquois Trail, Or, Footprints of the Six Nations : in Customs, Traditions and History, By W.M. Beauchamp; in Which Are Included David Cusick’s Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations (1892) by William M. Beauchamp and David Cusick (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Japan That Can Say No (version in the Congressional Record, as read in by Rep. Sander Levin, 1989) by Akio Morita and Shintaro Ishihara (HTML at LOC)
- The Journey of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. by Fanny Bandelier (HTML at PBS)
- The Journey of Coronado by Pedro de Castaneda (HTML at PBS)
- The Kansas Struggle, of 1856, in Congress & in the Presidential Campaign by William Goodell (page images at MOA)
- The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Boston: Jewett, 1854) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife “Vina,” after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton, 1856) by Kate E. R. Pickard, contrib. by Samuel J. May and William H. Furness (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Last Flag of Truce by Dallas Tucker Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Last of the Illinois, and a Sketch of the Pottawatomies (1870)by John Dean Caton (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Law-Abiding Conscience, and the Higher Law Conscience; With Remarks on the Fugitive Slave Question by Samuel T. Spear (page images at MOA)
- The Lawrence Massacre by a Band of Missouri Ruffians Under Quantrell by J. S. Boughton and Richard Cordley (HTML at Kansas)
- The Lenâpe and Their Legends: With the Complete Text and Symbols of the Walum Olum, a New Translation, and an Inquiry Into Its Authenticity (Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1885) by Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Life and Death of Abraham Lincoln by Phillips Brooks (page images at MOA)
- The Life and Travels of John W. Bear, “The Buckeye Blacksmith”by John W. Bear (page images at MOA)
- The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by George Alfred Townsend (page images at MOA)
- The Life, History and Travels of Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh (George Copway), a Young Indian Chief of the Ojebwa Nation (1847) by George Copway (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Life of Benjamin Franklin by Mason Locke Weems (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
- The Life of Christopher Columbus: From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time by Edward Everett Hale (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of Franklin Pierce by Nathaniel Hawthorne (HTML with commentary at Eldritch Press)
- The Life of General Francis Marion by Mason Locke Weems (Gutenberg text)
- The Life of George Washington by David Ramsay (HTML at earlyamerica.com)
- The Life of Stonewall Jackson by John Esten Cooke (page images at MOA)
- The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby by John Singleton Mosby, ed. by Charles Wells Russel (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Missionary Pioneer, or A Brief Memoir of the Life, Labours, and Death of John Stewart, (Man of Colour,) Founder, under God of the Mission among the Wyandotts at Upper Sandusky, Ohio by Joseph Mitchell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Mission of Free Labor on the American Continent by William Alanson Howard (page images at MOA)
- The Missouri Compromise by Heman Humphrey (page images at MOA)
- The Myths of the New World : a Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America (New York : Leypoldt & Holt, 1868) by Daniel Garrison Brinton (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman by Bethany Veney
- illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC
- illustrated HTML at nypl.org
- The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson (Gutenberg text)
- The Nebraska Question by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
- The Negro in the American Rebellion: His Heroism and his Fidelityby William Wells Brown (page images at MOA)
- The New Commandment by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (page images at MOA)
- The New Crime Against Humanity by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
- The New Dogma of the South– “Slavery a Blessing” by Henry L. Dawes (page images at MOA)
- The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man by Henry Clay Bruce (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Biography by William Roscoe Thayer (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Nov 2000)
- Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
- Theodore Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt, ed. by Joseph Bucklin Bishop (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Old Capitol and Its Inmates by Virginia Lomax (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Olive Branch: or, The Evil and the Remedy by Charles Miner (page images at MOA)
- The Patriots and Guerillas of East Tennessee and Kentucky by John A. Brents (HTML at kih.net)
- The People of the Longhouse (Toronto: Church of England Pub., 1897) by Edward Marion Chadwick (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion by Richard Miller Devens (page images at MOA)
- The Pine and the Palm Greeting by N. J. Watkins (page images at MOA)
- The Planter: or, Thirteen Years in the South by David Brown
- HTML and TEI at UNC
- page images at MOA
- The Poetry of Travelling in the United States by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)
- The Political Text-Book, or Encyclopedia (1860 edition) by Michael W. Cluskey (page images at MOA)
- The Position and Course of the South by William Henry Trescot (page images at MOA)
- The Position of the Republican and Democratic Parties: A Dialogue Between a White Republican and a Colored Citizen by Republican Congressional Committee (page images at MOA)
- The Powers of the Federal Government Over Slavery! by Andrew Jackson Wilcox (page images at MOA)
- The Promised Land (1912) by Mary Antin (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- The Pro-Slavery Argument, As Maintained by the Most Distinguished Writers of the Southern states (page images at MOA)
- The Rejected Stone: or, Insurrection vs. Resurrection in Americaby Moncure Daniel Conway (page images at MOA)
- The Religious Beliefs of Our Presidents by Franklin Steiner (HTML at infidels.org)
- The Responsibility of the North in Relation to Slavery by Samuel Batchelder (page images at MOA)
- The Rev. J. W. Loguen, As a Slave and As a Freeman by Jermain Wesley Loguen (page images at MOA)
- The Rightful Remedy by Edward B. Bryan (page images at MOA)
- The Right of American Slavery by True Worthy Hoit (page images at MOA)
- The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Round Trip from the Hub to the Golden Gate by Susie Champney Clark (HTML at LOC)
- The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864 by Charles Colcock Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians by Franz Boas (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Soul of the Indian by Charles Alexander Eastman (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
- The Souls of Black Folk by William E. B. Du Bois
- The South Comes North in Detroit’s Own Scottsboro Case by Harry Haywood (frame-dependent page images at MSU)
- The Southern Negro As He Is by George Rochford Stetson (page images at MOA)
- The Southern Spy: Letters on the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War (Richmond, Va.: West and Johnston, 1861) by Edward Alfred Pollard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Speech of John A. Chandler (of Norfolk County,) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State With Respect to Her Slave Population by John A. Chandler (HTML and page images at Virginia)
- The Spirit of the South Towards Northern Freemen and Soldiers Defending the American Flag Against Traitors of the Deepest Dyeby William Lloyd Garrison (page images at MOA)
- The Star of the West, Or, National Men and National Measures (1857) by Anna Ella Carroll (page images at canadiana.org)
- The State of the Country: An Article Republished from The Southern Presbyterian Review (Columbia, S. C.: Southern Guardian Steam-power Press, 1861) by James Henley Thornwell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War by David Emmons Johnston (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of Archer Alexander From Slavery to Freedom, March 30, 1863 by William Greenleaf Eliot (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of Laura Secord, and Canadian Reminiscences (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1900) by Emma Augusta Currie (page images at canadiana.org)
- The Story of Mattie J. Jackson: Her Parentage–Experience of Eighteen Years in Slavery– Incidents During the War–Her Escape from Slavery: A True Story by Mattie J. Jackson and Lucy S. Thompson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Story of the Life of John Anderson, the Fugitive Slave (London: W. Tweedie, 1863), ed. by Harper Twelvetrees (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (HTML at Bartleby)
- The Taking of America, 1-2-3 (1985 edition) by Richard E. Sprague (HTML at ratical.com)
- The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee by Hermann Bokum (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Traveller’s and Tourist’s guide Through the United States of America, Canada, etc. (1851) by Wellington Williams (page images at MOA)
- The Trial of Theodore Parker, for the “Misdemeanor” of a Speech in Faneuil Hall Against Kidnapping by Theodore Parker (page images at MOA)
- The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral by Elbridge Streeter Brooks
