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History - American: Public-Domain Books
27 popular free books on the “History - American” shelf.
Life on the Mississippi
Mark Twain · 138,452 words
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Frederick Douglass · 34,616 words
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin · 75,242 words
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
Mary White, 1635?-1711 Rowlandson · 17,878 words
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
Ulysses S. Grant · 269,322 words
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian
Alma Lutz · 125,793 words
Society as I Have Found It
Ward McAllister · 51,531 words
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
Sarah H. Bradford · 26,183 words
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Booker T. Washington · 68,898 words
The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
Stephen Crane · 41,919 words
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
Meriwether Lewis · 608,541 words
Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnap
Solomon, 1808-1863? Northup · 78,028 words
My Bondage and My Freedom
Frederick Douglass · 130,940 words
A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time A Collection
683,016 words
Fifty years in Wall Street
Henry Clews · 363,890 words
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My F
Walt Whitman · 240,229 words
Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Remini
William H. C. Folsom · 313,773 words
Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)
Francis Hobart Herrick · 166,899 words
As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
Marian Gouverneur · 138,218 words
France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great
Francis Parkman · 144,441 words
All in the Day's Work: An Autobiography
Ida M. Tarbell · 136,766 words
Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men
Various · 176,899 words
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
Franklin K. Lane · 133,311 words
The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
Frank Everett Stevens · 163,778 words
Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbi
William Denison Lyman · 252,706 words
The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835
Albert J. Beveridge · 233,162 words
Old Times on the Upper Mississippi The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1
George Byron Merrick · 100,367 words