America - still a young country by world standards - began as an experiment in self-government. This collection includes stories of America's people as they follow a path of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Cover for The great American question, democracy vs. doulocracy: or, Free soil, free labor, free men, & free speech against the extension and domi...
During their "Corps of Discovery" mission, Lewis and Clark kept a record of the expedition. Their journals have been assembled into book form fo...
Bookcover image of The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War, by Michael Shaara. Amazon provides details about this acclaimed book: In t...
This page is an excerpt from The Korean War: The Story and Photographs by Donald M. Goldstein and Harry J. Maihafer. It describes the work...
The Mayflower Compact—Cornerstones of Freedom, by Melissa Whitcraft, is about the Pilgrims' voyage to America and the colony they established (a...
This broadside - "The Negro Woman's Appeal to Her White Sisters" - was a piece of abolitionist literature intended to emotionally impact white America...
George Mason would not sign the U.S. Constitution because it did not contain a Bill of Rights. He set-forth the reasons for his objections, as...
A map of the Ohio River together with it's environs.
This book, which contains many Japanese primary-source materials, was edited by the co-authors of At Dawn We Slept (with the late Gordon Prange). ...
The Slave's Friend, a monthly publication for children between 1836-1838, was intended to help children grow-up opposed to slavery. Click on the imag...
Bookcover image of The Smoothbore Volley That Doomed the Confederacy: The Death of Stonewall Jackson and Other Chapters on the Army of Northern Virgin...
This sheet music, of the "Star-Spangled Banner," is from the nineteenth-century. The poem, by Francis Scott Key, was set to the music of a popul...
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