Published: 1904

The first volume in a five volume set.

Author: John Marshall

Published: 1926

In his will George Washington bequeathed to his favorite nephew, Bushrod Washington, his personal letters, private papers and secret documents accumulated during a lifetime of service to his country. When the bequest became known, many of the literary men of the country were proposed for the commission to write the authorized life of our First President. Bushrod Washington's choice fell upon John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. To him he handed over all the precious papers left him by his distinguished relative. George Washington and Marshall's father, Thomas Marshall, were boyhood companions, so John Marshall knew "the Father of His Country" as a neighbor and friend from his earliest youth, and served under him in the Revolution.

Author: Washington Irving

Published: 1875

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Author: John Lord

Published: 1902

Author: John Lord

Published: 1902

Published: 1915

In the following volumes the authors seek to present a brief account of the beginnings, development, and final unity of the people of the United States.

Author: William M. Thayer

Published: 1889

Author: Catherine H. Birney

Published: 1885

Published: 1921

Author: Julian Hawthorne

Published: 1898

Published: 1919

I have taken advantage of a very brief respite from other, and in my judgment more valuable, employment, to produce this short sketch of the story of a great people, now our Ally. My motive has been mainly that I do not think that any such sketch, concentrated enough to be readable by the average layman who has other things to do (especially in these days) than to study more elaborate and authoritative histories, at present exists, and I have thought that in writing it I might perhaps be discharging some little part of the heavy debt of gratitude which I owe to America for the hospitality I received from her when I visited her shores during the early months of the War.

Author: E. Benjamin Andrews

Published: 1894

Author: Susan Brownell Anthony

Published: 1881

Published: 1898

Author: Paul Leicester Ford

Published: 1901

Romance of Revolutionary times giving a realistic picture of life in both armies. Lee, Howe and Washington are portrayed.

Author: John T. Morse

Published: 1882

Published: 1871

The following pages contain a fragment of the Journal of a young lady of Virginia of the last century. It seems to have been written by her while on a visit to her relatives, the Lees, Washingtons, and other families of Lower Virginia, mentioned in her Journal.

Author: Benjamin Waterhouse

Published: 1816

Published: 1916

Published: 1837

Author: Anonymous

Published: 1909

Edited by J.F. Jameson

Original narratives of early American history--Series

Author: Mrs. J. B. Webb

In the following story, an attempt has been made to illustrate the manners and habits of the earliest Puritan settlers in New England, and the trials and difficulties to which they were subjected during the first years of their residence in their adopted country. All the principal incidents that are woven into the narrative are strictly historical, and are derived from authentic sources, which give an impartial picture both of the virtues and the failings of these remarkable emigrants.

Author: Edgar F. Smith

Published: 1920

The writer, in studying the lives of early American chemists, encountered the name of Joseph Priestley so frequently, that he concluded to institute a search with the view of learning as much as possible of the life and activities, during his exile in this country, of the man whom chemists everywhere deeply revere.

Published: 1860

Author: Henry M. Brooks

Published: 1886

Published: 1916

If this little volume gives to the children of Connecticut a truer appreciation of the early history of the state in which they live, its purpose will have been achieved. A knowledge of Connecticut's history, its men and the work they have accomplished, should arouse the devotion and loyalty of every Connecticut boy and girl to the state and its welfare; and that it shall do so is the hope of those by whom this work has been projected and under whose auspices it has been published.
I. THE HOUSE OF HOPE AND THE CHARTER OAK
II. TWO INDIAN WARRIORS
III. A HARBOR FOR SHIPS
IV. THREE JUDGES
V. THE FORT ON THE RIVER
VI. THE FROGS OF WINDHAM
VII. OLD WOLF PUTNAM
VIII. THE BULLET-MAKERS OF LITCHFIELD
IX. NEWGATE PRISON
X. THE DARK DAY
XI. A FRENCH CAMP IN CONNECTICUT
XII. NATHAN HALE

Published: 1909

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Author: Harold Howland

This Book was Donated to Project Gutenberg by the James J. Kelly Library of St. Gregory's University.

Author: Agnes E. Ryan

Author: W.H.G. Kingston

Published: 1870

Author: G.A. Henty

Published: 1884

"Does justice to the pluck and determination of the British soldiers. The son of an American loyalist, who remains true to our flag, falls among the hostile redskins in that very Huron country which has been endeared to us by the exploits of Hawkeye and Chingachgook."--The Times.

Author: William Still

Published: 1872

Published: 1914

The purpose of this volume is to show how social, economic, and political causes led to a period of almost continuous antagonism between England and the American communities from 1763 to the ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815, and how that antagonism was ended.

Author: Henry Jones Ford

Published: 1918

Published: 1920

The author is aware of a certain audacity in undertaking, himself a Briton, to appear in a company of American writers on American history and above all to write on the subject of Washington. If excuse is needed it is to be found in the special interest of the career of Washington to a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations at the present time and in the urgency with which the editor and publishers declared that such an interpretation would not be unwelcome to Americans and pressed upon the author a task for which he doubted his own qualifications.

Author: William Worthington Fowler

The movement which has carried our people from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and in the short space of two centuries and a half has founded the greatest republic which the world ever saw, has already taken its place in history as one of the grandest achievements of humanity since the world began. It is a moral as well as a physical triumph, and forms an epoch in the advance of civilization. In this grand achievement, in this triumph of physical and moral endurance, woman must be allowed her share of the honor.

Published: 1922

Author: Susan Brownell Anthony

Published: 1886

We present here the story of the famous Revolutionary hero and martyr, Nathan Hale.

Published: 1916

Franklin told the story of his life, as he himself says, for the benefit of his posterity. He wanted to help them by the relation of his own rise from obscurity and poverty to eminence and wealth. He is not unmindful of the importance of his public services and their recognition, yet his accounts of these achievements are given only as a part of the story, and the vanity displayed is incidental and in keeping with the honesty of the recital. There is nothing of the impossible in the method and practice of Franklin as he sets them forth. The youth who reads the fascinating story is astonished to find that Franklin in his early years struggled with the same everyday passions and difficulties that he himself experiences, and he loses the sense of discouragement that comes from a realization of his own shortcomings and inability to attain. Edited by Frank Woodworth Pine.

Published: 1870

Published: 1895

It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history.

Author: Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison

Author: James M. Beck

Published: 1922

Author: Max Farrand

Published: 1921

Author: J. Allen Smith

Published: 1907

Published: 1787

Author: John T. Morse, Jr.

Published: 1898

Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Published: 1944

Published: 1933

Published: 1863

Published: 1775

Published: 2009

Published: 2009

Author: Abraham Lincoln

Published: 1910

Published: 1849

An argument that people should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice. (Original title: Resistance to Civil Government)

Published: 1839

Author: Thomas Paine

Published: 1779

Those who suppose that Paine did but reproduce the principles of Rousseau and Locke will find by careful study of his well-weighed language that such is not the case. Paine's political principles were evolved out of his early Quakerism. Reprinted from the "The Writings of Thomas Paine Volume I" (1894 - 1896).

Published: 1865

Author: John G. Nicolay

Published: 1902

Author: John Adams

Published: 1800

Author: John Quincy Adams

Published: 1828

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Published: 1808

Author: George Washington

Published: 1791

The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States Passed by Congress September 25, 1789 and Ratified December 15, 1791

Author: Thomas Jefferson

Published: 1903

Author: Anna Green Winslow

Published: 1894

In the year 1770, a bright little girl ten years of age, Anna Green Winslow, was sent from her far away home in Nova Scotia to Boston, the birthplace of her parents, to be "finished" at Boston schools by Boston teachers. She wrote, with evident eagerness and loving care, for the edification of her parents and her own practice in penmanship, this interesting and quaint diary, which forms a most sprightly record, not only of the life of a young girl at that time, but of the prim and narrow round of daily occurrences in provincial Boston.

Published: 1910

Author: William M. Thayer

Published: 1890

Published: 1845

The life of a gifted negro who became a famous anti-slavery orator.

Published: 1900

Published: 1887

Published: 1911

Published: 1912

At 8:10 o'clock on the night of Oct. 14, 1912, a shot was fired the echo of which swept around the entire world in thirty minutes. An insane man attempted to end the life of the only living ex-president of the United States and the best known American.

Author: John S.C. Abbott

Published: 1876

American Pioneers and Patriots Series.

Author: Elmore Barce

Published: 1922

A book of this nature will appeal to those who are interested in a readable, historically accurate account of the early struggles for supremacy in the Old Northwest from the end of the Revolution to the Battle of Tippecanoe. The author is a historian writing in an attractive style and securing his material from a wide variety of sources. The greater part of the book is based on the letters written to the war department by Gov. Wm H. Harrison. References are also made to a bibliography of practically one hundred volumes.

Author: Harry F. Giles

Published: 1915

Author: Gay Montague Moore

Published: 1949

In Alexandria Washington took command of his first troops. From the steps of Gadsby's Tavern he received his last military review, a display of his neighbors' martial spirit in a salute from the town's militia. An Alexandrian closed his eyes, and Alexandrians carried his pall. Washington belongs to Alexandria as Alexandria belongs to him. This is George Washington's Alexandria.

Published: 1957

Published: 1843

Author: Samuel Adams Drake

Published: 1889

Published: 1895

Author: Arthur G. Doughty

The following is a brief sketch of the life of one who, though perhaps more widely known as the Proprietor and Founder of Pennsylvania, was also eminent as a minister of the gospel in the Society of Friends, and distinguished for his superior intellectual abilities, his varied culture, and, above all, for his devoted Christian character, exemplified both in adversity and prosperity. It is taken principally from a work entitled "Friends in the Seventeenth Century."