Our Country1877
Lossing's fireside history of the United States, in three volumes.
The Books, Shelf by Shelf
37 books in this collection — 12 here now, another 25 coming soon — shelved the way a good bookshop would do it. The book's cover is the door; you are invited to walk in anywhere.
The American Story (8 books)·Lives & Names (5 books)·Wars & the Sea (4 books)·Heraldry & Rank (4 books)·Houses & Landmarks (10 books)·The Old World (3 books)·Society & Style (3 books)
The American Story
The Republic told whole, from settlement to the parlor shelf.
The Great Republic1902
American history in half-hour readings by the master historians.
The American's Own Book1855
The Declaration, the Constitution and every signer's life.
America First1916
Patriotic readings from the eve of the Great War.
Library of American History
Nine volumes of the American story, told at length.
Adams Map of History
All of recorded history on one synchronological chart.
American Government
How the machinery of American government actually works.
The Historie Booke
An antiquarian pageant of colonial days, done in ye olde style.
Lives & Names
Who people were, and what their names meant.
Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography1898
Twenty-three thousand American lives, a paragraph apiece.
The Mirrors of Washington1921
Fourteen anonymous, razor-edged portraits of 1921 Washington.
Names: and Their Meaning1891
What every name actually means, unpacked for the curious.
Negro Builders and Heroes
Black Americans who built, fought and led.
Lower's Essays on English Surnames1845
Where English family names come from, essay by essay.
Wars & the Sea
Battles, navies and the ships that carried them.
The Story of Cuba1896
Cuba on the eve of the war that made it American.
The Book of Old Ships1924
Sixty ships across four thousand years, drawn to be loved.
The Naval History of the United States1896
The American navy's battles, from the Revolution forward.
World's War Events
The Great War chronicled as it happened.
Heraldry & Rank
Shields, blazons and the medieval alphabet of rank.
Dame Heraldry1886
Heraldry taught as a parlor amusement.
Grammar of Heraldry
The rules of blazon, taught from first principles.
Coats of Arms of Glocester
A county's shields and the families who bore them.
Page, Esquire and Knight
The making of a knight, from page to spurs.
Houses & Landmarks
The American house, from plan book to shrine.
Historic Shrines of America1918
A pilgrimage to 120 landmarks where the Republic's story happened.
Beautiful Houses
A tour of notably beautiful houses and their rooms.
Radford American Homes
A catalogue of American house plans, ready to build.
The Book of Little Houses
Small houses with big ideas, planned and priced.
The Colonial House
The American colonial house, inside and out.
The Grammar of House Planning and Conveniences
How to plan a house that actually works.
Villages and Country Residences and How to Build Them
Country houses and whole villages, planned on paper.
Woodward's National Architect1869
Working drawings for the American house of 1869.
Specimen Book of One Hundred Architectural Designs
One hundred house designs, ready for the builder.
Georgetown Texas Illustrated
A Texas county seat shows itself off, in pictures.
The Old World
Abroad, ancient and modern.
The Baedeker Guides
The little red books that taught the world to travel.
Paris and Its Historical Scenes
Paris, scene by scene, through its great upheavals.
Rameses the Great
The pharaoh of pharaohs, for the general reader.
Society & Style
How people dressed, paid and organized.
Dress Design1912
How clothes were cut and built, century by century.
Modern Social Movements
The movements remaking society, surveyed as news.
Money Currency and Precious Metals
Money itself — coin, paper and the metals behind them.