The American's Own Book 1855
The parlor-shelf republic: the Declaration, the Constitution, all fifty-six signers’ lives, and every inaugural from Washington to Pierce.
Now telling
Our Country 1877
Benson Lossing's fireside history of the United States — written for the parlor table, illustrated within an inch of its life.
Dame Heraldry 1886
Heraldry taught as a parlor amusement — shields, blazons and the whole medieval alphabet of rank, made friendly.
Names: and Their Meaning 1891
What every name actually means — places, people, nicknames and trades, unpacked for the curious by a tireless Victorian etymologist.
The Story of Cuba 1896
Cuba on the eve of the war that made it American — written while the outcome was still unknown.
Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography 1898
Twenty-three thousand nineteenth-century American lives in a paragraph apiece — the famous shelved beside the merely local.
The Great Republic 1902
American history sliced into half-hour readings by 'the master historians' — the 1902 view of how the Republic got made.
Dress Design 1912
How clothes were actually cut and built, century by century — written for artists and dressmakers who had to reproduce them.
America First 1916
Patriotic readings assembled on the eve of America's entry into the Great War — history as a call to duty.
Historic Shrines of America 1918
A pilgrimage to 120 American landmarks — the houses, churches and taverns where the Republic's story happened, as they stood in 1918.
The Mirrors of Washington 1921
Fourteen anonymous, razor-edged portraits of Harding-era Washington — the 1921 sensation that had the capital guessing its author for a season.
The Book of Old Ships 1924
Henry B. Culver’s gallery of sixty ships across four thousand years — every galley, galleon, xebec and clipper with its original pen-and-ink plate.
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Adams Map of History
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American Gov't
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Baedeker guides · 10 vols
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Beautiful Houses
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Coats of Arms - Glocester
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Georgetown Texas Illustrated
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Grammar of Heraldry
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Library of American History · 9 vols
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Lower's Essays on English Surnames1845 · 2 vols
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Modern Social Movements
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Money Currency and Precious Metals
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Negro Builders And Heroes
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Page, Esquire and Knight
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Paris and Its Historical Scenes · 2 vols
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Radford American Homes
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Rameses the Great
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Specimen Book of One Hundred Architectural Designs
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The Book of Little Houses
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The Colonial House
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The Grammar of House Planning and Conveniences
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The Historie Booke
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The Naval History of the United States1896
The Naval History of the United States1896Coming soon
Villages and Country Residences and How to Build Them
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Woodward's National Architect1869
Woodward's National Architect1869Coming soon
World's War Events
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