First Hand History of America

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This is the absolute best app for American History available including nearly 700 documents and accounts. This one-of-a-kind set includes 12 volumes of original sources spanning 9 centuries of American history. No other app gives you more firsthand accounts and documents of American history than this unique collection.

"This is pure history, without all the filters of contemporary interpretation. ...a welcome addition to the library of anyone who wants to better understand where America has come from-and where we should be now."
-Jay A. Parry, author, The Real George Washington

Includes 13 Huge Collections:

Key Founding Documents

  • Includes Magna Carta
  • Mayflower Compact
  • First Written Constitution
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Articles of Confederation
  • The Constitution of the United States

Volume 1: Discovery & Exploration of America - 1000-1542

*Includes 39 Accounts:

  • Pre-Columbian Voyages - John Fiske
  • The Men from Asia and from Norway - Justin Winsor
  • Other Pre-Columbian Voyages - Henry Wheaton
  • The Voyages of the Norsemen - From the Saga of Eric the Red
  • The Voyages to Vinland - From the Saga of Eric the Red
  • The Travels of Marco Polo - John Fiske
  • Marco Polo's Account of Japan and Java - Marco Polo
  • Prologue to the Book of Ser Marco Polo - Marco Polo
  • Early Life of Columbus - Washington Irving
  • Letters From Toscanelli Approving Columbus' Project - Paul Toscanelli
  • The Journal of Columbus - Christopher Columbus
  • Columbus in Spain - Washington Irving
  • The Discovery - Columbus - Christopher Columbus
  • The Discovery by Columbus - Washington Irving
  • The Discovery of America - Ferdinand Columbus
  • The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery - Christopher Columbus
  • Reception of Columbus in Spain - Washington Irving
  • Papal Bull Dividing the New World - Pope Alexander VI
  • The Discovery of the Mainland by the Cabots - John A. Doyle
  • Peter Martyr's Account - Peter Martyr
  • The Voyages of the Cabots - King Henry VII and Sebastian Cabot
  • John Cabot's Discovery of North America - Pasqualigo and di Soncino
  • Amerigo Vespucci's Account of His First Voyage - Amerigo Vespucci
  • Fourth and Last Voyage of Columbus - Christopher Columbus
  • The Death of Columbus - Washington Irving
  • The Naming of America - Martin Waltzee-Muller
  • Balboa Discovers the Pacific - Manuel Jose Quintana
  • The Discovery of Florida by Ponce de Leon - Parkman
  • Ponce de Leon in Florida - George Bancroft
  • The Origin of Negro Slavery in America - Sir Arthur Helps
  • The Voyage of Magellan to the Pacific - John Fiske
  • Verrazzano's Voyage - John de Verrazzano
  • Cartier's Exploration of the St. Lawrence - John A. Doyle
  • Cartier Discovers the St. Lawrence - Jacques Cartier
  • De Vaca's Journey to New Mexico - Cabeza de Vaca
  • Searches for "The Seven Cities of Cibola" - Reuben Gold Thwaites
  • Coronado's Wanderings - Francis Vasques de Coronado
  • De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi - Francis Parkman
  • Death of De Soto - Unknown

Volume 2: Colonization of America - 1562-1733

*Includes 63 Accounts:

  • The Founding of St. Augustine and the Massacre by Menendez - John A. Doyle
  • The Founding of St. Augustine - Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajalas
  • The Huguenots in Florida - Francis Parkman
  • Dominique de Gourgues - Francis Parkman
  • Drake in California - Drake's Nephew
  • A Description of Drake - Don Francisco de Zarate
  • Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia Colonies - John A. Doyle
  • The First Voyage to Roanoke - Captains Amadas and Barlowe
  • The Colony at Roanoke - Ralph Lane
  • The Birth of Virginia Dare - John White
  • Gosnald's Discovery of Cape Cod - Bartholemew Gosnold
  • Gosnold's Settlement at Cuttyhunk - Gabriel Archer
  • First Charter of Virginia - King James I
  • The Settlement of Jamestown - Captain John Smith
  • The Founding of Quebec - Samuel de Champlain
  • Champlain's Battle with the Iroquois on Lake Champlain - Samuel Champlain
  • The Discovery of the Hudson River - Robert Juet
  • Hudson's Third Voyage - John De Laet
  • The First Representative Assembly - John Twine
  • Origin of Slavery in America - John A. Doyle
  • The Voyage of the Mayflower - William Bradford
  • How the Pilgrim Fathers Lived - Edward Winslow
  • Founding of New Amsterdam - Nicholas Jean de Wassenaer
  • The Beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - Governor Thomas Dudley
  • The Settlement of Massachusetts - Edward Johnson
  • The Founding of Connecticut - Alexander Johnston
  • Lord Baltimore's Plantation in Maryland - George and Leonard Calvert
  • The Pequot Massacre at Fort Mystic - John Mason
  • Roger Williams in Rhode Island - Nathaniel Morton
  • How the Bay Colony Differed from Plymouth - John G. Palfrey
  • The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut - Unknown
  • The Body of Liberties - Nathaniel Ward
  • The Founding of Harvard College - Unknown
  • The Founding of New Sweden - Israel Acrelius
  • Arbitrary Government Described and the Government of the Massachusetts Vindicated from that Aspersion - John Winthrop
  • Witchcraft in New England - John G. Palfrey
  • The Instrument of Government - Cromwell and His Council of Officers
  • A Healing Question - Sir Henry Vane
  • The Persecution of the Quakers - James Cudworth
  • The Penalty for Not Going to Church - The County Court of Middlesex
  • John Locke and the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina - H. R. Fox Bourne
  • The English Conquest of New York - John R. Brodhead
  • Eliot's Brief Narrative - John Eliot
  • Marquette's Discovery of the Mississippi - James Marquette
  • The Outbreak of King Philip's War - William Hubbard
  • The Death of King Philip - Benjamin Church
  • Bacon's Rebellion - Unknown
  • The Death of Marquette - Claude Dablon
  • Discovery of Niagara Falls - Louis Hennepin
  • La Salle's Voyage to the Mouth of the Mississippi - Francis Parkman
  • Letter from Eliot to Hon. Robert Boyle - John Eliot
  • The Famous Charter Oak Affair - Alexander Johnston
  • Description of Pennsylvania - William Penn
  • Penn's Treaty with the Indians - William Penn
  • M. Robert Cavelier De La Salle - Father Louis Hennepin
  • Leisler's Rebellion - "A Gentleman of the City of New York"
  • Witchcraft in New England - Robert Calef
  • The Founding of William and Mary College - Unknown
  • The Settlement of Louisiana - Benard de la Harpe
  • The Colonization of Louisiana - Charles E. T. Gayarre
  • Phipps, The First of Our Self-Made Men - The Reverend Cotton Mather
  • Establishing the Colony of Georgia - General James Edward Oglethorpe
  • Oglethorpe in Georgia - Joel Chandler Harris

Volume 3: The American Revolution - 1745-1784

*Includes 85 Accounts:

  • The Two Sieges of Louisbourg - A. G. Bradley
  • Washington's Expedition to the Ohio - George Washington
  • Washington's Expedition to the Ohio and the Battle of Great Meadows - A. G. Bradley
  • Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union - Benjamin Franklin
  • The Defeat of Braddock - A. G. Bradley
  • Braddock's Defeat - George Washington
  • The Deportation of the Acadians of Nova Scotia - A. G. Bradley
  • The Deportation of the Acadians - Colonel John Winslow
  • Wolfe Defeats Montcalm at Quebec - Captain John Knox
  • In Opposition to Writs of Assistance - James Otis
  • The Stamp Act and its Repeal - William E. H. Lechy
  • Pitt's Protest Against the Stamp Act - William Pitt
  • Declaration of Rights - Delegates from Nine Colonies
  • The Repeal of the Stamp Act - Secretary Henry Seymour Conway
  • Brant to Lord Germaine - Brant
  • Benjamin Franklin's Examination Before the House of Commons - Benjamin Franklin
  • Daniel Boone Migrates to Kentucky - Daniel Boone
  • Daniel Boone's Migration to Kentucky - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Spanish Settle in California - Josiah Royce
  • An Eye-witness Describes the Boston Massacre - John Tudor
  • Indentured "White Slaves" in the Colonies - William Eddis
  • The Boston Tea Party - Thomas Hutchinson
  • The First Continental Congress - John Adams
  • Logan to Lord Dunmore - Logan
  • Patrick Henry's Call to Arms - William Wirt
  • Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill - William E. H. Lecky
  • Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech - Patrick Henry
  • Washington's Appointment as Commander-in-chief - Washington Irving
  • Washington Appointed Commander-in-chief-His Speech of Acceptance - George Washington
  • The Battle of Lexington-A Contemporary Account - Salem Gazette
  • The Battle of Concord - The Reverend William Emerson
  • Farewell to Mrs. Washington - George Washington
  • Washington at Cambridge - George Washington
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill - A Leader of the Provincial Forces
  • Paul Revere Tells of His Midnight Ride-Deposition of 1775 - Paul Revere
  • The Dramatic Capture of Ticonderoga - Ethan Allen
  • The Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence - Committee of Mecklenburg County
  • Washington's Capture of Boston - George Washington
  • The Drafting of "The Declaration of Independence" - James Parton
  • The Writing of The Declaration of Independence - Thomas Jefferson
  • Jefferson's Original Draft of The Declaration - Thomas Jefferson
  • Why Jefferson Was Chosen to Write The Declaration - John Adams
  • Franklin in France - Sir George Trevelyan
  • A Call For Independence - Thomas Paine
  • The Siege and Capture of Boston: Washington's Own Reports to the President of Congress - George Washington
  • The Battle of Long Island - A British Field-Officer
  • The Evacuation of New York - General George Clinton
  • The Battle of White Plains - General William Heath
  • Washington, Discouraged, Appeals to Congress - George Washington
  • The Battles of Trenton and Princeton - General George Washington
  • Samuel Adams on American Independence - Samuel Adams
  • The Battles of Trenton and Princeton - William E. H. Lecky
  • The Defeat of Burgoyne at Saratoga - Sir Edward Creasy
  • The Defeat and Surrender of Burgoyne - Frederika Charlotte Louise, Baroness von Riedesel
  • Lafayette Arrives in America - Marie Paul Joseph, Marquis de Lafayette
  • Lafayette in the American Revolution - Marie Paul Joseph, Marquis de Lafayette
  • Washington at Valley Forge - Doctor Albigence Waldo
  • Letters of Lafayette and Washington - Lafayette and Washington
  • France Recognizes American Independence - Benjamin Franklin
  • A Warning Against Conciliation - Patrick Henry
  • The Capture of Vincennes - George Rogers Clark
  • Wayne Surprises and Storms Stony Point - George Washington
  • The Capture of the Serapis by the Bon Homme Richard - Commodore John Paul Jones
  • Arnold's Treason - William E. H. Lecky
  • Arnold's Treason - George Washington and Nathaniel Greene
  • Andre, Facing Execution, Writes to Washington - John Andre
  • The Execution of Andre - General William Heath
  • The Last Days of the Revolution - James Madison
  • Washington's Services in the War - William E. H. Lecky
  • The Battle of Yorktown - General Charles Cornwallis
  • Washington Reports the Yorktown Surrender - George Washington
  • Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown - The U.S. and British Governments
  • Explaining the Treaty of Paris - Adams, Franklin, Jay and Laurens
  • The Meaning of American Democracy - Francois Jean, Marquis de Chastellux
  • The Cost of the War - Richard Hildreth
  • Washington Resigns His Commission to Congress - Rev. William Gordon, D.D.
  • Washington Bids His Army Farewell - George Washington
  • A New World Power - Thomas Pownall
  • Facing Bankruptcy and Mutiny - John Fiske
  • Mutinous Troops Threaten Congress - Elias Boudinot
  • The Treaty of Paris Negotiations - John Fiske
  • Treaty with Great Britain, 1783 - The U.S. and British Governments
  • The Public Land Problem - Thomas Paine
  • American Characteristics - Benjamin Franklin

Volume 4: The Federalist Period - 1785-1801

*Includes 32 Accounts:

  • England and the United States at Loggerheads - John Frederick Sackville
  • Our First Minister to England - John Adams
  • Weathering a Crisis - George Washington
  • Evils that Prompted Shays' Rebellion - General Benjamin Lincoln
  • Why the Confederation Failed to Work - James Madison
  • Framing The Constitution - James Madison
  • Benjamin Franklin on the Federal Constitution - Benjamin Franklin
  • The Northwest Ordinance - U.S. Congress Under the Articles of Confederation
  • Shall Liberty or Empire Be Sought? - Patrick Henry
  • For the Relief of Slaves - William Pinkney
  • Alexander Hamilton on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution - Alexander Hamilton
  • John Marshall on the Federal Constitution - John Marshall
  • How John Hancock Supported the Constitution - Stephen Higginson
  • Washington Becomes Our First President - William Maclay
  • How Settlements Were Planted - William Cooper
  • Why the West Would Not Secede - General Rufus Putnam
  • The Discovery of the Columbia River - Edward G. Porter
  • Hamilton's Estimate of Jefferson - Alexander Hamilton
  • Webster's Impression of Jefferson - Daniel Webster
  • The Invention of the Cotton Gin - Horace Greeley
  • Anthony Wayne Routs the Ohio Indians - Richard Hildreth
  • Treaty with the Six Nations - The U.S. Government and the Iroquois
  • Washington's Farewell Address - George Washington
  • Fisher Ames on the Treaty with Great Britain - Fisher Ames
  • The X Y Z Correspondence - Commissioners Pinckney, Marshall and Gerry
  • Washington as a Host at Mount Vernon - John Bernard
  • The Death of Washington - John Marshall
  • Funeral Oration on Washington - Major General Henry Lee
  • Jefferson's Estimate of Washington - Thomas Jefferson
  • Washington City in its Infancy - Abigail Adams
  • How Jefferson Was Elected - Senator Charles Pinckney
  • Thomas Jefferson's First Inaugural Address - Thomas Jefferson

Volume 5: Westward Expansion & The War of 1812 - 1802-1820

*Includes 52 Accounts:

  • The Importance of Louisiana to the States - Thomas Jefferson
  • How Napoleon Persisted in Selling Louisiana - Lucien Bonaparte
  • Treaty with France, 1803 - The U.S. and French Governments
  • Decatur Captures and Burns the "Philadelphia" - James Fenimore Cooper
  • Why and How Burr Killed Hamilton - Alexander Hamilton
  • The Lewis and Clark Expedition - Reuben Gold Thwaites
  • Eliphalet Nott on the Death of Hamilton - Eliphalet Nott
  • Crossing the Great Divide - Meriwether Lewis
  • The "Bird-Woman" Who Guided Lewis and Clark - Grace Raymond Hebard
  • John Randolph on the Offensive War with England - John Randolph
  • Testimony from the Trial of Aaron Burr - Jacob Allbright
  • The Chesapeake Outrage - Vice-Admiral B. C. Berkeley and Commodore James Barton
  • Fulton Writes About His First Trip to Albany - Robert Fulton
  • How Jefferson's Embargo Paralyzed Trade - Josiah Quincy
  • Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes - Tecumseh
  • American Ways of Life in 1811 - John Melish
  • The Battle of Tippecanoe - General William Henry Harrison
  • The Battle Between the Constitution and the Guerriere - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Causes of the War of 1812 - James Madison
  • The Seeds of War - John Quincy Adams
  • The Surrender of Detroit - William Hull
  • Cass Describes Hull's Ignominy - Lewis Cass
  • The "Constitution" Captures the "Guerriere" - Captain Isaac Hull
  • How the "Guerriere" was Outfought - William Orme
  • The Battle Between the Chesapeake and Shannon - Theodore Roosevelt
  • Perry's Victory on Lake Erie - Fenimore Cooper
  • Why America Had to Fight - Henry Clay
  • Capture and Destruction of the "Java" - Commodore William Bainbridge
  • The Engagement of the "Chesapeake" and the "Shannon" - George Budd
  • Perry's Own Account of the Battle of Lake Erie - Oliver Hazard Perry
  • The Battle of the Thames - Henry M. Breckenridge
  • Jackson's Defeat of the Creek Indians - James Parton
  • The Burning of Washington - Richard Hildreth
  • The Battles of Chippewa and Lundy's Lane - General Winfield Scott
  • The Burning of Washington - "Dolly" Madison
  • The Battle of Lake Champlain - James Fenimore Cooper
  • What Inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner" - Francis Scott Key
  • Jackson's Defeat of the Creeks - Andrew Jackson
  • The Battle of New Orleans - Theodore Roosevelt
  • Secession Threatened in New England - James Schouler
  • The Battle of New Orleans - Major Arsene Lacarriere Latour
  • The Treaty of Ghent, Concluding the War of 1812 - The U.S. and British Governments
  • Discussing the Terms of Peace - John Quincy Adams
  • How American Success in the War Imprest Europe - Henry Adams
  • Our First Protective Tariff - John Randolph
  • The Meaning of the Monroe Doctrine - Admiral A. T. Mahan
  • Arrangement as to the Naval Force to Be Respectively Maintained on the American Lakes - Charles Bagot
  • The Building of the Erie Canal - William H. Seward
  • The Emancipation of South America - Henry Clay
  • Defining the Powers of the Federal Government - John Marshall
  • Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland - John Marshall
  • Treaty with Spain, 1819 - The U.S. and Spanish Governments

Volume 6: Developing Nation & Texas - 1820-1847

*Includes 84 Accounts:

  • Who Reads an American Book - Sidney Smith
  • The Missouri Compromise - James G. Blaine
  • An Apprehensive View of the Missouri Compromise - Thomas Jefferson
  • A Northern View of the Missouri Compromise - John Quincy Adams
  • A Moderate View of the Missouri Compromise - Hezikiah Niles
  • How a Log Cabin was Built - Unknown
  • The First Seminole War - James Parton
  • The Monroe Doctrine - James Monroe
  • Lafayette Revisits America - Thurlow Weed
  • Lafayette's Triumphal Tour in 1824 - Thomas H. Benton
  • The Spoils System at Work - Colonel Thomas Lorraine McKenney
  • Jefferson's Estimate of Patrick Henry - Daniel Webster
  • Pushmataha to John C. Calhoun - Pushmataha
  • The Erie Canal Celebration and Other Canals - James Schouler
  • Webster's First Bunker Hill Oration - Samuel Goodrich
  • The Panama Mission - James Schouler
  • The Issue in the Revolution - Everett
  • Webster's First Bunker Hill Monument Oration - Daniel Webster
  • The Duel Between Clay and John Randolph of Roanoke - Thomas H. Benton
  • Death of Adams and Jefferson on the Same Day - Thomas H. Benton
  • Jackson's First Election as President - James Parton
  • Nullification and its Overthrow - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Turbulent Presidential Election of 1828 - Thomas H. Benton
  • The First American Locomotive - John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe
  • The Jackson-Calhoun Break - Jackson and Calhoun
  • Pioneering Against Slavery - William Lloyd Garrison
  • The Northwest Ordinance - Nathan Dane
  • The Foote Resolution - Hayne
  • Webster's Reply to Hayne - Daniel Webster
  • The Rupture Between Jackson and Calhoun - Thomas H. Benton
  • The Webster-Hayne Debate - James Schouler
  • How the Federal Union Worked to the Injury of the South - Thomas H. Benton
  • Garrison and His Liberator - Goldwin Smith
  • Three Northern Views of the Abolitionists - James G. Blaine
  • Calhoun's Views of Slavery, His Character, and His Personality - John S. Jenkins
  • The Black Hawk War - Reuben Gold Thwaites
  • The Overthrow of the United States Bank - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Discovery of the Source of the Mississippi as in Lake Itasca - Henry R. Schoolcraft
  • Beyond the Mississippi Eighty Years Ago - Washington Irving
  • An Argument Upholding Slavery - Thomas Roderic Dew
  • Improving Transportation - Frances Anne Kemble
  • Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States - Alexander Hamilton
  • The Black Hawk War - Black Hawk
  • Why the United States Bank Was Closed - Andrew Jackson
  • Slave-Breaking in the South - Frederick Douglass
  • The First Anti-Slavery Convention - John G. Whittier
  • A State's Right to Leave the Union - John C. Calhoun
  • Chicago as a Growing Village - Patrick Shirreff
  • Jacksons' Farewell Address - Andrew Jackson
  • Principles of Executive Government - Andrew Jackson
  • Clays' Attack on Jackson - Henry Clay
  • Transmitting Anti-Slavery Mail - Amos Kendall
  • The Last Seminole War - Thomas H. Benton
  • The Death of Lafayette - Sargent S. Prentiss
  • The Mobbing of Garrison in the Streets of Boston - William Lloyd Garrison
  • How Texas Became Independent - Theodore Roosevelt
  • Houston's Seizure of Texas - Horace Greeley
  • The Battle of San Jacinto - Cyrus Townsend Brady
  • The Fall of the Alam
  • - Captain R. M. Potter
  • The Crushing of the Creeks - William Schley
  • The Battle of San Jacinto - General Sam Houston
  • The Panic of 1837 - Edward M. Shepard
  • The Annexation of Texas - James Schouler
  • Why the Annexation of Texas was Opposed - William Ellery Channing, D. D.
  • Abolition Incites the Murder of Lovejoy - Horace Greeley
  • Effects of the Panic of 1837 - Captain Frederick Marryat
  • The Murder of Lovejoy - Wendell Phillips
  • The Expunging Resolution - Benton
  • The American Scholar - Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The Expunging Resolution - Calhoun
  • The "Log-Cabin and Hard Cider" Campaign - Horace Greeley
  • The Webster-Ashburton Treaty Forecasts the Fate of Texas - Unknown
  • Dickens Visits America - Charles Dickens
  • Treaty with Great Britain, 1842 - The U.S. and British Governments
  • Dorr's Rebellion in Rhode Island - C. C. Jewett
  • Emigration Into Oregon - Thomas H. Benton
  • The Invention of the Telegraph - Samuel F. B. Morse
  • Morse's First Telegraph Line - Alonzo B. Cornell
  • Howe's Invention of the Sewing Machine - Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
  • War with Mexico Declared - James G. Blaine
  • How Texas Was Annexed - Thomas H. Benton
  • The Mormon Exodus to Utah - Brigham H. Roberts
  • The Mormon Migration to Utah - William A. Linn
  • Dr. Morton's Introduction of Anesthetic Ether - Encyclopedia Britannica

Volume 7: Mexican War & Slavery - 1846-1860

*Includes 58 Accounts:

  • War Clouds Over Oregon - Thomas H. Benton
  • The Acquisition of California, Fremont's Successful Invasion - Thomas H. Benton
  • The American Alcalde at Monterey - Walter Colton
  • Reasons for the War with Mexico - James K. Polk
  • The Northwest Fur Trade - Captain William Sturgis
  • Wilmot Defends His Proviso - David Wilmot
  • A Contemporary Senatorial Opponent of the War - Thomas Corwin
  • The Capture of Chapultepec and Mexico City - General Winfield Scott
  • Grant in Mexico - Ulysses Simpson Grant
  • Why the Whole of Mexico was not Annexed - James K. Polk
  • Peter Wilson on the Empire State - Peter Wilson
  • The Discovery of Gold in California - Walter Colton
  • Treaty with Mexico, 1848 - The U.S. and Mexican Governments
  • The Discovery of Gold in California - John S. Hittell
  • The Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention - Official report printed by John Dick
  • The Clay Compromise - Henry Clay
  • The Clay Compromise - Carl Schurz
  • Webster's Seventh of March Speech - James G. Blaine
  • Jenny Lind's Arrival and First Concert in New York - New York Tribune
  • Threat of Civil War - Daniel Webster
  • The Underground Railroad - Levi Coffin
  • Fugitive Slave Act - U.S. Congress
  • The Clay Compromise - Daniel Webster
  • The South and the Public Domain - Alexander H. Stephens
  • The Clay Compromise Measures - Calhoun
  • Bryants' Welcome to Kossuth - Bryant
  • Truth's "Ain't I a Woman?" Speech - Frances Gage
  • The Opening of the Crystal Palace in New York - New York Times
  • Eulogy of Webster - Rufus Choate
  • Vicissitudes of A Forty-Niner - Alonzo Delano
  • The First Treaty with Japan - M. C. Perry
  • Defense of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill - Stephen A. Douglas
  • Civil War in Kansas - George Cary Eggleston
  • The Rise of the Republican Party - George Washington Julian
  • Commodore Perry Negotiates a Treaty with Japan - Reports and Correspondence Published by Order of Congress
  • Civil War in Kansas - Thomas H. Gladstone
  • The Crime Against Kansas - Sumner
  • Preston Brooks in Defense of His Attack on Sumner - Preston S. Brooks
  • Dred Scott Decision, 1857 - Roger Brooke Taney
  • The First Railroad to the Mississippi - William Prescott Smith
  • The First Atlantic Cable Laid, But is a Failure - Henry M. Field
  • Sewards' "Irrepressible Conflict Speech", 1858 - Seward
  • Lincoln on the First Debate with Douglas, 1858 - Abraham Lincoln
  • Stephen Douglas in the First Debate with Lincoln, 1858 - Stephen Douglas
  • The Death and Burial of Washington Irving - Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • John Brown at Harper's Ferry - Horace Greeley
  • The Capture of John Brown - Robert E. Lee
  • Brown's Trial and Execution - Horace Greeley
  • John Brown's Last Speech and Letters - John Brown
  • John Brown's Speech to the Court at His Trial - John Brown
  • The Death of John Brown - Garrison
  • The Arrival of the Great Eastern in New York Harbor - New York Herald
  • The Visit of the Prince of Wales King Edward VII - New York Herald
  • Lincoln's "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand" Speech, 1860 - Abraham Lincoln
  • How Lincoln Was Nominated - Murat Halstead
  • Threats of Secession - R. B. Rhett
  • Lincoln Making His Cabinet - Thurlow Weed
  • Yancy's Speech of Protest in the Charleston Convention - Yancy

Volume 8: The Civil War - 1861-1865

*Includes 65 Accounts:

  • Lincoln and Reconstruction - General John B. Gordon
  • Edward Baker's Reply to Breckenridge - Edward D. Baker
  • Lincoln's Inauguration - William H. Herndon
  • Secession as a Constitutional Right - Robert Toombs
  • Beauregard Reports the Fall of Fort Sumter - G. T. Beauregard
  • Grant Asks for a Commission in the Army - Ulysses S. Grant
  • The First Battle of Bull Run - Alexander H. Stephens and General Joseph E. Johnston
  • Bull Run as Seen Through Critical English Eyes - William Howard Russell
  • The Trent Affair - John Bigelow
  • Jefferson Davis' Farewell Address to the Senate - Jefferson Davis
  • Inaugural Address of Jefferson Davis - Jefferson Davis
  • Toombs on Resigning from the Senate - Toombs
  • Lincoln's Farewell Words in Springfield - Abraham Lincoln
  • The Siege and Capture of Fort Sumter - John Gray Foster
  • Lincoln and His Cabinet - Charles A. Dana
  • The Capture of Fort Donelson - Chicago Tribune
  • The Monitor and the Merrimac in Action - Charles Martin
  • The Battle of Shiloh - Benjamin Mayberry Prentiss
  • The Capture of New Orleans - David G. Farragut
  • The Peninsular Campaign - George B. McClellan
  • The Second Battle of Bull Run - Thomas Jonathan Jackson
  • Antietam - George B. McClellan
  • How the Emancipation Proclamation was Drafted - Francis C. Carpenter
  • Hooker Placed in Command of the Army of the Potomac - Abraham Lincoln
  • The Battle of Chancellorsville - Robert E. Lee
  • The Death of Stonewall Jackson - Mary Anna Jackson
  • Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg - La Salle Corbell Pickett
  • The Siege of Vicksburg - Ulysses S. Grant
  • The Battle of Chickamauga - George H. Thomas
  • Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge - George H. Thomas
  • The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 - Abraham Lincoln
  • The Battle of Gettysburg - Frank Aretas Haskell
  • Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 1863 - Abraham Lincoln
  • Proclamation of Amnesty - Abraham Lincoln
  • Lee and Grant in the Wilderness - Charles Anderson Dana
  • The Sinking of the "Alabama" - Captain Raphael Semmes
  • Sheridan's Ride from Winchester - Philip Henry Sheridan
  • Sherman's March to the Sea - General Sherman
  • Farragut in Mobile Bay - Admiral Farragut
  • Lincoln Reelected President - William H. Herndon
  • The Battle of Fredericksburg - Ambrose Everett Burnside
  • Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 1864 - Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865 - Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln's Last Words in Public - Abraham Lincoln
  • Lincoln's Presentiment on the Day of His Assassination - Charles Dickens
  • Assassination of Lincoln-Stanton's Official Announcement - Edwin Stanton
  • The Assassination of Lincoln - John George Nicolay and John Hay
  • The Death of Lincoln as Reported in the New York Tribune - New York Tribune
  • The Funeral of Lincoln - James G. Blaine
  • The Pursuit, Capture, Death and Burial of Booth - Ray Stannard Baker
  • Thomas Defeats Hood at Nashville - John Bell Hood
  • The Hampton Roads Conference - Alexander H. Stephens
  • The Evacuation and Fall of Richmond - Horace Greeley and Edward A. Pollard
  • The Last Stand of Lee's Army - John B. Gordon
  • The Surrender of Lee at Appomattox - Ulysses S. Grant
  • Davis's Flight from Richmond and Capture in Georgia - Jefferson Davis
  • The Disbanding of the Federal Army - James G. Blaine
  • Terms of Lee's Surrender at Appomattox - Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee
  • Lee's Farewell to His Army, 1865 - Robert E. Lee
  • General Grant Reviews Post-War Conditions in the South - Ulysses S. Grant
  • Robert E. Lee's Attitude After the War - Robert E. Lee
  • General Carl Schurz's Conclusion - Carl Schurz
  • Beecher's Speech in Liverpool - Beecher
  • The Kansas-Nebraska Bill, 1866 - Edward A. Pollard
  • Proclamation Declaring the Insurrection at an End - Andrew Johnson

Volume 9: America Under Reconstruction - 1865-1890

*Includes 63 Accounts:

  • A Plea for General Amnesty - Carl Schurz
  • Greenley During His Campaign for President - Greenley
  • Woman's Rights to the Suffrage - Susan B. Anthony
  • Sumner and the South - Lamar
  • Oration at Concord - Curtis
  • Speech Nominating Blaine for President - Ingersoll
  • Ingersoll at His Brother's Grave - Ingersoll
  • What Think Ye of Christ? - Moody
  • Conklings' Speech Nominating Grant for a Third Term - Conkling
  • Garfields' Speech nominating Sherman for President - James A. Garfield
  • E. Benjamin Andrews on the Evils of Reconstruction - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • Laying the First Successful Atlantic Cable - Cyrus W. Field
  • Why the United States Wanted Alaska - Charles Sumner
  • Treaty with Russia, 1867 - The U.S. and Russian Governments
  • The Purchase of Alaska (Bancroft) - Frederic Bancroft
  • The Purchase of Alaska (Blaine) - James G. Blaine
  • Hunting Buffal
  • to Feed the Railroad Builders - William F. Cody
  • The Second Visit of Dickens - Charles Dickens
  • The Threatened Impeachment of Andrew Johnson - Shelby M. Cullom
  • The Fourteenth Amendment - Thaddeus Stevens
  • Ulysses S. Grant, Eighteenth President - James Ford Rhodes
  • The First Transcontinental Railroad - John P. Davis
  • Black Friday (Medbery) - J. K. Medbery
  • Black Friday (Andrews) - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • The Alabama Claims and the Geneva Arbitration - James G. Blaine
  • The Fifteenth Amendment - Henry Wilson
  • The Ku-Klux Klan - Federal Grand Jury
  • The Great Chicago Fire - Horace White
  • The Overthrow of the Tweed Ring - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • The Greeley Campaign - James G. Blaine
  • The Geneva Award in the "Alabama" Claims - The Arbitrators
  • Carpet-Bag Government - James Shepherd Pike
  • The Panic of 1873 - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • Cuban Intervention Proposed - Hamilton Fish
  • Why Reconstruction Failed - E. Benjamin Andrews, Salmon P. Chase, John Sherman
  • Phases of Reconstruction in South Carolina - Daniel H. Chamberlain
  • The Coming of the Telephone - Thomas A. Watson
  • The Invention of the Telephone-The Share in it of Bell and Edison - Encyclopedia Brittanica
  • The Celebration of the First Centenary - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • Centennial of the Republic - Unknown
  • The Hayes-Tilden Presidential Contest - Edward Stanwood
  • Custer's Last Stand - Judson Elliott Walker
  • Edison's Electric-Light Inventions - Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
  • The Resumption of Specie Payments - Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
  • Uncle Sam Resumes Specie Payments - John Sherman
  • Edison's Electric Light Invention - Frank L. Dyar and Thomas C. Martin
  • Reasons for Being a Republican - Ulysses S. Grant
  • The Assassination of Garfield - Appleton's Annual Encyclopedia
  • The Assassination of Garfield - Theodore Clarke Smith
  • Civil Service Reform Demanded - George William Curtis
  • North American Relations to South America - James G. Blaine
  • On the Death of Garfield - James G. Blaine
  • The Blaine-Cleveland Campaign - Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Death and Funeral of General Grant - James Grant Wilson
  • The Chicago Haymarket Riot - Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Old South and the New - Grady
  • The Interstate Commerce Commission - Aldace Freeman Walker
  • The Presidential Campaign of 1888 - Edward Stanwood
  • The Johnstown Flood - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • Disputing the Samoan Islands with Germany - Harry Thurston Peck
  • The McKinley Tariff Bill - Charles Sumner Olcott
  • Behring Sea Troubles with Great Britain - Blaine, Pauncefote and Salisbury
  • Work Done For Humanity - Miss Willard

Volume 10: A New World Power - 1890-1914

*Includes 58 Accounts

  • Henry Ford and the Automobile - James Rood Doolittle
  • The Oklahoma Rush - Contemporary Accounts
  • The Panic of 1893 - Alexander D. Noyes
  • The Parting of the Ways - Bland
  • The World's Colombian Exposition - E. Benjamin Andrews
  • In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate (Reed) - Reed
  • In Closing the Wilson Tariff Bill Debate (Crisp) - Crisp
  • The First Bryan Campaign - William Jennings Bryan
  • The Debs Railway Strike - Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Wilson Tariff Enacted - Harry Thurston Peck
  • On "The Crime of 1873" - Sherman
  • The First Bryan Campaign - Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Venezuela Affair - Richard Olney
  • In Defense of Silver - William Jennings Bryan
  • On Municipal and Governmental Ownership - Altgeld
  • McKinley in the White House - Charles S. Olcott
  • The Annexation of Hawaii - Sherman, Hatch, Thurton, and Kinney
  • The Annexation of Hawaii (Carpenter) - Edmund J. Carpenter
  • Treaty with Spain, 1898 - The U.S. and Spanish Governments
  • The Destruction of the "Maine" in Havana Harbor - Contemporary Press Account
  • Recognition of the Independence of Cuba - U.S. Congress
  • Outbreak of the War with Spain - Contemporary Account
  • The Battle of Manila Bay - George Dewey
  • The Battle of San Juan Hill - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Capture of Santiago and Defeat of Cervera - Andrew S. Draper
  • The Discovery of Gold in Alaska - Dr. L. H. French
  • The "Open Door" in China, 1899 - John Hay
  • Ultimatum in the Negotiation of Peace - William Rufus Day
  • The Boxer Rebellion in China - Account of an Eye-Witness
  • The Capture and Occupation of Pekin - Adna R. Chaffee
  • The Gold-Standard Act - Lyman J. Gage
  • Civil Government in Cuba - Leonard Wood
  • Cleveland's Eulogy of McKinley - Grover Cleveland
  • McKinley's Last Speech - William McKinley
  • The Assassination of McKinley - Richard Batty
  • The Assassination of Mckinley - Harry Thurston Peck
  • The Capture of Aguinaldo - Brigadier-General Frederick Funston
  • Roosevelt Succeeds McKinley - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 - The U.S. and British Governments
  • Subjugation of the Philippines Inquitous - Hoar
  • The First Airplane to Fly Successfully - Orville and Wilbur Wright
  • Hay's Tribute to McKinley - Hay
  • Convention Between the United States and the Republic of Panama - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Discovery of Surgical Anesthesia - William T. G. Morton and Crawford H. Long
  • On American Motherhood - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco - Henry James Forman
  • The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - New York "Sun"
  • The Panic of 1907 - Alexander D. Noyes
  • The Human Side of Panama Canal Building - George W. Goethals
  • The Purchase of the Panama Canal - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Building of the Panama Canal - Encyclopedia Britannica
  • Peary Discovers the North Pole - Robert E. Peary
  • The Rise and Growth of the Salvation Army - William H. Cox
  • Mrs. Eddy and Christian Science - Lewis C. Strang
  • The Northern Securities and Standard Oil Decisions - Alexander D. Noyes
  • Wilson Nominated for the Presidency - Joseph P. Tumulty
  • A Banking Act to End Panics - Robert L. Owen
  • Wilson Anticipates a Clash with Mexico - Woodrow Wilson

Volume 11: The First World War - 1914-1916

*Includes 48 Accounts:

  • Autograph Letter of Franz Joseph to the Kaiser - Franz Joseph
  • The Willy-Nicky Telegrams - Exchanged Between the Kaiser and the Czar and Others
  • German Dispatches and the Kaiser's Notes - William II
  • The Grand Fleet Goes to Sea - Winston Churchill
  • The Kaiser's Version - William II of Germany
  • German Admission of Responsibility - Prince Lichnowsky
  • Delivery of the German Ultimatum to Belgium - Alfred de Bassompierre
  • The German Ultimatum and the Belgian Reply - The German and Belgian Governments
  • The Cruise and Destruction of the "Emden" - Hellmuth von Mucke
  • The "Scrap of Paper" - Sir Edward Goschen
  • A German Defense of Belgium - William Muehlon
  • Clemenceau Calls France to Arms - Georges Benjamin Eugene Clemenceau
  • England on the Brink of War - Sir Edward Grey
  • King Albert Goes to Parliament - Brand Whitlock
  • King Albert's Speech to Parliament - King Albert
  • The Fall of Liege - General Leman
  • Japan Joins the Allies - The Japanese Government
  • The Germans Enter Brussels - Richard Harding Davis
  • Mons-The First British Battle - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Burning of Louvain - Richard Harding Davis
  • Sea Fighting Off Heligoland - Sir David Beatty
  • From the Frontiers to the Marne - Joseph Joffre
  • The Abandonment of Paris - Official Proclamations
  • How the "Taxicab Army" Saved Paris - General Clergerie
  • Where Von Kluck Failed - Louis Madelin
  • General Joffre's Proclamation to Maunoury's Army - General Clergerie
  • The Marne - Louis Madelin
  • Trench Warfare Begins on the Aisne - Edward D. Swinton
  • The First Submarine Blow is Struck - Otto Weddigen
  • Antwerp Capitulates - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The First Battle of Ypres - John Buchan
  • The Sea Fight Off Coronel, Chile - Graf von Spee
  • The Battle of the Falklands - F. C. Sturdee
  • Roosevelt Anxiously Warns England - Theodore Roosevelt
  • The Battle of Dogger Bank - Described by two British Man-of-War's Men and a German Survivor
  • "Strict Accountability" - Woodrow Wilson
  • The Capture of Przemysl - Bernard Pares
  • The Battle of Neuve Chapelle - Count Charles de Souza
  • The "Lusitania" Sinking - Accounts by an American Survivor and the German U-Boat Commander
  • Russians Hurled Back on the Dunajec - Bernard Pares
  • Italy Joins the Allies - Antonio Salandra
  • President Wilson Protests to Germany - Woodrow Wilson
  • Britain Fails at Gallipoli - Lord Kitchener
  • The Execution of Edith Cavell - Rev. H. Stirling Gahan
  • War with Mexico is Threatened - Robert Lansing
  • "They Shall Not Pass" at Verdun - Lord Northcliffe
  • American Intervention Proposed in 1916 - Sir Edward Grey
  • The Battle of Jutland - Sir David Beatty

Volume 12: America War and Peace - 1916-1925

*Includes 43 Accounts:

  • The Zimmermann Telegram, 1917 - From the German Foreign Secretary to the German Minister in Mexico
  • America Declares War on Germany, 1917 - Woodrow Wilson
  • Text of the Declaration of War - Joint Resolution Passed by the United States Senate and House of Representatives
  • Britain Welcomes America into the War - David Lloyd George
  • Compulsory Military Service - Woodrow Wilson
  • Conscription is Approved - Samuel Gompers
  • Moving Our Troops Overseas - Albert Gleaves
  • "On the Brink of the Precipice" - Walter H. Page
  • America Mobilizes - John Pershing
  • The American's Creed - Accepted by House of Representatives, April 3, 1918
  • President Wilson's "Fourteen Points", 1918 - Woodrow Wilson
  • The "Big Berthas" Bombard Paris - Contemporary Press Report and That of General Rohne
  • Foch Given the Supreme Command - John J. Pershing
  • Britain's Back to the Wall - Sir Douglas Haig
  • The Liberty Loan Army - Guy Emerson
  • American Troops Take Cantigny - John J. Pershing
  • The Loss of the "President Lincoln" - G. C. Whimsett
  • Airplane Duels - Edward Vernon (Eddie) Rickenbacker
  • Holding the Germans at Chateau-Thierry - British Press Report and a French Tribute
  • The Last German Attack is Halted - John J. Pershing
  • Foch Launches His Great Counterattack - Shipley Thomas
  • The First American Army in Attack - John J. Pershing
  • Breaking the Hindenburg Line - United States Government Statement
  • A Close-Up of the Great Argonne Battle - Robert Lee Bullard
  • The Last A.E.F. Drive to Sedan - Sir Frederick Maurice
  • The War in the Air - Shipley Thomas
  • How the Armistice was Negotiated and Signed - Marshals von Hindenburg and Foch, and Eye-Witnesses
  • The Kaiser Abdicates and Apologizes in Exile - William II, of Germany
  • The Terms of the Armistice - Official Text Translation
  • The Allies in the Rhineland - Gregory Mason
  • President Wilson Acclaims the Armistice - Woodrow Wilson
  • Wrecking the German Navy Under the Armistice - Charles G. Gill
  • Clemenceau Accepts the Presidency of the Peace Conference - Georges Clemenceau
  • Signing the Treaty of Versailles - Harry Hansen
  • The Treaty Reservations Which Failed - U.S. Congress
  • The Knox Peace Resolution - U.S. Congress
  • President Wilson's Veto of the Knox Resolution - Woodrow Wilson
  • The Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armament - Warren G. Harding
  • Calvin Coolidge, Thirtieth President of the United States - New York Times
  • "Back to Normalcy" with President Harding - Charles E. Hughes
  • The First World Flight - Lowell H. Smith
  • The Dawes Plan to Collect from Germany - A Contemporary Analysis from "Current Opinion"
  • The Peace Treaty at Locarn - Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain and Italy

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