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Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

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The Journal of a Grandfather

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Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Works of Fisher Ames With a Selection From His Speeches and Correspondence — Anonymous

Works of Fisher Ames With a Selection From His Speeches and Correspondence

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Robert E. Lee Centennial Celebration of His Birth — Henry Edward Young Of South Carolina

Robert E. Lee Centennial Celebration of His Birth

Henry Edward Young Of South Carolina

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of the Civil War in America — James Longstreet

From Manassas to Appomattox Memoirs of the Civil War in America

James Longstreet

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs — Luis Elizondo

Imminent: Inside the Pentagon’s Hunt for UFOs

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Lafayette in America in 1824 And 1825 Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States; Volume 2 — Auguste Levasseur

Lafayette in America in 1824 And 1825 Or, Journal of a Voyage to the United States; Volume 2

Auguste Levasseur

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Behind the Scenes — Elizabeth Keckley

Behind the Scenes

Elizabeth Keckley

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C. S. A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War — C. T. Quintard

Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C. S. A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee Being His Story of the War

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 2/2 Large Print Edition — Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Volume 2/2 Large Print Edition

Ulysses S. Grant

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Orators of the American Revolution — Elias Lyman Magoon

Orators of the American Revolution

Elias Lyman Magoon

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Life and Times of David Humphreys Soldier–Statesman–Poet, “Belov’d of Washington,”; Volume 1 — Frank Landon Humphreys

Life and Times of David Humphreys Soldier–Statesman–Poet, “Belov’d of Washington,”; Volume 1

Frank Landon Humphreys

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln From Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C — Pinkerton Allan

History and Evidence of the Passage of Abraham Lincoln From Harrisburg, Pa., to Washington, D.C

Pinkerton Allan

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs Of The American Revolution V2: So Far As It Related To The States Of North And South Carolina And Georgia (1802) — William Moultrie

Memoirs Of The American Revolution V2: So Far As It Related To The States Of North And South Carolina And Georgia (1802)

William Moultrie

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

America First Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War — H. W. Brands

America First Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Citizen Reporters S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America — Stephanie Gorton

Citizen Reporters S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America

Stephanie Gorton

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

McNamara at War A New History — Philip Taubman

McNamara at War A New History

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln; Volume 2 — Richard Watson Gilder

Complete Works of Abraham Lincoln; Volume 2

Richard Watson Gilder

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Biography of Revolutionary Heroes Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton — Catherine Read Williams

Biography of Revolutionary Heroes Containing the Life of Brigadier Gen. William Barton

Catherine Read Williams

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Ghost Soldiers The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission — Hampton Sides

Ghost Soldiers The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War — Erik Larson

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

Medgar and Myrlie Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America — Joy-Ann Reid

Medgar and Myrlie Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

The Autobiography of Joshua Chamberlain The Major Writings — Joshua Chamberlain

The Autobiography of Joshua Chamberlain The Major Writings

Joshua Chamberlain

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

The War Correspondents The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler’s Germany — Keith Warren Lloyd

The War Correspondents The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler’s Germany

Keith Warren Lloyd

Themes: Leaders & Notable People • Americas • Biographies & Memoirs

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