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The Land We Live In, The Story of our Country
by Henry Mann
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Stories of Later American History
by Wilbur F. Gordy
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Designed for 5th Grade, but appropriate for 4th through 6th — MM
The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
by Various
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A True Relation
by Captain John Smith
American Journeys
Famous Indian Chiefs I have Known
by Oliver Otis Howard
Baldwin Project
Stories of the Pilgrims
by Margaret B. Pumphrey
Baldwin Project
The Nation in a Nutshell
by George Makepeace Towle
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
by Annie Russell Marble
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The Mayflower and Her Log;
July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete
by Azel Ames
True Stories of History and Biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Bird-Woman of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by Katherine Chandler
For young readers, 1st to 2nd grade
Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans
by Edward Eggleston
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2nd to 4th grade reading level
Stories of American Life and Adventure
by Edward Eggleston
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2nd to 4th grade reading level
A First Book in American History
by Edward Eggleston
19th Century School Books
2nd to 4th Grade reading level
The Beginner’s American History
by D. H. Montgomery
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American Men of Action
by Burton E. Stevenson
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Young Peoples’ History of the War with Spain
by Prescott Holmes
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The Men Who Found America
by Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson
Baldwin Project
4th to 5th grade reading level but appropriate to be read to younger students
This Country of Ours
by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
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4th to 6th grade reading level, but appropriate to be read to younger students
Woman on the American Frontier
by William Worthington Fowler
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5th to 6th grade reading level — good to read with the “Little House” books. Some of the stories are a bit frightening, use with adult discretion especially with a sensitive child. Highly Recommended!
Hero Tales from American History
by Henry Cabot Lodge and Theodore Roosevelt
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The Pilgrims of New England
by Mrs. J. B. Webb
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Woman’s Life in Colonial Days
by Carl Holliday
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American History Stories
Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Volume 3 | Volume 4
by Mara L. Pratt
Balwin Project
5th to 7th grade reading level
The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776
The Yankee Tea-party; Or, Boston in 1773
by Henry C. Watson
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5th to 7th grade reading level
Introductory American History
by Elbert Jay Benton and Henry Eldridge Bourne
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6th to 8th grade reading level
History of the United States
by Charles A. Beard and Mary Ritter Beard
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9th to 11th grade reading level
A Short History of the United States
by Edward Channing
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The Underground Railroad
by William Still
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Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete
by U. S. Grant
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6th to 8th grade reading level but more interesting to older grades
The Story of the Pony Express
by Glenn D. Bradley
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6th to 9th grade reading level
The Oregon Trail
by Francis Parkman
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7th grade reading level
A School History of the United States
by John Bach McMaster
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7th to 10th grade reading level
Pathfinders of the West
Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark
by Agnes C. Laut
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First Across the Continent: The Story of Lewis & Clark
by Noah Brooks
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9th grade reading level
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
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My Native Land
by James Cox
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Great Britain and the American Civil War
by Ephraim Douglass Adams
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Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
by Logan Marshall
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The Loss of the S. S. Titanic
by Lawrence Beesley
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A Brief History of the United States
by John Bach McMaster
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Great Epochs in American History
Volume 1 | Volume 2
edited by Francis W. Hasley
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The Anti-Slavery Alphabet
by Anonymous
interesting extra for the study of abolitionists
Sabbath in Puritan New England
by Alice Morse Earle
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England in America, 1580-1652
by Lyon Gardiner Tyler
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
by Elinore Pruitt Stewart
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Charming, amusing, easy to read and interesting
5th or 6th grade and up
What Prohibition Has Done to America
by Fabian Franklin
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A School History of the Great War
by Coulomb and Gerson and McKinley
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The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire
by Charles Morris
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Complete Chronicles of America Series: 9th to 12th grade reading level
The Red Man’s Continent
Ellsworth Huntington
Volume 1
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The Spanish Conquerors
by Richman
Volume 2
Google Books
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
by William Charles Henry Wood
Volume 3
Crusaders of New France
by William Bennett Munro
Volume 4
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Pioneers of the Old South
by Mary Johnston
Volume 5
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The Fathers of New England
by Andrews
Volume 6
Google Books
Dutch and English on the Hudson
by Maud Wilder Goodwin
Volume 7
Kellscraft
The Quaker Colonies
by Sydney George Fisher
Volume 8
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Colonial Folkways
by Charles M. Andrews
Volume 9
Internet Archive
The Conquest of New France
by George McKinnen Wrong
Volume 10
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The Eve of the Revolution
by Becker
Volume 11
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Washington and His Comrades in Arms
by George McKinnen Wrong
Volume 12
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The Fathers of the Constitution
by Max Farrand
Volume 13
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Washington and His Colleagues
by Henry Jones Ford
Volume 14
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Jefferson and His Colleagues
by Allen Johnson
Volume 15
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John Marshall And The Supreme Court
by Edward S. Corwin
Volume 16
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The Fight for a Free Sea
by Ralph D. Paine
Volume 17
Pioneers of the Old Southwest
by Lindsay Constance Skinner
Volume 18
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The Old Northwest
by Frederic Austin Ogg
Volume 19
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The Reign of Andrew Jackson
by Frederic Austin Ogg
Volume 20
The Paths of Inland Commerce
by Archer Butler Hulbert
Volume 21
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Adventurers of Oregon
by Constance L. Skinner
Volume 22
Internet Archive
The Spanish Borderlands
by Herbert E. Bolton
Volume 23
Google Books
Texas & the Mexican War
by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Volume 24
The Forty-Niners
by Stewart Edward White
Volume 25
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The Passing of the Frontier
by Emerson Hough
Volume 26
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The Cotton Kingdom
by William E. Dodd
Volume 27
Internet Archive
An Anti-Slavery Crusade
by Jesse Macy
Volume 28
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Abraham Lincoln and the Union
by Nathaniel W. Stephenson
Volume 29
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The Day of the Confederacy
by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Volume 30
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Captains of the Civil War
by William Charles Henry Wood
Volume 31
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The Sequel of Appomattox
by Walter Lynwood Fleming
Volume 32
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The American Spirit in Education
by Edwin E. Slosson
Volume 33
The American Spirit in Literature
by Bliss Perry
Volume 34
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Our Foreigners
by Samuel P. Orth
Volume 35
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The Old Merchant Marine
Paine, Ralph Delahaye
Volume 36
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The Age of Invention
by Holland Thompson
Volume 37
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The Railroad Builders
by John Moody
Volume 38
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The Age of Big Business
by Jesse Burton Hendrick
Volume 39
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The Armies of Labor
by Samuel Peter Orth
Volume 40
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Captains of the Civil War
by William Wood
Volume 41
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The New South
by Holland Thompson
Volume 42
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The Boss and the Machine
Samuel Peter Orth
Volume 43
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The Cleveland Era
by Henry Jones Ford
Voume 44
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The Agrarian Crusade
by Solon J. Buck
Volume 45
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The Path of Empire
by Carl Russel Fish
Volume 46
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Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
by Harold Howland
Volume 47
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Woodrow Wilson And The World War
Charles Seymour
Volume 48
Google Book
The Canadian Dominion
by Oscar D. Skelton
Volume 49
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The Hispanic Nations of the New World
by William R. Shepherd
Volume 50
Historical Texts Archive