Fiction:

• Timothy Shay Arthur, Ten Nights in a Barroom and What I Saw There
• Robert Montgomery Bird, Nick of the Woods.
• William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy
• Lydia Maria Child, Hobomok
• Edward Zane Carroll, (Ned Buntline)The Black Avenger of the Spanish Main and Buffalo Bill, King of the Border Men
Winston Churchill, Richard Carvell, The Crisis, and The Crossing
• Hector st. Jean de Crevecoeur, Sketch of Eighteenth Century Life *
• Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of his Countrymen
• Edward Ellis, Seth Jones: Captives of the Frontier
• Augusta Jane Evans, St. Elmo
• Fany Fern, Leanes from Fanny Fern's Portfolio
• John Fox, jr., Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come and Trail of the Lnesome Pine
• Anna Katherine Greene, The Leavenworth Case
• Archibald Clavering Gunton, Mr. Barnes in New York
• George Washington Harris, Sut Lovingood: Yarns spun by a nat'ral born durn'd fool
• John Hay, Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces
• W.D. Howells, A Traveller from Altruria
• E.Z.C. Judson (Ned Buntline) The Curse
• Joseph Holt Ingrahm, The Pirate of the Gulf
• Col. Prentiss Ingrahm, Buck Taylor, King of the Cowboys
• Sinclair Lewis, Main Street *
• Goerge Lippard, Quaker City
• A.B.Longstreet, Georgia Scenes *
• Gilbert M. Patten, Frank Meriwell novels
• David Graham Phillips, George Helm
• Alice Hegen Rice, Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
• Mary Roberts Rinehart, The Circular Staircase * and The Door
Rover Bys, Motor Boys, Tom Swift series
• Sussanah Rowson, Charlotte Temple *
• Catherine Sedgwick, Hope Leslie
• William Gilmore Simms, The Yemassee *
• Upton Sinclair, The Jungle *
• Charles Siringo, A Texas Cowboy
• E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Hidden Hand *
• Ann Stephens, Malaeska the Indian Wife of the White Hunter
• Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger *
• Carl Van Vechten, Nigger Heaven
• Lew Wallace, Ben Hur
• Artemus Ward, Artemus Ward's Panorama *
• Edward Westcott, David Harum: A Story of American Life
• Edward Wheeler, Deadwood Dick
• Constance Fenimore Wilson, East Angels
• Owen Wister, The Virginian *
• Steward Edward White, Arizona Nights
• Harold Bill Wright, The Winning of Barbara Worth
• Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage

• Henry Adams, John Smith, The Erie Railroad, A Letter to American Teachers of History, America in 1800 (from History of the United States), The Great Secession Winter of 1860-61, etc.
• Elizabeth Ashbridge, The Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
• The Bay Psalm Book
• Charles A. Beard, Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
• Edward Bok, The Americanization of Edward Bok *
• James Bryce, The American Commonwealth
• Herbert Croly, The Promise of American Life *
• Robert Herrick, Memoirs of an American Citizen *
• Lowel Marion, Carmina Sacra (song book)
• Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana (Books I-III?)
• Bill Nye, The (Comic/illustrated) History of the Untied States *
• James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat *
• Henry Goerge, Progress and Poverty
• Henry James, The American Scene *
• William James, The Pinciples of Pragmatism *
• Clarence King, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
• Caroline Kirkland, A New Home -- Who'll Follow?
• H. L. Mencken, selections from Prejudices *
• F.L.Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republics
• Francis Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe.
• V.L. Parrington, Main Currents in American Thought *
• W. H. Prescott, The Conquest of Mexico
• Jacob Riis, The Making of an American *
• Constance Rourke, American Humor (1931)**
• Lincoln Stephens, Shame of the Cities * and Autobiography *
• William Graham Sumner, Folkways
• T. B. Thorpe, The Hive of the Bee Hunter: A Repository of Sketches... and The Mysteries of the Backwoods
• Noah Webster, A Dissertation on the English Language *
• Mason Locke Weems, Life of Washington, Life of Franklin
• William Singing Bill Walker, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion (songbook)
Francis Lieber, Encyclopedaeia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography (including "a copious collection of Original Articles in American Biography"). This is an 18 volume work by a contemporary and acquaintance of de Tocqueville's. This is a pipe dream, but a single volume focused on American material could be very interesting.

• Matthew Arnold, Discourses in America *
• William Bartram, Travels *
• William Darby, View of the United States
• Rudyard Kipling, American Notes
• Frederick Marryat, A Diary in American
• Henry Schoolcraft, Travels in the Central Portion of the Mississippi Valley
• Mrs. Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
• Godfrey Thomas Vigne, Six Months in America (1832)
• Constantin Volney, View of the Soil and Climate of the Untied States (1804)
• Oscar Wilde, Decorative Art in America and Impressions of America

• American Historical Atlas *
• F. O. C. Darley
  (Darley is one of the most famous illustrators in America prior to the Civil War. He illustrated Cooper's novels, Washington Irving, many of the Southwestern Humorists, histories of American Indians, etc. In so doing, he helped define the ways in which Amerian readers imagined much of their own past. Special Collections has most of the materials necessary for mounting a really terrific exhibition.)
• Currier and Ives, N.C. Wyeth, Thomas Hart Benton
• time line of the 1930s
• Calaloo Cover Art: 95% of the images for this have already been scanned. What's needed is to make them web-ready and mount them with captions and an introduction.
• Mark Catesby, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.*** (This project is already about 20% done; the library is producing the images; what remains is to mount images with captins drawn from Catesby's texts.)
• The Index of American Design **
• Panoramas/Dioramas
• Anthologies: Single author, genre, theme, or period
• Anthology editions of periodicals: Harpers, Atlantic, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Life, Overland Monthly, Survey Graphic, The Masses, Ballyhoo *
• period magazine covers or cartoons.
• single author anthologies drawn from magazines
• Radio programs, film directors, topics, genres

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