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American Non-fiction

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The following are non-fiction documents from the United States' most influential authors and political leaders. The topics range from slavery to life on the Mississippi, and it includes authors such as Abraham Lincoln, Henry David Thoreau, and Mark Twain.

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A City Helped Of The Lord (Cotton Mather)

A Plea For Captain John Brown (Henry David Thoreau)

Abraham Lincoln (James Russell Lowell)

American History Told by Contemporaries

Anarchism and Other Essays (Emma Goldman)

Criticism and Fiction (William Dean Howells)

Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers (Arthur Brisbane)

Essay on the Trial by Jury (Lysander Spooner)

Essays: Second Series (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Forerunner (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

In Defense of Women (H. L. Mencken)

Indian Boyhood (Charles A. Eastman)

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (Charles A. Eastman)

Life on the Mississippi (Mark Twain)

Messages and Papers of Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln)

Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Exposé (Harry Houdini)

On the Idea of Comedy and the of the Uses of the Comic Spirit (George Meredith)

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions—Volume 1 (Frank Harris)

Roughing it (Mark Twain)

Secret of the Woods (William Joseph Long)

Studies of Lowell (From Literary Friends and Acquaintance) (William Dean Howells)

The Alhambra (Washington Irving)

The Education Of Henry Adams: An Autobiography

The Innocents Abroad (Mark Twain)

The Land of Little Rain (Mary Austin)

The Man-Made World: or, Our Androcentric Culture (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

The New England Girlhood; Outlined from Memory (Beverly, Ma) (Lucy Larcom)

The Unparalleled Invasion (Jack London)

The Unseen World and Other Essays

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 1: 1832–1843 (Abraham Lincoln)

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 2: 1843–1858 (Abraham Lincoln)

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 3: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Abraham Lincoln)

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 4: the Lincoln-Douglas Debates (Abraham Lincoln)

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 5: 1858–1862 (Abraham Lincoln)

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 6: 1862–1863 (Abraham Lincoln)

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln—Volume 7: 1863–1865 (Abraham Lincoln)

Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes (Jane Addams)

Two Years Before the Mast (Richard Henry Dana)

Walking (Henry David Thoreau)

War of the Classes (Jack London)

Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address

Bradford’s History of Plimouth Plantation

Gettysburg Address (Abraham Lincoln)

Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane (Calamity Jane)

Of Beelzebub and His Plot (Cotton Mather)

Providence and the Pilgrim (William Bradford)

SLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS (Henry David Thoreau)

The Altruist in Politics (Benjamin Nathan Cardozo)

The City That Was; a Requiem of Old San Francisco (Will Irwin)

The Last Days of Increase Mather (Cotton Mather)

The Story of Margaret Rule (Cotton Mather)