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Carl Van Doren - 1938

Carl Van Doren received the 1938 Pulitzer Prize in Biography for this work.

It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that were never published before.

Hell on Ice: The Saga of the Jeannette

Edward Ellsberg - 1938

An account in fictional form of the 1879 expedition under Lieutenant Commander G.W.

De Long, to reach the North Pole via the Bering Sea, narrated by chief engineer of the expedition, G.W. Melville.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves

Work Projects Administration - 1938

A Folk History of Slavery in the United StatesFrom Interviews with Former SlavesTYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BYTHE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT,1936-1938ASSEMBLED BYTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECTWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATIONFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIASPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

A Folk History of Slavery in the United StatesFrom Interviews with Former SlavesTYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BYTHE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT,1936-1938ASSEMBLED BYTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECTWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATIONFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIASPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

America Begins: The Story of the Finding of the New World

Alice Dalgliesh - 1938

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The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings

Perry Miller - 1938

Critically acclaimed classic lets Puritans speak for themselves in crucial documents covering history, theory of state and society, religion, customs, behavior, biographies and letters, poetry, literary theory, education, science, and more.

Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture."

Man in the Saddle

Ernest Haycox - 1938

Man in the Saddle tells the story of a small-time rancher resisting the efforts of a ranching magnate bent on buying him out and, when that fails, squeezing him out of business by any means possible.

When pushed to the wall, the hero is forced to resort to gun-play in an attempt to secure his livelihood and the love of his life. A thrilling read packed with gritty western attitude and gun-toting action, Man in the Saddle is a book not to be missed by any lover of western narrative. A giant western literature, Ernest Haycox is famous for introducing a more complex, brooding hero into the western literature, arguably defining the genre and giving rise to the gritty determination often found in the characters of canonical western films. Famous for doing careful historical research, the books of Ernest Haycox are credited as being accurate portrayals of western history, full of action and insight. This book has been republished here with a biography of the author.

Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel

C. Vann Woodward - 1938

Altho Thomas E.

Watson championed the rising Populist movement at the turn of the 19th century--an interracial alliance of agricultural interests fighting the forces of industrial capitalism--his eventual frustration with politics transformed him from liberalism to racial bigotry, from popular spokesman to mob leader. Pulitzer Prize winning scholar C. Vann Woodward clearly & objectively traces the history of this enigmatic Populist leader.