This page brings together free online books, topic searches, and Open Access resources related to United States history, including colonial America, westward expansion, political history, immigration, wars, and social change. The materials range from older public domain works to modern scholarly studies.
The Topics section below helps readers find books and documents within the huge Internet Archive collection, which includes periodicals and other materials, from older historical works to recent publications. Each topic link generates an Internet Archive search focused on that subject. Browsing the topics and selecting those of interest is usually easier and more effective than searching Internet Archive directly.
The section below Topics provides links to related modern Open Access books. See that section for more information.
U.S. History Book Pages on Century Past
Topics – History of America Books – U.S. General History
The topic links below lead to Internet Archive search results related to United States history. Each link opens a books-and-documents search focused on a particular topic.
Search results generally include fully readable books, periodicals, and other documents. For some subjects, Internet Archive also contains other media, such as images, audio, or video files. These can be selected from the media options above the search results. Filters on the left side of Internet Archive pages can help narrow search results by year, language, or related subjects.
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- Bibliography
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- Church history
- Civilization – 1783-1865
- Civilization – 1865-1918
- Civilization – 1918-1945
- Civilization – 1945-
- Civilization – 1970-
- Civilization – 19th century
- Civilization – 20th century
- Civilization – Anecdotes
- Civilization – Outlines, Syllabi, etc.
- Civilization – To 1783
- Commerce – History
- Community Life
- Congress
- Conservatism
- Constitution
- Constitutional history
- Cultural Influences
- Culture
- Declaration of Independence
- Democracy
- Democratic-Republican Party
- Demography
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- Diplomacy
- Economic History
- Economic Policy
- Emigration and immigration
- Ethnic Relations
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- Foreign Relations
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- History – Sources
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- History Dictionaries
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- History -Juvenile literature
- History Sources
- History Study and teaching
- Immigrants
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- Local History
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- Military History
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- Political Parties
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- Population
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- Presidents
- Presidents – Biography
- Public Schools
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- Religion
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- Rural conditions
- Scholarly Journals
- Slavery
- Social Classes
- Social conditions
- Social Conflict
- Social life and customs
- Social policy
- State Governments
- Statistics
- Suffrage Movement
- Supreme Court
- Territorial expansion
- Territories and possessions
- Theses
- United States
- Universities and Colleges
- West (U.S.) History
- Women – Biography
- Women – Employment
- Women – Societies and clubs
- Women – Suffrage
- Women’s Education
- Working Class
- Youth – Social Conditions
Open Access U.S. History Books and Textbooks PDF Free Download
The Open Access books and other materials below are modern works made freely available online by universities, academic publishers, the Library of Congress, and other organizations. Many reflect current scholarship and research.
Some works may only be read online, but many can also be downloaded as PDF or EPUB files.
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