American History

The American History Collection gathers the essential primary sources, political writings, and narrative histories that shaped how the United States understands its own past. You’ll find the Federalist Papers alongside Alexis de Tocqueville’s penetrating observations, the memoirs of Civil War generals, and the speeches of Frederick Douglass — all available as free, cleanly-formatted EPUB downloads.

The collection spans the colonial era through the early twentieth century, drawing on works by figures such as Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, and Henry Adams. Whether you’re tracing the origins of American democracy or the crisis of the Civil War, these public-domain texts offer the documentary foundation for serious study.