Volume One of the 299-page Core Knowledge History of the United States covers events from the Precolonial Period to the 1800s.

The second volume of the Core Knowledge History of the United States ebook begins by asking young scholars to consider the impact immigration, industrialization, and urbanization had on the United States in the late 1800s. The text ends...

An informative resource provides a textbook on American government that covers topics such as the definition of government and how democracy works. Each section provides brief questions at the end to assess scholars' understanding. 

Examines the conditions that fostered the rise of Fascism and Nazism, the events during the lead-up to the outbreak of war, and what Roosevelt did to help affected nations yet still keep the United States neutral.

A selection of writings from a pilot who served in the Lafayette Escadrille and the 94th Pursuit squadron with Eddie Rickenbacker. Provides details on aerial fighting tactics during World War 1.

This site from the Forham University provides information and text of the some of the poetry that was written by English poets during the first world war.

The foreign policy of Woodrow Wilson is explained, and how he tried to keep America neutral at the start of World War I yet intervened in international affairs in the Western Hemisphere. The reasons America declared war on Germany in...

Examines the challenges of demobilization after World War II, how Harry Truman addressed them, and how the government responded to the needs of war veterans.

Need to find a chapter of Dos Passos' book in a hurry? This is the full-text version, available for free from this site. Also available to download as a zipped file.

Provides information on Igor Sergeyevich Guzenko, the postwar expansion of FBI domestic intelligence, the Federal Loyalty-Security Program, and the FBI-Military Intelligence Jurisdictional Agreement.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. One work is Tom Swift and His Air Scout, an adventure multi-chapter book from 1919, written by the ghost writer Victor Appleton. In this book's quest, the main character...

A night of socializing with friends takes a violent turn in the short story "The World at the Door" by O. Henry. Read the full text on this site.

Classic Reader provides numerous classic works from famous authors. First published in 1915, one work is The Hosts of the Air, the final book in the The World War Series. This book was written by Joseph A. Altsheler.