At what URL can I download old history (or social studies) books?
I want to know what 19th century historians thought our founding fathers said.
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As of right now… i’m not sure.
http://books.google.com/
Millions of books. Watch the “Full view only” setting. Many, mostly newer, books are only partially online.
To expand on what @jaytkay said, you might try using Google Scholar as search. With that you get a lot of court cases, source documents, etc.
Project Gutenberg should provide you with a nearly endless supply of books to suit your purpose.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Use the advance search option and select a topic from the LoCC drop down menu to narrow your returns. Then you can just hit enter for the complete catalogue of books available on that topic, or further refine your search using the other fields.
Example: Search results for “History: America: Revolution (1775–1783)” return the following:
http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/loccs/e201
Also, I know you didn’t ask for specific recommendations for material on point with what your looking for, but you might begin with an examination of the Federalist Papers. Many of our founding fathers were historians in their own right, and even if you’d rather avoid “taking their word for it,” so to speak, many of the Federalist Papers were published in newspapers and were often followed by reaction pieces written by the political theorists of the day. The result is a sort of Op-Ed/letter to the editor style running debate that sheds a great deal of light on not only the question of what was at issue or in controversy at the time, but also what the founding fathers might have meant by the specific wording of the Articles of the Constitution.
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