Benson John Lossing - Works

Works

Among the over 40 books Benson Lossing authored:

  • Outline of the History of the Fine Arts (1840)
  • Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence (1848)
  • Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution (1850–52)
  • A Primary History of the United States for Schools and Families (1857, revised 1866)
  • Life of Washington: A Biography Personal, Military, Political (1860)
  • The Life and Times of Philip Schuyler (1860; revised, 1880)
  • The Hudson from the Wilderness to the Sea (1866)
  • Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War (1866–69)
  • Vassar College and its Founder (1867)
  • Pictorial Field Book of the War of 1812 (1868)
  • Mount Vernon & Its Associations (1859) and other editions titled Mount Vernon, or the Home of Washington
  • Washington and the American Republic (1870)
  • Memoir of Lieut. Col. John T. Greble' (1870) (private printing)
  • A History of England, Political, Military, And Social from the Earliest Times to the Present (1871)
  • Our Country: A Household History of the United States for all Readers, From the Discovery of America to the Present Time (1873)
  • The American Centenary (1876)
  • History of American Industries & Arts (1878)
  • Story of the United States Navy for Boys (1881)
  • Cyclopœdia of United States History (1881)
  • New history of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent to ... Inauguration of... Chester A. Arthur: For all Readers (1881)
  • Biography of James Garfield (1882)
  • Lossing's School History of the United States (1883)
  • History of New York City (1884)
  • Mary and Martha: The Mother and Wife of George Washington (1886)
  • The Empire State, a Compendious History of the Commonwealth of New York (1888)
  • Reflections of Rebellion: Hours With the Living Men and Women of the Revolution; A Pilgrimage (1889)

He co-authored, edited or collaborated in the following works:

  • The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791 (1860)
  • with Anna Seward: The Two Spies: Nathan Hale & John Andre (1886)
  • with George Jotham Hagar, John Elliot Read and Alfred Hudson Guernsey: The Achievements of Four Centuries, or the Wonderful Story of Our Great Continent... (1890)

Published posthumously were:

  • The Progress of Four Hundred Years in The Great Republic of the West (1890)
  • with John Frederick Schroeder and E C Towne: The Life and Times of George Washington (1903)
  • Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A.D to 1909. Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing (1909). This 10 volume set included contributions from Woodrow Wilson and Alfred Thayer Mahan.

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