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I have in my possession a work of humor and satire from 1894. It is Bill Nye's History of the United States, illustrated by F. Opper. I have found it so amusing myself (and such an education, as it takes for common mockable knowledge many facts of history with which I was not previously acquainted), and its publication date places it so firmly beyond any hint of current copyright, that I could not resist sharing it with all and sundry.

To this end I have created a livejournal - [livejournal.com profile] nyes_us_history - in which I will attempt to transcribe this volume chapter by chapter.

Since the illustrations are an important part of the piece - heck, they're mentioned in metallic silver ink on the red, white and blue cloth cover - I'll be providing those as well. Wouldn't want Mr. Opper's contribution to go to waste. Whenever I get this scanner hooked up properly, I will scan them in and add them where appropriate. For now the entries have [illustration] tags for me to remember where to put them when I go back and add them.

It's set up as a community so I can post to it without logging out of this account, but nobody else can join. Feel free to friend it, though.
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