America's Historical Imprints This link opens in a new windowBroad range of books, pamphlets and broadsides printed during a century and a half of American life, spanning the early colonial, the formation of the new nation and the Early Republic. Rare and unique items from 17th, 18th, and early 19th century include sermons, religious tracts, political arguments, reports of organized bodies, doggerel ballads, advertisements, official decrees, news extras, and amateur elegies.