The first American-authored world history books reflect the developments of this period -- from the enlightened optimism of the early period to the imperial arrogance of the latter period. The works immediately after the First World War are worth considering as well because of their return to some of the methods of a century before. What is most significant about this body of work is that it represents America's first attempt at writing a World History -- a history that attempted to reconcile traditional religious (most often Judeo-Christian) approaches to world history with more scientific approaches of the age. In many cases the attempt to reconcile these modes of thinking about the world was more daring than our current world histories. It is the hope of the World Class Learning Alliance that these books, including their artwork (cover-art etchings, and hand-painted watercolors) can be digitalized for further research for the use of world historians today. Some books have already been digitalized under the auspices of various digitalization projects, but all of the projects that I been able to discover thus far have failed to include the valuable images of the text. In this project we shall attempt to preserve everything about these texts that is feasible -- from the covers and spines of the books, to the images and etchings, many of which are even hand-painted water-color. We will begin with a basic listing of the works collected so far, with references to the extent that these works that have been digitalized and what still remains to be done. Scanning any book into an accessible digital format is a time-consuming and expensive process and it will require the support of those who share our beliefs in the relevance and utility of these works. Please contact Joseph Adams at joe@worldclass.net if you can contribute in any way to the project. For now, here are the works that we have compiled so far.