# ForgeMesh Library Shelf F106 — American History & Social History Public-Domain Books

> ForgeMesh Library Shelf F106 — American History & Social History Public-Domain Books is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns a ranked list of up to 176 public-domain books from curated shelf F106, covering American social history, journalism, and disaster narratives, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/f106
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-library-shelf-f106-american-history-social-history-public-be3c4973
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6fVdTe8liiEdG22xdmM61

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-library-shelf-f106-american-history-social-history-public-be3c4973 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you show me the books on the ForgeMesh library shelf F106 — I'm looking for public-domain titles about American social history and political life, give me up to 30 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to browse or list books specifically from the F106 curated shelf on ForgeMesh, which focuses on American social history, 19th century society, political journalism, and disaster narratives. Prefer it over full-text search when you want a curated, ranked overview of available titles rather than passage-level results. Use sibling endpoints for other genres (Sherlock Holmes, Nobel Prize literature, Harvard Classics, etc.) or for full-text passage search across the whole corpus.

## Known failure modes

- limit parameter exceeds 50 — API may reject or cap results
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not fulfilled — 402 Payment Required response
- shelf F106 unavailable or empty — returns empty list or 404
- Network timeout on large result sets

## How this service works

Curated shelf: F106 — 176 public-domain books including Washington Confidential, As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century, The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.

## Output

A ranked list of books from the F106 shelf (up to 50 per call, default 20), including titles, authors, and drill-down route URLs for full-text retrieval. Books span American social history, 19th century society memoirs, political journalism, and disaster narratives — all public domain, no licensing required.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "Washington Confidential",
    "author": "Lait, Jack",
    "book_id": 63469,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 26384
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "F106",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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