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ForgeMesh Library – US Civil War Shelf
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ForgeMesh Library – US Civil War Shelf 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 50 public-domain books on the US Civil War, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: US Civil War — 321 public-domain books including Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain US Civil War books, including titles, authors, and drill-down routes that allow full-text retrieval of each book. Notable titles include Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and The Red Badge of Courage.
Example use cases
Civil War reading list for students
“I'm putting together a reading list on the US Civil War for a high school history class — can you get me the top 20 public-domain books on the topic, ranked by relevance, with links to read them?”
Research source discovery for historians
“I'm researching the American Civil War and need a curated list of primary and classic texts I can access for free — can you fetch the top 50 public-domain Civil War books from ForgeMesh Library?”
AI agent book corpus ingestion
“I'm building a Civil War knowledge base — please retrieve the full ranked list of public-domain Civil War books (up to 50) from ForgeMesh so I can index their full texts.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/us-civil-warWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of public-domain books specifically scoped to the US Civil War era. It is ideal for building reading lists, seeding a text corpus, or discovering classic Civil War literature without needing a search query. For free-text search across all topics use the full-corpus search endpoint; for other historical periods use the broader history shelf.
Side effects
- Limit parameter exceeds maximum of 50 — server may clamp or return an error
- Payment of $0.003 USDC not provided or fails x402 protocol — request rejected
- Network timeout if the corpus index is temporarily unavailable
- Limit of 0 or negative integer returns empty or error response
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete",
"author": "Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson)",
"book_id": 4367,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 25933
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "US Civil War",
"coverage": {
"target": 61015,
"indexed": 61015
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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