# library.forgemesh.io History – Schools & Universities Shelf

> library.forgemesh.io History – Schools & Universities 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 history of schools and universities, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/history-schools-universities
- 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/library-forgemesh-io-history-schools-universities-shelf-0a5ac9fc
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_aNxZ1KvM8Z9BVPAMaqaOw

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 library-forgemesh-io-history-schools-universities-shelf-0a5ac9fc -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the public-domain book shelf on the history of schools and universities — show me up to 30 titles with links to read the full text?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-scoped list of public-domain books specifically about the history of educational institutions (schools, universities, academies). It is faster and more focused than a full-text search across the entire corpus when the user wants to browse or enumerate titles in this niche rather than search by keyword or query a specific book.

## Known failure modes

- limit exceeds max of 50 — server may cap or return an error
- limit set to 0 or negative — may return empty list or validation error
- service temporarily unavailable — HTTP 5xx with no book data returned
- payment not processed — x402 payment required error before data is returned

## How this service works

Curated shelf: History - Schools & Universities — 285 public-domain books including The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920, The University of Michigan. 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 books in the History – Schools & Universities category, including book titles (e.g. The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy, The Journal of Negro History Volume 5), with drill-down routes that enable full-text retrieval of each work.

## 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": "The Choctaw Freedmen and the Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy",
    "author": "Flickinger, Robert Elliott",
    "book_id": 23321,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 13718
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "History - Schools & Universities",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 61015,
   "indexed": 61015
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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