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The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2

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W. E. B. Du Bois


The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci

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Amerigo Vespucci


Amerigo Vespucci was, arguably, the first person to explore North and South America from Cape Hatteras to Uruguay or Argentina, 35° nort…

Mexico and the United States: a Story of Revolution, Intervention and War

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Frederick Starr


Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Customs and Fashions in Old New England

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Alice Morse Earle


Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians d…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 2

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Mercy Otis Warren


A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III

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Mandell Creighton


Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…

The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815

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Philip Guedalla


Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…

The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I

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John Evelyn


John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 3

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Mercy Otis Warren


A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

Hobbes

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Leslie Stephen


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…

A Collection of the Facts and Documents Relative to the Death of Major-General …

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William Coleman


Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…

Oliver Cromwell

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. The text has been revised b…

Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence

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Benson John Lossing


Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…

The Child of the Dawn

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Arthur Christopher Benson


Ready to explore the depths of the human mind and soul? This book explores the themes of morality, spirituality, and the search for meaning …

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

The Life of Frederick William von Steuben

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Friedrich Kapp


The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…

History of the Revolutions in Europe

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Christoph Wilhelm Von Koch


The View of the Revolutions of Europe by M. Koch, has been long known and highly esteemed on the Continent as a work of incontestable merit,…

The Wonderful Story of Ravalette

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P. B. Randolph


Is it possible to break through the awful barrier—to glimpse through the Night-Curtain that screens and shrouds us from the Phantom-World?—i…

Galateo

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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa


A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …

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