History
The Education of Henry Adams
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Henry Brooks Adams
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning …
Farthest North
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Fridtjof Nansen
Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship "Fram", 1893-96 and of a Fifteen Months' Sleigh Journey by Dr. Nansen and …
An Address to Free Colored Americans
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An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life…
The Lives of the Queens of England
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Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…
1944 Radio News
Explore the news from 1944 in this collection. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from that year, providing a glimp…
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
Insurgent Mexico
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John Reed
In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
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James Baldwin
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…
Heroes of the Middle Ages
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Eva March Tappan
"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, …
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
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Niccolò Machiavelli
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, …
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
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Benjamin Randell Harris
The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary by Graham Keeling)
The Facts of Reconstruction
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John R. Lynch
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…
Selected House of Commons Speeches
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Winston S. Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…
A Brief History of English and American Literature
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Henry A. Beers
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…
Early Days Of Old Oregon
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Katharine Berry Judson
Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
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John C Lambert and John C. Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
What Prohibition Has Done to America
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Fabian Franklin
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…
Great Pirate Stories
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Joseph Lewis French
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …