Ted Lienhart
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians d…
With the New Army on the Somme: My Second Year of the War
Frederick Palmer was already an experienced war correspondent when World War I began in 1914, as he had previously covered six wars, beginni…
With Poor Immigrants to America
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
The Story of the Trapper
Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…
Germany Before the War
Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…
The Great Lakes and the Vessels That Plough Them
The author sets forth the facts of the Great Lakes' largest fleet of freighters in the world, explaining what an enormous role Great Lakes c…
When Railroads Were New
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …
America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her r…
Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings
Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…
Camp and Trail
Stewart Edward White was a popular and respected novelist who set his stories on the western frontier and in the wilderness. For his novels …
Letters from the West
James Hall was a soldier, lawyer, circuit judge, newspaper editor, historian, and author of fiction. He was also the first publisher of a li…
One Woman's Work for Farm Women: The Story of Mary A. Mayo's Part in Rural Social Movements
This is a short biography of Mary Mayo, covering her work with rural farm women in Michigan and beyond in the last quarter of the 19th centu…
World's War Events
World's War Events is a 3-volume history of World War I, assembled in 1919 from articles contributed by "statesmen, commanders, histori…
Everyman at War. Sixty Personal Narratives of the War
In 1929 editor C. B. Purdom of the British magazine 'Everyman' ... "invited readers to send him accounts of their actual (WW1) war exp…
An Englishwoman in the Philippines
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…
A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America
Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account o…
Gallipoli
John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termi…
Versailles
World War 1 ended with the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919 to January 1920), which in turn resulted in the signing of five peace treati…
Shall It Be Again?
While we now view America’s entry into World War I as a necessary step to save Europe from German domination, it was actually one of the mos…
The Iron Hunter
This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later a…