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The Later Middle Ages: A History of Western Europe 1254-1494

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Robert Balmain Mowat


The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat writes, “When this period opens one of the finest epochs in German history had just closed, and…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin Mccarthy


The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…

William the Third

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Henry Duff Traill


William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …

The Houses of Lancaster and York with the Conquest and Loss of France

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James Gairdner


The Wars of the Roses took place during the last phase of the Hundred Years' War. In 1377 the great warrior king, Edward III, died leaving h…

On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus

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Rudolf Virchow


Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…

Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV

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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand


Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…

The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…

Edward III

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William Parsons Warburton


Edward III reigned for fifty years, from 1327 to 1377. William Warburton writes that "the backbone of the story of his reign and times …

Modern England 1820-1885

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Oscar Browning


This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…

The History of the Popes During the Last Four Centuries, Volume 1

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Leopold Von Ranke


Leopold von Ranke was a German Lutheran historian and a founder of modern historical writing based on primary sources. This is a panoramic a…

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

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Mandell Creighton


Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…

Rise of the Macedonian Empire

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Arthur M. Curteis


Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…

Charles James Fox

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Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610

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Emmeline Tanner


Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…

Cavour

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Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco


Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

Lives of Greek Statesmen

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George William Cox


In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…

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…

Food-Free at Last: How I Learned to Eat Air

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Dr. Robert Jones MD PhD DDS ODD


Food is a drug. Break the shackles of addiction and learn to eat air! In this detailed guide, Dr. Robert Jones, MD, PhD, DDS, ODD gives you …

March 7 - St. Thomas Aquinas

In Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 1 (January-March)

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John Gilmary Shea


Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other appro…

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