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Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question

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James Bryce


The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…

The Land of Midian (Revisited)

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Richard Francis Burton


The plain unvarnished tale of the travel in Midian, undertaken by the second Expedition, which, like the first, owes all to the liberality a…

Tea and Tea Drinking

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Alfred Arthur Reade


Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning tea, the pleasures found in its drinking, effects, benefits, cautions, et…

Why We Love Lincoln

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James Creelman


Brought to us by notable reporter and writer, James Creelman, this story of Abraham Lincoln is a more personal and simple portrait of the m…

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…

A Short History of Pittsburgh

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Samuel Harden Church


Samuel H. Church presents a brief history of the city of Pittsburgh, split into three domains: historical, industrial, and intellectual. His…

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

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…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4

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Parker Thomas Moon


Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

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John Mcelroy


A comprehensive four-volume history of one soldier's 15 months in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The book is divided into 83 cha…

Mark Twain's Partner

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Michael J. Phillips


In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…

A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Version 2)

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Lucy Larcom


What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? Wh…

Gertrude Bell

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Ronald Bodley and Lorna Hearst


A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…

Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Yea…

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Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet


This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…

The Armenian Crisis in Turkey

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Frederick Davis Greene


Frederick Greene shows in this book that the case of the subject races in the Ottoman Empire is desperate, that there is no hope of reform f…

The Dread Apache: That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest

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Merrill Pingree Freeman


Excerpt which contains the opinions and biographical accounts from the author: "A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-…

The Truth About the Congo

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Frederick Starr


After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year in Congo during the peak of European colonization. He can…

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 Long Road of Woman's Memory

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Jane Addams


In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…

The Ashtabula Disaster

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Stephen D. Peet


Rev. Stephen D Peet describes the fatal railroad disaster on December 29, 1876 in Ashtabula, Ohio due to a bridge failure. He was a resident…

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