Early Modern

The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France

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George Wrong



The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…

A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)

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Captain Charles Johnson



A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik



Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

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Julia Ward Howe



A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 1

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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…

The Story of the Trapper

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Agnes C. Laut



Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…

The Magic of the Horse-Shoe

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Robert Means Lawrence



The study of the origin and history of popular customs and beliefs affords an insight, otherwise unattainable, into the operations of the hu…

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon

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James Anthony Froude



"The story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII" (subtitle). Froude weaves his tale from a wide…

The Old Regime and the Revolution

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville



A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…

Poems of American History, The Period of Growth

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Various



This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

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Giorgio Vasari



The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard



The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy

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James Moores Ball



Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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Various



The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…

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Mary S. Locke



Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…

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Thomas Clarkson



Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War

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Various



The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

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…

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…

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…

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