Early Modern
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…
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…
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 Thirty Years' War
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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…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
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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 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…
The Renaissance and the Reformation
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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…
The Child of the Dawn
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Arthur Christopher Benson
Ready to explore the depths of the human mind and soul? This book explores the themes of morality, spirituality, and the search for meaning …
Spies
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Joseph Gollomb
The author retells some of the great wartime spy stories from history, beginning with Biblical references and ending with World War I and Ma…
The Life of Frederick William von Steuben
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Friedrich Kapp
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…
Galateo
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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa
A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …
The Diamond Necklace
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Thomas Carlyle
In the years preceding the French Revolution, the reputation of Queen Marie Antoinette was severely harmed by the publication of details rel…
The Capture of Fort William and Mary
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Charles Lathrop Parsons
The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …
Pascal and the Port Royalists
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William Clark
Pascal is of the small number of those [men] in whom the man infinitely transcends his actions. The writings of Pascal are the finest that F…
Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences
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John Erskine
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution
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Noah Webster
An early influential work describing the features contained within the new Constitution that was produced out of the Constitutional Conventi…
Ireland Under the Tudors
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Richard Bagwell
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…
Fiat Money Inflation in France
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Andrew Dickson White
The story of "Fiat Money Inflation in France" is one of great interest to legislators, to economic students, and to all business a…
Ireland Under the Tudors
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Richard Bagwell
Volume 1 of Ireland Under the Tudors describes in great detail the process of making Celtic Ireland a part of the Protestant English empire.…