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Anti-Dictator: The Discours sur la servitude voluntaire
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Étienne De La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…
The Diaries of John Evelyn Volume I
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John Evelyn
John Evelyn was a 17th century polymath, with interests in the fine arts, architecture, gardening, as well as anatomy and the natural scienc…
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
The Spirit of the Curé of Ars
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Alfred Monnin
St. Jean-Baptiste Marie Vianney (known in English as St. John Vianney), was a French priest that lived from 1786-1859. He would later become…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 2
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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 Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…
Mexico and the United States: a Story of Revolution, Intervention and War
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Frederick Starr
Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…
The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815
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Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III
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Mandell Creighton
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
The Pioneer Mothers of America, Volume 1
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Mary Wolcott Green and Harry Clinton Green
This work has been prepared to perpetuate the memory of the women dedicated in each chapter as well as the lessons they have left behind in …
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 3
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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…
Oliver Cromwell
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. The text has been revised b…
Epochs of American History: The Colonists 1492-1750
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…
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…
A Collection of the Facts and Documents Relative to the Death of Major-General …
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William Coleman
Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…
Logick
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Isaac Watts
The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth with a Variety of Rules to guard against error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life,…
Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
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Benson John Lossing
Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 12
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Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…