History

The Woman Movement

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Ellen Key



Ellen Key's 'The Woman movement' follows the development of the feminist movement striving towards a greater emancipation of women in the pu…

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds (Version 2)

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William James McGlothlin



This book contains 37 short stories for little folk featuring a variety of historical figures and their wonderful deeds. These stories span …

William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist

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Archibald Grimké



"THE author of this volume desires . . . to say . . . that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and…

The Irish Nuns at Ypres: An Episode of the War

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Dame M. Columban



“…I have charged Dame M. Columban to give a detailed account of all that has befallen the Community, since the coming of the Germans to Ypre…

3 from LightByDesign

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LightByDesign Ministries



Three fascinating, action packed stories from the old holiness literature circa late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our first story is call…

Conversion

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox



Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emoti…

Venetian Life

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William Dean Howells



William Dean Howells was American Consul to Venice for four years. His term ended in 1865. He wrote about the city, and the culture of the V…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

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John James Marshall



This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

In the Days of Queen Elizabeth

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Eva March Tappan



Of all the sovereigns who have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most blindly prais…

Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms

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Courtney Ryley Cooper



Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswomen who ever lived. She was christened Phoebe Ann Mosey but was called Annie from child…

Islam And The New World Order By Abdullah Hakim Quick




F reemasons? Illuminati? Skull and Bones? Conspiracy theories? Secret societies? While neither confirming nor denying these, the speaker (Ab…

Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea

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Thomas Bingley



Ten accounts of events from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when life at sea was a perilous venture. The book is presented as a seri…

The dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges

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Edgcumbe Staley



A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy

The Story of London

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Henry B. Wheatley



A non-exhaustive history of London from the earliest settlement up to early modern times, focusing on the daily lives of its citizens, the a…

The Modern Woman's Rights Movement

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Käthe Schirmacher



A history of the international woman’s rights movements originally published in 1905 and updated in 1909; English translation published in 1…

News From No Man's Land

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James Green



James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…

A History of the Great War, Volume Three

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John Buchan



This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…

A Voice From The Main Deck

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Samuel Leech



Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few wh…

Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania

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Frederick Herman Tilberg



On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…

Lives of the Presidents of the United States in Words of One Syllable

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Helen W. Pierson



This book consists of simple biographies of the first 23 Presidents of the United States written chiefly in words of one syllable. Books suc…

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