History

King Henry IV

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William Shakespeare



Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, prec…

Three Soldiers

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John Dos Passos



Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First Worl…

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

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Frank R. Stockton



Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…

Royal Children of English History

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E. Nesbit



From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…

The Awakening of Europe

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M. B. Synge



The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interest…

American Psychology

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Various



This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…

A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aureli…

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John Bagnell Bury



The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …

My Southern Home

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William Wells Brown



William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…

De Bello Gallico

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Gaius Julius Caesar



In this book the famous Gaius Julius Caesar himself describes the seven years of his war in Gaul.When Caesar got proconsul of Gallia and Ill…

Daniel Boone

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Reuben Gold Thwaites



Daniel Boone was a great hunter, explorer, surveyor, and excellent rifleman; he knew Indians and fought them skillfully. His life was filled…

The Annals

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus



The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

The Story of Cole Younger

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Cole Younger



Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raide…

A Voyage to the South Sea

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William Bligh



A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…

The Annals

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus



The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

Woman and the New Race

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Margaret Sanger



Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

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David Hume



David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

Southern Horrors

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett



Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …

A Short History of the World

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H. G. Wells



A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

The Great Gold Rush

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William Henry Pope Jarvis



Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in …

A Popular History of Ireland

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee



Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

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