History

My Southern Home or, The South and Its People

Read by James K. White


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…

The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)

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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 …

American Psychology, 1922-1947

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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…

De Bello Gallico Libri Septem

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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 (Thwaites)

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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 Vol 2

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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, by Himself

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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 Vol 3

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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, Volume 1B

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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: Lynch Law In All Its Phases

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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 …

The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike

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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 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…

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 02

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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…

La Commune

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Louise Michel



Louise Michel était une anarchiste française très active dans la Commune de Paris de 1871. Son livre "La Commune&q…

Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers

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Talbot Hughes



Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II

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John Bagnell Bury



J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…

Europe and the Faith

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Hilaire Belloc



The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…

Borgia


Klabund- Alfred Henschke



In kleinen Episödchen schildert Klabund Aufstieg und Fall der berühmten Dynastie. Machtspiele, Intrigen, Korruption, Vetternwirtsc…

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