Modern (19th C)

Why We Love Lincoln

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James Creelman


Brought to us by notable reporter and writer, James Creelman, this story of Abraham Lincoln is a more personal and simple portrait of the m…

On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus

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Rudolf Virchow


Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…

Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

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John Mcelroy


A comprehensive four-volume history of one soldier's 15 months in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The book is divided into 83 cha…

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4

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Parker Thomas Moon


Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…

Modern England 1820-1885

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Oscar Browning


This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…

Gertrude Bell

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Ronald Bodley and Lorna Hearst


A highly engaging biography about a fascinating English woman who was most unusual for her time. An adventurous traveler who fell completely…

A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Version 2)

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Lucy Larcom


What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? Wh…

Mark Twain's Partner

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Michael J. Phillips


In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…

Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Yea…

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Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet


This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…

The Truth About the Congo

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Frederick Starr


After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year in Congo during the peak of European colonization. He can…

The Armenian Crisis in Turkey

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Frederick Davis Greene


Frederick Greene shows in this book that the case of the subject races in the Ottoman Empire is desperate, that there is no hope of reform f…

The Dread Apache: That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest

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Merrill Pingree Freeman


Excerpt which contains the opinions and biographical accounts from the author: "A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-…

Charles James Fox

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Henry Offley Wakeman


Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West

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Walter A. Wyckoff


A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

Anglo-American Memories

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George Washburn Smalley


“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…

The Ashtabula Disaster

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Stephen D. Peet


Rev. Stephen D Peet describes the fatal railroad disaster on December 29, 1876 in Ashtabula, Ohio due to a bridge failure. He was a resident…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 24 - The Family Compact: A Chronicle of the Rebelli…

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W. Stewart Wallace


The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…

The Long Road of Woman's Memory

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Jane Addams


In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…

Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings

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Frank James Adkins


Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…

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