Modern (19th C)
Hokitika, New Zealand: The Birth of a Borough
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Various
A pamphlet version of four papers on the beginnings of the town and borough of Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand…
The Western Boundary, and Other Essays
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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 15
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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…
James B. Eads
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Louis How
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
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Henry Baerlein
Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…
An Inaugural Dissertation on Pulmonary Consumption
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Edward Delafield
At a time when diseases termed "consumption" were among the leading cause of death in the county, physicians such as Edward Delafi…
Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 2
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Otto Von Bismarck
A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…
Orion Clemens
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Fred W. Lorch
Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langh…
A Century of Dishonor
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Helen Hunt Jackson
In this work, a predecessor to "Ramona", HH describes the systematic process of segregation, dispossession, and relocation that Na…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 2
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Lyman Copeland Draper
A 1903 reprint of a volume published in 1856, edited by Lyman Draper. Contents recorded include: three memoirs of early 19th century Wiscons…
An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic,…
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George Livermore
Collects the speeches, writings, public statements and legislative acts of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the United States against sla…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1
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Lyman Copeland Draper
The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …
War Prison Diary
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Michael Dougherty
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1
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Ann Stephens
Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1, is an indispensable read for any Civil War buff. Written during the Civil War, Ann Ste…