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Chronicles of Canada Volume 25 - The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion
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Alfred D. DeCelles and Alfred D. Decelles
The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…
History of the Early Settlement of Bowmanville and Vicinity
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John T. Coleman
"Early settlers of Bowmanville, Darlington, Clarke, and surrounding country, with sketches of the habits and customs of the aborigines,…
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…
Imperialism and World Politics, Part 3 of 4
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Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Epochs of American History: Division and Reunion 1829-1889
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson
This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…
How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time
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Abram J. Dittenhoefer
Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…
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…
What America Owes to Women
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer
As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman …
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 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…
A Daughter of the Seine
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Jeanette Eaton
This biography of Madame Roland was written for young adults but can be equally enjoyed by adult readers. Madame Roland was a key figure in …
A Month on the Norfolk Broads
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Walter Rye
Back in the late 1880s, Walter Rye and a number of friends accompanied by an American couple (who were researching the history of their Norf…
History Of Missouri In Words Of One Syllable
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Emily Steinestel Macnamara
A simplified history of the state of Missouri, from ancient Prehistoric times to the late 19th century, written chiefly in words of one syll…
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…
Imperialism and World Politics, Part 4 of 4
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Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
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…
Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 2
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Historical Society Of Michigan
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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Robert Louis Stevenson
CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK INCORPORATES QUOTATIONS CONTAINING RACIST SLURS. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A BOWDLERIZED COPY, SEE BETWEEN ABOUT 07.…
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…
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…