History
Great Moments in History
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John G. Stockmyer
Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…
Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale
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Société Des Amis Des Noirs, Société Des Amis Des Noirsandjacques Pierre Brissot De Warville and Société Des Amis Des Noirs And Jacques Pierre Brissot De Warville
La Société des Amis des Noirs est une association créée le 19 février 1788 qui avait pour but l'abolition…
The Colored Cadet at West Point
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Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
Römische Geschichte
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Zweites BuchVon der Abschaffung des…
The Wife of His Youth
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…
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…
War
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…
The Dawn of Canadian History
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Stephen Leacock
This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty
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Sir John Barrow
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia
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Henry William Haygarth
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…
South African Memories
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Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …
In the Field
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Marcel Dupont
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
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Eugenia Dunlap Potts
While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An int…
The Child's Book of American Biography
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Mary Stoyell Stimpson
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …
How I Filmed the War
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Geoffrey H. Malins
An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was the…
Fathers of Biology
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Charles Mcrae
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
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Eliza P. Donner Houghton
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…
The Early History of the Airplane
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Orville Wright
The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…
American Civil War Collection
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Various
Compilation of American Civil War related poems and short works of literature. Summary by Bill2147