History

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

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Frank R. Stockton


Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…

Royal Children of English History

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E. Nesbit


From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…

The Awakening of Europe

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M. B. Synge


The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interest…

The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Found…

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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…

My Southern Home or, The South and Its People

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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…

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 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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Borgia


Klabund- Alfred Henschke


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

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…

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