Modern (19th C)

Chronicles of Canada Volume 25 - The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Low…

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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…

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 1

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Otto von Bismarck and 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…

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 King's Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

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Frederick William Bourne



Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…

Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin

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Frank Tilton



The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…

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…

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 …

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…

España y América

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Antonio Sánchez Moguel



Conjunto magestral de obras literarias e históricas de personajes hispanoparlantes de ambos lados del Atlántico. El autor exam…

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…

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…

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…

Hokitika, New Zealand: The Birth of a Borough

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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