Modern (19th C)
The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…
Upper Canada Sketches
This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario),…
Mississippi Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Poems of American History
The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …
The Jeffersonians
In this short (58 page) work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred du…
A Book of Sibyls
This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …
Man and Nature on the Broads
From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…
The Complete Confectioner
The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is fro…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
True Stories of Girl Heroines
Twenty short stories retelling the heroic deeds of teenaged girls and young women from history. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
Poems of American History
This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…
History of The New York Times
A beautifully written and witty history of The New York Times, and of newspaper publishing in general, from the 1850s to 1921 by three-time …
The Life of Clara Barton
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a h…
Kidnapped in London
Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…
The Truth About the Congo
After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year in Congo during the peak of European colonization. He can…
The Red Record
The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of c…
Imperialism and World Politics
Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…