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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660–1783 is a history of naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role…
The Life of Washington
If it be true that it takes a great man to interpret the life of a great man then Bushrod Washington made no mistake in the selection of a b…
The Cross-Cut
A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild. An e…
Thomas Hobbes
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
The Aftermath of Slavery
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
Lady Jim of Curzon Street
Faced with bankruptcy and trapped in an unhappy marriage, Lady Jim Kaims has to solve her problems alone. After every decent way fails her, …
My Bondage and My Freedom
The life of Frederick Douglass, recorded in the pages which follow, is not merely an example of self elevation under the most adverse circum…
Cleopatra
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a…
The Pilot
The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the …
Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Adventures of Gil Blas de Santillane
Gil Blas is born in misery to a stablehand and a chambermaid of Santillana in Cantabria, and is educated by his uncle. He leaves Oviedo at t…
The Philadelphia Negro
In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …
Chicago May
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…
The Life of Washington
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…
Washington and his Comrades in Arms
This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by G…
Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence
It seems eminently fitting and proper in this year, the fiftieth anniversary of the Proclamation of Emancipation that the Negro should give …
The Chronicles of America
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…
Pioneers of the Old South
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…
Jefferson and his Colleagues
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…
The Chronicles of America
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…