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''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism - Fanny Stenhouse
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism - Fanny Stenhouse
- Author: Fanny Stenhouse
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Modern (19th C)
Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts to the new Mormon faith. Her religious zeal is sorely tested upon receipt of news from America revealing that...
Comic History of the United States - Bill Nye
Comic History of the United States - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: History / Humor
This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic and humorous remarks. The reader will enjoy a...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3 - Friedrich Schiller
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3 - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: War & Military / History
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the...
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
- Author: Hermann Gunkel
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance...
A Description of New England - Captain John Smith
A Description of New England - Captain John Smith
- Author: Captain John Smith
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania. He is remembered for his role in establishing...
The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Anna Harriette Leonowens
The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Genre: History / Memoirs
In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education...
Auguste Comte and Positivism - John Stuart Mill
Auguste Comte and Positivism - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines the tenets of Comte's movement and alerts us to defects. Part 2 concerns all Comte's writings except the Cours...
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD - Robert F. Pennell
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD - Robert F. Pennell
- Author: Robert F. Pennell
- Genre: History
History of Rome from the Earliest times down to 476 AD. This compilation is designed to be a companion to the author's History of Greece. It is hoped that it may fill a want, now felt in many high schools and academies, of a short and clear...
Guy Fawkes; or, A Complete History of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 - Thomas Lathbury
Guy Fawkes; or, A Complete History of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 - Thomas Lathbury
- Author: Thomas Lathbury
- Genre: History
Though the particulars connected with the Gunpowder Treason may be perused in the general histories of the period, yet I am not aware, that any modern narrative of that dark design is to be found in a separate form. Many brief sketches have, indeed,...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 13) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter traces the history of the Glorious Revolution in Scotland, including the reaction of the country's religious parties, the installment of William and Mary, and the campaigns of the Highland Army. (Summary by Leon Mire)...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, science...
The Book of the Dead - E. A. Wallis Budge
The Book of the Dead - E. A. Wallis Budge
- Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the soul on its journey to Duat, or Afterlife....
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century...
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: History
Continuing the series with European Leaders, Dr. Lord discusses William IV, Sir Robert Peel, Cavour, Czar Nicholas, Louis Napoleon, Prince Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone. (Summary by KHand)...
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1 - Various
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History / Literary Collections
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length vary greatly. This collection is a sampling of twenty such articles including one from the Journal de Paris....
The Story of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
The Story of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding clubs, swords and sabres,...
History of France - Charlotte Mary Yonge
History of France - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: History
A brief history of France from the early 800AD to the 1870s, focusing on the successive heads of state and the different wars which shaped France into the country it was by the time of the book's publication (late 19th century). Summary by Adele...
Stories of Inventors - Russell Doubleday
Stories of Inventors - Russell Doubleday
- Author: Russell Doubleday
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Science
Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of the inventions are no longer used, each example shows how inventors contributed to technology through...
Phaedo - Plato
Phaedo - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the...
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England - Charles McLean Andrews
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: History / Early Modern
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same times as those in the southern. The opening passage explains: "The Pilgrims and Puritans, whose migration to...
One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends - Carl Parcher RUSSELL
One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends - Carl Parcher RUSSELL
- Author: Carl Parcher RUSSELL
- Genre: History / Nature / Travel & Geography
This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its discovery by non-natives in the Indian War of 1851 to the mid-twentieth century. The printed book contains dozens...
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 - Moncure Daniel Conway
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2 - Moncure Daniel Conway
- Author: Moncure Daniel Conway
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the years from the US Civil War to roughly 1904. (Summary by JoeD)...
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV - Francis Parkman, Jr.
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV - Francis Parkman, Jr.
- Author: Francis Parkman Jr.
- Genre: History
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earned him the reputation as one of the most notable American historians. Preface excerpt: The events recounted...
The Awakening of Europe - M. B. Synge
The Awakening of Europe - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
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 interesting men, women, and events that shaped Europe during the years 1520-1745. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt - David Miller DeWitt
The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt - David Miller DeWitt
- Author: David Miller DeWitt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the president was dead -- struck down by an assassin's bullet. Could this have been the mad act of a single demented...
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Vol 1 - Robert Falcon Scott
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Vol 1 - Robert Falcon Scott
- Author: Robert Falcon Scott
- Genre: History / Memoirs / Exploration
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time. What started as a scientific expedition turned out to be an unwilling race against a team lead by R....
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France - William Bennett Munro
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France - William Bennett Munro
- Author: William Bennett Munro
- Genre: History
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New World. This book focuses on the role that France played in America's journey to becoming a world power. Group:...
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 2 - Flavius Josephus
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 2 - Flavius Josephus
- Author: Flavius Josephus
- Genre: History / Antiquity
Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the Jews is a history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. Beginning with the...
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
- Author: Charles MCRAE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 4 chapter 19 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail....
An Address to Free Colored Americans - An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
An Address to Free Colored Americans - An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
- Author: An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child....
Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / History / Early Modern
Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the countries of South America, describing history...
The Bible in Its Making - Mildred Duff
The Bible in Its Making - Mildred Duff
- Author: Mildred Duff
- Genre: History / Christianity - Other
One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.' It is with the desire to show that the same law rules in another of God's...
With the Turks in Palestine - Alexander Aaronsohn
With the Turks in Palestine - Alexander Aaronsohn
- Author: Alexander Aaronsohn
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a little country the soul of which is torn to pieces—a little country that is so remote, so remote that her ardent...
The Story of Books - Gertrude Burford Rawlings
The Story of Books - Gertrude Burford Rawlings
- Author: Gertrude Burford Rawlings
- Genre: History / Technology & Engineering
Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman recordings on papyrus and wax tablets. However, Rawlings acknowledges the sparse nature...
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
- Author: Ralph Keeler
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Humor
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and...
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon has a stern or disdainful...
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
The Theory of Social Revolutions - Brooks Adams
The Theory of Social Revolutions - Brooks Adams
- Author: Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial...
