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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Sabine Baring-Gould
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-Gould's most successful publications. (Summary by Carolin)...
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki - United States Army Corps of Engineers
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki - United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Author: United States Army Corps of Engineers
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Science
This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of military physicians and engineers who accompanied the initial contingent of U.S. soldiers into the destroyed cities...
History of the United States, Vol. III - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. III - Charles Austin Beard
- Author: Charles Austin Beard
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he...
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2 - Various
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and 1956. Readings are of speeches...
Edison, His Life and Inventions - Frank Lewis DYER
Edison, His Life and Inventions - Frank Lewis DYER
- Author: Frank Lewis DYER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light. In the words of the authors, "It is designed in these pages to bring the reader...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: History / Transportation
No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks...
Paul the Dauntless - Basil Joseph MATHEWS
Paul the Dauntless - Basil Joseph MATHEWS
- Author: Basil Joseph MATHEWS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Religion
“We shall in this book try to go in the footsteps of Paul. It will not be all easy traveling for any of us, to journey with this daring explorer of the Unseen; there is some steep hill-climbing, some scrambling over boulders, long flat tramps over...
Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People - Zorro A. BRADLEY
Canyon de Chelly; The Story of its Ruins and People - Zorro A. BRADLEY
- Author: Zorro A. BRADLEY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
A 1973 U.S. government publication describing the history and physical characteristics of this Arizona national monument within the boundaries of the Navajo Nation. - Summary by david wales...
A History of the Philippines - David Prescott BARROWS
A History of the Philippines - David Prescott BARROWS
- Author: David Prescott BARROWS
- Genre: History
This book is one of the earliest studies of Philippine history by an American scholar. In preparation for this book, the author conducted ethnological studies of indiginous island tribes after the American war in the Philippines. Since this book was...
The Pilgrimage Of Etheria - ETHERIA
The Pilgrimage Of Etheria - ETHERIA
- Author: ETHERIA
- Genre: History / Travel & Geography / Antiquity
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It is an important source of information about early Christian practices. This book has an extended...
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1909 - Various
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 2, October 1909 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History
The History Teacher's Magazine was a monthly publication devoted to the interests of teachers specializing in history, civics, and geography. It provides scholarly articles as well as advice on organizing course content, tips for engaging students,...
Famous American Statesmen - Sarah Knowles Bolton
Famous American Statesmen - Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Charles Sumner, Ulysses S. Grant, and James A. Garfield. (Summary by...
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 2 - Peter KROPOTKIN
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 2 - Peter KROPOTKIN
- Author: Peter KROPOTKIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the nobility and had a military...
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and emigrated to America in 1848. Among his many accomplishments and...
The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787 - United States Government
The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787 - United States Government
- Author: United States Government
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America....
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840 - William Cooper HOWELLS
Recollections of Life in Ohio, from 1813-1840 - William Cooper HOWELLS
- Author: William Cooper HOWELLS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Recollections of Life in Ohio is the autobiography of William Cooper Howells (1807-1894), father of the American novelist William Dean Howells. The Howells were Welsh woolen mill owners. William Cooper's father brought the family to America in...
The Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Margaret HERSCHEL
The Indians Of Carlsbad Caverns National Park - Margaret HERSCHEL
- Author: Margaret HERSCHEL
- Genre: History
A short review of the history and presence of Native Americans in the area of the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, USA. - Summary by david wales...
Tales of English Minsters: Hereford - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
Tales of English Minsters: Hereford - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Author: Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Genre: History
This short book was originally written for children, though adults will also find it worthwhile. It tells interesting history of Hereford in western England, its cathedral, and its people. - Summary by david wales...
English Costume - Dion Clayton CALTHROP
English Costume - Dion Clayton CALTHROP
- Author: Dion Clayton CALTHROP
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their boards; they gossip across the centuries,...
Cocoa and Chocolate - Arthur William KNAPP
Cocoa and Chocolate - Arthur William KNAPP
- Author: Arthur William KNAPP
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Self-Help
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its creation, and the complex process of its maturation from a bean to the delicacy we all enjoy. This "little...
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave - Henry BIBB
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave - Henry BIBB
- Author: Henry BIBB
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Henry Walton Bibb was born a slave. His father was white although his identity was not positively known. Bibb was separated from his mother at a very young age and hired out to other slave owners for most of his childhood. Always yearning for his...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II - Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. II - Edward Gibbon
- Author: Edward Gibbon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six...
The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson - Maud Wilder GOODWIN
The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson - Maud Wilder GOODWIN
- Author: Maud Wilder GOODWIN
- Genre: History
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 and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile country and which offers a...
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts - Frank R. Stockton
Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of Spanish colonialism. It is written with great flair for the dramatic by the author of The Lady or the Tiger?...
A General View of Positivism - Auguste COMTE
A General View of Positivism - Auguste COMTE
- Author: Auguste COMTE
- Genre: History / Philosophy / Science
Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “discovered the principal laws of Sociology." Comte says Reason has become habituated to revolt but that doesn’t...
Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Miller ADYE
Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch - General Sir John Miller ADYE
- Author: General Sir John Miller ADYE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our Eastern Empire, and is specially interesting at the present time, when military operations on a considerable scale are...
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora - George HAMILTON
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora - George HAMILTON
- Author: George HAMILTON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty mutineers and bring them back to England for trial. The commander, Captain Edward Edwards, also was ordered...
The Westminster Alice - Saki
The Westminster Alice - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Satire / History / Political Science
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland , Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles, takes an Alice in Wonderland view of British politics, which Alice finds even stranger than events in...
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1 - Peter KROPOTKIN
Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Vol. 1 - Peter KROPOTKIN
- Author: Peter KROPOTKIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but also about 19th century Russian society and politics. He was born into the nobility and had a military...
The Soul of the Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
The Soul of the Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: History / Other religions
"We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers, and has been handed down to us their children. It teaches us to be thankful, to be united, and to love one another! We never quarrel about religion."...
The British Army From Within - E. Charles VIVIAN
The British Army From Within - E. Charles VIVIAN
- Author: E. Charles VIVIAN
- Genre: War & Military / History
This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales...
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
Considerations on Representative Government - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, including when representative government is applicable and when not. He details appropriate functions of...
Democracy in America Vol. I - Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America Vol. I - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
When Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else. Many of his insightful observations American society and political system, found in the two volume book he published after his...
The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors - Irving Berdine RICHMAN
The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors - Irving Berdine RICHMAN
- Author: Irving Berdine RICHMAN
- Genre: History
A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim Locke Group: Chronicles of America Series...
Canada: The Empire of the North - Agnes C. LAUT
Canada: The Empire of the North - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: History
Canada's past is more dramatic than any romance ever penned. . . . All that has been attempted here is such a story of the romance and adventure in Canada's nation building as will give the casual reader knowledge of the country's past, and how that...
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan - UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan - UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
- Author: UNITED STATES SENATE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of Azizabad. This gave rise to a public...
The Dancing Mania - Justus HECKER
The Dancing Mania - Justus HECKER
- Author: Justus HECKER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Psychology
Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social phenomenon. One of the most prominent theories is that victims suffered from ergot poisoning, which was known as...
Give Me Liberty - Patrick HENRY
Give Me Liberty - Patrick HENRY
- Author: Patrick HENRY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. In...
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage - Rodris ROTH
Tea Drinking In 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette And Equipage - Rodris ROTH
- Author: Rodris ROTH
- Genre: Family & Relationships / History / Early Modern
The title of this 1961 Smithsonian Institution bulletin says it all. “In 18th-century America, the pleasant practice of taking tea at home was an established social custom with a recognized code of manners and distinctive furnishings. Pride was...
The Normans in European History - Charles Homer HASKINS
The Normans in European History - Charles Homer HASKINS
- Author: Charles Homer HASKINS
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / History
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these...
