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Queen Victoria - E. Gordon BROWNE
Queen Victoria - E. Gordon BROWNE
- Author: E. Gordon BROWNE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This book is about the life of Queen Victoria (1819 to 1901). All nine of her children married into the royal houses of Europe. She became the longest reigning monarch and more. This book is a fascinating read about the woman behind the British...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 08) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
In this chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England we see conflict between James II and his subjects. James is Catholic but rules a Protestant country. There are some serious stand-offs with colleges at Oxford and Cambridge plus...
The Child's Book of American Biography - Mary Stoyell STIMPSON
The Child's Book of American Biography - Mary Stoyell STIMPSON
- Author: Mary Stoyell STIMPSON
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography / History
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may...
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, September 1909 - Various
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, September 1909 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History
"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geography and Economics. It aims to bring to the teacher of these topics the latest news of his profession. It will...
Starved Rock: A Historical Sketch - Eaton G. OSMAN
Starved Rock: A Historical Sketch - Eaton G. OSMAN
- Author: Eaton G. OSMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This book is an early history of the Starved Rock Area in Northern Illinois. In the pre-Columbian era, the Starved Rock area was home to Native Americans, particularly the Kaskaskia who lived in the Grand Village of the Illinois across the river....
Great Pirate Stories - Joseph Lewis FRENCH
Great Pirate Stories - Joseph Lewis FRENCH
- Author: Joseph Lewis FRENCH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as thesea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century orso ago, under one phase or another...
Historical Tales, Vol I: American I - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol I: American I - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the United States of America, describing history...
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt
The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for individual and collective success in the personal, civic, political, and social arenas. (Introduction by Bob...
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2 - Henry Charles Lea
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2 - Henry Charles Lea
- Author: Henry Charles Lea
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Middle Ages/Middle History
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods used to financially support the Inquisition, methods used by the Inquisition to expose heresy, and numerous...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
Famous Men of Modern Times - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of Modern Times - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Famous Men of Modern Times is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. Summary by Laura Caldwell...
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People - William Wells BROWN
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People - William Wells BROWN
- Author: William Wells BROWN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steam...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Much of this chapter is taken up with the affairs of Ireland during the reign of James II. The Protestants and Catholics are having their usual disagreements and James is putting his pieces in place in an attempt to use the Irish to consolidate his...
Alexander the Great - Jacob Abbott
Alexander the Great - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Alexander the Great is one of many biographies...
A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
A Key To Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: History
After the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which many claim sparked off the Civil War that put an end to legalized slavery in America, there was a great outcry that Stowe had blown her fictional story out of all proportion to the facts. She was...
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor - Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor - Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
- Author: Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both shores of the Hudson, and the...
Declaration of Rights - STAMP ACT CONGRESS
Declaration of Rights - STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- Author: STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York....
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1 - Charles MACKAY
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1 - Charles MACKAY
- Author: Charles MACKAY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts,...
The Story of Old France - H. A. GUERBER
The Story of Old France - H. A. GUERBER
- Author: H. A. GUERBER
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / History
The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the principal events, this narrative...
Laws - Plato
Laws - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in...
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650 - William BRADFORD
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650 - William BRADFORD
- Author: William BRADFORD
- Genre: History / Early Modern
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of early American history. His eyewitness account includes the stories of the Pilgrims’ sojourn in the Netherlands,...
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 - Various
The Black Experience in America, 18th-20th Century, Vol. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History
This is not the copyrighted work by Norman Coombs currently on Project Gutenberg but a collection of non-fiction, fiction, poetry, drama, and speeches found on Project Gutenberg that are by or about African Americans. Subjects range from late 18th...
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B - David Hume
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1B - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of...
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers - Talbot Hughes
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers - Talbot Hughes
- Author: Talbot Hughes
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / History
Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)...
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies - Sydney Fisher
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies - Sydney Fisher
- Author: Sydney Fisher
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involvement in the evolution of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Throughout, the author investigates the various...
Signs of Change - William Morris
Signs of Change - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw himself into the Socialist cause. He spoke all over the country, on street corners as well as in working men's...
The Death of Lord Nelson - William Beatty
The Death of Lord Nelson - William Beatty
- Author: William Beatty
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"The Surgeon of the late illustrious Lord NELSON feels himself called upon, from the responsible situation which he held on the eventful day of the 21st of October 1805, to lay before the British Nation the following Narrative. It contains an...
The Facts of Reconstruction - John R. Lynch
The Facts of Reconstruction - John R. Lynch
- Author: John R. Lynch
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected to the US...
The History of Prostitution - William Sanger
The History of Prostitution - William Sanger
- Author: William Sanger
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither a philosopher nor a logician,...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus Corpus Act introduced, the persecution of the Huguenots and troubles in Ireland. Summary by Jim Mowatt...
The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
- Author: Frederick Jackson Turner
- Genre: History
Frederick Jackson Turner was an extremely influential U.S. historian, who is best known for his "frontier thesis", which proposed that American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped frontier area from the founding...
Comic History of England - Bill Nye
Comic History of England - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: History / Humor
Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” Mowatt is a distinguished LibriVox volunteer, widely known for his continued devotion both to regularly...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state of the nation in 1685. He discusses the population, the revenue, the military system, the roads, the inns,...
This Country of Ours, Part 7 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 7 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: History
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 7: Stories...
The Story of Manhattan - Charles Hemstreet
The Story of Manhattan - Charles Hemstreet
- Author: Charles Hemstreet
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishes in 1898 when the island of Manhattan becomes the Borough of Manhattan of Greater New York. (Summary by...
Alexander Hamilton - Charles A. Conant
Alexander Hamilton - Charles A. Conant
- Author: Charles A. Conant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American Revolutionary War and became an aide to General George Washington. He was one of the authors (along with John...
The Glories of Ireland - Joseph Dunn
The Glories of Ireland - Joseph Dunn
- Author: Joseph Dunn
- Genre: Short Stories / History / Travel & Geography
A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced to the conclusion that the performances of the Irish race in many fields of endeavor are entirely unknown to most...
U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter - Lynn Montross
U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter - Lynn Montross
- Author: Lynn Montross
- Genre: War & Military / History
It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could hardly have suspected that this remote Asiatic peninsula was to become the scene of the fourth most costly...
The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 - Frederick Whymper
The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 - Frederick Whymper
- Author: Frederick Whymper
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Everything about the sea: history of ships, famous mariners and life on shipboard, adventure, shipwrecks and daring rescues. - Summary by Kikisaulite...
The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution - Max Farrand
The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution - Max Farrand
- Author: Max Farrand
- Genre: History
In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to further conflicts and developments, to convention, and finally to union....