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The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840) - Meriwether LEWIS
The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840) - Meriwether LEWIS
- Author: Meriwether LEWIS
- Genre: History / Modern (19th C) / Exploration
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean, has had all the success which could be expected. They have traced the Missouri nearly to its source; descended...
The History of the Suez Canal - Ferdinand de LESSEPS
The History of the Suez Canal - Ferdinand de LESSEPS
- Author: Ferdinand de LESSEPS
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is the translation of a lecture given before the Societe de Gens Lettres in Paris, in April 1870 by de Lesseps...
Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography - Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken presidents in American history. Not only are we privy to the formation of his political ideals, but also to...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People - Ethel T. RAYMOND
Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People - Ethel T. RAYMOND
- Author: Ethel T. RAYMOND
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk hero remembered by many Canadians for his defense of their country. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia)...
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 - Carlton MCCARTHY
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 - Carlton MCCARTHY
- Author: Carlton MCCARTHY
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The author, who fought as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, describes the Confederate soldier’s daily struggles with hunger, illness, fear, and the perils of combat; as well as his pride of service, love of comrades,...
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia - Giovanni Battista BELZONI
Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia - Giovanni Battista BELZONI
- Author: Giovanni Battista BELZONI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778 – 1823) was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven ton bust of Ramesses II, the clearing of sand from the entrance of the great...
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes - Francis Bond HEAD
Rough Notes Taken During Some Rapid Journeys Across the Pampas and Among the Andes - Francis Bond HEAD
- Author: Francis Bond HEAD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Modern (19th C)
“Galloped on with no stopping, but merely to change horses until five o’clock in the evening—very tired indeed, but . . . saw fresh horses in the corral, and resolved to push on. At half-past seven, after having galloped a hundred and fifty-three...
Figures of Several Centuries - Arthur SYMONS
Figures of Several Centuries - Arthur SYMONS
- Author: Arthur SYMONS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by...
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Abner DOUBLEDAY
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Abner DOUBLEDAY
- Author: Abner DOUBLEDAY
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter in 1861. Two years later, after a series of battles (including Antietam, where he was wounded), Doubleday took...
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2 - Charles MACKAY
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2 - Charles MACKAY
- Author: Charles MACKAY
- Genre: Psychology / Modern (19th C) / Christianity - Other
"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." "In reading the history of nations, we find that, like individuals, they have their whims and their...
Mark Twain; his life and work. A biographical sketch - William M. Clemens
Mark Twain; his life and work. A biographical sketch - William M. Clemens
- Author: William M. Clemens
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
As far as anyone has been able to establish, Will Clemens was NOT related to Sam Clemens (Mark Twain), though they did become acquaintances. The 200-page biography Will Clemens wrote and published himself may have been the earliest full-length study...
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 - Harris Newmark
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 - Harris Newmark
- Author: Harris Newmark
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Modern (20th C)
Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853 to 1913, as Los Angeles developed...
Modern England 1820-1885 - Oscar Browning
Modern England 1820-1885 - Oscar Browning
- Author: Oscar Browning
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The Irish, under O'Connell, carry agitation to the point of rebellion, forcing Parliament to pass the Catholic...
History of The New York Times, 1851-1921 - Elmer Holmes Davis
History of The New York Times, 1851-1921 - Elmer Holmes Davis
- Author: Elmer Holmes Davis
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
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 Peabody Award winner Elmer Davis. Davis provides a detailed history of the founding of The Times; its role in...
The Cruise of the Alerte - In Search of Treasure - Edward Frederick Knight
The Cruise of the Alerte - In Search of Treasure - Edward Frederick Knight
- Author: Edward Frederick Knight
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (19th C)
The book describes a voyage undertaken in 1889 by an English barrister Edward Frederick Knight to the South Seas. This delightful story takes the reader on a voyage to the forbidding desert island of Trindade, where it is rumored that immense...
The Book of Buried Treasure - Ralph Delahaye Paine
The Book of Buried Treasure - Ralph Delahaye Paine
- Author: Ralph Delahaye Paine
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Described by the author as: BEING A TRUE HISTORY OF THE GOLD, JEWELS, AND PLATE OF PIRATES, GALLEONS, ETC., WHICH ARE SOUGHT FOR TO THIS DAY. Ralph Delahaye Paine (August 28, 1871 – April 29, 1925) was an American journalist and author popular in...
The Famous Missions of California - William Henry HUDSON
The Famous Missions of California - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Naturalist William Henry Hudson was born in Argentina of immigrant parents from England, and later settled there. He published books on ornithology and novels, and other books of far ranging interest. This is a short overview, which he calls a...
Triumphant Democracy - Andrew Carnegie
Triumphant Democracy - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in 1886, an impassioned celebration of the American success story, and a call for other nations to follow in America's...
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States - Winfield Hazlitt Collins
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States - Winfield Hazlitt Collins
- Author: Winfield Hazlitt Collins
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains so many extensive quotations (well footnoted along with an extensive bibliography) that it was unfeasible to...
Upper Canada Sketches - Thomas Conant
Upper Canada Sketches - Thomas Conant
- Author: Thomas Conant
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario), as well as a bit of history of the Conant family from its beginnings in England, to their emigration to what was to...
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, Volume 1 - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, Volume 1 - W. E. B. Du Bois
- Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slavery, and the whole colonial policy of the eighteenth century, that it is difficult to isolate it, and at the...
Arizona's Yesterday - John Cady
Arizona's Yesterday - John Cady
- Author: John Cady
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer. Written by John Henry Cady and revised and rewritten in 1915 by noted Playwright and Journalist Basil Woon. Cady was born in Ohio, served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and...
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines - Dan DeQuille
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines - Dan DeQuille
- Author: Dan DeQuille
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (19th C)
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the railroads. Silver not only defined Nevada, but influenced the opening of the American West as far as San...
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825 - 1894) - Simon Dubnow
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825 - 1894) - Simon Dubnow
- Author: Simon Dubnow
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and an activist. Due to his Jewish origin, he had to move to St. Petersburg, Odessa, Vilna (Lithuania), St....
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennyson And Kipling - Various
Into The Valley Of Death: Crimea, Balaklava, The Light Brigade: Russell, Tennyson And Kipling - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The Charge Of The Light Brigade (1854) is a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson. It is about, among other things, the valor of soldiers and the tragic loss of life in futile war engagements. The war is the Crimean War (1853-1856) which Russia lost...
Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905 - Harry Thurston Peck
Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905 - Harry Thurston Peck
- Author: Harry Thurston Peck
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole generation had been born and had grown to manhood and to womanhood without ever having lived under any but...
Tin Horns and Calico - Henry Esmond Christman
Tin Horns and Calico - Henry Esmond Christman
- Author: Henry Esmond Christman
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In the early 19th century, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, hundreds of square miles of land were still the feudal domains of large landowners known as patroons. Such families as the Van Rensselaers, Livingstons, and Schuylers owned the farms...
The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 - William E. Barton
The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1 - William E. Barton
- Author: William E. Barton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a hospital nurse in the American Civil War, a teacher, and a patent clerk. Since nursing education was not then...
Two American Slavery Documents - James Mars
Two American Slavery Documents - James Mars
- Author: James Mars
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James Mars was born in Connecticut in 1790 and spent the better part of his youth a slave working for various...
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I - Henry MAYHEW
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I - Henry MAYHEW
- Author: Henry MAYHEW
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work." "The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings,...
A Short History of Pittsburgh - Samuel Harden Church
A Short History of Pittsburgh - Samuel Harden Church
- Author: Samuel Harden Church
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Modern (20th C)
Samuel H. Church presents a brief history of the city of Pittsburgh, split into three domains: historical, industrial, and intellectual. His goal is to demonstrate to the reader that Pittsburgh is a noteworthy city, ready for your consideration. -...
Woman and the Republic - Helen Johnson
Woman and the Republic - Helen Johnson
- Author: Helen Johnson
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to understand better why opposing views towards women's suffrage were prevalent even among women themselves then....
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
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 funeral. The volume also includes a lengthy appendix which contains, in chronological order, letters. telegrams...
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Author: Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Genre: Law / Modern (19th C)
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 compilations made by white men, of reports sent over the civilized world by white men in the South. Out of...
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire - Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire - Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
- Author: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political history of Germany from medieval to modern times, culminating in the career of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898),...
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States - Robert Dale Owen
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States - Robert Dale Owen
- Author: Robert Dale Owen
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
"The Wrong of Slavery" is a work written by Robert Dale Owen based largely off of the work of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission where he served. It traces the early beginnings of the slave trade from its English beginning to the United States Civil...
The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829 - Richard B. Morris
The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829 - Richard B. Morris
- Author: Richard B. Morris
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In this short (58 page) work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred during the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. As the authors state in their...
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 - Ward Hill LAMON
Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865 - Ward Hill LAMON
- Author: Ward Hill LAMON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very existence of the United States, which was already falling apart. Ward Hill Lamon was, in effect, his first Secret...
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 2 - Archibald FORBES
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80, Part 2 - Archibald FORBES
- Author: Archibald FORBES
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
This Part 2 of "The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80" discusses the 1878-80 war, which was one of the major conflicts during the Great Game, the 19th century competition for power and influence in Central Asia between the United Kingdom and Russia,...
The Causes Of The American Civil War - John Lothrop Motley
The Causes Of The American Civil War - John Lothrop Motley
- Author: John Lothrop Motley
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. In 1861, just after the outbreak of the American Civil War, Motley...