Early Modern
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
The Age of Louis XIV
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
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Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…
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Mary S. Locke
Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
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James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians d…
The Thirty Years' War
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species
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Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …
The Thirty Years' War
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Renaissance and the Reformation
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Emmeline Tanner
Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…
Women of Versailles
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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Historical Backgrounds of the Great War
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Frank James Adkins
Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…
Handbook of Home Rule
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James Bryce
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…
The Pianoforte Sonata
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John South Shedlock
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…
History of the Kingdom of Siam
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François-Henri Turpin
Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely with the natural Hist…
The Great Events by Famous Historians
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson
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Watkin Tench
Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote…
The First Four Voyages of Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci was, arguably, the first person to explore North and South America from Cape Hatteras to Uruguay or Argentina, 35° nort…
History of the Revolutions in Europe
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Christoph Wilhelm Von Koch
The View of the Revolutions of Europe by M. Koch, has been long known and highly esteemed on the Continent as a work of incontestable merit,…
Anti-Dictator
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Étienne De La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…