History

Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War

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Eugenia Dunlap Potts


While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An int…

Fathers of Biology

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Charles Mcrae


An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of int…

How I Filmed the War

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Geoffrey H. Malins


An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was the…

The Child's Book of American Biography

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Mary Stoyell Stimpson


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 …

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate

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Eliza P. Donner Houghton


The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming…

In the Field (1914-1915)

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Marcel Dupont


I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…

The Jesuits in North America in the 17th Century

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Early History of the Airplane

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Orville Wright


The Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air flight, on 17th December 1903. They…

American Civil War Collection, Volume 1

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Various


Compilation of American Civil War related poems and short works of literature. Summary by Bill2147

Römische Geschichte Buch 3

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Theodor Mommsen


Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Römische Geschichte Drittes B…

Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail

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Ezra Meeker


This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)

Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton


These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

The Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History

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Charles Foster Kent


Charles Foster Kent was one of the premier scholars in Jewish Studies at the turn of the century. He was particularly well-known for his co…

Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

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Phoebe Yates Pember


Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseei…

Kepler

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Walter W. Bryant


This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at…

The Theory of Social Revolutions

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Brooks Adams


Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…

The Legends of Genesis

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Hermann Gunkel


The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical ana…

WWII News and Related Sound files from 1944


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Old Time Radio Programs. WWII News and Related Sound files from 1944

Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers …

Römische Geschichte Buch 4

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Theodor Mommsen


Mommsen erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Römische Geschichte Viertes Buch Die Revo…

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