History
Epistulae Morales Selectae
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the pres…
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1
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Niccolò Machiavelli
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…
1942 Radio News
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News from 1942. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1942 news file …
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1
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Charles F. Horne
Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than …
Historical Tales, Vol IV: English
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …
Bacon
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Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise w…
Historical Tales, Vol VI: French
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers t…
Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)
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Richard Burton Deane
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4
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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 12
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
1939 Radio News
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News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file …
Afloat on the Ohio
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I, From the Beginning until the Death of Alexander I (1825)
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Simon Dubnow
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…
The Book of the National Parks
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Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…
The Dancing Mania
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Justus Hecker
Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…
A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb
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Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás
“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…