Modern (19th C)

History Of Missouri In Words Of One Syllable

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Emily Steinestel Macnamara


A simplified history of the state of Missouri, from ancient Prehistoric times to the late 19th century, written chiefly in words of one syll…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 15

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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…

What America Owes to Women

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Lydia Hoyt Farmer


As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman …

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 2

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Lyman Copeland Draper


A 1903 reprint of a volume published in 1856, edited by Lyman Draper. Contents recorded include: three memoirs of early 19th century Wiscons…

Hokitika, New Zealand: The Birth of a Borough

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A pamphlet version of four papers on the beginnings of the town and borough of Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand…

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2

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Henry Baerlein


Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…

James B. Eads

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Louis How


Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…

España y América

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Antonio Sánchez Moguel


Conjunto magestral de obras literarias e históricas de personajes hispanoparlantes de ambos lados del Atlántico. El autor exam…

Michigan Historical Collections, Volume 2

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Historical Society Of Michigan


The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…

A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa

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Robert Louis Stevenson


CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK INCORPORATES QUOTATIONS CONTAINING RACIST SLURS. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A BOWDLERIZED COPY, SEE BETWEEN ABOUT 07.…

Epochs of American History: Division and Reunion 1829-1889

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson


This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…

Orion Clemens

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Fred W. Lorch


Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langh…

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1

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Lyman Copeland Draper


The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …

An Inaugural Dissertation on Pulmonary Consumption

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Edward Delafield


At a time when diseases termed "consumption" were among the leading cause of death in the county, physicians such as Edward Delafi…

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 2

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Otto Von Bismarck


A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…

A Century of Dishonor

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Helen Hunt Jackson


In this work, a predecessor to "Ramona", HH describes the systematic process of segregation, dispossession, and relocation that Na…

An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic,…

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George Livermore


Collects the speeches, writings, public statements and legislative acts of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the United States against sla…

Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1

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Ann Stephens


Pictorial History of the War for the Union, Volume 1, is an indispensable read for any Civil War buff. Written during the Civil War, Ann Ste…

Artículos Varios

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José Milla Y Vidaurre


Relaciones de eventos históricos acontecidos en Centro América durante la época colonial y hasta 1900. - Summary by Mar…

Libro Sin Nombre y Artículos Varios

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José Milla Y Vidaurre


Milla muestra el vigor y la lozanía de su talento e imaginación en esta colección de artículos que hablan a la v…

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