Modern (19th C)

An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

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Theron Clark Crawford


The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is …

The County Regiment

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Dudley Landon Vaill


A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War.

Strange Stories Of The Civil War

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Various


Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin Mccarthy


Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

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Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Tin Horns and Calico

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Henry Esmond Christman


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 l…

Wonderful London

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William James Mcglothlin


"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

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William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Christmas Under Three Flags

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox


This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest

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Walter Noble Burns


First published in 1927, "Tombstone" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Nob…

The Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements

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George Grimm


"The Story of the Exploration of Australia is one which we cannot willingly let die. There are many reasons for keeping alive the remem…

Memories of the Civil War

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Henry B. James


Henry B James enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 20, and fought in many of the key battles of the Civil War. Thirty years later, he wr…

Frederick Douglass

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Booker T. Washington


An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become one of the most important and influential abolitionists, authors…

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2

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Ida M. Tarbell


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 funer…

Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty

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Stephen Coleridge


Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…

Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion

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Various


The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …

Upper Canada Sketches

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Thomas Conant


This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario),…

History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik


Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

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