Pamela Nagami
Maria Theresa
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of…
Locke
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…
The Story of Gladstone's Life
William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898), four times Prime Minister of Great Britain, dominated the Liberal Party for thirty years, but ultimatel…
Roman History: The Early Empire, from the Assassination of Julius Caesar to that of Domitian
William Wolfe Capes (1834-1914) was an Anglican cleric, a classicist, and a historian. This is his short chronicle of the early Roman Empire…
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects…
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II
Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume III
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
Life and Writings of Addison
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, wi…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume V
In this volume of Creighton's history, the popes conduct themselves as Italian princes. Pope Alexander VI's daughter, Lucretia Borgia, becom…
Modern England 1820-1885
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
Hildebrand and his Times
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-…
Great Captains Unveiled
"Great Captains Unveiled" by the eminent military historian Sir Basil Liddell Hart comprises the biographies of six commanders who…
Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
Sleeping Sickness
In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children…
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to t…
Cavour
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…