Modern (19th C)
Why We Love Lincoln
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James Creelman
Brought to us by notable reporter and writer, James Creelman, this story of Abraham Lincoln is a more personal and simple portrait of the m…
Modern England 1820-1885
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Oscar Browning
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
Man-of-War Life
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Charles Nordhoff
In 1844, Charles Nordhoff joined the U.S. Navy at the young age of 14. He describes his around-the-world adventure as a young sailor aboard …
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
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Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
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John Mcelroy
A comprehensive four-volume history of one soldier's 15 months in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The book is divided into 83 cha…
When Railroads Were New
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Charles Frederick Carter
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Version 2)
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Lucy Larcom
What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? Wh…
Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers
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Philip Alexander Bruce
Stories of Confederate soldiers of the Civil War that share the vivid accounts of valor, resolve, loyalty, and endurance. Using historical r…
Mexico and the United States: a Story of Revolution, Intervention and War
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Frederick Starr
Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…
The Dread Apache: That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest
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Merrill Pingree Freeman
Excerpt which contains the opinions and biographical accounts from the author: "A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-…
The Armenian Crisis in Turkey
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Frederick Davis Greene
Frederick Greene shows in this book that the case of the subject races in the Ottoman Empire is desperate, that there is no hope of reform f…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Charles James Fox
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Henry Offley Wakeman
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…
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…
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…
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…
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…
An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic, on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers
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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…
An Appeal to the Religion, Justice, and Humanity of the Inhabitants of the British Empire, in behalf of the Negro Slaves in the West Indies
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William Wilberforce
An impassioned plea by Wilberforce about putting an end to slavery in the West Indies based on his view of the institution as a national dis…
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…