History
Tales of Shipwrecks and Other Disasters at Sea
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Thomas Bingley
Ten accounts of events from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when life at sea was a perilous venture. The book is presented as a seri…
Annie Oakley, Woman at Arms
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Courtney Ryley Cooper
Annie Oakley was without a doubt the greatest markswomen who ever lived. She was christened Phoebe Ann Mosey but was called Annie from child…
A History of the Great War
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John Buchan
This is the third of a four-volume history of the First World War, coming in along the Ypres Salient in February 1916 and stopping mid-Novem…
A Voice From The Main Deck
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Samuel Leech
Samuel Leech was a young sailor in the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the War of 1812. He became notable as one of very few wh…
The dogaressas of Venice
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Edgcumbe Staley
A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy
The Modern Woman's Rights Movement
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Käthe Schirmacher
A history of the international woman’s rights movements originally published in 1905 and updated in 1909; English translation published in 1…
News From No Man's Land
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James Green
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…
Lives of the Presidents of the United States
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Helen W. Pierson
This book consists of simple biographies of the first 23 Presidents of the United States written chiefly in words of one syllable. Books suc…
History of the Norwegian People
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Knut Gjerset
A detailed and exhaustive history of the Norwegian People, written in two volumes. This second volume deals with Norwegian History from the …
The Story of Cairo
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Stanley Lane-Poole
Although Cairo is most famous for the ancient Egyptian pyramids of Giza located at its outskirts, the city as we know it today dates back on…
The Voyagers
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Pádraic Colum
In this 1926 Newbery Honor Book, Pádraic Colum gathers several little-known folk lore tales of exploration on the Atlantic Ocean and …
Hear It Now
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Edward R Murrow hosts and narrates this first program in the series of 'Hear It Now.' Murrow begins with a description of the tragic events …
History of the Kingdom of Siam
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François-Henri Turpin
Turpin's History of Siam, published at Paris in the year 1771 consists of two volumes, the first of which deals merely with the natural Hist…
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
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Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
Lothrop Stoddard's most famous treatise on race. Written in the aftermath of the First World War, Stoddard examines the racial trends of his…
The World’s Famous Orations
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William Jennings Bryan, Variousandwilliam Jennings Bryan and Various And William Jennings Bryan
This book contains a number of famous speeches and addresses from continental Europe between 300 CE to 1900 CE, organized around the followi…
The History of Bread
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John Ashton
From ancient flatbreads cooked on hot stones to the fluffy loaves of the early 20th century, Ashton explores how bread rose alongside human …
The History Teacher's Magazine
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Various
"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geogr…
CBS Radio At Fifty
Read by Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite hosts this 3 hour retrospective on the history of CBS Radio from its beginnings up through to the date of this broadcast. Th…
The Sailor's Word-book
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William Henry Smyth
An encyclopaedia (a digest, the author calls it) of nautical terms and other words relevant to navigation, the character of seafarers, fish …