Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …
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…
Compiled by William Coleman the first editor of the New York Evening Post, this book includes items that trace a path leading to the death o…
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
