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By: Bliss Perry (1860-1954) | |
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The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters | |
The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures |
By: Blythe Harding | |
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The Honest American Voter's Little Catechism for 1880 | |
By: Bolesław Prus (1847-1912) | |
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The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt |
By: Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) | |
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Up From Slavery
Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton University, to his work establishing vocational schools—most notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama—to help black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps. He reflects on the generosity of both teachers and philanthropists who helped in educating blacks and native Americans... |
By: Boyd Cable (1878-1943) | |
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Between the Lines
This book, all of which has been written at the Front within sound of the German guns and for the most part within shell and rifle range, is an attempt to tell something of the manner of struggle that has gone on for months between the lines along the Western Front, and more especially of what lies behind and goes to the making of those curt and vague terms in the war communiqués. I think that our people at Home will be glad to know more, and ought to know more, of what these bald phrases may actually signify, when, in the other sense, we read 'between the lines.' |
By: Brander Matthews (1852-1929) | |
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Inquiries and Opinions |
By: Bret Harte (1836-1902) | |
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Thankful Blossom |
By: Brinsley MacNamara (1890-1963) | |
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Valley of the Squinting Windows
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a small Irish town as he saw it, rather than the romanticized version told by others, or how the locals wished to be seen. Mrs. Brennan, the local dressmaker, has opinions. Her son is off studying to become a priest, which elevates him -- and thus her -- in her opinion. Mr. Brennan is forgiven all his transgressions, on account of being father to the son. Mrs. Brennan is less tolerant of those not related to her and her acerbic tongue is well-known throughout the village... |
By: Brooks Adams (1848-1927) | |
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The Theory of Social Revolutions
Brooks Adams (1848- 1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the society crumbles. In The Law of Civilisation and Decay (1895), Adams noted that as new population centers emerged in the west, centers of world trade shifted from Constantinople to Venice to Amsterdam to London... | |
The Emancipation of Massachusetts |
By: Bruce Bairnsfather (1888?-1959) | |
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Fragments From France |
By: BS Murthy | |
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Puppets of Faith: Theory of Communal Strife
When a bunch of apparently non-practicing Musalmans headed by Mohamed Atta launched that fidayeen attack on New York’s World Trade Centre that Sep 11, the world at large, by then familiar with the ways of the Islamic terrorism, was at a loss to fathom the unthinkable source of that unexpected means of the new Islamist scourge. The symptoms of a latent terrorist in the Muslim youth can be traced to the sublimity of Muhammad's preaching’s in Mecca and the severity of his Medina sermons make Islam a Janus-faced faith that forever bedevils the mind of the Musalmans... |
By: Budgett Meakin (1866-1906) | |
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Life in Morocco and Glimpses Beyond |
By: Bulstrode Whitlocke (1605-1676?) | |
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A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. |
By: Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872-1962) | |
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A Soldier of Virginia |
By: Burton Jesse Hendrick (1870-1949) | |
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The Age of Big Business; a chronicle of the captains of industry | |
The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I |
By: Bury Palliser (1805-1878) | |
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Brittany & Its Byways |
By: Byron A. Dunn (1842-1926) | |
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Raiding with Morgan
It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan. |
By: C. A. (Caroline Augusta) Frazer | |
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Atmâ A Romance |
By: C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol (1813-1900) | |
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Senatorial Character A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner. |
By: C. A. Rose | |
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Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery |
By: C. B. Black (-1906) | |
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The South of France—East Half | |
Itinerary through Corsica by its Rail, Carriage & Forest Roads |
By: C. Bryson Taylor (1880-) | |
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Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain |
By: C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews (1829-1922) | |
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Minnesota and Dacotah |
By: C. C. James (1863-1916) | |
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History of Farming in Ontario
This paper takes the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888-1912. We see how farming and farm industries developed and how the population was distributed during these times. We see the trends of settlers moving into the Urban centers instead of rural and how the farm industries (making cheese, butter, wool, etc) move off the farm to the city factories. Excerpt: “The farmer’s wife in those days was perhaps the most expert master of trades ever known. She could spin and weave, make a carpet or a rug, dye yarns and clothes, and make a straw hat or a birch broom... |
By: C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell (1859-1928) | |
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Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 |
By: C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean (1879-1968) | |
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Letters from France |
By: C. F. (Charles Fayette) McGlashan | |
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History of the Donner Party, a Tragedy of the Sierra |
By: C. F. (Charles Finch) Dowsett (1836?-1915) | |
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A start in life. A journey across America. Fruit farming in California |