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By: Gertrude Burford Rawlings | |
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![]() Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman recordings on papyrus and wax tablets. However, Rawlings acknowledges the sparse nature of this first fragile evidence, and limits speculation.Later, libraries of religious books grew in Europe, where monks copied individual books in monasteries. The "block printing" technique began with illustrations carved in wood blocks, while the text needed to be written by hand... |
By: Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932) | |
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By: Wayne Whipple (1856-1942) | |
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![]() This is a careful and fascinating collection of interviews with people who knew Lincoln as a boy and young man. A glimpse into the type of person he was from the very beginning. "All the world loves a lover"—and Abraham Lincoln loved everybody. With all his brain and brawn, his real greatness was in his heart. He has been called "the Great-Heart of the White House," and there is little doubt that more people have heard about him than there are who have read of the original "Great-Heart" in "The Pilgrim's Progress... |
By: Charles Reade (1814-1884) | |
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By: Peter Fisher (1782-1848) | |
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![]() Originally published in 1825 under the title: Sketches of New Brunswick : containing an account of the first settlement of the province, with a brief description of the country, climate, productions, inhabitants, government, rivers, towns, settlements, public institutions, trade, revenue, population, &c., by an inhabitant of the province. The value of this history is in the fact that it was written when the Province was still in its infancy. Although there had been a few small settlements established in New Brunswick prior to 1783, the main influx of settlers were Loyalists who chose to remove to the area from the United States following the American Revolution. |
By: Irvin S. Cobb (1876-1944) | |
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By: Milburg F. Mansfield (1871-) | |
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By: W. F. (William Francis) Dawson | |
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By: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) | |
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![]() This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He was born in Scotland in 1835 and emigrated to America in 1848. Among his many accomplishments and philanthropic works, he was an author, having written, besides this autobiography, Triumphant Democracy (1886; rev. ed. 1893), The Gospel of Wealth, a collection of essays (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), and Problems of To-day (1908)]. Although this autobiography was written in 1919, it was published posthumously in 1920. |
By: Julian Stafford Corbett (1854-1922) | |
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By: Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves (1856-1944) | |
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By: Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860-1908) | |
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By: Alfred John Church (1829-1912) | |
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By: John McElroy (1846-1929) | |
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By: Robert Southey (1774-1843) | |
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By: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) | |
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![]() Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and the New Race is her treatise on how the control of population size would not only free women from the bondage of forced motherhood, but would elevate all of society. The original fight for birth control was closely tied to the labor movement as well as the Eugenics movement, and her book provides fascinating insight to a mostly-forgotten turbulent battle recently fought in American history. |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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By: Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) | |
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By: New York Central Railroad Company | |
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By: Agnes von Blomberg Bensly | |
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![]() Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the base of the mountain where Moses received the Tablets of the Law. Set in rugged country, accessible in times past only by a many days journey by camel across barren desert, the monastery survived intact through the centuries, and, as a result, became a rich repository of religious history—told through its icons, mosaics, and the books and manuscripts in the monastery library... |
By: Hattie Greene Lockett (1880-1962) | |
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By: Frank Henderson | |
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![]() A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fellow prisoners came to be in prison, and his ideas about the penal system, its downfalls and ways to improve it. The reader can see similarities to the problems we still have in regarding "criminals" today. (Introduction by Elaine Webb) |
By: Lydia Maria Francis Child (1802-1880) | |
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By: Kate Dickinson Sweetser (-1939) | |
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By: M. Mignet (1796-1884) | |
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By: S. Baring-Gould (1834-1924) | |
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![]() This volume is an example of Sabine Baring-Gould's extensive research into the middle ages. This volume of 12 curiosities was one of Baring-Gould's most successful publications. |
By: William H. Hudson (1841-1922) | |
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By: Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913) | |
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![]() Of all the natural sciences there is not one which offers such sublime objects to the attention of the inquirer as does the science of astronomy. From the earliest ages the study of the stars has exercised the same fascination as it possesses at the present day. Among the most primitive peoples, the movements of the sun, the moon, and the stars commanded attention from their supposed influence on human affairs. From the days of Hipparchus down to the present hour the science of astronomy has steadily grown... |
By: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831-1919) | |
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By: William Charles Henry Wood (1864-1947) | |
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By: William Wood (1864-1947) | |
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![]() No exhaustive Canadian 'water history' can possibly be attempted here. That would require a series of its own. But at least a first attempt will be made to give some general idea of what such a history would contain in fuller detail: of the kayaks and canoes the Eskimos and Indians used before the white man came, and use today; of the small craft moved by oar and sail that slowly displaced those moved only by the paddle; of the sailing vessels proper, and how they plied along Canadian waterways,... |
By: George Hart (1839-1891) | |
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By: Albert C. Manucy | |
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By: T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines (1844-) | |
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By: Annie E. Keeling | |
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By: Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) | |
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By: John Fiske (1842-1901) | |
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