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By: Allen L. Churchill and Francis J. Reynolds (1867-1937)

Book cover World's War Events, Vol. I

By: John Charles Van Dyke

A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke A Text-Book of the History of Painting

A TEXT-BOOK OF THE HISTORY OF PAINTINGBY JOHN C. VAN DYKE, L.H.D.PREFACE.The object of this series of text-books is to provide concise teachable histories of art for class-room use in schools and colleges. The limited time given to the study of art in the average educational institution has not only dictated the condensed style of the volumes, but has limited their scope of matter to the general features of art history. Archaeological discussions on special subjects and aesthetic theories have been avoided...

By: William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891)

Book cover Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years 1846-1848. While many of his colleagues saw action in the Mexican-American War, Sherman performed administrative duties in the captured territory of California. Along with fellow Lieutenants Henry Halleck and Edward Ord, Sherman embarked from New York on the 198-day journey around Cape Horn aboard the converted sloop USS Lexington...

By: Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842-1930)

Book cover The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '65
Book cover The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

By: Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)

Book cover Preface to Politics

This is the first book in the bibliography of Walter Lippmann, written three years after emerging from Harvard where he studied under the pragmatists Santayana and James. Although the work is a century old, the reader of today may still find in it, with its focus on practical human needs, a refreshing view towards the fundamental purpose (and persistent flaws) of politics, and indeed government itself, just as relevant and meaningful today as when it was written.

By: Rex Ellingwood Beach (1877-1949)

Book cover Heart of the Sunset

By: Rex Beach (1877-1949)

Book cover Flowing Gold

Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps them adjust to their newly found riches. The Briskows, in turn, help him prove false the charges that caused his dismissal from the army.

By: Sidney Lee (1859-1926)

Book cover Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays

By: Leonard W. King (1869-1919)

Book cover History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria in the Light of Recent Discovery

By: Edward V. Lucas (1868-1938)

Book cover A Wanderer in Venice
Book cover A Wanderer in Holland
Book cover A Wanderer in Florence

By: Raphael Holinshed (-1580?)

Book cover Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (1 of 8)From the Time That It Was First Inhabited, Vntill the Time That It Was Last Conquered
Book cover Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)
Book cover Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
Book cover Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
Book cover Chronicles 1 (of 6): The Historie of England 5 (of 8) The Fift Booke of the Historie of England.
Book cover Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
Book cover Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (8 of 8) The Eight Booke of the Historie of England
Book cover Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (7 of 8) The Seventh Boke of the Historie of England
Book cover Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (6 of 8) The Sixt Booke of the Historie of England

By: Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer (1856-1932)

Book cover Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess

By: William Carleton (1794-1869)

The Black Prophet - A Tale of Irish Famine by William Carleton The Black Prophet - A Tale of Irish Famine

A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it.

Book cover One Way Out A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America

By: Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)

Book cover The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
Book cover The Botanic Garden. Part II. Containing the Loves of the Plants. a Poem. With Philosophical Notes.

By: James Legge (1815-1897)

Book cover The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1

By: Gordon Cochrane Home (1878-1969)

Book cover The Evolution of an English Town
Book cover Yorkshire
Book cover Beautiful Britain: Canterbury
Book cover Normandy, Illustrated
Book cover Yorkshire—Coast and Moorland Scenes
Book cover What to See in England A Guide to Places of Historic Interest, Natural Beauty or Literary Association
Book cover Beautiful Britain—Cambridge

By: Isabella L. Bird (1831-1904)

Book cover Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

Isabella Lucy Bird was a 19th century English traveller, writer, and natural historian. She was a sickly child, however, while she was travelling she was almost always healthy. Her first trip, in 1854, took her to America, visiting relatives. Her first book, The Englishwoman in America was published anonymously two years later. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan is compiled of the letters she sent to her sister during her 7 months sojourn in Japan in 1878. Her travels there took her from Edo (now called Tokyo) through the interior - where she was often the first foreigner the locals had met - to Niigata, and from there to Aomori...

Book cover Among the Tibetans

Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better equipped parties. In "Among the Tibetans", Bird describes her tour through Tibet with her usual keen eye: From descriptions of the landscape and flora to the manners, customs and religion of the local people we get a fascinating account of a world long past.

Book cover The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither

By: Rupert Hughes (1872-1956)

Book cover Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country

By: Dion Clayton Calthrop (1878-1937)

English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop English Costume

The world, if we choose to see it so, is a complicated picture of people dressing and undressing. The history of the world is composed of the chat of a little band of tailors seated cross-legged on their boards; they gossip across the centuries, feeling, as they should, very busy and important. As you will see, I have devoted myself entirely to civil costume—that is, the clothes a man or a woman would wear from choice, and not by reason of an appointment to some ecclesiastical post, or to a military calling, or to the Bar, or the Bench. Such clothes are but symbols of their trades and professions, and have been dealt with by persons who specialize in those professions.

By: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939)

Book cover Indian Child Life

The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (the last 7 chapters). This is very different from the slanted way the white man tried to picture them as 'savages' and 'brutes.'Quote: Dear Children:—You will like to know that the man who wrote these true stories is himself one of the people he describes so pleasantly and so lovingly for you. He hopes that when you have finished this book, the Indians will seem to you very real and very friendly...

By: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939)

Book cover Wigwam Evenings Sioux Folk Tales Retold
Book cover Indian To-day

Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of the North American Indian. He addressed issues such as Indian schools, health, government policy and agencies, and citizenship in this book. In connection with his writings, Eastman was in steady demand as a lecturer and public speaker with the purpose of interpreting his race to the present age.

By: Vernon Lee (1856-1935)

Book cover The Spirit of Rome
Book cover The Countess of Albany

By: Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931)

Book cover The Psychology of Revolution

By: Marmaduke William Pickthall (1875-1936)

Book cover Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6

By: Gertrude Burford Rawlings

Book cover The Story of Books

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)

Book cover Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
Book cover The Character and Influence of the Indian Trade in Wisconsin

By: Wayne Whipple (1856-1942)

Book cover Story of Young Abraham Lincoln

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)

Book cover White Lies

By: Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920)

Book cover South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure
Book cover A Little Traitor to the South A War Time Comedy With a Tragic Interlude
Book cover For Love of Country A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution

By: Peter Fisher (1782-1848)

Book cover History of New Brunswick

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)

Book cover Roughing it De Luxe

By: Milburg F. Mansfield (1871-)

Book cover Dickens' London
Book cover Royal Palaces and Parks of France
Book cover The Automobilist Abroad
Book cover The Cathedrals of Northern France

By: W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

Book cover Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

By: Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

Book cover Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

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)

Book cover Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX.

By: Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves (1856-1944)

Book cover Mr. Punch's History of the Great War

By: Edward Gaylord Bourne (1860-1908)

Book cover The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

By: Alfred John Church (1829-1912)

Book cover Stories From Livy
Book cover Roman life in the days of Cicero

By: John McElroy (1846-1929)

Book cover Andersonville A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
Book cover Andersonville — Volume 1 A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
Book cover The Red Acorn

By: Robert Southey (1774-1843)

Book cover The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

By: Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)

Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger Woman and the New Race

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)

Book cover The Heart's Highway

By: Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)

Book cover The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time

By: New York Central Railroad Company

Book cover The Greatest Highway in the World Historical

By: Hattie Greene Lockett (1880-1962)

Book cover The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi

By: Frank Henderson

Six Years in the Prisons of England by Frank Henderson Six Years in the Prisons of England

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)

Book cover An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans

By: Kate Dickinson Sweetser (-1939)

Book cover Ten American Girls From History

By: M. Mignet (1796-1884)

Book cover History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814

By: S. Baring-Gould (1834-1924)

Book cover Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

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)

Book cover Afoot in England

By: Robert Stawell Ball (1840-1913)

Book cover Great Astronomers

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)

Book cover Remember the Alamo

By: William Charles Henry Wood (1864-1947)

Book cover Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
Book cover Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas

By: William Wood (1864-1947)

Book cover Chronicles of Canada Volume 31 - All Afloat: A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways

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)

Book cover The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators

By: Albert C. Manucy

Book cover Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America

By: T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines (1844-)

Book cover Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

By: James Anthony Froude (1818-1894)

Book cover Short Studies on Great Subjects
Book cover The Reign of Mary Tudor
Book cover Essays in Literature and History
Book cover History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II.
Book cover English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4
Book cover Bunyan

By: Annie E. Keeling

Book cover Great Britain and Her Queen

By: Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893)

Book cover The Ancient Regime
Book cover The French Revolution

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