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By: Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) | |
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Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party |
By: Mary Antin | |
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The Promised Land
Being a Jew in Russia at the end of the 19th century was not easy at all. Jews were persecuted because of their religion. So the Jews found comfort in their ancient traditions. When Mary Antin’s father decided that keeping to his traditions did not suit him anymore, he found no place in Russia. So he emigrated to America with his family. Life was not easy, though as a child, Mary describes life in Boston as almost perfect. A smart and dignified girl, Mary takes the good things in anything and writes her autobiography with a smile. | |
From Plotzk to Boston
An intensely personal account of the immigration experience as related by a young Jewish girl from Plotzk (a town in the government of Vitebsk, Russia). Mary Antin, with her mother, sisters, and brother, set out from Plotzk in 1894 to join their father, who had journeyed to the “Promised Land” of America three years before. Fourth class railroad cars packed to suffocation, corrupt crossing guards, luggage and persons crudely “disinfected” by German officials who feared the cholera, locked “quarantine” portside, and, finally, the steamer voyage and a famiily reunited... | |
By: Mary Caroline Crawford (1874-1932) | |
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The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees |
By: Mary E. (Mary Evarts) Anderson (1838-1905) | |
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Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California |
By: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) | |
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The Heart's Highway |
By: Mary H. Eastman (1818-1887) | |
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Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling |
By: Mary Hartwell Catherwood (1847-1902) | |
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Heroes of the Middle West The French |
By: Mary Hazel Snuff | |
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Study Of Army Camp Life During American Revolution
Housing, Food, Clothing, Health, Sanitation, Recreation, Religion, Duties, Discipline. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in history in the Graduate School of the University of Illinois 1918. - Summary by David Wales |
By: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade (1860-1936) | |
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Bertha Our Little German Cousin | |
Our Little Russian Cousin
This delightful little book is one of many titles in The Little Cousin Series. The author narrates details in the life of a fictional Russian girl named Petrovna. In doing so she introduces children to Russian life and culture at the turn of the 20th century. - Summary by Marie Christian |
By: Mary Huestis Pengilly | |
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Diary Written in the Provincial Lunatic Asylum
Mary Pengilly was taken to a Lunatic Asylum by her sons where she kept a diary, which this book is taken from. Mary records the harsh conditions and treatments received at the hands of the nurses during her stay. Once Mary is released she takes it upon herself to make the authorities aware of the situation at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum. |
By: Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) | |
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The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: "This is the sense of the desert hills--that there is room enough and time enough. . . The treeless spaces uncramp the soul." Her story begins with the water trails that lead toward the few life giving springs--the way marked for men by ancient Indian pictographs. Life and death play out at these springs... |
By: Mary Johnston (1870-1936) | |
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To Have And To Hold
When I first started reading this book, I thought it to be a historical romance novel. As I read further, I pondered whether it might be a sea-faring story. Reading still further, I determined it to be an adventure story. Alas, it is all three. To Have And To Hold, written by Mary Johnston was the bestselling novel of 1900. The story takes place in colonial Jamestown during the 1600’s. Captain Ralph Percy, an English soldier turned Virginian explorer buys a wife - little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I... | |
The Long Roll | |
Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings | |
Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia |
By: Mary Lois Kissell | |
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Aboriginal American Weaving |
By: Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (1860-1936) | |
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Yellow Butterflies
The title of this historical fiction could as well have been "A Soldier’s Mother" or “An Unknown Soldier”. There are indeed butterflies, and there is a small boy who grows into a fine, strapping young man who goes to war. But this moving novella centers squarely on the young man's mother, her love for him and her abiding faith. |
By: Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) | |
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Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Cascade Mountains
This is the second of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park, and this book also deals with the Cascade Mountains (The other is entitled Through Glacier Park). Rinehart wrote hundreds of short stories, poems, travelogues and articles, though she is most famous for her mystery stories. The region that became Glacier National Park was first inhabited by Native Americans and upon the arrival of European explorers, was dominated by the Blackfeet in the east and the Flathead in the western regions. | |
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: "War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of battle. It is much more than that. War is a boy carried on a stretcher, looking up at God's blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been wounded by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, torn, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in icy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorosa for the son she has given... |
By: Mary Rowlandson (c.1637-1711) | |
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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several moments of off-color humor. Mary, the wife of a minister, was captured by Natives during King Philips War while living in a Lancaster town, most of which was decimated, and the people murdered. See through her eyes, which depict Indians as the instruments of Satan. Her accounts were a best-seller of the era, and a seminal work, being one of the first captivity narratives ever published by a woman... |
By: Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (1870-1934) | |
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Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces |
By: Mary Seacole (1805-1881) | |
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be unique in literature. If singleness of heart, true charity, and Christian works; if trials and sufferings, dangers and perils, encountered boldly by a helpless woman on her errand of mercy in the camp and in the battle-field, can excite sympathy or move curiosity, Mary Seacole will have many friends and many readers... |
By: Mary Stoyell Stimpson | |
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The Child's Book of American Biography
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the very short stories told here may make boys and girls eager to learn more about these famous people. (from the Forward of the text) |
By: Mary Wilson Alloway (1848-1919) | |
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Famous Firesides of French Canada |
By: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) | |
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Regarded as the one of the earliest examples of feminist philosophy, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman is written as a direct response to Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a French politician who delivered a report to the French National Assembly suggesting that women should only receive domestic education and additionally encourages women to stay clear of political affairs. In her treatise, Wollstonecraft avidly criticizes this inadequate perception of women as an inferior sex and attacks social inequality, while also arguing for women’s rights in the hope of redefining their position both in society and in marriage... | |
Original Stories from Real Life
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best known for her books, “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” and “A Vindication of the Rights of Men” . But she also wrote widely on education and used fiction formats to promote her progressive views. This book using the genre of didactic children’s stories, was written the same year as her “Mary: A Fiction” 1788, but was first published anonymously... |
By: Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (1846-1883) | |
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Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories |
By: Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson (1849-1915) | |
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The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child |
By: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) | |
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Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. The preface was added in 1875. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, "Culture [...] is a study of perfection". He further wrote that: "[Culture] seeks to do away with classes; to make the best that has been thought and known in the world current everywhere; to make all men live in an atmosphere of sweetness and light [... | |
Celtic Literature |
By: Matthew Luckiesh (1883-1967) | |
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Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization |
By: Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) | |
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Aztec Land | |
Due South or Cuba Past and Present |
By: Maud Diver (1867-1945) | |
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The Great Amulet | |
Captain Desmond, V.C. |
By: Maude Ward Lafferty (1869-1962) | |
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A Pioneer Railway of the West |
By: Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) | |
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The Wrack of the Storm |
By: Maurice Nicoll (1884-1953) | |
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In Mesopotamia |
By: Max Pearson Cushing (1886-1951) | |
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Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France |
By: May Agnes Fleming (1840-1880) | |
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The Midnight Queen
May Agnes Fleming is renowned as Canada's first best-selling novelist. She wrote 42 novels, many of which have only been published posthumely.The Midnight Queen is set in London, in the year of the plague 1665. Sir Norman Kingsley visits the soothsayer "La Masque" who shows him the vision of a beautiful young lady. Falling madly in love with her, he is astonished to find her only a short time later and saves her from being buried alive. He takes her home to care for her, but while he fetches a doctor, she disappears. Sir Kingsley and his friend Ormistan embark on an adventure to solve the mystery of the young lady - will they ever find her again? |
By: May Kellogg Sullivan | |
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A Woman Who Went to Alaska
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we enjoyed gourmet meals, amazing entertainment, and a climate-controlled environment. It's easy to also book a land package that enables you to see more of the country by train.Imagine what it was like to visit the same wild, untamed countryside in 1899. Instead of boarding a sleek, stylish cruise ship, you travel for weeks on a steamer... |
By: Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814) | |
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The Group A Farce |
By: Michael Moukhanoff | |
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Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch |
By: Mifflin Wistar Gibbs | |
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Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century |
By: Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov (1814-1841) | |
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Hero of Our Time
A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that if you can believe in the existence of all the villains of tragedy and romance, why wouldn't believe that there was a Pechorin? If you could admire far more terrifying and repulsive types, why aren't you more merciful to this character, even if it is fictitious? Isn't it because there's more truth in it than you might wish? |
By: Milburg F. Mansfield (1871-) | |
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Dickens' London | |
Royal Palaces and Parks of France | |
The Automobilist Abroad | |
The Cathedrals of Northern France |
By: Mildred Aldrich (1853-1928) | |
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A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914 | |
On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes |
By: Mildred Stapley Byne (1875-1941) | |
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Christopher Columbus |
By: Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee | |
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Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy |
By: Milo S. Hascall (1829-1904) | |
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Personal recollections and experiences concerning the Battle of Stone River |
By: Minerva Brace Norton (1837-) | |
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In and Around Berlin |
By: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi | |
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Third Class in Indian Railways
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha — resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience. This philosophy was firmly founded upon ahimsa, or total nonviolence, and led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. Gandhi is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi and in India also as Bapu. He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday. |
By: Monica M. (Monica Mary) Gardner (1873-1941) | |
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Kościuszko A Biography |
By: Montague R. James (1862-1936) | |
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The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. |
By: Mooshie G. Daniel (1861-) | |
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Modern Persia |
By: Mór Jókai (1825-1904) | |
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Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul | |
The Day of Wrath |
By: Mordaunt Hall | |
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Some Naval Yarns |
By: Morrison Heady (1829-1915) | |
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The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief |
By: Moses Coit Tyler (1835-1900) | |
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Patrick Henry |
By: Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) | |
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Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 |
By: Mowbray Morris (1847-1911) | |
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Claverhouse |
By: Mrs. (Jane) West (1758-1852) | |
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The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel |
By: Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (-1940) | |
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Through Finland in Carts |
By: Mrs. Cecil Hall | |
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A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba
The nineteenth century was marked by intense colonization by countries like Britain, France, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands. Initially, the pioneering efforts were made by men who battled unfamiliar terrain to create territories that they marked out as their own, while their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters kept the home and hearth in their native land. However, with travel becoming more common and family life assuming more importance, the women too began to travel to the four corners of the earth... |
By: Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts (1840-1912) | |
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Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An interesting view from a southern lady on what caused the war and why the south was the underdog. |
By: Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali | |
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Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society |
By: Mrs. Philip Snowden (1881-1951) | |
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Political Pilgrim in Europe
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attempt to do what one person might do, or at least attempt, to restore good feeling between the nations and the normal course of life as quickly as possible." An outspoken pacifist, socialist, and feminist who nonetheless strongly denounced the Bolsheviks, Snowden was a controversial and polarizing figure. whose views and observations offer a unique perspective on Europe in the '20s. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi |
By: Mungo Park (1771-1806) | |
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Travels in the Interior of Africa — Volume 01 |
By: Murray Gilchrist (1868-1917) | |
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The Dukeries |
By: N. E. Dionne (1848-1917) | |
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The Makers of Canada: Champlain
A biography of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founder of Quebec, and father of New France. ( |
By: N. S. (Neville Stuart) Talbot (1879-1943) | |
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Thoughts on religion at the front |
By: Nahum Slouschz (1872-1966) | |
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The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) |
By: Nat Love (1854-1921) | |
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Also Known As Deadwood Dick
Nat Love was born a slave, emancipated into abject poverty, grew up riding the range as a cowboy and spent his maturity riding the rails as a Pullman Porter. For me, the most amazing thing about him is that despite the circumstances of his life, which included being owned like a farm animal solely because of the color of his skin and spending later decades living and working as an equal with white coworkers, he was an unrepentant racist! Convinced that the only good Indian was a dead one, and that... |
By: Natalie Sumner Lincoln (1881-1935) | |
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The Lost Despatch |
By: Nathan Kelsey Hall (1810-1874) | |
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The Postal Service of the United States in Connection with the Local History of Buffalo |
By: Nathaniel H. Bishop (1837-1902) | |
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Voyage of the Paper Canoe; a geographical journey of 2500 miles, from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico, during the years 1874-5 |
By: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) | |
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The Scarlet Letter
A beautiful woman who is punished for the mortal sin of loving a man other than her husband, a cowardly lover, a vengeful husband, a rebellious illegitimate child and the oppressive and patriarchal morality of 17th century Puritanism in Boston. Together these form an unforgettable and thought-provoking glimpse of how much social attitudes have changed over the centuries. Nathaniel Hawthorne was the creator of such beloved works as Twice-Told Tales, A Wonder Book for Boys and Girls, The House of the Seven Gables and spine-chilling tales like Roger Malvin's Burial... | |
Grandfather's Chair |
By: Nathaniel W. Stephenson (1867-1935) | |
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Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North |