History

This book completes the Unredacted Version of the Book of Daniel, Which provides the last five chapters of the book of Daniel. This book "An Un-Redacted Version of the Book of Daniel Part Two provides the reader with the text and study on chapters 8-12...

L'arm?e fran?aise a une longue et riche histoire qui s'?tend sur plus de mille ans. De la bataille de Tours en 732 ? la guerre contre le terrorisme au Sahel aujourd'hui, les forces arm?es fran?aises ont ?t? impliqu?es dans de nombreuses campagnes...

It is over sixty years since I was regarded as one of Lady Astor's D-Day Dodgers in sunny Italy. In Sicily and Italy over 30,000 so called D-Day Dodgers sleep on, victims of a most harsh and fiercely fought campaign which involved troops of many nations...

An Old Town By the Sea is classic American history text that details the history of Portsmith, New Hampshire from it's beginnings to the late 1880's.Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Sep...

My Native American story does not pretend to be a scientific treatise. It is as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from the human, not the ethnological standpoint. I have not cared to pile up more dry bones, but to...

Four Weeks in the Trenches is a classic World War One biography by the great violinist, Fritz Kreisler. The first war book actually written by a man who has served at the front in WW1 was written by a famous violinist. The material is presented with...

Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), [a] is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.[b] First...

Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (German: Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse) is a work of Sigmund Freud from the year 1921. In this monograph, Freud describes psychological mechanisms at work within mass movements. A mass, according to Freud,...

A Soldier of the Legion is a classic World War One memoir by Edward Morlae. The "Soldier of the Legion" has in it that spinal thrill which has electrified great tales of battle since blood was first let and ink spilled to celebrate it. ELLERY SEDGWICK...

Tales of Troy is a fascinating classic text by Andrew Lang that tells the story of Troy and includes the following entries: The Boyhood and Parents of Ulysses, The Boyhood and Parents of Ulysses, How People Lived in the Time of Ulysses, and The Stealing...

Philosophy and Religion is a classic religious philosophy text by Hastings Rashdall. Man has no deeper or wider interest than theology; none deeper, for however much he may change, he never loses his love of the many questions it covers; and none wider,...

Beautiful Thoughts is a classic collection of inspiring Christian quotes and thoughts by Henry Drummond. My first thought of writing out this religious study of brief selections sprang from the desire to assist a dear friend to enjoy the Author's helpful...

Evidence as to Man's Place In Nature is a classic biology essay by Thomas H. Huxley. "He differeth not from a man but in his legs; for they have no calfe. Hee goeth alwaies upon his legs, and carrieth his hands clasped in the nape of his necke when he...

Public men must expect criticism, and no criticism is so good for them, and therefore for the State, as criticism of character; but their position is difficult, and they may justly complain when those to whom they have spoken in the candour of private...

The readers of Bill Nye's Comic History of England will share our regret that the preface cannot be written by Mr. Nye, who would have introduced his volume with a characteristically appropriate and humorous foreword in perfect harmony with the...

The Cariboo Trail-A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia is a classic Canadian history text by Agnes C. Laut and a history of the Canadian gold rush that began in 1858.Author: Agnes C. LautPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

The Surgeon of the late illustrious Lord NELSON feels himself called upon, from the responsible situation which he held on the eventful day of the 21st of October 1805, to lay before the British Nation the following Narrative. It contains an account of...

The Evolution of an Empire-England is a classic English history text by Mary Parmele. The reader will please observe that there seem to have been two things most closely interwoven with the life of England. RELIGION and MONEY have been the great...

In an attempt to tell the story of a great nation in about 100 pages, it is needless to say there must be a rigid exclusion of all save essential facts. To those already familiar with the subject, this sketch is offered merely as a reminder of the...

For this history of nursery rhymes a few leading thoughts were culled from such men as Tylor, Lubbock, Wilson, McLennan, Frazer, and Boyd Dawkins, etc., the experiences of our modern travellers among primitive races, Indian and European folk-lore, the...

A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty is a classic British naval history text by William Bligh. Vice-Admiral William Bligh FRS (9 September 1754 - 7 December 1817) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial...

The Seigneurs of Old Canada-A Chronicle of New World Feudalism is a classic Canadian history text by William Bennett Munro. It was Samuel Champlain, a seaman of Brouage, who first secured for France and for Frenchmen a sure foothold in North America, and...

When the Ku Klux Rode is a KKK history undertaken with the wish to gratify a popular desire for addition to the scant literature relating to the Reconstruction Era and that most remarkable organization of modern times--begotten of conditions unparalleled...

Fourteen years ago, in a book entitled "The Study of Stellar Evolution" (University of Chicago Press, 1908), I attempted to give in untechnical language an account of some modern methods of astrophysical research. This astronomy study is now out of...

While it is the purpose of this voice guide to emphasize the importance of vocal culture in its relations to literary and general culture, it is not its purpose, except incidentally, to impart elocutionary instruction. Attention is called to a few...

The Secret Trails by Charles G. D. Roberts tells fascinating stories of animal life and the great out-of-doors by one whose work in this field has won for him international recognition. Contents: The black boar of Lonesome Water -- The dog that saved the...

This Native American history is a unique combination of autobiography and fiction which represents an attempt to merge cultural critique with aesthetic form, especially surrounding such fundamental matters as religion.Author: Zitkala-SaPublisher:...

Bob Regan once again lets us into the vaults of Pittsburgh's storied past. His previous books-The Steps of Pittsburgh, The Bridges of Pittsburgh and The Names of Pittsburgh-have all received acclaim, attracting thousands interested in the City's storied...

Fifty interesting short stories including Diogenes the Wise Man, Alexander and Bucephalus, Socrates and His House, Julius Cesar, The Blind Men and the Elephant, A Story of Robin Hood, Sir Walter Raleigh, Pocahontas, The King and his Hawk, Casablanca, A...

THIS series of English History Source Books is intended for use with any ordinary textbook of English History. Experience has conclusively shown that such apparatus is a valuable-nay, an indispensable-adjunct to the history lesson. It is capable of two...