History

Historical Lectures and Essays is a classic collection of works by Charles Kingsley that includes: The First Discovery of America, Cyrus, Servant of the Lord, Ancient Civilisation, Rondelet Vesalius, Paracelsus, and Buchanan. Charles Kingsley (12 June...

Medieval Europe is a European history text by H. W. C. Davis. By a period of history we mean the tract of years in which this balance of harmonious activities, this reconciliation of the real with the ideal, is in course of preparing, is actually...

Pioneers of the Pacific Coast is a classic history of exploration along the American west coast. All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of...

The Red Man's Continent-A Chronicle of Aboriginal America is a classic Native American history text by Ellsworth Huntington. In writing this book of Native American history the author has aimed first to present in readable form the main facts about the...

A Short History of Spain is a classic Spanish history text by Mary Platt Parmele. No name is more fraught with picturesque and romantic interest than that of the "Spanish Peninsula." After finishing this rare bit of handiwork nature seems to have thrown...

A Short History of Germany is a German history classic by Mary Platt Parmele. Would we comprehend the Germany of to-day, we must hold firmly in our minds an epitome of what it has been, and see vividly the devious path of its development through the ages...

This brief history of World War One was prepared upon the suggestion of the National Board for Historical Service. Its purpose is to expand into an historical narrative the outline of the study of the war which the authors prepared for the Board and...

Yon are very fond of stories; and so, I think, are all the other little boys and girls that I have ever known, and most of the grown-up people too. When you grow older, if you still like them--and I think you will--you will find that there are stories...

A Story of the Days of William Penn is an English historical fiction classic by W.H.G. Kingston. "The Protectorate had come to an end ten years before the period when our story commences; and Charles the Second, restored to the throne of England, had...

Washington and His Colleagues-a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism is a classic American history text by Henry Jones. Washington was glad to remain at Mount Vernon as long as possible after he had consented to serve as President, enjoying the...

A Week at Waterloo in 1815 is a Napoleonic war history text by Magdalene De Lancey. The subject--a deathbed scene--might seem at first sight to be a trite and common one. The mise-en-sce--the Battle of Waterloo--alone however redeems it from such a...

A good many Americans were ready to seize any chance of venting their anti-British feeling; and most Americans thought they would only be fulfilling their proper 'destiny' by wresting the whole of Canada from the British crown. These two national desires...

Health Lessons is a classic health and wellness text by Alvin Davison. Horses and houses, balls and dolls, and much else that people think they want to make them happy can be bought with money. The one thing which is worth more than all else cannot be...

Rationalism is a classic philosophy essay by John Mackinnon Robertson. The names 'rationalist' and 'rationalism' have been used in so many senses within the past three hundred years that they cannot be said to stand quite definitely for any type or...

A Lonely Flute is a classic poetry volume by Odell Shepard. And now 't was like all instruments, Now like a lonely flute; And now it is an angel's song That makes the Heavens be mute.Author: Odell ShepardPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

Love for Love is a Restoration comedy written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered on 30 April 1695 at Betterton's Co., Lincoln's Inn Fields The play is a comical farce enlivened by its witty dialogue and its humorous characters, and...

Songs of the Silent World is a classic American poetry collection by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. There is_no vacant chair. The loving meet-- A group unbroken--smitten, who knows how? One sitteth silent only, in his usual seat; We gave him once that freedom...

Secret of the Woods is a classic nature/wildlife study by William J. Long that examines the lives of woodland creatures such as mouse, otter, kingfisher, red squirrel, partridge, deer, and many others. We would not feel comfortable if a big barbarian...

Once upon a time there was a little Red-Deer Calf. You know what a Red-Deer is, for you of all boys have been brought up to know, though it may be that you have never seen a calf very close to you. A very pretty little fellow he was, downy-haired and...

LARGE PRINT EDITION! More at LargePrintLiberty.com Where did this thing called the Fed come from? Murray Rothbard has the answer here -- in phenomenal detail that will make your head spin. In one extended essay, one that reads like a detective story, he...

This collection of anecdotes, illustrative sketches, and memorabilia generally, relating to the ever fresh and interesting subject of BOOKS AND AUTHORS, is not presented as complete, nor even as containing all the choice material of its kind. The field...

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study, by Julius West, describes the personality of one of the cleverest English writers and an estimate of his work. Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), better known as G. K. Chesterton, was an...

Queen Victoria is a classic English royal family biography by E. Gordon Browne. Notwithstanding all her faults, she was the best beloved of all English monarchs because of her never-failing courage and strength of mind, and she made the Crown respected,...

Washington Irving's name stands as the first landmark in American letters. No other American writer has won the same sort of recognition abroad or esteem at home as became his early in life. And he has lost very little ground, so far as we can judge by...

Jeremiah Saunderson had remained in the low estate of a "probationer" for twelve years after he left the Divinity Hall, where he was reported so great a scholar that the Professor of Apologetics spoke to him deprecatingly, and the Professor of Dogmatics...

". . . for the poet is representative. He stands among partial men for the complete man, and apprises us not of his wealth, but of the common-wealth."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Poet The Poet, written by Ralph Waldon Emerson between 1841 and 1843, is an...

"Prudence is the virtue of the senses. It is the science of appearances. It is the outmost action of the inward life."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, PrudenceThis essay on Prudence (1841) was originally delivered by Emerson as a lecture in a course on human...

"Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between remote things, and reduces all things into a few principles."-Ralph Waldo Emerson, IntellectIn his essay on Intellect...

"The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic...

"The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one." -Ralph Waldo Emerson, FriendshipEmerson's essay on Friendship (1841) is essentially a tribute to the ways friendship enhances human lives. In it, he stresses the happiness...