Biography & Autobiography
- Voices from the Battlefield
- Criminal Lives: True Stories
- Voices of Social Change
- Voices of Political Change
- Voices of Resilience
- Voices from American History
- Pioneers in Health and Healing
- Adventures in Exploration
Autobiography of a Seaman
This two volume work is the autobiography of Lord Cochrane, a naval captain of the Napoleonic period. His adventures are seminal to the deve…
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…
Twelve Years a Slave
Twelve Years a Slave is the memoir of a freeborn African American from New York who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. After being held for…
Sergeant York and His People
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 12…
My Life on the Plains
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps one of the most significant piece…
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass.…
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant offers a concise yet insightful look into the life of one of America's most significant military leaders and presidents. Ow…
The Story of Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc is a folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. Claiming divine guidance, she led the French army to several important v…
The Life of Anthony
Anthony (251-356CE) lived in Egypt, and became one of the fathers of Christian desert monasticism. When he was about 18 years old, and havin…
Emma McChesney and Company
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career fr…
The Strenuous Life
This book is a collection of Theodore Roosevelt’s published commentaries and public addresses on the general theme of the requirements for i…
A Retrospect
Join James Hudson Taylor on the God-led journey through his calling, time of preparation, and life work in China. This British Christian mis…
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans
EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted…
The Boys Life of Mark Twain
Albert Bigelow Paine was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' (Mark Twain's) biographer. He lived with Twain, collecting ideas and material for a biogr…
Daniel Boone
This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days …
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass published his highly acclaimed third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1881 and revised it in 1892.…
Newspaper Articles
Explore the sharp wit and keen observations of Mark Twain in this collection of newspaper articles penned between 1862 and 1881. Under his f…