Early Modern
The Life of Frederick William von Steuben
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Friedrich Kapp
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
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Benson John Lossing
Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…
The Wonderful Story of Ravalette
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P. B. Randolph
Is it possible to break through the awful barrier—to glimpse through the Night-Curtain that screens and shrouds us from the Phantom-World?—i…
Galateo
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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa
A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Patrick Henry; life, correspondence and speeches
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Patrick Henry and William Wirt Henry
The grandson of Patrick Henry, William Wirt Henry served as president of the Virginia Historical Association as well as president of the Ame…
The Capture of Fort William and Mary
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Charles Lathrop Parsons
The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …
Jamestown and Her Neighbors on Virginia's Historic Peninsula
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Jane E. Davis
A brief history of the early years of the historic Virginia Peninsula lying between the James and the York Rivers and extending from Richmon…
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 15
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Story-Lives of Great Musicians
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Francis Jameson Rowbotham
Following the plan of his previous volume of Great Authors, the writer has here endeavoured to weave into more or less story form a few of t…
Pascal and the Port Royalists
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William Clark
Pascal is of the small number of those [men] in whom the man infinitely transcends his actions. The writings of Pascal are the finest that F…
Reflections on the rise, progress, and probable consequences, of the present co…
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John Erskine
Several late pamphlets composed with much art and ability have painted the claims and conduct of the North Americans; and thereby, have not …
La América Vindicada de la Calumnia de Haber Sido Madre del Mal Venéreo
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Antonio Sánchez Valverde
Estudio científico sobre el origen del gálico (enfermedad venérea), su origen, y la vindicación de Améric…
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
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Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians d…