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History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1D

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David Hume



David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

Insurgent Mexico

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John Reed



In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution. He shared the perils of Pa…

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

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James Baldwin



Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 01

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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne



The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the…

Heroes of the Middle Ages

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Eva March Tappan



"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, …

History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy, Vol. 2

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Niccolò Machiavelli



History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy is an historical account by Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527). Toward the end of 1520, …

The Facts of Reconstruction

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John R. Lynch



After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

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Benjamin Randell Harris



The recollections of a British infantryman who served in the British army during the Napoleonic Wars. (Summary by Graham Keeling)

Selected House of Commons Speeches

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Winston S. Churchill



Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

A Brief History of English and American Literature

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Henry A. Beers



Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

Early Days Of Old Oregon

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Katharine Berry Judson



Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay



This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…

The Romance of Missionary Heroism

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John C Lambert and John C. Lambert



The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …

What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin



In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Great Pirate Stories

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Joseph Lewis French



Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

The Life of Alfred the Great

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Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser



A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…

Great Moments in History

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John G. Stockmyer



Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…

The Colored Cadet at West Point

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Henry Ossian Flipper



Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…

Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale, pour l'abolition de la traite des Noirs

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Société Des Amis Des Noirs, Société Des Amis Des Noirsandjacques Pierre Brissot De Warville and Société Des Amis Des Noirs And Jacques Pierre Brissot De Warville



La Société des Amis des Noirs est une association créée le 19 février 1788 qui avait pour but l'abolition…

Römische Geschichte Buch 2

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Theodor Mommsen



Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Zweites BuchVon der Abschaffung des…

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