Modern (19th C)
Why We Love Lincoln
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James Creelman
Brought to us by notable reporter and writer, James Creelman, this story of Abraham Lincoln is a more personal and simple portrait of the m…
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …
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Washington Irving
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
On Famine Fever and Some of the Other Cognate Forms of Typhus
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Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), professor of medicine and pathology at the Charité Hospital in Berlin, published more than 2000 papers an…
Modern England 1820-1885
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Oscar Browning
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
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John Mcelroy
A comprehensive four-volume history of one soldier's 15 months in Andersonville Prison during the Civil War. The book is divided into 83 cha…
Man-of-War Life
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Charles Nordhoff
In 1844, Charles Nordhoff joined the U.S. Navy at the young age of 14. He describes his around-the-world adventure as a young sailor aboard …
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Version 2)
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Lucy Larcom
What was growing up like for a seaside country girl in 1800’s New England -- her expectations, occupations, education, and opportunities? Wh…
The Dread Apache: That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest
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Merrill Pingree Freeman
Excerpt which contains the opinions and biographical accounts from the author: "A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-…
Mexico and the United States: a Story of Revolution, Intervention and War
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Frederick Starr
Starr, being an anthropologist and a historian, visited Mexico extensively. As he wrote this book, a highly disruptive, deadly revolution wa…
Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers
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Philip Alexander Bruce
Stories of Confederate soldiers of the Civil War that share the vivid accounts of valor, resolve, loyalty, and endurance. Using historical r…
The Armenian Crisis in Turkey
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Frederick Davis Greene
Frederick Greene shows in this book that the case of the subject races in the Ottoman Empire is desperate, that there is no hope of reform f…
When Railroads Were New
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Charles Frederick Carter
This history of American railroads originated as a series of articles in Railroad Man's Magazine before being compiled into a book in 1909. …
Charles James Fox
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Henry Offley Wakeman
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…
Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Yea…
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Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet
This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…
The Ashtabula Disaster
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Stephen D. Peet
Rev. Stephen D Peet describes the fatal railroad disaster on December 29, 1876 in Ashtabula, Ohio due to a bridge failure. He was a resident…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
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Jane Addams
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
One Woman's Work for Farm Women: The Story of Mary A. Mayo's Part in Rural Soci…
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Jenny Buell and Jennie Buell
This is a short biography of Mary Mayo, covering her work with rural farm women in Michigan and beyond in the last quarter of the 19th centu…
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West
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Walter A. Wyckoff
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
The Events of 1848, Especially in Their Relation to Great Britain
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Richard Monckton Milnes
The Events of 1848, Especially in Relation to Great Britain" by Richard Monckton Milnes is a historical work that delves into the tumul…