Modern (19th C)
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…
Water-Closets: A Historical, Mechanical, and Sanitary Treatise
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Glenn Brown
Plunge into the wonderful world of water-closets (a.k.a. toilets) with Virginia architect Glenn Brown. Follow the evolution of the humble to…
Anglo-American Memories
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George Washburn Smalley
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune….…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 24 - The Family Compact: A Chronicle of the Rebelli…
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W. Stewart Wallace
The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…
Finland and the Tsars, 1809-1899
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Joseph R. Fisher
Fisher’s treatment of the history of Finland, in the context of its relations with Russia, was released in 1899—at the start of the first at…
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 16
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Charles F. Horne, Rossiter Johnson and John Rudd
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas
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M. E. M. Davis
A history of the of Texas from La Salle's Texas Settlement in 1685 to the dedication of the State Capitol building at Austin in 1888. - Summ…
Lamp of Wisdom
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William H. Councill
William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…