In order to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution in the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Hay wrote a serie...
It was first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels....
Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reig...
Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reig...
Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reig...
Antiquities of the Jews is a 20-volume historiographical work, written in Greek, by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the 13th year of the reig...
The Commentaries were long regarded as the leading work on the development of English law and played a role in the development of the American legal s...
The Quest of the Historical Jesus is a 1906 work of Biblical historical criticism written by Albert Schweitzer during the previous year, before he beg...
The Marrow of Tradition is a historical novel by the African-American author Charles W. Chesnutt, set at the time and portraying a fictional account o...
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19...
The Conjure Woman is a collection of short stories by African-American fiction writer, essayist, and activist Charles W. Chesnutt. First published in...
This is a very readable scientific account of Swearing and Cursing in the English Language. Not only is an enlightening historical account given, but...
An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of this book appeared in the Chicago Sunday Trib...
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now...
The Journal of Submarine Commander Von Forstner is a graphic account of WWI submarine warfare. Forstner was the commander of German U-boat U-28. His j...
Donald Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century. His works...
George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginning with the legendary origin of the Welsh people, then their major bards and poets...
This is the inspiring story of Saint Anthony of Padua. The son of a wealthy Portuguese family, he was initially ordained a priest of the Canons Regula...
American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped frontier area from the founding through the 1880s. These essays try to con...
This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It is divided...
Covers assassinations in history from Philip of Macedon to Alexander I of Serbia, mostly focusing on the motives and intrigues. The author left out th...
All of the foregoing does not mean that legend is trivial, irrelevant or misleading; far from it. Legend becomes an important aspect of a society’s un...
Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book claims to...
