Early Modern

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

Poems of American History, The Period of Growth

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Various


This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …

The Magic of the Horse-Shoe

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Robert Means Lawrence


The study of the origin and history of popular customs and beliefs affords an insight, otherwise unattainable, into the operations of the hu…

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy

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James Moores Ball


Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…

History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik


Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 1

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Mercy Otis Warren


A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)

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Captain Charles Johnson


A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

The Story of the Trapper

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Agnes C. Laut


Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon

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James Anthony Froude


"The story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII" (subtitle). Froude weaves his tale from a wide…

Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question

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James Bryce


The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…

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Thomas Clarkson


Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …

Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibit…

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Mary S. Locke


Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…

Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV

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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand


Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…

The Pianoforte Sonata

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John South Shedlock


John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War

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Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Essai sur les révolutions suivi des Etudes historiques

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François-René de Chateaubriand


Essai historique, politique et moral sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la…

A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson

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Watkin Tench


Watkin Tench was a British marine officer who sailed with the First Fleet from England to Australia, landing in January 1788. He first wrote…

The Symbolism of Freemasonry

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Albert Mackey


Illustrating and explaining the science and philosophy, the legends, myths and symbols of the fraternity of Freemasons.(Summary by Brother M…

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