Biographies

The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools

Washington Irving

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 3: Conflict and construction, 1800-1815

Albert J. Beveridge

The Greville Memoirs, Part 3 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 2) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1852 to 1860

Charles Greville

Some eminent Victorians: Personal recollections in the world of art and letters

J. Comyns Carr

Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories

James Baldwin

John Sobieski: Lothian prize essay for 1881

Edward H. R. Tatham

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VII, Kentucky Narratives

United States. Work Projects Administration

Lives of Girls Who Became Famous

Sarah Knowles Bolton

Death Valley in '49 Important chapter of California pioneer history. The autobiography of a pioneer, detailing his life from a humble home in the Green Mountains to the gold mines of California; and particularly reciting the sufferings of the band of men, women and children who gave "Death Valley" its name

William Lewis Manly

Memorabilia; Or Recollections, Historical, Biographical, and Antiquarian

James Savage

Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas

Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World

Clifton R. Wooldridge

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Elizabeth Blackwell

Optimism: An Essay

Helen Keller

The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 3 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

Thomas Jefferson

The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences

Frederick Treves

Ten Days in a Mad-House; or, Nellie Bly's Experience on Blackwell's Island. Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.

Nellie Bly

William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood

Thomas Henry Huxley

Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence

George Haven Putnam

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915

Anonymous

Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. II)

Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

Fanny Burney and Her Friends: Select Passages from Her Diary and Other Writings

Fanny Burney

Extracts from the Diary of William Bray

William Bray

Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.

Nathaniel Hawthorne