Children's History

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Ulysses S. Grant

The work is the complete memoir of Ulysses S. Grant, a senior United States general and later president, who…

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806

Lewis, Meriwether; Clark, William

The Journals of Lewis and Clark present a day‑by‑day record of the Corps of Discovery’s early progress down…

Great Britain and the American Civil War

Ephraim Douglass Adams

Ephraim Douglass Adams’s Great Britain and the American Civil War is a scholarly examination of how the…

The Story of the Greeks

H. A. Guerber

The Story of the Greeks is an elementary history textbook aimed at young pupils, and it begins by explaining…

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author.

William Still

William Still’s The Underground Railroad is a nineteenth‑century compilation of first‑hand testimonies,…

The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503

The volume is a scholarly compilation assembled under the auspices of the American Historical Association in…

Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.

Margaret Fuller

The work is a nineteenth‑century treatise on the “sphere, condition and duties” of women, assembled from…

The Story of Mankind

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The work is a sweeping survey of world history presented as a single narrative, beginning with a vivid,…

History of the Philippine Islands

Antonio de Morga

This volume offers the opening segment of Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, a systematic…

Woman's Life in Colonial Days

Carl Holliday

Carl Holliday’s Woman’s Life in Colonial Days is a scholarly survey that seeks to reshape popular ideas about…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

Lane-Poole, Stanley; Kelley, J. D. Jerrold

Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt

G. Maspero

Maspero’s Manual of Egyptian Archaeology is a scholarly handbook that aims to give both students and…

The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail is a first‑hand travel narrative that chronicles a spring‑time expedition…

Ancient Egypt

Rawlinson, George; Gilman, Arthur

How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900

William Henry Giles Kingston

The work is a sweeping historical survey that sets out to trace the evolution of Britain’s naval power from…

History of Holland

George Edmundson

The work is a scholarly survey of Dutch history, presented as one volume in a larger series that aims to…

Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China

Andrews, Roy Chapman; Andrews, Yvette Borup

Camps and Trails in China is a detailed account of the 1916‑1917 Asiatic Zoological Expedition, undertaken by…

Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

The work is a contemporary, nonfiction chronicle of the Titanic disaster, beginning with a reflective essay…

England in America, 1580-1652

Lyon Gardiner Tyler

This work is a scholarly survey of English colonial activity in North America from the first English attempts…

History of the United States

Beard, Charles A. (Charles Austin); Beard, Mary Ritter

The work is a comprehensive high‑school textbook of United States history, authored by Charles A.

The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire

Charles Morris

The work is a sober, documentary‑style chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the conflagration…

Captains of the Civil War: A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray

William Wood

Captains of the Civil War is a scholarly chronicle that treats the American conflict of 1861‑1865 as a series…

The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners

Samuel Peter Orth

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of labor organization in the United States, anchored in a…

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons

Lawrence Beesley

Lawrence Beesley’s work is a first‑hand historical account of the RMS Titanic disaster, written by a survivor…