History - Modern (1750+)

History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government

Great Britain. War Office

The volume is a government‑commissioned military history compiled under the direction of His Majesty’s…

The Life of John Marshall, Volume 4: The building of the nation, 1815-1835

Albert J. Beveridge

Albert J. Beveridge’s fourth volume on John Marshall is a scholarly biography that situates the chief justice…

U.S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953, Volume 5 (of 5) Operations in West Korea

United States. Marine Corps; Meid, Pat; Yingling, James M.

The work is the fifth and concluding volume of a five‑part official history of United States Marine Corps…

The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin

James Herbert Walker

The work is a contemporary chronicle of the 1889 John Johnstown flood, presented as a sweeping, fact‑laden…

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814

The work is a verbatim record of the 1814 trial held in the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, concerning a…

The letters of Queen Victoria, vol. 3, 1854-1861: A selection from Her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861.

Queen of Great Britain Victoria

This volume gathers a selection of Queen Victoria’s private and official correspondence from 1854‑1861, drawn…

Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812. Volume 1

A. T. Mahan

This work is a scholarly treatise by Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, a noted naval historian, that examines how…

Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana

Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup’s *Twelve Years a Slave* is a first‑person memoir that records the author’s harrowing…

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745, Volume III, is a collection of contemporary letters, reports, and…

Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

Linthicum, Richard; Fallows, Samuel; White, Trumbull

The volume is a sprawling, illustrated chronicle of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, assembled by…

The Communist Manifesto

Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet that sets out the theory and aims of the communist movement…

India, Its Life and Thought

John P. Jones

John P. Jones’s India, Its Life and Thought is a scholarly survey of Indian society as seen through the eyes…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Complete

Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

The work is a memoir written by Louis‑Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Napoleon’s former private secretary,…

The loyalists of America and their times: from 1620 to 1816, Vol. 1 of 2

Egerton Ryerson

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Volume 1, is a scholarly, documentary‑style history by Egerton…

The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2

Willis J. Abbot

The Naval History of the United States, Volume 2, by Willis J.

William Pitt and national revival

J. Holland Rose

This work is a scholarly biography of William Pitt the Younger, written by J. Holland Rose, a Litt.D.

Captain Canot; Or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Canot, Theodore; Mayer, Brantz

The work is an autobiographical memoir that doubles as a first‑person account of a young sailor’s immersion…

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States

John Marshall

The work is a nineteenth‑century biographical study by John Marshall, catalogued under the subjects of United…

Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II

Sir John Ross

This volume is a collection of memoirs and correspondence by Admiral Sir James Saumarez, presented by his son…

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 Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2

Henry Baerlein

The work is a historical narrative that chronicles the chaotic final months of World War I in the Balkans and…

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy

Keppel, Henry, Sir; James, Rajah of Sarawak

The work is a first‑hand narrative of a mid‑nineteenth‑century naval expedition, written by Sir Henry Keppel…

Impressions of South Africa

James Bryce

The work is a sweeping historical‑geographical study of South Africa, beginning with a concise appraisal of…

Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre

George Henry Makins

The work is a detailed clinical study of injuries caused by small‑calibre bullets during the South African…