History - Modern (1750+)

Navies of the world: Giving Concise Descriptions of the Plans, Armament and Armor of the Naval Vessels of Twenty of the Principal Nations.

Edward W. Very

Navies of the World is a comprehensive reference work compiled by Lieutenant Edward W. Very of the U.S.

The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V

The History of Woman Suffrage is a six‑volume documentary record of the American and, to a lesser extent,…

The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex

Charles Darwin

The book is Charles Darwin’s expanded treatment of human evolution, first issued in 1871 and revised in 1874.

History of the United States of America, Volume 4 (of 9): During the second administration of Thomas Jefferson

Henry Adams

Henry Adams’s fourth volume in his nine‑part History of the United States of America turns its focus to the…

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years

Ida Husted Harper

Ida Husted Harper’s second volume of The Life and Work of Susan B.

Afghanistan

A. Hamilton

The work is a scholarly survey of Afghanistan written at the turn of the twentieth century, intended to fill…

Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron

Unknown

Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron is a regimental history that chronicles the…

Socialism: A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles

John Spargo

The work is a revised survey of socialist doctrine authored by John Spargo and issued in 1908.

The autobiography of Arthur Young: With Selections From His Correspondence

Arthur Young

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Arthur Young, the eighteenth‑century English agriculturist whose…

The evolution of the steam locomotive (1803 to 1898)

George Augustus Nokes

The work is a scholarly survey of British steam‑locomotive development from the earliest experiments in 1803…

History of the United States of America, Volume 8 (of 9): During the second administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

This volume, the eighth of Henry Adams’s nine‑part “History of the United States of America,” concentrates on…

Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A study in imperialism

Edward Mead Earle

This work is a scholarly study of the geopolitical and economic forces that shaped the Ottoman Empire’s…

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915

Various

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1 (1915) is a collective publication that serves as the official organ of the…

The nightless city; or, The "history of the Yoshiwara Yūkwaku"

J. E. De Becker

Historical records of the Buffs, East Kent Regiment (3rd Foot): Formerly designated the Holland Regiment and Prince George of Denmark's Regiment

R. S. H. Moody

Barbarians

Robert W. Chambers

Barbarians is a World War I novel that opens amid the cramped decks of a mule transport bound for the Western…

Mr. Punch's History of the Great War

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of the Great War is a pictorial chronicle that blends the satirical spirit of the famed…

Mussolini as revealed in his political speeches (November 1914-August 1923)

Benito Mussolini

The volume is a collection of Benito Mussolini’s political speeches spanning November 1914 to August 1923,…

The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2)

Dean C. Worcester

The work is a scholarly survey of Philippine education from the late Spanish era through the early American…

Chelsea

G. E. Mitton

The work is a detailed topographical and historical survey of Chelsea, the fashionable riverside district of…

The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness

Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo’s “The History of a Crime: The Testimony of an Eye‑Witness” is a sprawling chronicle of the…

The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain

A. T. Mahan

The work is a scholarly biography that situates Admiral Horatio Nelson within the strategic and political…

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

Various

France in the Nineteenth Century

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer’s France in the Nineteenth Century is a sweeping historical survey that begins…