History - Modern (1750+)

Ten Years in Washington or, Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees Them ... to Which Is Added a Full Account of the Life and Death of President James A. Garfield

Mary Clemmer

Mary Clemmer’s Ten Years in Washington is a sprawling, illustrated memoir that blends personal observation…

History of the United States of America, Volume 1 (of 9): During the first administration of Thomas Jefferson

Henry Adams

This volume, the first of Henry Adams’s nine‑part survey of the United States, concentrates on the…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 1, 1807-1809: From the treaty of Fontainbleau to the battle of Corunna

Charles Oman

This volume is Charles Oman’s first installment of a comprehensive history of the Peninsular War, covering…

Rambles on Railways

Sir Cusack P. Roney

Rambles on Railways is a nineteenth‑century survey of railway development, written by Sir Cusack P. Roney.

Ireland: The People's History of Ireland, Volume 1 (of 2)

John F. Finerty

Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times

Various

Current History, Vol. VIII, No. 3, June 1918 is a contemporary news‑magazine produced by the New York Times…

War Letters of a Public-School Boy

Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

The work is a memoir‑driven compilation of the wartime correspondence of Lieutenant Henry Paul Mainwaring…

History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II

The second volume of History of Woman Suffrage continues the exhaustive chronicle begun in the first book,…

The Wright Brothers

Fred C. Kelly

Fred C. Kelly’s “The Wright Brothers” is a biographical account that aims to satisfy the curiosity of the…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Jacobites" to "Japan" (part) Volume 15, Slice 2

Various

The volume presents a segment of the 11th‑edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, covering entries from “Jacobites”…

The History of the Fabian Society

Edward R. Pease

Edward R. Pease’s The History of the Fabian Society is a scholarly chronicle of the British socialist…

My past and thoughts, vol. 1 (of 6): The memoirs of Alexander Herzen

Aleksandr Herzen

The work is the first volume of Alexander Herzen’s six‑part memoir, a sprawling autobiographical record that…

The Railway Conquest of the World

Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Frederick A. Talbot’s The Railway Conquest of the World is a sweeping survey of railway engineering history,…

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

Edward Gibbon

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753‑1794) Volume 2 gathers the later correspondence of the famed…

My Year of the Great War

Frederick Palmer

Frederick Palmer’s My Year of the Great War is a first‑hand account by an American correspondent who spent…

Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol. 5 (of 8) The English and French in North America 1689-1763

A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics - Volume 2

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s A Popular History of Ireland is a sweeping nineteenth‑century survey that traces Irish…

Il processo e l'assoluzione di "Mafarka il Futurista"

Marinetti, F. T.; Barzilai, Salvatore; Cappa, Innocenzo; Capuana, Luigi; Sarfatti, Cesare

Il libro è una trascrizione del processo giudiziario che fu intentato a Filippo Tommaso Marinetti per il suo…

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

Egerton Ryerson

Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1) From the Original Family Documents

Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

Memoirs of the Court of George IV offers a detailed chronicle of the tumultuous first decade of his reign,…

The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

John S. C. Abbott

The work is a sweeping survey of Russian history, presented as a single‑volume “empire” narrative that moves…

Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy.

Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

The work is a first‑volume narrative of the Austrian frigate Novara’s 1857‑1859 circumnavigation, compiled by…

Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)

John Leighton

John Leighton’s work is a sprawling illustrated chronicle of the Paris Commune of 1871, presented as a…

Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 1 (of 2)

Edward Gibbon

The volume presents the private correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the eighteenth‑century English historian…