History - Modern (1750+)

Lynch-law; an investigation into the history of lynching in the United States

James Elbert Cutler

James Elbert Cutler’s work is a scholarly investigation into the American practice of lynching, presented as…

A memoir of Sir John Drummond Hay, P.C., K.C.B., G.C.M.G., sometime minister at the court of Morocco

Brooks, Louisa Annette Edla Drummond-Hay; Drummond-Hay, Alice Emily; Hay, John H. Drummond

The memoir is a post‑retirement recollection of Sir John Hay Drummond Hay, a long‑serving British Consul…

Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights

Kelly Miller

Kelly Miller’s History of the World War for Human Rights is a sweeping, illustrated survey that intertwines a…

Aircraft: Its Development in War and Peace and Its Commercial Future

Evan John David

The book is a comprehensive survey of early aeronautics, written by Evan John David to trace the evolution of…

Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures

Martin Quigley

Martin Quigley’s Magic Shadows is a scholarly survey of the long, winding road that led from primitive…

Secret Service Under Pitt

William J. Fitz-Patrick

The work is a scholarly reconstruction of the covert operations that underpinned British policy in Ireland…

Social Transformations of the Victorian Age: A Survey of Court and Country

T. H. S. Escott

The work is a scholarly survey rather than a narrative history, offering a series of observations on the…

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy

Edward Luther Stevenson

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of terrestrial and celestial globes, focusing on the…

The Holy Roman Empire

James Bryce

The work is a scholarly treatise by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce, that sets out to explain the Holy Roman…

The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History

Martin A. S. Hume

Martin A. S. Hume’s work is a scholarly examination of the six queens who married Henry VIII, presented as a…

Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836. Volume I. Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830

Fitzroy, Robert; King, Philip Parker

The work is a formal naval report of the first surveying expedition undertaken by His Majesty’s ships…

"Their Majesties' Servants." Annals of the English Stage (Volume 3 of 3)

Dr. Doran

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4)

William Milligan Sloane

The fourth volume of William Milligan Sloane’s four‑part “Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” is a dense…

The Rise of Rail-Power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914

Edwin A. Pratt

The work is a scholarly survey of how railways transformed military logistics from their earliest strategic…

Violence and the Labor Movement

Robert Hunter

Robert Hunter’s Violence and the Labor Movement is a scholarly survey of the long‑standing debate within…

France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol 1: A Half-Century of Conflict

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s France and England in North America, Part VII, Vol.

My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821

Alexandre Dumas

Constitutional History of England, Henry VII to George II. Volume 3 of 3

Henry Hallam

Henry Hallam’s three‑volume Constitutional History of England, covering the period from Henry VII to George…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 3, Sep. 1809-Dec. 1810: Ocaña, Cadiz, Bussaco, Torres Vedras

Charles Oman

The third volume of Charles Oman’s History of the Peninsular War picks up where the first two left off,…

China's Revolution, 1911-1912: A Historical and Political Record of the Civil War

Edwin John Dingle

This work is a contemporary account of the 1911–1912 Chinese Revolution, written by Edwin J.

The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe

Dorothy Stimson

Dorothy Stimson’s work is a scholarly survey of how the Copernican heliocentric model moved from controversy…

Nova Scotia's Part in the Great War

The work is a comprehensive, illustrated history of Nova Scotia’s contribution to the First World War,…

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo

Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World is a nineteenth‑century survey that selects, explains and links…

Abraham Lincoln, Volume II

John T. Morse, Jr.

The work is a scholarly biography of Abraham Lincoln, compiled by John T.