History - Modern (1750+)

The Truth about the Titanic

Archibald Gracie

The work is a first‑person memoir of Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived the sinking of the Titanic on…

The Suffragette: The History of the Women's Militant Suffrage Movement, 1905-1910

E. Sylvia Pankhurst

The work is a first‑hand chronicle of the militant women’s suffrage movement in Britain from its early…

History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River, Volume 1 (of 2) Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge

Hiram Martin Chittenden

The work is a biographical history that began in the summer of 1896 when H. M.

Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II.

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s Life of Napoleon Volume II is a sprawling historical narrative that picks up where the first…

The Protocols and world revolution: including a translation and analysis of the "Protocols of the meetings of the Zionist men of wisdom"

Sergiei Nilus

The work is a polemical treatise that blends contemporary political commentary with a self‑presented exposé…

The Story of the Typewriter, 1873-1923

Herkimer County Historical Society

The volume is a commemorative history compiled by the Herkimer County Historical Society to mark the fiftieth…

The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is a scholarly survey of the United States Navy’s role in the War of 1812, written by Theodore…

A sailor's life under four sovereigns, Volume 3 (of 3)

Sir Henry Keppel

The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 6: 1862-1863

Abraham Lincoln

This volume is a primary‑source collection of Abraham Lincoln’s official papers and writings from 1862‑1863,…

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

Samuel Murray Hussey

The work is a memoir by Samuel Murray Hussey, an Irish land agent who lived to eighty, offering a…

Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

John Timbs

John Timbs’s two‑volume work is a meticulously compiled survey of London’s club, coffee‑house and tavern…

Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia

Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Thomas J. Wertenbaker’s Give Me Liberty is a scholarly narrative that traces Virginia’s political evolution…

"The System," As Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution

Franklin Hichborn

Franklin Hichborn’s The System, as Uncovered by the San Francisco Graft Prosecution is a nonfiction chronicle…

The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 1 (of 4)

William Milligan Sloane

The work is a scholarly biography of Napoleon Bonaparte, originally serialized in the Century Magazine in…

Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia — Vol. 2 Performed between the years 1818 and 1822

Philip Parker King

The work is a detailed account of Lieutenant‑Commander Philip Parker King’s fourth surveying expedition along…

The Personal Life of David Livingstone Chiefly from his Unpublished Journals and Correspondence in the Possession of His Family

William Garden Blaikie

This volume, compiled by William Garden Blaikie in 1880, is a biographical study that seeks to fill the gaps…

A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217-1815. Volume II, 1689-1815

David Hannay

David Hannay’s A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217‑1815, Volume II, covering 1689‑1815, offers a concise,…

Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery

George Iles

Inventors at Work is a sweeping survey of technological progress, organized as a series of concise chapters…

The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 2 (1779-1792): The Rights of Man

Thomas Paine

The volume presents Thomas Paine’s “Rights of Man,” the second part of his polemic against Edmund Burke’s…

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…

Old Taverns of New York

W. Harrison Bayles

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

Lothrop Stoddard

Lothrop Stoddard’s The Rising Tide of Color Against White World‑Supremacy is a polemical work of…

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile

John Hanning Speke

John Hanning Speke’s “The Discovery of the Source of the Nile” is a first‑person travelogue that chronicles…

China Revolutionized

John Stuart Thomson

The book is a sweeping historical study of the 1911‑1912 Chinese Revolution, written by John Stuart Thomson.