History - Modern (1750+)

The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic, 1910-1913

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Apsley Cherry‑Garrard’s account is a personal memoir of the British Terra Nova Expedition (1910‑1913),…

The Fight for the Republic in China

B. L. Putnam Weale

Putnam Weale’s The Fight for the Republic in China is a scholarly survey of the tumultuous years from the…

Letters of a Diplomat's Wife, 1883-1900

Mary King Waddington

The book is a collection of personal letters written by Mary King Waddington, wife of the French…

The war against Germany: Europe and adjacent areas

Kenneth E.; United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History Hunter

This volume is a pictorial supplement to the United States Army’s official World War II history series,…

Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert

James H. McClintock

James H. McClintock’s Mormon Settlement in Arizona is a scholarly survey of the Latter‑Day Saints’ expansion…

Gallipoli Diary

John Graham Gillam

John Graham Gillam’s Gallipoli Diary is a first‑person account of a supply officer attached to the 29th…

Glimpses of the Past: History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784

W. O. Raymond

This work is a scholarly chronicle of the Saint John River region from its first European sighting in 1604…

The Armies of Labor: A Chronicle of the Organized Wage-Earners

Samuel Peter Orth

The work is a scholarly survey of the development of labor organization in the United States, anchored in a…

The History of the British Post Office

Joseph Clarence Hemmeon

The work is a scholarly survey of the British Post Office from its earliest royal messengers through the…

Woman under socialism

August Bebel

The work is a polemical treatise by August Bebel, originally published in German as Die Frau und der…

The Diary of John Evelyn (Volume 2 of 2)

John Evelyn

The second volume of John Evelyn’s diary continues the meticulous chronicle of his public duties and courtly…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809: From the battle of Corunna to the end of the Talavera campaign

Charles Oman

Charles Oman's A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2 continues the exhaustive chronicle of the conflict,…

The Struggle for Missouri

John McElroy

John McElroy’s The Struggle for Missouri is a dense historical study that situates Missouri’s early statehood…

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4).—1892-1914

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England, Vol. 4 (of 4) is a continuation of Charles L.

The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

Francis Parkman

Francis Parkman’s two‑volume work is a scholarly history of the Pontiac uprising and the wider Indian War…

Memoirs of the Life and Labours of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, of Paramatta, Senior Chaplain of New South Wales; and of His Early Connexion with the Missions to New Zealand and Tahiti

Samuel Marsden

This work is a biographical memoir of the Reverend Samuel Marsden, senior chaplain of New South Wales,…

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919

Moore, Joel R. (Joel Roscoe); Jahns, Lewis E.; Mead, Harry H.

This volume is a first‑hand historical account of the American North Russian Expedition of 1918‑1919,…

Paris and the Social Revolution A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in the Various Classes of Parisian Society

Alvan F. Sanborn

Alvan F. Sanborn’s Paris and the Social Revolution offers a systematic survey of the revolutionary currents…

Nigeria: Its peoples and its problems

E. D. Morel

E. D. Morel’s Nigeria, its peoples and its problems is a nonfiction study that blends travel narrative,…

The Loss of the S. S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons

Lawrence Beesley

Lawrence Beesley’s work is a first‑hand historical account of the RMS Titanic disaster, written by a survivor…

The Bible in Spain, Vol. 1 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula

George Borrow

The work is a first‑person travel narrative by George Borrow, an English missionary who spent five years in…

The New World of Islam

Lothrop Stoddard

The work is a sweeping historical survey of Islam’s rise, decline, and contemporary upheaval as seen from a…

History of merchant shipping and ancient commerce, Volume 3 (of 4)

W. S. Lindsay

The work is a scholarly survey of maritime commerce, the third installment in a four‑volume series that…

A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria

Joseph Grego

This work is a detailed historical survey of British parliamentary elections from the Stuart era to the reign…