History - Modern (1750+)

New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments

John Morrison

John Morrison’s work is a scholarly survey drawn from a series of university lectures delivered in Glasgow…

The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

Robert E. Peary

The book is a first‑hand account of Robert E. Peary’s 1909 expedition that achieved the long‑sought discovery…

The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville

Alexis de Tocqueville

The work is a personal memoir of Alexis de Tocqueville, written in the years following the February…

The Lake Regions of Central Africa: A Picture of Exploration, Vol. 1

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a first‑volume account of a mid‑nineteenth‑century expedition into the interior of Central…

The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea

Trumbull White

Trumbull White’s The War in the East offers a sweeping historical survey of China, Japan, and Corea, framed…

Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont); Vaughan, Mary C.

The work is a meticulously compiled record of women’s contributions to the Union cause during the American…

Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements

Thomas E. Watson

Thomas E. Watson’s “Napoleon: A Sketch of His Life, Character, Struggles, and Achievements” is a concise,…

The Red Cross in Peace and War

Clara Barton

The work is a comprehensive historical account of the American National Red Cross, written by Clara Barton…

Cotton is king, and pro-slavery arguments: comprising the writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this important subject

The volume assembles the pro‑slavery essays of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe and…

Woman and Socialism

August Bebel

August Bebel’s Woman and Socialism is a polemical treatise that frames the “woman question” as inseparable…

Bismarck: some secret pages of his history (Vol. 1 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor

Moritz Busch

This volume is the first of a three‑part diary kept by Dr Moritz Busch, who spent twenty‑five years in close…

Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.

Philip Vickers Fithian

The work is a combined journal and correspondence by Philip Vickers Fithian, a New Jersey‑born scholar who,…

Beasts, men and gods

Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski

The work is a sprawling travel memoir that doubles as a first‑hand chronicle of the chaos that followed the…

Mandalay to Momien A narrative of the two expeditions to western China of 1868 and 1875 under Colonel Edward B. Sladen and Colonel Horace Browne

John Anderson

John Anderson’s Mandalay to Momien is a detailed travel narrative that records two British‑led expeditions…

My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills

Sir James Johnstone

The work is a first‑person memoir of Sir James Johnstone, an Anglo‑Indian officer who spent the 1870s and…

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science

John William Draper

John William Draper’s History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science is a sweeping, argumentative study…

English Painters, with a Chapter on American Painters

Wilmot-Buxton, H. J. (Harry John); Koehler, S. R.

This work is a scholarly survey of English painting, supplemented by a concise chapter on American artists.

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

Edward J. Ruppelt

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a nonfiction account that reads like an official military…

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915

Various

The New York Times Current History of the European War, Volume 1, Issue 4 (January 23 1915) presents a…

The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony

Thomas Lindsay Buick

Thomas Lindsay Buick’s work is a historical study that traces the political and diplomatic forces behind the…

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814)

James Anthony Gardner

Recollections of James Anthony Gardner, commander R.N. (1775–1814) is a personal memoir rather than a…

Vigilante Days and Ways The pioneers of the Rockies; the makers and making of Montana and Idaho

Nathaniel Pitt Langford

The Voyages of Captain Scott : Retold from the Voyage of the Discovery and Scott's Last Expedition

Charles Turley

The work is a biographical narrative that traces the life of Robert Falcon Scott from his childhood in Devon…

How I found Livingstone: Travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone

Henry M. Stanley

The work is a first‑person travel narrative by Henry M. Stanley, written after his 1869 encounter with James…