History - Modern (1750+)

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a volume of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled with a…

The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

Mark Twain

The work is a contemporary newspaper essay published in the New York Tribune on August 28, 1868, in which the…

Wanderings of a pilgrim in search of the picturesque, Volume 2 (of 2): During four-and-twenty years in the east; With Revelations of Life in the Zenāna

Fanny Parkes Parlby

Fanny Parkes’s Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque is a sprawling travel diary that records…

French enterprise in Africa: the personal narrative of Lieut. Hourst of his exploration of the Niger

Hourst

The work is a first‑person account of Lieutenant Hour Hourst’s 1890s expedition along the Niger, presented as…

Letters of Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense. From 1827 to 1858. With extracts from Varnhagen's diaries, and letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

This volume is a scholarly collection of Alexander von Humboldt’s private correspondence with his lifelong…

The War History of the 1st/4th Battalion, the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment now the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), 1914-1918

Anonymous

The work is a regimental history of the 1st/4th Battalion, Loyal (North Lancashire) Regiment, covering its…

The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir

Sir James McCrone Douie

Sir James McCrone Douie’s The Panjab, North‑West Frontier Province, and Kashmir is a comprehensive…

The Cotton Kingdom, volume 1 (of 2): A traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American Slave States

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted’s The Cotton Kingdom is a two‑volume travelogue and investigative report that blends…

The Great War As I Saw It

Frederick George Scott

The work is a first‑person memoir by Canon Frederick George Scott, senior chaplain of the First Canadian…

Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom

Trumbull White

The work is a contemporary chronicle of the 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain, framed as a…

Dumas' Paris

M. F. Mansfield

The Life of Johannes Brahms (Vol 2 of 2)

Florence May

Florence May’s second volume on the life of Johannes Brahma ns is a scholarly biography that begins by…

The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-12 — Volume 1 and Volume 2

Roald Amundsen

The work is a two‑volume narrative of Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian Antarctic expedition aboard the Fram,…

Famous Givers and Their Gifts

Sarah Knowles Bolton

The work is a biographical study of the great American benefactors whose lives shaped the nation’s cultural…

Railroad Reorganization

Stuart Daggett

The work is a scholarly study of American railroad finance at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on…

The War with Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2)

Justin Harvey Smith

The work is a scholarly, two‑volume history of the Mexican‑American War, published in 1919 by the Macmillan…

A History of the Gipsies: with Specimens of the Gipsy Language

Walter Simson

Walter Simson’s A History of the Gipsies is a nineteenth‑century scholarly survey that sets out to document…

The Story of Chautauqua

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

The book is a nonfiction tribute to the Chautauqua movement, written by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut.

The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

Thomas Clarkson

Thomas Clarkson’s 1839 work is a meticulous chronicle of the parliamentary struggle to end the African…

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915 April-September, 1915

Various

The volume is a contemporary news‑magazine compilation titled New York Times Current History; The European…

Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince.

Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

The work is a series of travel letters penned by a German prince during his tours of England, Ireland and…

Sixty Years a Queen: The Story of Her Majesty's Reign

Sir Herbert Maxwell

Sir Herbert Maxwell’s Sixty Years a Queen offers a sweeping, chronologically organized portrait of Queen…

The slave trade: Slavery and color

Theodore D. Jervey

The work is a scholarly examination of the American slave trade and the broader “color question” that emerged…

Farmer George, Volume 2

Lewis Melville

The work is a scholarly examination of the political landscape of Great Britain during the reign of George…