History - Modern (1750+)

The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912

L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

The work is a memoir‑style chronicle by L. de Hegermann‑Lindencrone, written from the perspective of a…

Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."

Bradlaugh, Charles; Collins, Anthony, active 19th century; Watts, John

The work is a biographical sketch of celebrated freethinkers, assembled from the 19th‑century English volume…

The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone

Eric Fisher Wood

The Note‑Book of an Attaché is a first‑hand wartime memoir that blends personal diary entries with a…

Ten Essays on Zionism and Judaism

Ahad Ha'am

The volume presents ten essays by Ahad Ha’am, a leading thinker of the Jewish national revival, translated…

Narrative, of a five years' expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772 to 1777 ... Volume 2 (of 2)

John Gabriel Stedman

This volume is the second half of John Gabriel Stedman’s sprawling narrative of a five‑year military campaign…

America's Munitions 1917-1918

Benedict; United States. War Department Crowell

America’s Munitions 1917‑1918 is an official War Department report compiled by Assistant Secretary of War…

The Curiosities of Dudley and the Black Country, From 1800 to 1860 Also an Account of the Trials and Sufferings of Dud Dudley, with His Mettallum Martis: Etc.

C. F. G. Clark

Recollections of a Busy Life: Being the Reminiscences of a Liverpool Merchant 1840-1910

Sir William Bower Forwood

The work is an autobiographical memoir of Sir William Bower Forwood, a Liverpool merchant whose life spanned…

The History of Napoleon Buonaparte

J. G. Lockhart

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography that treats Napoleon’s life as both history and literary portrait.

The end of the trail: The far west from New Mexico to British Columbia

E. Alexander Powell

The work is a sweeping travel‑essay that blends historical overview with first‑hand observation of the “Last…

Campfire and battlefield: an illustrated history of the campaigns and conflicts of the great Civil War

Johnson, Rossiter; Connor, Selden; Gordon, John Brown; Howard, Henry W. B. (Henry Ward Beecher); Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis); Morgan, John Tyler; Ridpath, John Clark

Campfire and Battlefield is an illustrated history that traces the political, economic, and military forces…

Chantilly in History and Art

Luise Richter

The book is a scholarly survey of Chantilly’s history and its artistic treasures, written by Louise M.

A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II.

Stephen M. Ostrander

Stephen M. Ostrander’s A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County, Volume II is a comprehensive…

The Armenian Crisis in Turkey The Massacre of 1894, Its Antecedents and Significance, With a Consideration of Some of the Factors Which Enter Into the Solution of This Phase of the Eastern Question

Frederick Davis Greene

Frederick D. Greene’s work is a polemical study of the 1894‑96 Armenian massacres, framed as a comprehensive…

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 2 (of 4).—1857-1874

Charles L. Graves

Mr. Punch’s History of Modern England, Volume 2 (1857‑1874) is a chronologically organized survey of British…

A century of science in America: with special reference to the American Journal of Science, 1818-1918

This volume is a commemorative survey of the first hundred years of the American Journal of Science, founded…

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915

Various

The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine – The European War, March 1915, is a contemporary…

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It With a Chronological Table of Local Events

John Ackerson Erredge

History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View it and Others Knew It is a nineteenth‑century antiquarian…

The life of Mazzini

Bolton King

This work is a biographical study of Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian revolutionary, written by Bolton King and…

The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature

Maurice, Arthur Bartlett; Cooper, Frederic Taber

Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought

H. G. Wells

The work is a speculative essay that treats the future of technology and society as a subject for systematic…

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

Winston Churchill

The work is a first‑hand account of the 1897 Malakand campaign on the north‑west frontier of British India,…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 1 Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers

History of the Spanish Conquest of Yucatan and of the Itzas Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Hard University. Vol. VII.

Philip Ainsworth Means

This volume is a scholarly compilation produced by the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology…