History - Modern (1750+)

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death

T. C. De Leon

Four Years in Rebel Capitals offers a self‑conscious, almost apologetic, survey of Confederate life from the…

Memoirs of the Courts and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 1

Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of

The work is a curated collection of private letters and official correspondence drawn from the family papers…

The Roswell Report: Case Closed

James McAndrew

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is an official Air Force investigation that builds on a 1994 declassification…

Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor’s work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle that blends memoir, campaign history, and…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay’s third volume of The History of England, from the Accession of James II is a…

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life

A. T. Mahan

From the outset, this work presents itself as a reflective memoir by Alfred Thayer Mahan, the famed United…

Change in the Village

George Sturt

George Sturt’s Change in the Village is a social history that opens with a precise, almost geographical…

The French Revolution: A History

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle’s “The French Revolution: A History” is a sweeping, essay‑like chronicle that begins with a…

The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844

Charles Darwin

The work is a scholarly compilation of two early essays by Charles Darwin, written in 1842 and 1844, that lay…

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga’s Erasmus and the Age of Reformation is a scholarly biography that situates the Dutch humanist…

Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 3—The Church of the Restoration [part 1]

John Stoughton

John Stoughton’s Ecclesiastical History of England, Volume 3, The Church of the Restoration [part 1] is a…

The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula

Herbert Brayley Collett

The work is a regimental history of the 28th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force, written by its first…

Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac

Morford, Henry; Armstrong, William H.; Frick, Jacob G.

Red‑Tape and Pigeon‑Hole Generals is a first‑hand collection of sketches drawn by Union soldiers during the…

The French Revolution - Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine

This volume is Hippolyte Taine’s continuation of his systematic study of the French Revolution, focusing…

The village labourer, 1760-1832 A study in the government of England before the Reform Bill

Hammond, J. L. (John Lawrence); Hammond, Barbara Bradby

The work is a scholarly study of English village life between 1760 and 1832, written by J. L.

A Sailor of King George

Hoffman, Frederick, Captain

The work is a first‑person naval memoir by Captain Frederick Hoffman, compiled from his own journals and…

Secret societies and subversive movements

Nesta Helen Webster

The work is a scholarly investigation into the hidden networks that, according to the author, have shaped…

Evolution in Modern Thought

The work is a scholarly survey of the intellectual lineage of evolutionary thought, beginning with a concise…

Louis XIV. Makers of History Series

John S. C. Abbott

John S. C. Abbott’s “Louis XIV” is a nineteenth‑century scholarly biography that treats the Sun King as the…

"The Red Watch": With the First Canadian Division in Flanders

John Allister Currie

The book is a first‑hand account by Colonel John Allister Currie, a Member of Parliament and veteran of the…

Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

United States. Warren Commission

The work is the official report of the President’s Commission, commonly known as the Warren Commission,…

Devil-Worship in France; or, The Question of Lucifer

Arthur Edward Waite

Arthur Edward Waite’s Devil‑Worship in France is a scholarly investigation into the alleged resurgence of…

Life and sport in China Second Edition

Oliver George Ready

Oliver G. Ready’s Life and Sport in China is a first‑hand account written after twelve years of residence in…

The Battle of New Orleans including the Previous Engagements between the Americans and the British, the Indians and the Spanish which led to the Final Conflict on the 8th of January, 1815

Z. F. Smith

Z.F. Smith’s work is a scholarly history of the Battle of New Orleans, presented as the nineteenth Filson…