History - Modern (1750+)

Aërial Navigation A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on Aëronautical Meteorology

Albert Francis Zahm

Aërial Navigation is a comprehensive, popular‑science survey of the development of aeronautics up to 1911,…

"1683-1920" The Fourteen Points and What Became of Them—Foreign Propaganda in the Public Schools—Rewriting the History of the United States—The Espionage Act and How It Worked—"Illegal and Indefensible Blockade" of the Central Powers—1,000,000 Victims of Starvation—Our Debt to France and to Germany—The War Vote in Congress—Truth About the Belgian Atrocities—Our Treaty with Germany and How Observed—The Alien Property Custodianship—Secret Will of Cecil Rhodes—Racial Strains in American Life—Germantown Settlement of 1683 and a Thousand Other Topics

Frederick Franklin Schrader

Frederick Franklin Schrader’s 1920 volume is a polemical reference work that assembles a sprawling inventory…

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary

David Hume

David Hume’s “The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.

Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Volume 03 (of 11)

United States. Office of Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality

This volume is a primary‑source collection assembled by the United States Office of Chief Counsel for the…

Dickens' London

M. F. Mansfield

The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire Paris Society in the Sixties; Including Letters of Napoleon III., M. Pietri, and Comte de la Chapelle, and Portraits of the Period

Edward Legge

The book is a richly illustrated historical study that seeks to balance the public perception of the Second…

Stanley in Africa The Wonderful Discoveries and Thrilling Adventures of the Great African Explorer, and Other Travelers, Pioneers and Missionaries

James P. Boyd

This volume is a Victorian‑era travelogue that chronicles the exploits of Henry M.

The South American Republics, Part 1 of 2

Thomas Cleland Dawson

Thomas Cleland Dawson’s work is a scholarly survey of the political evolution of the South American republics…

My attainment of the Pole: being the record of the expedition that first reached the boreal center, 1907-1909. With the final summary of the polar controversy

Frederick Albert Cook

The work is a first‑person account by Frederick Albert Cook of the 1907‑1909 expedition that he asserts…

The Story of the Great War, Volume 2 History of the European War from Official Sources

The Boy's Book of New Inventions

Harry E. Maule

Harry E. Maule’s The Boy’s Book of New Inventions is a survey of recent technological breakthroughs written…

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner, issued by the American Anti‑Slavery Society, is a polemical periodical from the…

History of electric light

Henry Schroeder

Chronicles of London Bridge

Richard Thompson

Chronicles of London Bridge is a scholarly compendium that sets out to fill the gaps left by earlier…

A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

Robert Kerr

A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River

Barlow Cumberland

This work is a detailed historical account of riverine transport on the Niagara River, concentrating on the…

Letters to "The Times" upon War and Neutrality (1881-1920)

Thomas Erskine Holland

This work is a comprehensive collection of Thomas Erskine Holland’s letters to The Times on the legal…

History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812

Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

The work is a sprawling, first‑person chronicle by Philippe‑Paul, comte de Ségur, who sets out to “trace the…

The Highlands of Ethiopia

Sir William Cornwallis Harris

The work is a second‑edition travel narrative in which Sir William Cornwallis Harris sets out to defend his…

The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England

Richard B. Cook

The book is a biographical study of William Ewart Gladstone, four‑time Prime Minister of England, written by…

The war against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean and adjacent areas

Hatlem, John C.; Hunter, Kenneth E.; Tackley, Margaret E.; United States. Department of the Army. Office of Military History

The work is a pictorial military history compiled by the United States Army’s Office of Military History.

The History of Lumsden's Horse A Complete Record of the Corps from Its Formation to Its Disbandment

The History of Lumsden’s Horse is a regiment‑level chronicle of the Indian volunteer mounted corps that…

The Life of a Regimental Officer During the Great War, 1793-1815

A. F. Mockler-Ferryman

The work is a biographical study of Samuel Rice, a career officer of the 51st Regiment, whose service spanned…

Makers of Electricity

Potamian, Brother; Walsh, James J.

Makers of Electricity is a biographical history that surveys the lives of the principal pioneers who shaped…