History - Modern (1750+)

Impressions of a War Correspondent

George Lynch

George Lynch’s Impressions of a War Correspondent is a first‑hand chronicle of two of the late‑Victorian…

With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back

Edward P. Lowry

This work is a first‑hand account by Edward P. Lowry, a chaplain attached to the Guards’ Brigade during the…

The party battles of the Jackson period

Claude G. Bowers

Claude G. Bowers’s work is a scholarly, partisan chronicle of the turbulent eight years of Andrew Jackson’s…

Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time

James R. Gilmore

Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time is a Civil‑War‑era narrative that blends travelogue, social…

Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918

Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell

The work is a first‑hand account by Sir C. E. Callwell, a senior British officer who served as Director of…

The Two Great Retreats of History

Grote, George; Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

The work is a historical narrative that intertwines the final campaign of the Persian prince Cyrus the…

Working With the Working Woman

Cornelia Stratton Parker

Cornelia Stratton Parker’s Working With the Working Woman is a sociological survey that blends personal…

Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 2 of 3)

Shearjashub Spooner

The work is a compendium of biographical sketches and critical commentary on the great masters of European…

Pushed and the Return Push

George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The work is a first‑hand memoir of a British artillery officer who returns to the Western Front after a…

The Navy of the American Revolution: Its administration, its policy, and its achievements

Charles Oscar Paullin

Charles Oscar Paullin’s work is a scholarly survey of the United States Navy’s formative years, focusing on…

Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900

A. T. Mahan

The work is a historical study of the South African War of 1899‑1902, written by the American naval officer…

Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century

Harvey W. Hewett-Thayer

Harvey W. Thayer’s scholarly monograph offers a detailed examination of how Laurence Sterne’s works were…

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

Henry Baerlein

The work is a scholarly survey of the formation of Yugoslavia, written by Henry Baerlein.

Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama

Walter L. Fleming

Walter L. Fleming’s work is a scholarly survey of Alabama’s transition from the ante‑bellum era through the…

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade: August 1914 to March 1915

Lord Edward Gleichen

The work is a first‑hand campaign diary of the 15th Infantry Brigade, written by Edward Lord Gleichen, who…

Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965

Morris J. MacGregor

The work is a scholarly administrative history that traces the dismantling of legal, administrative, and…

Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2

Ian Hamilton

The volume is a wartime diary by Sir Ian Hamilton, the British commander who led the Gallipoli campaign, and…

New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915

Various

The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1

Frederick Whymper

Frederick Whymper’s The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism is a sprawling survey of…

A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts, late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen and was confined first, at Melville Island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison: Interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations. To which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners.

Benjamin Waterhouse

This work is a first‑person journal kept by Benjamin Waterhouse, a young Massachusetts surgeon who served…

The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner

J. Wilkinson

John Wilkinson’s “The Narrative of a Blockade‑runner” is a first‑hand memoir that blends personal…

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4 (March 1851) is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

A history of the Peninsular War, Vol. 6, September 1, 1812-August 5, 1813: The siege of Burgos, the retreat from Burgos, the campaign of Vittoria, the battles of the Pyrenees

Charles Oman

Charles Oman’s sixth volume in his monumental “History of the Peninsular War” picks up where the previous…

A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time

Charles Creighton

Charles Creighton’s second volume continues the systematic survey he began three years earlier, tracing…