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Top authorsJohn Lothrop Motley Adolphe Thiers Marie Lebert François Guizot Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne Jules Michelet Thomas Carlyle Thomas Babington Macaulay A. T. Mahan H. G. Wells

The magazine of history with notes and queries, Vol. II, No. 5, November 1905

Various

The Yankee mining squadron: or, laying the North Sea mine barrage

Reginald Rowan Belknap

The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873

Joel Tyler Headley

Thirteen years at the Russian court (a personal record of the last years and death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his family)

Pierre Gilliard

Omnibuses and cabs: Their Origin and History

Henry Charles Moore

Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879

Sir Samuel White Baker

The Founder of New France : A Chronicle of Champlain

Charles W. Colby

The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18

Samuel May

Inventors

Philip Gengembre Hubert

The Industrial History of England

Henry de Beltgens Gibbins

Red blight

Mary Knight

Abraham Lincoln and the Union: A Chronicle of the Embattled North

Nathaniel W. Stephenson

Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation

Thomas Wallace Knox

The Living Present

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Cover of History of the Johnstown Flood
Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek.

History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek.

Willis Fletcher Johnson