History - Religious

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam

Ephraim Emerton

The work is a scholarly biography of Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam, written by Ephraim Emerton and…

The life of Adoniram Judson

Edward Judson

Edward Judson’s work is a biographical narrative that chronicles the life of his father, the missionary…

Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley’s Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature is a scholarly survey of English…

Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century

W. R. W. Stephens

This work is a scholarly monograph by W. R. W. Stephens that surveys the life of Saint John Chrysostom and…

History of Civilization in England, Vol. 2 of 3

Henry Thomas Buckle

The Apostles

Ernest Renan

Renan’s The Apostles is a scholarly continuation of his earlier “History of the Origins of Christianity,”…

The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 01 (April‑September 1865) is a monthly eclectic magazine that assembles a variety of…

History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 12 (of 12)

A. S. Rappoport

The work is a scholarly survey of Egyptian history from the late Hellenistic period through the medieval era,…

Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland

Thomas M'Crie

Thomas M’Crie’s Life of John Knox is a scholarly biography that doubles as a illustrated survey of the…

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898; Volume 46, 1721-1739 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

This volume is a scholarly compilation of historical documents covering the Philippines from 1721 to 1739,…

The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus

John Stuart Hay

The work is a scholarly attempt to rescue the reputation of the short‑lived Roman ruler known as Elagabalus,…

The Bible, King James version, Book 1: Genesis

Anonymous

Pius IX. And His Time

Æneas MacDonell Dawson

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography that treats the life of Pope Pius IX as the culmination of a…

The Turk and his lost provinces: Greece, Bulgaria, Servia, Bosnia

William Eleroy Curtis

The book is a journalist’s report on the volatile Balkan region at the close of the nineteenth‑century,…

Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

Charlotte M. Yonge

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of John Coleridge Patteson, the Anglican missionary bishop who…

The government of the Ottoman Empire in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent

Albert Howe Lybyer

Albert Howe Lybyer’s scholarly work is a systematic study of Ottoman governance at the height of its power…

The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel

F. W. Farrar

Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts

Andrew Dickson White

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of primary documents concerning the Spanish Inquisition,…

Catherine De Medici

Honoré de Balzac

The work is a French‑language historical essay by Honoré de Balzac, rendered here in English translation,…

Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Eliza R. Snow

The work is a family‑focused biography of Lorenzo Snow, one of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus…

Wilford Woodruff, Fourth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints History of His Life and Labors, as Recorded in His Daily Journals

Wilford Woodruff

This volume is a biographical compilation drawn from the extensive journals kept by Wilford Woodruff, fourth…

Jeanne d'Arc, Maid of Orleans, Deliverer of France Being the Story of Her Life, Her Achievements, and Her Death, as Attested on Oath and Set Forth in the Original Documents

The work presents itself as a meticulously compiled chronicle of Jeanne d’Arc’s life, drawn from the official…

Chapters on Jewish literature

Israel Abrahams

Israel Abrahams’s Chapters on Jewish Literature is a concise survey that traces the development of Jewish…

The History of the Crusades (vol. 1 of 3)

J. Fr. Michaud

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly narrative of the Crusades, presented as the first volume of a…