History books

Studies in Literature and History

Sir Alfred C. Lyall

The work is a scholarly survey that treats the art of English letter‑writing as a crossroads of literature,…

The Red True Story Book

The Red True Story Book is a historical narrative that dramatizes the siege of Orléans through the eyes of…

The True Story Book

The True Story Book is a sprawling historical narrative that begins with a vivid first‑person account of a…

Historical Essays

James Ford Rhodes

James Ford Rhodes opens this work by declaring history his “old subject,” acknowledging the long line of…

The History of Freedom, and Other Essays

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

James Baldwin

The world's leading conquerors: Alexander the Great, Cæsar, Charles the Great, the Ottoman sultans, the Spanish conquistadors, Napoleon

Wilson Lloyd Bevan

Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913

Cromer, Evelyn Baring, Earl of

The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies

Andrew Lang

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam

John Lord

The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VI. (Of VII) Old Portraits and Modern Sketches, Plus Personal Sketches and Tributes and Historical Papers

John Greenleaf Whittier

Short Studies on Great Subjects

James Anthony Froude

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents

John Lord

Historical Mysteries

Andrew Lang

Historical and Political Essays

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity

John Lord

Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events

S. Baring-Gould

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07: Great Women

John Lord

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06: Renaissance and Reformation

John Lord

The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe

James Kendall Hosmer

Historic Oddities and Strange Events

S. Baring-Gould

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 03: Ancient Achievements

John Lord

Historical Lectures and Essays

Charles Kingsley

Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders

John Lord