History Books

A General Sketch of the European War - The First Phase

Hilaire Belloc

It is the object of this book, and those which will succeed it in the same series, to put before the reader the main lines of the European War as it proceeds. Each such part must necessarily be comple..

The Diary of a U-boat Commander

Stephen King-Hall

The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans involv..

American Negro Slavery

Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

The Portuguese began exploring the west coast of Africa shortly before Christopher Columbus was born; and no sooner did they encounter negroes than they began to seize and carry them in captivity to L..

Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

A. B. Drachmann

Anders Bjørn Drachmann  was a Danish classical philologist . AB Drachmann studied classical philology and in 1887 won a competition for a professorship at the University of Christiania , but was ..

The Monitor and the Merrimac

John Lorimer Worden

This is the first-hand story of what was done and seen and felt on each side in the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac. The actual experiences on both vessels are pictured, in one case by the comm..

Abraham Lincoln - The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence

George Haven Putnam

The twelfth of February, 1909, was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. In New York, as in other cities and towns throughout the Union, the day was devoted to commemoration exerc..

Andersonville - A Story of Rebel Military Prisons

John McElroy

Andersonville : a story of Rebel military prisons, fifteen months a guest of the so-called southern confederacy : a private soldier's experience in Richmond, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Blackshea..

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations

Great Britain Board of Trade

Report of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations on the Petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, Esquires, and their Associates. ..