History Books
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed.
Benjamin WaterhouseBenjamin Waterhouse was a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being the first doctor to test the smallpox vaccine in the United States, which he ca..
A Traveller in Little Things
W. H. HudsonA Traveller in Little Things is a collection of English essays written by William Henry Hudson,who was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Some of essays are:How I found my title ..
Darwinism (1889)
Alfred Russel WallaceDarwinism (1889) is an exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications written by Alfred Russel Wallace, a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, ..
L'Île Des Pingouins
Anatole FranceL'Île Des Pingouins is a French origin of Penguin Island , a satire on French civilization written by Anatole France, who was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic ..
American Institutions and Their Influence
Alexis de TocquevilleThe following work of M. DE TOCQUEVILLE has attracted great attention throughout Europe, where it is universally regarded as a sound, philosophical, impartial, and remarkably clear and distinct view o..
A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal
Thomas PaineA London translation of an original work in French, by the Abbe Raynal, which treats of the Revolution of North America, having been reprinted in Philadelphia and other parts of the continent, and as ..
A Parody Outline of History
Donald Ogden StewartMr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volum..
Armageddon—And After
W. L. CourtneyI dedicate this little book to the young idealists of this and other countries, for several reasons. They must, obviously, be young, because their older contemporaries, with a large amount of experien..