History Books

The Negro Migrant in Pittsburgh

Abraham Epstein

The main purpose of this study was not merely the attempt at a piece of research. The writer undertook it originally in the early spring as a student volunteer with the sole aim of doing his share in ..

The United Empire Loyalists

W. Stewart Wallace

Within recent years, however, there has been a change. American historians of a new school have revised the history of the Revolution, and a tardy reparation has been made to the memory of the Tories ..

The Importance of Marking Historic Spots

Henry W. Shoemaker

The hieroglyphics are crude affairs, but the painting on the “Picture Rocks” were said to be of rare beauty and marvelous coloration. The rocks of the Allegheny River will defy time, but the rapacious..

White Mountain Trails

Winthrop Packard

Southerly from Chocorua summit the land was soused in the steam of spring. Chocorua Lake lay green at my feet, an emerald mirror of the world around it. To its right a little way Lonely Lake was a dar..

Lincoln, the American

Frank O. Lowden

Lincoln was above all a great American. Indeed, it was that same poet of yours, whom I have already quoted, who said of him—“new birth of our new soil, the first American.”All his life he hated slaver..

Forest Scenes in Norway and Sweden

Henry Newland

The author has enlarged upon this, in the faint hope of drawing attention to these matters. He would suggest that some sort of superintendence would not be altogether superfluous, and that it is not e..

Chronicles of Pharmacy, Vol. 2 (of 2)

A. C. Wootton

Glauber states that he had known of wonderful cures effected by these remedies. But the reason was simple. Human dung, for example, is nothing but bread and flesh reduced into their first matters, all..

The Irish Nuns at Ypres

Dame M. Columban

The following narrative was originally intended, as a record of the events it relates, for the use of the Community only. But, shortly after the arrival of the Mother Prioress in England, the manuscri..