For American journalist and humorist Edgar Wilson Nye who wrote under the pen name Bill Nye in the late 19th century, facts are not to be presented in...
Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpr...
This Country of Ours was published in the UK in 1917 and later was also reissued as The Story of the United States in 1919. It begins with a brief acc...
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roov...
The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York....
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now...
This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this story, Bertram...
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficien...
Liverpool in the second half of the 19th century was burgeoning with rich merchants and swollen with poor immigrants. It was known variously as the "N...
It is here presented in book form in the hope that it may prove of value to those groups of people who in many cities are making a gallant effort to...
The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishes in 1898 w...
An in-depth narrative of Susan B Anthony's life from a small girl to old age. It covers historic events throughout her lifetime. Including the electio...
First-hand perspective on the years right after the Civil War, when blacks were not yet denied so many of their rights. They were in Congress! A part...
An insightful look at a current terribly misunderstood war. The strategy and effort toward success is demonstrated along with those involved. The focu...
American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped frontier area from the founding through the 1880s. These essays try to con...
This biography contains three main sections. the first covers Adams's early years and his time as a diplomat--both in America and overseas. The second...
This was written to inspire loyalty and patriotism during the Civil War. It is the tear-jerking story of this man, a sailor, who makes a rash wish tha...
This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It is divided...
I am merely a business man who is interested in the Passenger Pigeon because he loves the outdoors and its wild things, and sincerely regrets the crue...
In this anthology, Agnes Blake Poor introduces to the American public a collection of Latin American poets in translation. The poems are organized by...
"The single aim in telling the story that follows is to interest boys in the life of Booker T. Washington. "This man's life was of such singular and v...
An introduction to Arizona from approximately a century ago. We also get equally good information on native tribes both of his time and archeological...
A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythica...
