Michael Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of...
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive s...
Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually consid...
In 1921, Charles and Mary Beard published their textbook: History of the United States. A contemporaneous review stated: The authors… assume enough ma...
The Ecclesiastical History of the English People written by the Venerable Bede in about AD 731, is a history of the Christian Churches in England, and...
The story occurs in the southern American states of North and South Carolina a few years following the American Civil War. Rena Walden, a young woman...
Salammbô is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert. It is set in Carthage immediately before and during the Mercenary Revolt (241–237 B.C.). Flaubert'...
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. Though at...
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provi...
Another remarkable World War I novel by Romer Wilson, "If All These Young Men" is a character study of a group of young 20-something friends in Englan...
The Siege of Corinth is a rhymed, tragic narrative poem by Lord Byron. Published in 1816 by John Murray in London with the poem Parisina, it was inspi...
Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at traged...
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woma...
A heartwarming novel which visits the last two years of the American Civil War. The center of the story is the conflict of emotions and deeds between...
In this short volume, the British historian, Charles Merivale, describes the long conflict by which the rule of one man replaced the Roman Republic. H...
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodiest day of...
Hester is an 1883 novel written by Margaret Oliphant. It examines the cycle of history through the lives of the Vernon family. The book was published...
Harold Ashton was the War Correspondent of The Daily News during the First World War and reported extensively on the British army’s involvement in the...
It argues that despite the many technological advancements of the modern world, war is not diminishing, but is instead becoming more frequent and more...
The poem celebrates the compassionate and dedicated care provided by nurses, specifically nuns, who work with wounded soldiers during the siege. The p...
It explores the relationship between government policies and birth control practices. This book was written in a time when birth control was a controv...
The play tells the story of a struggle for power and freedom between two men, the tyrannical Duke Charles and the idealistic Count von Moor.
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It is an important piece of literature that sheds light on the colonization of Africa by European powers during the late 19th and early 20th century....
