In order to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution in the late 1780s, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Hay wrote a serie...
The following work offers in book form the series of studies on the question of the historicity of Jesus, presented from time to time before the Indep...
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the...
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...
Magna Carta Libertatum commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of Englan...
This book provides the history of one of the most renowned emperors of all time. The Great Khan. This was a man born Temujin to a clan leader father w...
Jerusalem Delivered, also known as The Liberation of Jerusalem is an epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso, first published in 1581, that tells...
William H Prescott was an American historian whose sight had reduced him to near blindness, and who had never visited Mexico, yet researched and recon...
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson and published under the p...
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the truth. Do not te...
The History of Britain, that Part especially now called England; from the first traditional Beginning, continued to the Norman Conquest. Collected out...
The Jewish War or Judean War also referred to in English as The Wars of the Jews, is a book written by Josephus, a first-century Roman-Jewish historia...
FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, where she marr...
A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century was thought to be Agnes Mary Clerke's greatest work. It covers developments made in the f...
In this Little Blue Book Number , Will Durant describes François-Marie Arouet, the writer, historian, and philosopher known as Voltaire (1694-1778) as...
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the generals of the...
Henry VII, the founder of the Tudor dynasty, less known than his son, Henry VIII, or granddaughter Elizabeth I, is often overlooked. This King toppled...
Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of Nostradamu...
(Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored. It is obs...
This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s. The origi...
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the...
"Of all the Fathers, who have composed works of different kinds, Theodoret is one of those who has been very happy in every one of them. There are som...
