Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle det...
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never learned to coo...
"This cheerful little road novel is about Claire Boltwood, who, in the early days of the 20th century, travels by automobile from New York City to the...
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parlia...
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a homestead,...
Story of the planning, construction, and early operating of the Trans-continental railroad. There is coverage of the early proposals that began as ear...
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, "Where the...
In the early summer of 1942, intelligence reports of the construction of a Japanese airfield near Lunga Point on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands tr...
"In the heart of the New World, a unique experiment in colonial history unfolded, driven by the enduring spirit of Quaker ideals. Journey back in time...
