Classicly

Historical Lectures and Essays is a collected work of essays by Charles Kingsley contains the essays including below 

• The First Discovery Of America
  
• Cyrus, The Servant Of-The Lord
  
• Ancient Civilisation
  
• The Huguenot Naturalist
  
• Vesalius The Anatomist
  
• Paracelsus
  
• George Buchanan, Scholar