History Books

Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680

Jasper Danckaerts

Jasper Danckaerts was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River in what is now the US state of Maryland. He is known for his journal, kept while traveling through the territory whic..

Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 04

Saint-Simon

The Duc de Coislin died about this time. I have related in its proper place an adventure that happened to him and his brother, the Chevalier de Coislin: now I will say something more of the Duke. He w..

The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2)

Ida Husted Harper

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she col..

The Fugitive Blacksmith

James W. C. Pennington

The Fugitive Blacksmith or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States.The brief narrative I h..

Into the Jaws of Death

Jack O'Brien

My story begins when this war broke out in August, 1914. I was working with a survey party at the time not far from Fernie, British. Columbia. I remember the day that I made up my mind to enlist. I ha..

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 01 of 55

Emma Helen Blair

Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Po..

A Popular History of Ireland

Thomas D'Arcy McGee

Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 1 begins with the earliest modern settl..

The Composition of Indian Geographical Names

J. Hammond Trumbull

The Composition of Indian Geographical Names Illustrated from the Algonkin Languages. Not that personal or proper names, in any language, were originally mere arbitrary sounds, devoid of meaning...