History Books

Charles Fourier - Sein Leben und seine Theorien

August Bebel

Ferdinand August Bebel was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany in 1869, which in 1875 mer..

Fruits of Toil in the London Missionary Society

London Missionary Society

When our fathers established this Society they were met by a formidable array of difficulties of which we know nothing. Gathered in fellowship when the infidel principles of the French Revolution were..

Original Narratives of Early American History

Various Authors

Although, in the narrative of the Gentleman of Elvas, the translation by Buckingham Smith has been followed, some corrections have been made in the text, and pains have been taken to set right, in acc..

Indian Boyhood

Charles Alexander Eastman

Eastman tells the story of his early life, which he describes as "fragmentary recollections of my thrilling wild life." First published in 1902, the book is a classic in literature about Native Americ..

Secret Societies of the Middle Ages

Thomas Keightley

If we had the means of investigating historically the origin of Secret Societies, we should probably find that they began to be formed almost as soon as any knowledge had been accumulated by particula..

An Account of Egypt

Herodotus

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He is known for having written the book The Histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins o..

De Bello Gallico and Other Commentaries

Julius Caesar

Commentaries on the Gallic War, also Bellum Gallicum (English: Gallic War), is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a third-person narrative. In it Caesar describes the bat..

Ragnarok - the Age of Fire and Gravel

Ignatius Donnelly

Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel is a book by Minnesota politician Ignatius L. Donnelly published first in 1883. It is a companion to the more well-known work Atlantis: The Antediluvian World.Igna..