History Books

Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada

Washington Irving

Although the following Chronicle bears the name of the venerable Fray Antonio Agapida, it is rather a superstructure reared upon the fragments which remain of his work. It may be asked, Who is this sa..

A History of English Literature

Robert Huntington Fletcher

This book aims to provide a general manual of English Literature for students in colleges and universities and others beyond the high-school age. The first purposes of every such book must be to outli..

La Argentina

Martín del Barco Centenera

La Argentina, is a Spanish poetry collection written by Arcidiano D. Martin del Barco Centenera...

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 contains the Great Britain's history written by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, FRS FRSE PC was a British historian and Whig politician. H..

History of the State of California

John Frost

History of the State of California from the Period of the Conquest by Spain to Her Occupation by the United States of America.The occupation of California by the people of the United States, and the d..

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 12 - Domitian

C. Suetonius Tranquillus

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius w..

Comic History of the United States

Bill Nye

This text takes the reader on a comical journey from the time of the first European settlement through the Civil War. The author's caustic wit is evident throughout the book in his numerous sarcastic ..

A Lieutenant at Eighteen

Oliver Optic

A Lieutenant at Eighteen is a juvenile fiction story written by Oliver Optic, a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives."A Lieutenant at Eighteen" is the thi..