History Books

An Undivided Union

Oliver Optic

An Undivided Union is a juvenile fiction story based on the United States Civil War written by William Taylor Adams, pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Mass..

Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon

Hippolyte Taine

Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon is an account of France history written by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a..

The Life of Cicero, Volume One

Anthony Trollope

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Tro..

The Spirit of Rome

Vernon Lee

The Spirit of Rome is an account of Italian travel work written by Vernon Lee, the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her ..

Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome

Oliver Goldsmith

Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work,..

Pioneers of the Old Southwest

Constance Lindsay Skinner

This narrative is founded largely on original sources—on the writings and journals of pioneers and contemporary observers, such as Doddridge and Adair, and on the public documents of the period as pri..

Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome V.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Œuvres de Napoléon Bonaparte, Tome V.  is French history written by Napoléon Bonaparte, a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led sev..

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century

James Anthony Froude

English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century is a collection of lectures delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by James Anthony Froude, an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's ..