History Books

The Clerk of the Woods

Bradford Torrey

The world hereabout will never be more beautiful than it was eight or ten days ago, with the sugar maples and the Norway maples in bloom and the tall valley willows in young yellow-green leaf. And now..

Crawford's Defeat - A Tale of the Frontier in 1812

Anonymous

There will be few old residents of Ohio, especially those who early settled in Knox, Richland, and Franklin counties and the counties north and west of them, who will not readily recall to mind the co..

General Harmar's Campaign

Anonymous

Most readers know that there were a number of Indian villages at and near the junction of the St. Mary’s and St. Joseph rivers, but few persons know the exact location of these towns. To add to the ge..

Upper Canada Sketches

Thomas Conant

THERE is no reason to doubt that the progenitor of the Conant family in England and America came originally from Normandy, in 1066, as one of the followers of William the Conqueror. Frederick Odell Co..

Primitive Time-reckoning

Martin P. Nilsson

The observation of chronological matters varies greatly in the ethnographical literature; I have gone through many books without result, and in other cases my gains have often been small. It is only i..

The Irish War

David Burr

Because of mutual fears and for safety the laborers had so hired out to the contractors that they had about equally divided the line between the parties; the Corkmen worked on the upper part, and the ..

Practicable Socialism, New Series

S. A. Barnett

The book begins with The Religion of the People and Cathedral Reform, for Canon Barnett held with unvarying certainty that—to quote his own words—“there is no other end worth reaching than the knowled..

The French and British at Three Rivers

Anonymous

In 1756, the Seven Years’ War, known in American history as the French and Indian War, broke out between France and England. One of the prizes at stake in the contest was the domination of the North A..