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Selected House of Commons Speeches
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Winston S. Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…
A Brief History of English and American Literature
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Henry A. Beers
Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…
Early Days Of Old Oregon
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Katharine Berry Judson
Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…
The Romance of Missionary Heroism
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John C Lambert
The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …
What Prohibition Has Done to America
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Fabian Franklin
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…
Great Pirate Stories
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Joseph Lewis French
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …
The Life of Alfred the Great
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Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser
A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…
Great Moments in History
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John G. Stockmyer
Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…
The Colored Cadet at West Point
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Henry Ossian Flipper
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…
The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line
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Charles Waddell Chesnutt
Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …
Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
War
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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its …
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Sir John Barrow
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…
Recollections of Bush Life in Australia
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Henry William Haygarth
This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…
South African Memories
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Lady Sarah Wilson
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …
Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of A…
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Stephen Leacock
This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War
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Eugenia Dunlap Potts
While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An int…
How I Filmed the War
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Geoffrey H. Malins
An account of World War I and the experience of filming it by an early cinematographer (and, after the war, successful director) who was the…