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This 1831 volume focuses on lesser-known explorers like Alonzo de Ojeda, Diego de Nicuesa, Juan Ponce de Leon, and Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, among others. Followers of Christopher Columbus, these men experienced first hand the excitement of discovery in a time when there were entire worlds to be found.

Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and James Boswell’s Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides recounts their tour of Scotland in 1773.  While Johnson focuses on Scotland itself, Boswell is even keener on presenting his friend to the notables of his homeland. Together they form...

James Boswell's Life of Johnson has ensured that Samuel Johnson remains one of the most intriguing and loved of English literary figures. In it, we not only follow Johnson's rise to literary preeminence and his development of the Dictionary, but because the author and biographer were friends we get to...

This 1894 history traces Congregationalism from its English beginnings and later migration to the United States. The book includes sections on the Puritans in America, the development of fellowship, the Great Awakening and the rise of theological parties, the evangelical revival, as well as facts and statistics about Congregationalism and its principles.

Based on wartime letters published in the Atlantic magazine, this 1918 volume recounts the author's World War I experiences as a pilot in the Lafayette Escadrille, the French-American flying corps, and, after American entry into the war, the 94th Pursuit Squadron of the Army Air Service. Hall’s exciting...

"Your articles on the Plains are by far the best I have ever read," - William T. Sherman to George Armstrong CusterTwo years before he became a legend at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer penned his fascinating memoir, My Life on the Plains. Written when he was just thirty-four...

In Alexander, Theodore Ayrault Dodge lays out a detailed account of Alexander's spectacular life and supplies a vivid reconstruction of all of the major battles Alexander fought in his short but successful march of conquest. Dodge amply illustrates through this detailed history of the nature of warfare...

Among the most durable and engaging texts in world literature, Julius Caesar's Conquest of Gaul tells how he and his legions conquered much of modern France in less than a decade (58-51 BCE), despite determined resistance. Perhaps the most famous Roman ever, Gaius Julius Caesar created a legacy which...

The Civil War is Julius Caesar's personal account of his war with Pompey the Great-the war which destroyed the five hundred-year old Roman Republic. Caesar the victor became Caesar the dictator. In three short books, Caesar describes how, in order to defend his dignitas ("honour"), and the libertas ("freedom")...

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. In 1909, intellectual superstar Guglielmo Ferrero toured the northeast of the USA, accepted an honorary degree, and lectured about Roman history. These lectures were published in book form as Characters and Events of...

This comprehensive 1901 history spans the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, with a sharp regional focus on New England, the Middle States, and the South; it also contains in-depth critical biographies of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman.

Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), a member of nineteenth century New England’s Fireside Poets school, was active in the movement to abolish slavery in America but was violently harassed by pro-slavery mobs for his beliefs. This authorized 1884 life story is a memoir of the man both as artist and activist.

Frederick Bailey doesn’t know the year of his birth. Separated from his mother in infancy, he sees her only a few times, always at night, before she dies when he is about seven years old. His fellow slaves agree that his father is a white man, perhaps Captain Anthony, his master. While still only a...

This 1853 non-fiction companion to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) provides documentary evidence supporting the novel's realistic depiction of slavery as a cruel and evil institution.  The subtitle says it all:  "Presenting the Original Facts and Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together...