History
300 books
*Non-fiction
453
Thomas Cooper - Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time: A Popular View of the Historical Evidence for the Truth of Christianity
Written by the former skeptic, poet, and scholar, Thomas Cooper, The Bridge of History Over the Gulf of Time admirably sets forth a winsome defense of Christianity. Written as the substance of fourteen years of...
3 hours 57 minutes
*Non-fiction
532
Agnes Strickland - Lives of the Queens of England Volume 2
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England...
10 hours 23 minutes
General
461
Mary Stoyell Stimpson - Child's Book of American Biography
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so often that every child should know a few facts about them. It is hoped the...
4 hours 42 minutes
History
581
Charles Austin Beard - History of the United States, Vol. VII
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from...
4 hours 28 minutes
*Non-fiction
581
Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods used to financially support the Inquisition, methods used by the Inquisition to...
26 hours 1 minute
*Non-fiction
522
Henry Brooks Adams - Education of Henry Adams
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp...
17 hours 37 minutes
War & Military
528
Winston S. Churchill - River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum,...
14 hours 14 minutes
War & Military
501
Richard Harding Davis - Notes of a War Correspondent
Experiences and observations of the journalist in the Cuban-Spanish War, the Greek-Turkish War, the Spanish-American War, the South African War, and the Japanese-Russian War, accompanied by «A War Correspondent’s...
5 hours 43 minutes
