History

First-hand accounts and analyses of civilizations, wars, and world events.

A Soldier of the Legion / An Englishman's Adventures Under the French Flag in Algeria and TonquinGeorge Manington

★3.7

History

History in English wordsOwen Barfield

★4.1

HistoryFiction

Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33d United States colored troops, late 1st S. C. VolunteersSusie King Taylor

★4.1

BiographyHistory

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1da Pisa Rusticiano Marco Polo

★3.5

AdventureFiction

My fight for Irish freedomDan Breen

★4.3

HistoryFiction

Essays on Political EconomyFrédéric Bastiat

★4.3

PhilosophyFiction

The Backwash of War / The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital NurseEllen N. La Motte

★4.1

BiographyHistorical Fiction

Mahatma Gandhi: The Man Who Became One With the Universal BeingRomain Rolland

★5.0

BiographyHistory

Lords of Creation: Woman Suffrage Drama in Three ActsElla Cheever Thayer

★4.2

HistoryPolitical Science

L. Annaeus Seneca on BenefitsLucius Annaeus Seneca

★4.0

HistoryFiction

Eothen; Or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the EastAlexander William Kinglake

★3.6

AdventureFiction

History of the Expedition to Russia / Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812comte de Philippe-Paul Ségur

★4.1

BiographyHistorical Fiction

OpticksIsaac Newton

★4.0

FictionHistory

A Renaissance Courtesy-book: Galateo of Manners & BehavioursGiovanni Della Casa

★3.5

EssaysFiction

Poems on various subjects, religious and moralPhillis Wheatley

★3.7

PoetryHistory

The Hawaiian ArchipelagoIsabella L. Bird

★3.9

BiographyHistory

Uncle Remus and Brer RabbitJoel Chandler Harris

★4.1

Children's LiteratureFiction

American Cookery: The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and VegetablesAmelia Simmons

★5.0

HistoryReference

Ludwig van BeethovenPitts Sanborn

★4.3

BiographyHistory

Ludwig Van BeethovenFranz Hoffmann

★4.3

BiographyHistory

The Autobiography of Goethe / Truth and Poetry: From My Own LifeJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

★4.3

BiographyFiction

Jailed for FreedomDoris Stevens

★4.2

Historical FictionHistory

Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in EnglandC. H. Firth

★3.9

BiographyHistory

Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My LifeJohann Wolfgang von Goethe

★3.8

BiographyFiction