Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This classic autobiography tells the story of one of America's most iconic figures. Frederick Douglass was a slave who escaped to freedom and went on to become a powerful speaker, writer, and abolitionist. This book offers an intimate look at his remarkable life and...

Terry Stavridis was born in Cairo, Egypt to Greek parents and migrated with them in Australia. He has also lived in Portland, Oregon.He is an academic/ author/ historian/ public speaker and freelance writer. He is the author of several books and contributing book chapters...

The book covers Jim's activities when he was 19 to 22 or 23 from Los Angeles to China where he flew with the flying Tigers then the Philippines where he worked on a local paper after crashing the one plane of his illegal airline...

Sixteen men were executed in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916: fifteen were shot, and one was hanged. Their deaths changed the course of Irish history. But who were these leaders who set in motion events that would lead to...

This book and its author grew up together. The 1960's in America transformed everyone who lived thru this amazing time in our nation's history. Civil rights laws were fought for and passed, women began to find a voice and break down barriers. Immigrant workers...

"The Duke of Wellington is the England's most famous military leader and politician. From the very first moment emotions and history are brought to live." The Duke of Wellington is a collection of historical events brought into modern times. Many illustra-tions are included in...

This illustrated A-Z biographical companion presents information about all aspects of Winston Churchill's remarkable career, spotlighting the events and people with whom he was most closely associated. When Winston Churchill was still in his teens, he was already a man in a hurry--partly due...

This is, without a doubt, one of the most celebrated accounts of life on the Virginia frontier ever written. However, it is more than that, for it is also the genealogical account of the Draper and Ingles families, who were later memorialized in the...

This monumental five-volume set, commonly referred to as Stillwell, contains genealogical records of early New Jersey and New York (principally Staten Island) and genealogies of the families of the early settlers of New Jersey, with lineages and records of thousands of their descendants. Volumes...

King of the Lobby tells the story of how one man harnessed delicious food, fine wine, and good conversation to the task of becoming the most influential lobbyist of the Gilded Age.Sam Ward was a colorful character. Scion of an old and honorable family,...

Author: David M. NoyesISBN-10: 0759643814ISBN-13: 9780759643819Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2001Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.16h x 6.06w x 0.45d

"Who am I? Where do I belong? Should I hide or reveal my identity? What if we have another Holocaust? How can I continue to live clandestinely?" Anguish, hardship, and the courage to survive flow through Joseph Kutrzeba's veins as he grows up under...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. In spite of its significance, all previous editions were inadequately edited and suffered from...

Autobiography of a People is an insightfully assembled anthology of eyewitness accounts that traces the history of the African American experience. From the Middle Passage to the Million Man March, editor Herb Boyd has culled a diverse range of voices, both famous and ordinary,...

This new biography of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist, scholar and intellectual virtuoso, is the first account to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995. This crucial source evokes a broader and richer picture of Evelyn, his...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating new biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought was Bernard Berenson, with...

As a founder of the Sierra Club and promoter of the national parks, as a passionate nature writer and as a principal figure of the environmental movement, John Muir stands as a powerful symbol of connection with the natural world. But how did Muir's...

"When at last we were approaching the Harem, the Sultan, surely quite alarmed, said to me in a low voice (was that so the eunuch walking in front of us wouldn't hear, or because in this lonely and dark passageway he was frightened of...

The Upstate D.A. sets forth the recollections of the Steuben County Prosecutor about his three years as the county's chief law enforcement officer. They were busy and exciting times, coming at the beginning of the Great Depression and at the end of the Great...

On July 26, 1902, The Elmira Daily Advertiser described Maple Point as, "The cottage itself is a marvel of beauty, and the boat landing is covered by a neat pavilion, which makes it the handsomest dock on the lake."Patricia Taylor Wells delves into the...

These 50 women pursued their ambitions and dreams--even when the world told them they shouldn't. They experienced triumph and tragedies, and lived lives as thrilling and moving as any novel. Ranging from artists, designers, and actresses to entrepreneurs, scientists, and activists, the women include...

He educated tens of thousands.His life story inspired millions.Now, the only complete and authorized biography of George Washington Carver, a great humanitarian, scientist, teacher, and conservationist is back to print after 60 years.Did you know that... Carver was born a slave? Carver was the...

On July 26, 1902, The Elmira Daily Advertiser described Maple Point as, "The cottage itself is a marvel of beauty, and the boat landing is covered by a neat pavilion, which makes it the handsomest dock on the lake."Patricia Taylor Wells delves into the...

A time-travelling, genealogical adventure, bringing pre-industrial, rural, eighteenth-century England vividly to life on the page. One day Ian Marchant, acclaimed author of books on music, railways and pubs, decided, as all men of a certain age must, to have a dig around his family...

Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political supporters, not the sycophantic gift of an official biographer, nor a self-styled title. It was the gift of history. Justin Pollard's enthralling, authoritative account befits...

Giordano Bruno challenged everything in his pursuit of an all-embracing system of thought. This not only brought him patronage from powerful figures of the day but also put him in direct conflict with the Catholic Church. Arrested by the Inquisition and tried as a...

In this masterful portrait of the poet who dazzled an era and prefigured the modern age of celebrity, noted biographer Benita Eisler offers a fuller and more complex vision than we have yet been afforded of George Gordon, Lord Byron. Eisler reexamines his poetic...

Author: F. Robert HendersonISBN-10: 1465335560ISBN-13: 9781465335562Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2011Pages: 198Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

Contributing Authors Include Louis Bromfield, Charles C. Booth, Martine Emert And Others.Author: Berten Wendell AllredISBN-10: 1258507161ISBN-13: 9781258507169Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2012Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.59d

Cleverer Than God is a book that tells the story of Paul Cinquevalli, a juggler who rose from the Circus circuit of the 1880s, to attain celebrity status in the British Music Hall and American vaudeville stages until the outbreak of WWI. Through quotes...

The impetus for my multigenerational healing journey began when I slid into a deep depression in 1971 at the age of 32. The inspiration for this book came to me in July 2017 as I was standing with my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren in...

Now available in trade paper! Amazing Grace is the surprising true story of John Newton, author of the song that has touched millions. A biography that reads like a novel, it reveals Newton's dramatic story of sin and salvation as a slave trader before...

This third volume in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale reports her controversial theological essays (only two of which have been previously published) and a great array of correspondence, from such Roman Catholics as Cardinal Manning and the Reverend Mother of the Sisters of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

The story of Britain's hidden World War II heroines, in their own words. They were the unsung heroines of World War II; the wives, moms, and teenage girls, all "doing their bit" for the war effort, clocking in daily to work in vast munitions...

BRITISH-BORN MARY LINDELL, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has almost been forgotten. Evoking the spirit of Edith Cavell, she led an escape line for patriotic Frenchmen and British soldiers....

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading"I don't care who does the electing, so long as I get to do the nominating." - Boss Tweed"It's hard not to admire the skill behind Tweed's system ... The Tweed ring at...

Moura Budberg: spy, adventurer, charismatic seductress and mistress of two of the century's greatest writers, the Russian aristocrat Baroness Moura Budberg was born in 1892 to indulgence, pleasure and selfishness. But after she met the British diplomat and secret agent Robert Bruce Lockhart, she...

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla is a book detailing the work of Nikola Tesla. The content was largely drawn from a series of articles that Nikola Tesla had written for Electrical Experimenter magazine in 1919, when he was 63 years old.Author: Nikola...

Endorsements: "Frank Jehle has accomplished the feat of writing a short, precise introduction to Karl Barth the theologian in relation to the world of politics. In Jehle we have a clear and helpful interpreter who shows, rightly, Barth swimming ever against the stream." Eberhard...

Locale, military tactics and colorful characterizations give this recounting a fascinating and novel point of view. Presented as it was originally published in 1866, Personal Recollections of Sherman's Campaigns in Georgia and the Carolinas is much more than a series of battle descriptions: Pepper...

The life of Russia's greatest dramatist and storyteller examined within the context of the evolution of his art. A "fine biography...a very well-written, intelligent account of Chekhov's remarkable literary career and of his private actions."-Atlantic Monthly.Author: Philip CallowISBN-10: 1566631874ISBN-13: 9781566631877Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage:...

"We, the Vietnam Combat Veterans, fought with courage, bravery, and sacrifice," writes author Gilbert Pritchard. "Heroism was an everyday occurrence. Fear was at my back, but faith was in front of me." Seventeen years ago, Gil was called by a prophet of the Lord...

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus. The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, was the most popular work...

Hull House is a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located in the Near West Side of Chicago, Illinois, Hull House opened its doors to the recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911,...

Author: Susan ZizzaISBN-10: 1499005334ISBN-13: 9781499005332Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/09/2014Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d