Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Since 1962 New Yorkers have cheered and jeered the exploits of the New York Mets on the baseball diamond. A century before these Amazins took the field, there was another team of New York Metropolitans being cheered and jeered by the citizenry. The New...

Most people know Benjamin Franklin as a founding father of the United States, but few are aware of his contributions to the field of medicine. In this groundbreaking book, William Pepper explores Franklin's lesser-known achievements in the medical field, from his experiments with electricity...

This original version of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is published in Noah Text(R), a proprietary evidenced-based method of presenting text. Noah Text(R) highlights critical word patterns to help struggling readers, striving readers, those with dyslexia, and English language-learners read with increased...

Twenty-four-year-old Harry Witt did the unthinkable in 1937 when he left his family and sweetheart, Idie Lacy, in Houston, Texas, to take a job halfway around the world in British Colonial India. Adventurous tales of tiger hunts, rickety train rides, and a birthday with...

Who was the woman behind one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age? In Saskia: The Wife of Rembrandt, Bolton delves into the life and legacy of Rembrandt's beloved wife, who died tragically young. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents and...

Step into the vibrant world of medieval chivalry and romance with this lively biography of the legendary French knight Bayard. Full of daring deeds, witty repartee, and courtly love, this book is a delightful read for anyone who loves adventure and fantasy.This work has...

In this thoughtful memoir, Isaac Stephenson reflects on his experiences as a businessman, politician, and philanthropist, offering valuable insight into the challenges and opportunities of life in late 19th and early 20th century America.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important,...

New York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that's part biography, part travelogue, part personal prescription. Ben Franklin lingers in our lives and in our imaginations. One...

When Ghosts Made Moonshine: Prohibition in the Albemarle explores the extensive moonshining activity in the Albemarle region when vast amounts of liquor flowed through Elizabeth City, earning it the reputation as a warehouse for moonshine. Remote East Lake on the Dare County mainland, accessible...

The book, although randomly organized, describes many things about the life journey of the author before, during, and after his discharge from the United States Air Force and his emphatic disapproval of the term African American to describe all black people. The author believes...

Cynthia Ann Parker, first published in 1959, is a fascinating account of the life of a girl of European descent, who at the age of about ten, was captured (along with her brother) in Texas by raiding Comanche. Cynthia would then grow up with...

When I think back about the history that happened while I was growing up to graduate in the class of '68 in small-town America, I was more thinking about relationships, dating, muscle cars, movies, TV shows, drive-ins and family events. I heard of some...

In this concise biography, Parsons masterfully chronicles the dramatic and prolific career of one of America's most absorbing figures.Author: Lynn Hudson ParsonsISBN-10: 0945612591ISBN-13: 9780945612599Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/1999Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 8.97h x 5.99w x 0.80d

An extraordinary portrait of the life of the elder Yeats, this recognized masterpiece establishes Wiliam M. Murphy as the premiere Yeats family photographer.Author: William MurphyISBN-10: 0815607253ISBN-13: 9780815607250Publisher: Syracuse University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2001Pages: 708Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.28lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.40w x 1.63dReview Citation(s): Reference and Research...

By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the claim to one...

One of the richest publications in all of Connecticut genealogy, this four-volume work boasts detailed genealogical and biographical essays on some 1,000 families who were well established at the time of the book's original publication in 1911. Each essay traces forward from the oldest...

Here are 224 biographies of colonial New Jerseymen, many of which contain extensive genealogies. Revised and expanded from the New Jersey Archives by archivist William Nelson, this work refers to an additional 1,000 colonists whose genealogical connections would otherwise be lost in unexamined New...

In 1967, the Highway Platoon of B Company, 504th MP Battalion worked out of Pleiku in the central highlands of South Vietnam. Each day the platoon's patrols were scattered over nearly seventy miles of road. The men of the platoon worked with weapons that...

Recollections Of General Lafayette On His Visit To The United States In 1824-25: With The Most Remarkable Incidents Of His Life, From His Birth To His Death (1879) is a historical book written by Amos Andrew Parker. The book provides a detailed account of...

The Repentant Abelard is both an innovative study and English translation of the late poetic works of controversial medieval philosopher and logician Peter Abelard, written for his beloved wife Heloise and son Astralabe. This study brings to life long overlooked works of this great...

Author: Stephen B. OatesISBN-10: 006092473XISBN-13: 9780060924737Publisher: Harper PerennialLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/13/2013Pages: 586Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.45dReview Citation(s): Booklist 02/15/1998 pg. 999

This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Born into an established Orthodox Philadelphia Quaker family, Cadbury was among the most prominent Quaker intellectuals of his day. During his...

A magnificent landscape of rugged peaks, impenetrable rainforest and wild coastlines, Washington's Olympic Peninsula makes a perfect setting for the unexpected.Dive into the stories of pioneers who created wealth and celebrity out of threadbare beginnings and immigrants who found fleeting success in Port Townsend....

James A. Garfield is usually cast aside as a minor president from the late nineteenth century, one of the cold, bearded statues that fill parks across the country. However, Garfield stood out from his peers as a consummate politician who was able to live...

The Devil Made Me Do It is a collection of biographical anecdotes that highlight mostly humorous moments in the life of a born Hoosier and his network of friends and family. It is not a book written for the masses but rather a scrapbook...

Memoir of Hannah Sinclair is a book written by Legh Richmond in 1839 that tells the story of a young girl named Hannah Sinclair. The book is a memoir of her life and details her struggles, triumphs, and experiences. Hannah is portrayed as a...

This book is a reflection of the many changes in my life.My father was in Dunkirk and returned home just before I was born. He suffered from PTSD as a result of what he experienced in the war. No emotional support was given to...

There is rarely a moment in history where all political parties give their consent to something without any debate or controversy. There is often some amount of unspoken opposition even in unanimity. But when the ruling NDA government decided to confer thAuthor: Vijai TrivediISBN-10:...

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,...

Author: Ivan S. TurgenevISBN-10: 1258147955ISBN-13: 9781258147952Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.52w x 0.44d

Chronicles of the Cochrans is a historical book written by Ida Cochran Haughton in 1915. The book is a collection of narratives and events that trace the history of the Cochrans family. The Cochrans family is a prominent family that has played a significant...

While the Civil War raged in the east, the Platte River Raids would begin an entirely new battle for the American West. In July of 1864, Northern Plains Indians in Idaho Territory (Wyoming) appeared to be on a warpath to cease all emigrant travel...

A Tell All of Women Integrating Into the Military"This is a tell all that covers the most turbulent period in Army history, the integration of women into previously all male units. The changes that occurred between 1971 and 1974 altered the face of the...

The only sweetheart souvenir (a trinket of love, made from an artifact during wartime) from the battle of Pearl Harbor, becomes the focal point for a larger story of love in all its forms and helps a son realize that everyone can be a...

"The design of this Memoir is, to present the incidents in the life of a little colored boy." So begins the life story of James Jackson, as set down by his African American teacher, Susan Paul, in 1835, as an example to other children...

The year was 1853, the crossing sickening, crowded, terrifying and almost unbearable, and yet this family of six survived forty miserable days and nights in the dark hold of the John Ruttle, a sailing ship built to haul freight, not passengers. "One who has...

This book is a memoir written by an African American woman who grew up in the rural south during the late 1930s and 1940s. Being poor and having to confront three types of prejudices-racial, colorism, which is light versus dark complexions within the Negro...

Many Americans think of the Religious Society of Friends-also known as Quakers-as passive individuals who avoid modern conflicts. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Brenda Walker Beadenkopf reveals in this narrative biography of her Quaker father, Charles Walker, Friends were passionate about...

Table Scraps and Other Essays is for all intents and purposes memoir writing. At the heart of the twenty-two true stories is an African American female who, as a child, along with her siblings, must learn the value of hard work as hired hands....

The extraordinary story of a classic Australian pioneer - told by Australia's 'Boswell of the Bush', Ion Idriess.Almost single-handedly John Flynn of the Australian Inland Mission brought to the outback the Flying Doctor Service and the Bush Hospitals. His magnificent vision, formed as he...

Razi was a physician, scientist, and a philosopher. Because of his many medical books; he has been named as Doctor's Doctor. His books are a flawless blend of two civilizations, expressed in the poetic language of a third. It is Razi's synthesis of science...

A well-known diplomat's wife tells what she has seen and heard and experienced on three continents. Altogether delightful is what she tells of the great ones of the world, from the Empress Dowager of China to Theodore Roosevelt, from the Pope to the Kaiser.Author:...

Dr. Kessler, a Jewish attorney from Lwow, Poland, gives an eye-witness account of the Holocaust through the events recorded in his diary between the years 1942 and 1944. In vivid, raw, documentary style, he describes his experiences in the Lwow Ghetto, in the Janowska...

Alfred Webb (1834-1908) the son of a radical Quaker printer and publicist, he brought a rare breadth of vision and moral courage to Ireland's campaigns for Home Rule and land reform. His parliamentary career was limited to five unsettling years marred by the bitter...

Richard III is undoubtedly the dominant personality in this collection of essays, but not in his capacity as king of England. Richard was Duke of Gloucester far longer than he was king. For most of his career, he was a subject, not a monarch,...

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is an American classic.Author: Benjamin FranklinISBN-10: 1718785550ISBN-13: 9781718785557Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2018Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d

Thousands have already been encouraged by this man's inspiring story. ""It was the worst imaginable nightmare. In the midst of total darkness, I was searching for those most precious to me. . . . I struggled to maintain my footing on icy pavement. I...

Blackbeard, by B. Barker, is is a very interesting account of Blackbeard's life as related in the old English. Edward Teach (also Edward Thatch, c.1680-22 November 1718), better known as Blackbeard, was a notorious English pirate who operated around the West Indies and the...

This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.Author: Lloyd Paul StrykerISBN-10: 1494120674ISBN-13: 9781494120672Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 606Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.76lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 1.22d

This is a new release of the original 1947 edition.Author: Clifford P. WestermeierISBN-10: 1494114356ISBN-13: 9781494114350Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2013Pages: 492Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.99d