Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Reminiscences of a Newburyport Nonagenarian is a memoir by Sarah Smith Emery. The book recounts Emery's experiences growing up in Newburyport, Massachusetts in the early 19th century. Emery provides a vivid picture of life in a New England town during this period, including the...

Gruesome but not gratuitous, this decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers some forty-five 'events' from the Tudor reign, taking in everything from the death of Richard III to the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots, and a whole...

One of professional wrestling's most mysterious and compelling individuals "the external darkness and Wrestling light" the bray wyatt story is a through and emotional biography that details his life, career and legacy. Readers will travel through the fascinating biography of bray Wyatt, a man...

From childhood dreams of joining the British Royal Navy to a dotage spent riding on a seesaw to improve his health, the true story of Napoleon Bonaparte is every bit as bizarre and fascinating as it is controversial. Napoleon rose up out of the...

This biography of Christopher Levett, a 17th-century English adventurer who founded a short-lived settlement in what is now Maine, offers a compelling window into the early days of American settlement. Drawing on historical records and primary sources, the author paints a vivid portrait of...

The Russell family is one of the most prominent families in British history, and Alexander Russell's biographical sketch offers a fascinating glimpse into their lives and achievements. From politicians and nobles to writers and scientists, the Russells played a pivotal role in shaping the...

"The Life of Trust" is a profoundly inspiring autobiography written by means of George M?ler, a 19th-century Christian evangelist and humanitarian. In this book, M?ler recounts his excellent adventure of faith and unwavering agree with in God. Born in Prussia in 1805, M?ler 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...

Dark Before Daybreak is the unlikely story of Earnestine Rodgers Robinson, a black woman born in the Deep South at the end of the Great Depression, who triumphs without formal music training as a composer at the world-famous Carnegie Hall. Her story has been...

Hirschka Varshavtchik's story, written by his son, Sidd Raichel is a personal narrative as well as a dramatic family history. It is also, as described by the son himself in his prologue, a quest that each of us has: I grew up confused, surrounded...

Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America during the first year of the Civil War. As a special correspondent for The Times of London, Russell was...

This significant critical anthology explores the life of Anna Komnene, the Byzantine context in which she wrote, and the impact of the Alexiad on her times and on subsequent historical works of literature.Author: Thalia Gouma-PetersonISBN-10: 0815338511ISBN-13: 9780815338512Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2000Pages: 210Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.50h...

From the Ashes of Sobibor: A Story of Survival is an invaluable, firsthand account of a child's survival in a Nazi concentration camp in Poland during World War II. When the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Thomas Toivi Blatt was twelve years...

This is one of the richest compendia of family histories in all of New England genealogy. Compiled by William R. Cutter, the former corresponding secretary and historian of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, this four-volume work boasts detailed genealogical and biographical essays on...

This work contains genealogical and biographical sketches of the founders and founding families of Anne Arundel and Howard counties and is interspersed with sketches of early homesteads, settlements, and historic landmarks.Author: J. D. WarfieldISBN-10: 0806379715ISBN-13: 9780806379715Publisher: Genealogical Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/12/2011Pages: 606Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.52lbsSize:...

This work is the magnum opus of Irish genealogy, a vast and prodigious compendium of family history and source material. The first volume explores the origin and stem of the Irish nation. The old Irish genealogies assembled here are brought down to the lineal...

Many thought of her as Queen Nancy. Others as the Dragon Lady. But for millions of Americans, Nancy Reagan was the always-smiling and deeply admiring presidential spouse who stood by her man; that image lingers still in the touching picture of a bereaved widow...

The Donauschwaben, a mostly unknown ethnic group of Germans, migrated to Yugoslavia in the late 1700s. Endless boundary conflicts varyingly defined their land as Hungary, Yugoslavia, or Serbia. During World War II their ethnicity unfairly marked them as Nazi sympathizers despite their noncombatant status....

Ben Hogan won four U.S. Opens in six years, three of them after a near-fatal head-on automobile collision. Driven by an obsessive dedication to the game, legend has it, he practiced until his hands bled. The concentration and precision he exhibited on the course...

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...

With Bush as President, many suspect that the most powerful individual in the US is Karl Rove. Although Rove is officially listed as White House Senior Advisor, responsible for managing the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the Office of...

A vivid account of the political triumphs and domestic tragedies of the Jewish king Herod the Great during the turmoil of the Roman revolution "Herod the Great is typical of Yale's Jewish Lives series: short, clear, deeply knowledgeable, deeply illuminating."--Dominic Green, Wall Street Journal...

Inspired in his leadership, fearless in battle, and boundless in his ambition, Alexander the Great was worshiped as a god during his lifetime, and his legend has only grown since. Inheriting his father's empire at the age of twenty, Alexander resolved to expand it,...

During 100 days in Spring 1994, Rwanda's descent into terror took an estimated 800,000 lives. The fastest-moving genocide in modern times was horrifying for its intimacy: Killers and victims were neighbors, friends, fellow churchgoers, workmates, even spouses. Murderers did their "work" with crude implements--machetes,...

Author: Jacqueline GrossmanISBN-10: 1593305990ISBN-13: 9781593305994Publisher: Aventine PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2009Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.47d

"ITALY BY RAIL" is a comprehensive guidebook that takes you on a journey through Italy's most beautiful regions, from the rolling hills of Tuscany to the stunning Amalfi Coast. With practical information on train routes, schedules, and fares, as well as detailed descriptions of...

The true story of the POW escape that later became the basis for the famous film The Great Escape, as told by Jens M?ler, one of only three men who successfully escaped from Stalag Luft III in March 1944.Author: Jens M?lerISBN-10: 1493077910ISBN-13: 9781493077915Publisher: Lyons...

How do survivors of genocide come to terms with the horrors they witnessed and experienced? Do they become shells of what they had been, or do they find meaningful ways of re-establishing their lives and move forward productively?In this book, part memoir and part...

Mary Seacole was born a free black woman in Jamaica of the early 19th century. In her long and varied life, she was to travel in Central America, Russia and Europe, find work as a inn-keeper and as a doctress during the Crimean War,...

C. Blaine Hyatt spent hours in his father's repair shop as a boy, listening to others tell fascinating stories.Fascinated by their strategies for navigating challenges-and the times in which they lived-he set about writing this collection of stories to preserve their collective history.One lesson...

The story of World War I is brought to life through the gripping personal narratives of those at the center of the storm.World War I was waged by young people from twenty-eight countries in an era without the advantages of military "embeds," satellite phones,...

Few days in history have been as meticulously documented as Abraham Lincoln's last day. The bucket list was short. The day began as a peaceful spring day and Lincoln had put in motion a plan to have a joyous carriage ride with his wife,...

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,...

Jack Van Loan was a United States Air Force fighter pilot. In 1967, he was flying as wingman for Colonel Robin Olds when his F-4Phantom jet was shot down. He spent six years as a prisonerof war in North Vietnam. Alongside such legends as...

Winner: Henry Adams PrizeAdopting a new approach to an American icon, an award-winning scholar reexamines the life of Abraham Lincoln to demonstrate how his remarkable political acumen and leadership skills evolved during the intense partisan conflict in pre-Civil War Illinois. By describing Lincoln's rise...

With compelling detail and pure passion, James Dodson recounts the singular brilliance of three golf titans and how they saved the professional tour and created the game as we know it today. During the Depression golf was in crisis. As a spectator sport it...

"It is brilliant, delicious, exquisitely civilized. I enjoyed as much as any the Gordon, which alone was quite new to me." -Bertrand Russell (1918) Eminent Victorians-Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (1918) is a collection of short biographies of four...

Author: Pierce ButlerISBN-10: 1479311804ISBN-13: 9781479311804Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2012Pages: 466Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.94d

With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated the...

Pearl divers & sea rovers in Australian seas.Mr. Idriess reveals to the reader the technique of pearling with him, the reader boards the lugger for the pearling grounds, makes the acquaintance of the skipper and crew, dons the diving dress and descends to the...

The autobiography of women's rights pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton--published for the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage--including an updated introduction and afterword from noted scholars of women's history Ellen Carol DuBois and Ann D. Gordon. Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897, is one of the...

The Great Depression is just a mention in a history book to most people nowadays, but Ted Woodworth lived on a farm in a Mennonite community-this volume 1926-1931. All the things he did as a boy make the reader smile just as if Ted...

The Great Depression is just a mention in a history book to most people nowadays, but Ted Woodworth lived on a farm then, in a Mennonite community, no less. He tells of all the things he did as a boy and makes the reader...

In its Bicentennial Year (2019), this is a unique look at the history of Hannibal, Missouri (also known as the boyhood home of Mark Twain), through the generational eyes of one African-American family, the Frazier-Nearings of "Douglasville". It includes stories, photos, data and original...

In a time when America is desperately searching for leadership comes this inspiring story of James Madison's coming of age, providing incisive and original insight into the Founding Father who did the most but is known the least. Michael Signer takes a fresh look...

From the driver's seat, author and guide Edward Morris provides a diverse collection of biographical sketches that reveal the outrageous and opulent lives of some of America's leading entrepreneurs.Newport, Rhode Island, was the summer playground of the Gilded Age for the Astors, Belmonts and...

William Gray Murray rose to positions of great importance despite his humble beginnings. Prior to the Civil War, he led a distinguished life, as both a soldier-serving with distinction in the Mexican War-and as postmaster of Blair County, Pennsylvania. As colonel of the 84th...

The Great Depression is an important and unique part of our nation's history. it is hard for our modern world where transportation and communication are instant to understand the world of isolation and hardships of that era. The characters in this book understood because...

*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading. *Includes Newman's own quotes about his life and career. "The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at...

An Introduction To The Study Of Terra Sigillata Treated From A Chronological Standpoint is a book written by Felix Oswald in 1920. The book is an introduction to the study of terra sigillata, a type of Roman pottery that was widely used during the...