Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Even before the end of the Civil War Colonel John Pelham had become a legendary figure of the Confederacy. General Lee called him "the gallant Pelham," and on seeing the young artillerist employ but a single gun to hold up the advance of three...

Pitcher's Duel is a young adult sports novel written by Clair Bee. The story is part of the Chip Hilton Sports Series and follows the experiences of Chip Hilton, a high school baseball player. In this particular book, Chip and his team are preparing...

The Coburgs: The Story Of The Rise Of A Great Royal House is a historical book written by Edmund Basil D'Auvergne and published in 1911. The book chronicles the rise of the Coburg family, a German noble family that rose to prominence in the...

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...

The Life, Trial, and Conversations of Robert Emmet: Leader of the Irish Insurrection of 1803 is a historical account written by Robert Emmet himself. The book was originally published in 1845 and provides a detailed and personal account of Emmet's life, his leadership in...

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...

""The Hermit of Siskiyou; or Twice-Old Man"" is a captivating novel written by L. W. Musick. The story revolves around the discovery of a lost cabin in the Siskiyou Mountains and the revival of the Fountain of Perpetual Youth. The protagonist, Twice-Old Man, is...

The Stories of the Kings of Norway V1: Called The Round World, Heimskringla is a historical book written by Snorri Sturluson. It is a collection of sagas that tell the stories of the Norwegian kings from the earliest times up to the 12th century....

To Whom It May Concern: The Story Of Victor Ilyitch Seroff is a biographical book written by M.R. Werner. The book tells the story of Victor Ilyitch Seroff, a Russian immigrant who came to the United States in the early 20th century. The story...

Trooper O'Neill: A Story Of The North-West Mounted Police is a historical fiction novel written by George Goodchild. The book is set in the late 19th century and tells the story of Trooper O'Neill, a member of the North-West Mounted Police, who is sent...

Faith Victorious In The Kentucky Mountains is a book written by Lela G. McConnell that tells the inspiring story of her twenty-two years of spirit-filled ministry in the Kentucky Mountains. The book recounts McConnell's journey as a young woman who felt called to serve...

A sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesmanOn May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor and piloted the vessel to cheering seamen of the Union blockade, thus securing his place in...

The book ""Story Of Ocean Grove, 1869-1919: Related In The Year Of Its Golden Jubilee (1919)"" is a historical account of the town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey, from its founding in 1869 to its 50th anniversary in 1919. The author, Morris S. Daniels,...

From 1958 to 1988, award-winning roving reporter and photojournalist for the Lincoln Journal and Lincoln Star newspapers, Dean Terrill, traveled the highways and back roads of 14 southeast Nebraska counties and beyond. He worked out of his Fairbury, Nebraska, home and reported on everything...

This book offers an intimate account of Mahatma Gandhi, also known as Bapu, from the perspective of his grandniece Manuben Gandhi. Through her childhood memories and personal experiences, readers gain insight into the personality, values, and principles of one of the most important figures...

Discover the true story of Christopher Columbus, from his origins in Genoa to his famous voyages across the Atlantic and his eventual death and burial. John Boyd Thacher's meticulous research and engaging prose make this book a must-read for anyone interested in this famous...

Embark on a thrilling voyage through the annals of history with "Henry Every: The Complete Life Story." In this gripping biography, the enigmatic and audacious life of one of history's most infamous pirates comes to life in vivid detail.Henry Every, a man whose name...

Phoenix follows the history of a Jewish family from the early 19th century to the beginning of the 3rd Millennium, from rural Hungary to Budapest and beyond. Previous generations of our family dreamed of moving to the Unites States to ensure freedom and opportunity...

In Princess Diana, Modern Day Moon-Goddess: A Psychoanalytical and Mythological Look at Diana Spencer's Life, Marriage, and Death, esteemed psychoanalyst Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D. and award-winning historian and author Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook have joined forces to create an altogether unique and intriguing nonfiction work...

The American Genocide reveals a fatal flaw in the healthcare system--tainted blood transfusion--that caused the deaths of thousands of Americans. Saddened by his mother's sudden death from HIV-infected blood, crime expert Elvis Slaughter scrutinized the system to discover some shocking truths. Despite the availability...

Before there was television, before there were computers, before there was the Internet with its audio and video streaming, before there were cell phones, iPods, and iPads, there was radio. Beginning in the early 1920s, electrical waves-mysterious to many-could be sent from senders or...

This acclaimed biography draws on first-hand accounts, including new material on Walton's circle of the 20s and 30s; the composer's work in film a particular focus. When in June 1923 a bewildered audience in London's Aeolian Hall heard Edith Sitwell declaim her Fa軋de poems...

Author: James W. WilesISBN-10: 083714311XISBN-13: 9780837143118Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1970Pages: 250Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.73h x 5.94w x 1.03d

CULLED FROM the six volumes of The Diaries of George Washington completed in 1979, this selection of entries chosen by retired Washington Papers editor Dorothy Twohig reveals the lifelong preoccupations of the public and private man.Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his...

" Constantine Samuel Rafinesque was a quintessential nineteenth-century American scientist and naturalist. Exalted by some, cursed by others, Rafinesque gave Latin names to over 6,700 plant species, was acknowledged by Darwin for his early insights into biological variation, and is frequently mentioned in the...

Founded upon a variety of original source records, this volume treats a fair cross-section of the 17th- and 18th-century population of Long Island. If your Long Island ancestor possessed one of the following surnames, this book may contain the clues you're looking for: Albertson,...

Aaron Burr--Revolutionary War hero, third vice president of the United States and a controversial figure of the early republic--was tried and acquitted of treason charges in 1807, and thereafter departed for self-imposed exile in Europe, his political career in ruins. Adrift in Paris for...

The compelling true story of a man of conscience at the heart of the Third Reich. In the years when most Germans were abetting a policy of conquest and genocide, Helmuth James von Moltke, an aristocratic and devoutly Christian young lawyer drafted into the...

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...

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...

Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President Andrew...

The Most Learned Woman in America masterfully narrates Fergusson's efforts to live an appropriately genteel life, even as she struggled against the limits that her society placed on its women. In the process, we can begin to understand the conflicts--internal and external--that women of...

The first Franciscan friar to occupy a chair of theology at Oxford, Adam Marsh became famous both in England and on the continent as one of the foremost Biblical scholars of his time. He moved with equal assurance in the world of politics and...

The biography of one of Britain's foremost fashion designers who led a fascinating double life as a couturier and an intelligence officer during the Second World War.Sir Hardy Amies was one of Britain's foremost fashion designers who led a fascinating double life as a...

Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose speeches fired the abolitionist cause, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) led an astounding life. Physical abuse, deprivation and tragedy plagued his early years, yet through sheer force of character he was able to overcome...

In her revealing bestseller Call Me Anna, Patty Duke shared her long-kept secret: the talented, Oscar-winning actress who won our hearts on The Patty Duke Show was suffering from a serious-but-treatable-mental illness called manic depression. For nearly twenty years, until she was correctly diagnosed...

Robespierre was one of the most powerful and the most feared leaders of the French Revolution. John Hardman describes the career of this ruthless political manipulator, and in the process explores the dynamics of the French revolutionary movement and the ferocious and self-destructive rivalries...

"An exciting insider's look at Projects Mercury, Gemini and Apollo . . . NASA's internal politics, disasters, glitches and close calls" by a pioneering astronaut (Publishers Weekly). Gordon "Gordo" Cooper was one of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, pilot for Apollo X, head of...

Wyoming History Enshrined Created in 1871, Lakeview Cemetery serves as a repository of local and state history. Resting in the historic grounds are eleven of Wyoming's governors, including the first woman governor in the nation. Other hallowed, eternal residents include a wild west showman,...

Johnson's Island, in Sandusky, Ohio, was built in 1862 specifically to house captured Confederate officers. In part because of the educational background and access to money enjoyed by those individuals, a distinctive prison culture developed. David Bush has spent more than two decades leading...

In 1637, Anne Hutchinson, a forty-six-year-old midwife who was pregnant with her sixteenth child, stood before forty male judges of the Massachusetts General Court, charged with heresy and sedition. In a time when women could not vote, hold public office, or teach outside the...

This new biography of Stalin offers an accessible and up-to-date representation of one of the twentieth-century's defining figures, as well as new insights, analysis and illumination to deepen our understanding of his actions, intentions and the nature of the power that he wielded. Christopher...

Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates George Washington's indispensable contributions to America's founding"To Rescue The Constitution is a masterful exploration of the electrifying struggle to unite a young United States." --Jay WinikA sweeping narrative ranging from the unsettled early American frontier and the...

The German Bachelor & the French Girl tells the story of 35-year-old Lewis Rinn marrying Marguerite Clair the day she turned 19. The book opens with the couple meeting in Indian Territory in the summer of 1876 when their lives changed forever. It depicts...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: E. I. EdwardISBN-10: 1406762504ISBN-13: 9781406762501Publisher:...

Author: Booker T. WashingtonISBN-10: 1604440848ISBN-13: 9781604440843Publisher: Indoeuropeanpublishing.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2010Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 8.2Point Value: 13Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 549 / Up from Slavery

Author: Anna Talbott McPhersonISBN-10: 1258165627ISBN-13: 9781258165628Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.24d