Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Huckins Family: Robert Huckins Of The Dover Combination And Some Of His Descendants is a genealogical book written by Henry Winthrop Hardon and published in 1916. The book focuses on the history and lineage of the Huckins family, particularly Robert Huckins, who was a...

""Chronicles Selected From The Originals Of Cartaphilus, The Wandering Jew V2"" is a book written by David Hoffman in 1853. The book is a collection of stories and chronicles that have been selected from the original writings of Cartaphilus, who is known as the...

Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society V17 (1913) is a book that contains a collection of historical papers and addresses presented by the Lancaster County Historical Society in 1913. The Lancaster County Historical Society is a non-profit organization that aims...

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 Gam: Being A Group Of Whaling Stories"" is a collection of tales about the dangerous and thrilling world of whaling, written by Charles Henry Robbins and first published in 1899. The book is a compilation of short stories, each one depicting the hardships...

The Story of the Cowboy is a book written by Emerson Hough that provides a comprehensive and detailed account of the life and times of cowboys in the American West. It covers the history of the cowboy from the early days of the cattle...

Dolls of Many Lands: Doll Stories is a children's book written by Mary Hazelton Wade. The book features stories about dolls from various countries and cultures, including Japan, Holland, Mexico, and China. Each story introduces a new doll and tells the tale of its...

The groundbreaking biography of a forgotten civil rights hero. In the tempestuous mid-19th century, as slavery consumed Congressional debate and America careened toward civil war and split apart-when the very future of the nation hung in the balance-Charles Sumner's voice rang strongest, bravest, and...

Two Years Before the Mast is a classic travel narrative which inspired canonical works like Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As he follows Richard Henry Dana Jr. (a Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America (encountering racial injustices and struggling...

Theodore Roosevelt's autobiography is a captivating and insightful account of the life and times of one of America's most revered leaders. In this book, Roosevelt chronicles his remarkable journey from a sickly and shy child to a robust and fearless man who became one...

Through my unique Key Word search, I found previously unknown clusters of quatrains with shocking information. This is not the usual ambiguous quotes that can be applied to any circumstances. This book shows how detailed descriptions of related events were grouped together with warnings...

Leo Teohari was born in Constanta, Romania. Leo holds both a law degree and a degree in international economics.Leo defected from Communist Romania in 1980, and settled with his family in Toronto, Canada, where he became a businessman. Today he writes about his experiences...

One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2023 New York Times Bestseller Named a best book of 2023 by The New Yorker, Time, NPR, Smithsonian Magazine, and Oprah Daily The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery...

The moving story of Rachmaninoff's years in exile and the composition of his last great work, set against a cataclysmic backdrop of two world wars and personal tragedy. In 1940, Sergei Rachmaninoff, living in exile in America, broke his creative silence and composed a...

History has been the story of invaders, emperors, kings, concubines, leaders, and their lackeys until now. With today's technology, a button click will share an ordinary man's story with the entire world. Robin's memoir takes you through the incredible journey of one person's life,...

In the early 1900s the Juniper family emigrated from England to the isolated town of Innisfail, Australia. Cane farming had been established in the area only 25 years prior, so with great hopes of a new life Jack Snr. and Mary Juniper decided to...

Author: Irene RetiISBN-10: 0939821400ISBN-13: 9780939821402Publisher: HerBooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.30h x 5.65w x 0.56d

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...

Old Gods, New Nations celebrates a life lived intensely on the far horizons of the world while America built something like an empire on the ruins of World War II and the victory of the Cold War. As a Marine Corps fighter pilot, author...

Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa "Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humiliation. This is true of Afghanistan too. Read this harrowing book. The tragic yet heroic tale of two women is told with great...

The private archive of the Spinelli, acquired by Yale University's Beinecke Library in 1988, constitutes the largest fund of information about a Florentine family anywhere outside Italy. The Spinelli of Florence tells the story of these merchants and their ascent to social and economic...

"In a very real sense, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh can . . . be said to be the last, or one of the last Irish Republicans. Studies of the Provisional movement to date have invariably focused more on the Northerners and the role of people...

Over 80 letters from Corporal John Pardington to his wife paint a vivid portrait of the life and everyday concerns of a Union soldier and his transformation from simple Michigan country boy to seasoned fighter. His touching love letters are made even more poignant...

Paul David Nelson has written an exciting biography of an exciting figure--the military hero of the American Revolution and the Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory--"Mad" Anthony Wayne. Some of his contemporaries called him rash and impetuous, a braggart and a dandy. "More active...

My father, the most influential person in my life, passed away on March 20, 2008. As an intimate gift to his children, he wrote and illustrated his life story.In the end, it took him eight years to complete his autobiography, and I was so...

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,...

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller One of The New Yorker's best books of 2024 A bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, illuminating how a culture of experimental drugs shaped the Cold War and the birth of...

 "Drawing on his experience as the first executive director of the Human Rights Campaign Fund, Vic Basile has written a valuable addition to the story of one of the most consequential movements in post-World War II America..." -Congressman Barney Frank Bending Toward Justice...

The California Politicians tried to take me down. They used every tactic in their arsenal to make me quit fighting for justice. It was only through prayer and keeping my faith that God had other plans for me. I was The Last Lady Standing...

Discover the extraordinary life and legacy of Saint Anthony of Padua in this comprehensive and beautifully illustrated biography. As one of the most revered saints in the Catholic Church, Saint Anthony has inspired millions of people through his teachings, miracles, and unwavering faith. This...

The 561 people featured in these 4 books are those who went the extra mile and accomplished all or a great deal of their dream.On these pages Terry tells their story and presents people who reached the pinnacle of their career. You will meet...

In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and an authority on Plains Indians, provides an important account of conditions in Indian Territory from 1878 to 1880, a period of rapid transition. The Cheyenne-Arapaho reservation in present-day western Oklahoma...

In The Way You Wear Your Hat, author Bill Zehme presents a masterful assembly of the most personal details and gorgeous minutiae of Frank Sinatra's way of livingmatters of the heart and heartbreak, friendship and leadership, drinking and cavorting, brawling and wooing, tuxedos and...

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,...

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,...

I have explained continuously that the best way to pass on the cultural experiences, social values and communal mores of our previous generations - in other words, our African American History - is the retelling of their rich, colorful stories. In these stories our...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Journey from Teplitz, Bessarabia to America, the Story of the Bensinger, Kurtz and Weber Families tells of the author's maternal family history. It begins with his ancestors in southern Germany and their struggles during the early 1800s and how various family lines attempted to...

Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.It is the object of this series of histories to present a...

Love in the Revolution tells a series of (historically) true love stories between Russians and Anglo-Saxons. They are all different, all quite remarkable, and all set against the violent background of the Russian revolution of 1917. In more than one case, the love affair...

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occupation. The account has been translated into English from the original Polish...

Just Us - The Faircloth Family History in England - Volume I The Faircloth family name originated in England with many variations including "Fairclough." Throughout the ages, the spelling has varied but the ancestors are undoubtedly the connection to the Fairclough/Faircloth families in America....

A GIANT OF HIS TIMES THE LAST CHURCH FATHER Saint Bernard of Clairvaux lived in times of great ferment and division. Heresies were proliferating; the Holy See was threatened by schism; inveterate evils destroyed public morals; the Saracens menaced Christendom while Christian princes provoked...

In late 19th century Russia, two brothers, both Hasidic Jews, laid the groundwork for an immense fortune in just a few years. Jews in the Ukraine and beyond celebrated these Horenstein brothers through numerous folk tales, yet the fascinating story of their remarkable success...

*Includes pictures*Includes contemporary accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "If you'll gather 'round me, children, a story I will tell'Bout Pretty Boy Floyd, an Outlaw, Oklahoma knew him well." - Woody Guthrie, "The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd" (1939)November 1, 1932...

Pietro Bembo was both witness and participant at the centre of the Italian Renaissance. A celebrated writer, an antiquarian, a man of exquisite taste, and a lover of women and beauty, he was to win both the laurels of a poet and the scarlet...

England, 1509. Henry VII, the first Tudor monarch, is dead; his successor, the seventeen-year-old Henry VIII, offers hope of renewal and reconciliation after the corruption and repression of the last years of his father's reign.The kingdom Henry inherits is not the familiar Tudor England...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted for about all the historical knowledge I have." Considered...

In a newly designed edition, this stunning illustrated tribute to the life of Gandhi features the words and images of the man, his people, and his country.Written by a veteran New York Times correspondent and editor in consultation with Richard Attenborough soon after he...

A true Holocaust story, The Lion and the Lamb begins with a mysterious plane crash which catapults architect Albert Speer into Adolf Hitler's inner circle. When the two Nazi leaders become close confidantes, Speer is forced into constant competition with Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels...