Biography & Autobiography - Historical

Discover the remarkable life of Pancho Villa...Pancho Villa was many things to many people. To some, he was a freedom fighter and revolutionary; to others, he was nothing more than a bloodthirsty bandit and killer. Villa's life did indeed take many twists and turns,...

A compilation of social activists who verbalized their complaints against racial oppression. Their lives and legacies demonstrate the importance of raising questions about oppression in general and racial oppression in particular.Author: W. D. PalmerISBN-10: 1665536535ISBN-13: 9781665536530Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/26/2021Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 11.00h x...

The story of Paddy Hannan is an exciting tale of of exploration and the discovery of a gold mining town in outback Western Australia. Paddy Hannan's statue proudly sits in the city of Kalgoorlie/Boulder honoring the towns as the founding father of a thriving...

MANY YEARS AGO ON A FARM in Lee County, seven miles northwest of Keokuk, Iowa on December 24, 1916, at approximately 6:00 A.M., I arrived into this world with the aid of Dr. Lee Coffey. He had stayed the night attending my mother for...

Bush Studies, written during the 1890s, presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian bush. These are not the stories of mates gathered around a fire, but of the dark loneliness of women. Not only are there fences to be built...

This book reveals, through the observations and experiences of and historical education of an African American female, how some truisms, referencing the influences and controls of systemic racism operatives, affect her life as she grows up and resides in Alabama.Author: Willie TaylorISBN-10: 1665531894ISBN-13: 9781665531894Publisher:...

Author: Ben R. GamesISBN-10: 1604141840ISBN-13: 9781604141849Publisher: Fideli Publishing Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2010Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Has the World Lost Its Humanity? offers an original and unique perspective of events during the darkest period of Iraq's modern history.The book is based on the author's personal and professional experience as director of the charity Medical Aid for Iraqi Children, MAIC.Through her...

The Myth of William Osler presents a radical re-examination of the philosophies and practices of a renowned American medical hero.It challenges widely-accepted beliefs about Osler which, while unsettling to many readers, brings to light interpretations and approaches which have disrespected Osler's expressed wishes, exaggerated...

This memoir, written in novel form, is the true story of a legal immigrant family that had a price on its head, a dream in their hearts and a chance to come to America. The Wetzels were Dutch-Indonesian colonists living in South East Asia...

From its first stories about young Theodore Roosevelt's heroes to its last about his heroic struggle to maintain their heritage, Beneath the Surface to the Heart centers on TR's heart. A man of ideals and strenuous action in pursuing them, he took to heart...

The Westminster Quarters is a common name for a clock chime melody used by a set of four bells to chime each quarter-hour. The number of chime sets equal the number of quarter hours that have passed. I believe life is full of miss-directions....

"He had to rub it in that now I was considered a stateless person and no longer had any rights. Wow, did he hate those war brides, those whores."Journey Between Two Worlds is a compelling firsthand account of growing up in Germany during the...

In 1901, nineteen-year-old Ehmid Alley Awid Amerey moved to London, Ontario, leaving the dissolving Ottoman Empire behind. With conscription on the horizon, he fled in search of safety, adventure, and better economic prospects.So begins Richard Asmet Awid's historical family biography on the Lebanese diaspora...

The son of a white man and Cherokee slave, Joseph Willis gains freedom and swims the mighty Mississippi in 1798, riding only a mule. He was born into slavery. His mother was Cherokee, and his father a wealthy English plantation owner. He fought as...

A selected few were born with an innate purpose and had emerged rarer than a fire that does not consume or burns without smoke. Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Arthur Doric Surrett are a few who chose to dare....

Join an adventure walking in the shoes of Abigail Adams, wife of the second President of the United States, John Adams. Many stepping stones along this journey are first-hand accounts of Abigail's correspondence before, during, and after the birth of her nation. Her forthright,...

The daring story of the first person Harriet Tubman rescued on her famed Underground Railroad, and how years later he returned to Georgetown, S.C. to lead his people.Author: Allen Dennison, Steve WilliamsISBN-10: 8598492493ISBN-13: 9798598492499Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2021Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.99w...

Through reviewing documents held for over a century in St. Petersburg Russia, DNA tests, the Facebook Lithuanian Genealogical Society, various genealogy websites and traveling to Lithuania, I have unraveled stories of my noble Lutkiewicz and Dowgwillo ancestors who were born in the Grand Duchy...

Unlimited: An American Fighter Pilot's Gamble with Life, tells the story Lt. Col. Don Emigholz, an Air Force fighter pilot who rose against all odds and lived a life of rebellion, danger, and achievement. His friend Col. Chuck Yeager regarded Emigholz as his equal....

Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Cesare Borgia--three iconic figures whose intersecting lives provide the basis for this astonishing work of narrative history. They could not have been more different, and they would meet only for a short time in 1502, but the events...

The Shackleton of his day, Leopold McClintock (1819-1907) from County Louth was the leading Arctic explorer of the Victorian era. He undertook four major voyages, epic sledge journeys, and was the first to bring definite information on the lost Franklin party. He then rose...

Known for its advances in literature, industrialization, politics, and science, the Victorian era was a prominent time in British history. However, author Lytton Strachey remembers Queen Victoria as a person instead of just focusing on her accomplishments. First starting with a brief history of...

Author: Claire TomalinISBN-10: 8200076997ISBN-13: 9798200076994Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/18/2012Format: CDWeight: 0.39lbs

In the year 1890, Stevenson was living at Apia in Samoa where he had purchased some three hundred acres in the bush, two miles behind and six hundred feet above the level of the town, and on which he proposed to build a cottage...

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is the fictional account of a young biracial man, referred to only as the "Ex-Colored Man," living in post-Reconstruction era America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lives through a variety of experiences, including witnessing...

On the background of the history's dramatic events (the final years of Bessarabia within the Kingdom of Romania, the inclusion of Moldavia into the USSR, World War Two, and the Soviet years after the war), a personal drama of the author's life evolves: his...

Doug Peters was one of the most prominent business economists in Canada between 1966 and 1992 in his role as chief economist of the Toronto Dominion Bank. He was an outspoken critic of the economic policies of the Progressive Conservative government during the last...

Who were the first pioneers to settle on Marco Island? Who was Betty Collier? In the 1950s, Betty Collier's youngest sons, John (Jack) Laud Collier, born aboard their schooner in 1867, and Walter Columbus Collier, born on Marco Island in 1871, were interviewed for...

Suzanne grew up in Western France between World War I and World War II. The wonders of electricity and the shadow of a worldwide depression punctuated her childhood. An ominous threat loomed just over the eastern horizon, but Suzanne never expected Germany to defeat...

This is a repeat of a similar book I wrote, with corrections and more detail. It is about the people we met both on and off the base, and it is about the friendly people during that period. Ever since the Americans left it...

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After graduating from college with a degree in forestry, Frank Fowler was eager to apply his newly acquired knowledge, but instead was drafted into the army. He was not prepared for the debilitating effect of losing his personal freedom. Supervision was often couched in...

During the course of the eighteenth century, migration from Europe and Africa shaped the emerging consciousness and culture of the American Colonies. Whether free, bond servant, or slave, migrants brought skills and folkways from their motherlands, contributing to the agricultural and commercial development as...

In January of 1944, the United States is fighting a war on two fronts-Europe and Asia-as eighteen-year-old Vee Hammontree bravely traveles from Missouri to Idaho where she intends to marry her high-school sweetheart. Both her fiance, Robert, and her older brother, Eugene, have enlisted...

The story of the Monteath family's arrival from Scotland to Brazil related from John Monteath's union with Wilhelmina Taylor at the end of the 19th century.About the Author: Charles Alexander Monteath, fourth generation of the "Monteaths", last son of John and Anita Monteath, was...

It's July 1940, Italy. A young Polish-born Jewish doctor, rendered stateless by the racial laws of 1938, is unable to flee the country. Henry Raupner is arrested and transported to Ferramonti Concentration Camp in Calabria, destined to become the largest internment camp for Jews...

John Marshall is a man who has become unfamiliar to many. Born on September 24th 1755, Marshall served and fought for the Continental Army in many battles in its long fight for independence from the British Crown. During the Wars latter stages he was...

MULLIN is the life story of Edward Mullin who brought the Mullin name to America. His family was uprooted from Northern Ireland by Oliver Cromwell and brought to England. His father could not find work in England so he moved his family to Alsace-Lorraine...

It began in my sophomore year at Morton West, days engrossed with the assassination of JFK, my eternal vigilance, patriotism. Enlisting with our Marine Corps was my only answer, though immensely protested by the love I sacrificed and abandoned. Launched by brutal training then...

It Was Never A Gamble is the true-life story of an early 1900s gambler and hustler. It chronicles the life of Jimmy James. Born in 1900 and leaving the family farm at the age of 14, he made a living by taking advantage of...

In this age of globalization, the eighteenth-century priest and abolitionist Henri Gr馮oire has often been called a man ahead of his time. An icon of antiracism, a hero to people from Ho Chi Minh to French Jews, Gr馮oire has been particularly celebrated since 1989,...

The Life of Hazrat Aminah bint Wahb The Mother of Prophet Muhammad SAW Last Messenger of Allah SWT (God) English Edition Hardcover Version Based from The Holy Quran and Al-Hadith. Allah SWT (God) Almighty created the father of mankind, Prophet Adam (Pbuh). When Adam...

"Admiral John Paul Jones had his faults. Who has not? But on the whole he was one of nature's noblemen. His energies were sincerely and intensely devoted to the good of humanity; He was ambitious. But it was a noble ambition, to make his...

William Hayden English of Indiana, congressman from 1853-1861, ended his official political career one and a half months before the attack on Fort Sumter. Though his name may not be as well known as other antebellum historical figures, he actively and influentially participated in...

Was a country girl ready for the harsh life of the YWCA Richmond? Doery House, the YWCA hostel at 353 Church Street, Richmond, Victoria, should have been a home away from home for teenage girls from the country, residing there in the late 1960s....

Author: Helen E ElliasISBN-10: 1532087977ISBN-13: 9781532087974Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/21/2020Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.90h x 7.70w x 0.20d

While Bristol suffered terrible bombing in the blitz raids of 1940-42. A total of 18,500 children were evacuated from the city's Elementary Schools in 1942 and sent to billets all over the West of England. Some children were welcomed and had memorably happy times...many...

A story of an Israeli youngster joining the smallest, most daring underground, Lechi, the notorious "Stern Gang", in its attempt to eject British forces off the Holy Land. It tells the daily struggle of a double life, dividing his scanty time between high-school and...

They fell in love through their letters. Between 1941 and 1945, Bernard wrote a total of 246 handwritten letters to Selma. Writing daily to his childhood friend Selma from army college in Oklahoma, boot camps in Georgia and Texas, and the WWII front lines...