Biography & Autobiography - Historical

America today is a mobile society. Many of us travel abroad, and few of us live in the towns or cities where we were born. It wasn't always so. "Travel from America to Europe became a commonplace, an ordinary commodity, some time ago, but...

Life and Times of John Pierce Hawley: A Mormon Ulysses of the American Westnarrates the wide-ranging life and times of John P. Hawley's search for and service to an authentic Mormon faith. Melvin C. Johnson has been researching Hawley's adventurous life along the American...

Never the Last Road is the dramatic story of the survival of Noah Podberesky and his future wife, Mina Milikowsky, two Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It is a story of individual strength, bravery, ingenuity and repeated instances of good fortune (or, as some...

A condottiero, nobleman, politician and cardinal, whose fight for power was a major inspiration for The Prince by Machiavelli. Most people consider Cesare Borgia one of history's great question marks.After initially entering the church and becoming a cardinal on his father's election to the...

This engaging book provides fascinating information about the famous boy king of Egypt, Tut-Ankh-Amen, and ancient Egypt in general. It comes from an Egyptian author who was the former director of several important archaeological excations in Egypt.Author: Bishara NahasISBN-10: 1585090875ISBN-13: 9781585090877Publisher: Book TreeLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

The first volume of Jehuda Reinharz's definitive biography of Chaim Weizmann, Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Zionist Leader, met with widespread acclaim and won five major prizes. President Chaim Herzog of Israel praised it for being "rich in fascinating detail, and never losing...

Author: James Martin RhodesISBN-10: 1583483241ISBN-13: 9781583483244Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1999Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.99d

The Life of Stonewall Jackson was written while John Esten Cooke was encamped with General Thomas Jackson and his troops during the Civil War. Based on his personal observations of the General, who was often compared to Napoleon, Cook combines them with information taken...

Author: James BuchananISBN-10: 1582181802ISBN-13: 9781582181806Publisher: Digital ScanningLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 - June 25, 1876) was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. Raised in Michigan and Ohio, Custer was admitted to West Point in 1857, where he...

Author: Laszlo SzechenyiISBN-10: 158112886XISBN-13: 9781581128864Publisher: Universal PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1998Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.53w x 0.69d

Selected by Military Heritage Magazine as the Year's Best Book on Custer "Chronicling the hardship and glory of wartime service with George Custer's famed Michigan Brigade, Avery's memoir is an insightful record of one Federal trooper's experience on campaign and battlefield. His narrative is...

Paul Schneider (1897-1939) was a German Reformed pastor, father of six, and part of the Bekennende Kirche during World War II. Schneider's unequivocal opposition to the quickly ascending Nazi regime led to his imprisonment, torture and eventual execution at the hands of the Gestapo...

Author: Geoffrey B. A. M. FinlaysonISBN-10: 1573833142ISBN-13: 9781573833141Publisher: Regent College PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2004Pages: 640Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.42d

What life was like for youngsters who lived on the Great Plains in nineteenth-century frontier life. Chapters address a breadth of experiences and perceptions: why families came to the Great Plains and where they decided to settle; how families and communities were organized for...

Growing up along the gulf coast of Texas, a young boy learns to ride horses and rope steers, and at an early age, he finds employment with a local rancher. Soon he is driving cattle all over the untamed West and landing in precarious,...

The state of Texas holds an interesting and important place in the history of the United States, and this volume explores those men and women who have helped to shape the course of the state by serving as governor.For example, Miriam V. Ferguson (1925-1927,...

The sixteenth century in Europe was a tumultuous time. It was the time of plagues, a time of wars, and a time of reformation. The Protestant Reformation was a decisive moment. We hear a great deal about men who shaped that time, such as...

This English literary text on the Brontes will be of value to teachers, students and Bronte enthusiasts.Author: David W. HarrisonISBN-10: 1553698096ISBN-13: 9781553698098Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/23/2003Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.73d

It was on Columbus Day, October 12, 1950, that my husband and I joined the United States Indian Service and went to live with the Navajos in northern Arizona at Chinle, near the entrance to the famous Canyon de Chelly. We were just out...

Despite his potential, extraordinary skating skills, and unmatched dedication and endurance, George Faulkner never made the Montreal Canadiens' roster. But he was trying to break into a famous hockey dynasty never before seen in professional hockey. His story does not just begin and end...

This is the biography of Jesse Carter Little who lived from 1815 to 1893. He was prominent in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from his conversion in 1839 until his death. His early work resulted in the Mormon Battalion being authorized...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave published in 1861. Harriet Ann Jacobs used the pseudonym Linda Brent. The book documents Jacobs' life as a slave and how she gained freedom for herself...

He is the Son of God; who embodied God in human form and died on the cross so we could have a way to be reunited with our Father in heaven. The month of Nisan in the Jewish calendar is the period of time...

The writing of this book did not start out as a plan to write a book. Many little things and circumstances all contributed to one day starting to write down each day's thoughts of my heart on a piece of paper carried in my...

Silvia Isabel Rael Almanza is a Chicana. That is not a racial or an ethnic statement/status but, rather, a political one. It was in the 1950s that the hyphen in Spanish-American defined a group of people as less-than-American. It was the political process that...

This book is an exploration of the author's early American Puritan heritage. It is intended to be a lighthearted but factual description of the lives and times of two Tracy ancestors who played instrumental roles in the development of New England. The book provides...

*Includes pictures *Includes Hughes' quotes *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "My father told me, never have partners." - Howard Hughes "I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire." - Howard Hughes Howard Hughes lived a life that was quintessentially American, and his personal history was...

From the #1 bestselling author of "Travelers and Explorers That Pushed the Boundaries of the Known World" comes an exciting new book on historical figures that overcame unimaginable adversity and the inspirational stories they have left behind for us. Whether it is household names...

The true history of America lies in the lives and stories of its many citizens, each attempting to pursue the promise of the American dream while protecting family and weathering the eruptions of events around them. In this well-researched and intimate biography of Otis...

Set against a backdrop of British rule over India and the Caribbean during the early twentieth century, this book records the life of Ranjit Kumar and his contribution to the physical, cultural and political development of Trinidad and Tobago. Born in the Punjab, India,...

Beyond the rustic gates of the Forest Hill Cemetery in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, lies a vast wealth of history. Early in 1870, George Sanderson, Elisha Phinney, William Breck, and J.A. Robertson, with J. Gardner Sanderson and George S. Kingsbury, purchased a 50-acre tract of land...

Food trucks in Jacksonville are a smashing success. The early popularity of trucks like Corner Taco and On the Fly set the stage for a mobile dining revolution. Innovators such as Mike Field and Jax Truckies supplied the vision and passionately advocated for the...

In the middle of the eighty century, Europe was in a state of upheaval. The Islamic armies were still waging wars from Spain while Vikings began raiding from the north. Heathen tribes in the west still fought constant skirmishes with one another over land...

If you want a peep into the real history of early colonial Australia, you might enjoy this book. A rare book: 448 pages, part history, part family saga, compiled from a mass of previously unanalysed records. An intimate and documented exploration of another time....

Letters of Pliny Including Correspondence with the Emperor Trajan By Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus Translated by William Melmoth Revised by F. C. T. Bosanquet GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, usually known as Pliny the Younger, was born at Como in 62 A. D. He was...

McUisdean is a book that deals with the early history of many families with a similar name, who also share matching DNA. These families include McQuiston, McQuistion, McQuesten, McQuestion, McQuistan, McCuiston, McCuistion, and several more, including McChristian. The author has spent five decades researching...

This eye-opening memoir, twenty years in the making, chronicles Luellen Smiley's journey into her father's criminal past, beginning ten years after his death.Luellen is the daughter of the late Allen Smiley-Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel's best friend and business partner for ten years. He was seated...

Napoleon Bonaparte is an historical biography of the French Civil War General and First Consul of the French Republic. John Stevens Cabot Abbott was an American writer. He was a prolific writer of books on Christian ethics, and of histories, which helped to cultivate...

A local history of farm life and wood cutting in the swamps and woodlands in the Dighton-Rehoboth, Massachusetts area, circa 1900.Author: E. Otis DyerISBN-10: 1532651031ISBN-13: 9781532651038Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)Language: EnglishPublished: 04/19/2018Pages: 238Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

I wanted to remind some people and inform others of how African Americans survived slavery and made the most of life afterward as American citizens. Africans came here and were enslaved for hundreds of years and lived in segregation for many years as well.Author:...

This book is about a unique story of survival and preserving love. There are millions of stories from the destruction of Jewish life in Europe to be toldsadly, many never will. This story, as seen through the eyes of a boy, is about a...

Educated during the American Army occupation in Japan, the author begins with her childhood memories describing the postwar era of Japan -- how General Douglas MacArthur saved a doomed nation and reformed it to a democratic state. Being raised in a traditional society, the...

While Jesup W. Scott proclaimed it the Future Great City of the World in 1868, in reality, Toledo saw little development for the first four decades after its founding in 1837. Plagued by swamps, disease, and unwelcoming occupants, few settled here. But slowly, the...

Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica is a classic Napoleon Bonaparte biography by John Kendrick Bangs. Napoleon's father, Charles Bonaparte, was the honored progenitor of thirteen children, of whom the man who subsequently became the Emperor of the French, by some curious provision of fate, was...

Inspired by real events, Country Boy, City Girl is the extraordinary story of two teenagers and their ferocious struggle through extreme circumstances in the historically trying time known as the Great Depression. Harley and Mable both have a goal to attend college but are...

The Ekelund family moved to Canada in 1903 and settled in what is now Southern Alberta when Bertha, their sixth child was only five years old. Growing up in a family that was torn apart by the tragedy of their mother's death, Bertha developed...

The extraordinary wartime incident at Fort Stevens fascinates us. Pause for a minute and just think about it. A twenty-three-year-old American soldier screams at the president of the United States in the midst of a battle, calls him a damned fool, and gets him...

Author: Mark WashburneISBN-10: 1524542857ISBN-13: 9781524542856Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2016Pages: 464Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

Benjamin Franklin, by Paul Elmer More, is a classic biography of the great American statesman and inventor, Ben Franklin. Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSE (January 17, 1706 O.S. January 6, 1705] 1] - April 17, 1790) was an American polymath and one of the Founding...