Biography & Autobiography - Historical

""Cornelius Cole California Pioneer and United States Senator"" is a biography written by Catherine Coffin Phillips about the life of Cornelius Cole. Cole was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman who played a crucial role in the development of California during the mid-19th century....

In this powerful and poignant story of survival, the woman whom Sir Martin Gilbert called "the American Jewish historian" in The Righteous chronicles her turbulent life during the Nazi onslaught. Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki brings us through her years in war-torn Poland as her childhood is...

In this powerful and poignant story of survival, the woman whom Sir Martin Gilbert called "the American Jewish historian" in The Righteous chronicles her turbulent life during the Nazi onslaught. Lorraine Justman-Wisnicki brings us through her years in war-torn Poland as her childhood is...

Over the course of more than six decades as an author, journalist, and professor, Max Lerner studied and assessed many presidents, yet Thomas Jefferson received his most sustained attention. To Lerner, Jefferson came closest in the American context to Plato's "philosopher-king," the ideal thinker...

From my earliest childhood memories, I recall my dad speaking about his experiences in the holocaust. When he started talking about it, which wasn't often, you just listened. You'd occasionally hear him screaming in his sleep, reliving the nightmare of the holocaust. As I...

Armed only with sheer guts and determination this Jewish family took on the whole German Army. Stubbornly refusing to surrender, they remained defiant throughout the occupation of Greece and survived by fighting and outsmarting the Nazis. This is their fascinating story.Author: Frederic KakisISBN-10: 1410713598ISBN-13:...

General Dodge knew these great Americans well and in many capacities, and his recollections are vivid, important reading. "My personal recollections of President Lincoln and Generals Grant and Sherman, all three of whom, up to the time they died, showed their personal friendship to...

A thorough study of the heritage of Frederick and how he built upon it throughout his life as he extended Prussia's power and role in European politics. This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries; the Catalogue of the Lamont Library,...

In the first rank of French statesmen and diplomats of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century stands Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, who for more than half a century, under the most opposite political regimes, was involved in all the important...

CONTENTS France as Richelieu Found It Richelieu's Early Career, 1585-1617 The Years of Disgrace, 1617-1624 Overthrow of Huguenot Party, 1624-1629 Richelieu and His Enemies, 1626-1637 The Administration of Richelieu, 1624-1642 The Thirty Year's War, 1618-1648 The Close of Richelieu's Career, 1638-1642 Internal Administration, 1624-1642...

These Letters first appeared in French, in 1628, just thirteen years after the death of their witty and beautiful authoress, who, whether as the wife for many years of the great Henri of France, or on account of her own charms and accomplishments, has...

A biography of Elizabethan statesman Lord Burghley covering the period 1520 to 1598. With admirable discernment and masterful documentation, this very readable book presents a general view of the policy of the reign of Elizabeth, especially with relation to the influence exerted upon it...

A biography of the monarch with the long, tragic face which was a passive mask hiding a raging soul within. At the time of original publication in 1907, Martin Hume (1847-1910) was Sometime Editor of the Calendars of Spanish State Papers (Public Record Office),...

The text (with the exception of a few bracketed passages) is derived entirely from Napoleon's own words, written and spoken. What truth this book conveys is not to be sought according to those rules for the treatment of historical documents which it avowedly contravenes,...

This collection contains correspondence between Lenin and Gorky and other material revealing their long-standing friendship. "Gorky by his great works of art has bound himself... closely to the workers' movement in Russia and throughout the world." - Lenin "There are men whose significance no...

Author: Isaphene M. LuysterISBN-10: 141020023XISBN-13: 9781410200235Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/20/2002Pages: 464Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 1.15d

CONTENTS: Birth and Early Childhood Boyhood in West Virginia Life at Hampton Institute How the First Six Years after Graduation from Hampton Were Spent The Beginning of the Work at Tuskegee The First Year at Tuskegee The Struggles and Success of the Workers at...

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an American author, orator, educator, and adviser to numerous U.S. Presidents. He belonged to the last generation of Black Americans born into slavery and became a prominent mouthpiece for ex-slaves and their descendants. "Up from Slavery" is Washington's 1901...

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: Ahmad KamalISBN-10: 1406741981ISBN-13: 9781406741988Publisher: Lundberg...

This is the first biography in English of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC and presents a rounded view of his accomplishments. Describes how Hammurabi dealt with powerful rivals and extended his kingdom. Draws on the King's own writings and...

Author: Nancy Ellen CarverISBN-10: 1401072003ISBN-13: 9781401072001Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2002Pages: 292Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d

Author: John E. FlanaganISBN-10: 1401040128ISBN-13: 9781401040123Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.58w x 0.61d

Author: Nguyen Xuan PhongISBN-10: 1401021026ISBN-13: 9781401021023Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 376Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.58w x 0.96d

She saved France when she was fourteen...She was burned at the stake for her efforts...Meet the girl who captured Mark Twain's heart.A forgotten masterpiece from one of America's greatest authors-and the last full-length novel he ever wrote-Joan of Arc follows the Savior of France...

The never-before-told story of Captain Charles Farr, inspiring chaplain of the Los Angeles Harbor. In 1902, Captain Charles Farr came to California and preached revival meetings to sailors on the hull of an abandoned tugboat, Warrior. Many seafarers, deckhands, fishermen, and longshoremen listened to...

A collage of characters shaped the west of the nineteenth century. Large and powerful cattlemen, backed by eastern and European investors, flooded the prairie with herds often numbering 50-80 thousand head. They had visions of doubling or tripling their money quickly while their cattle...

Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessed by General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research into...

Samina Uddin pays homage to her late father in this debut memoir.It transports us to how Mukhtar Uddin navigated the Partition of India, the birth of Pakistan, and the racial prejudice of London in the 1950s and 1960s. A story of family, sacrifice, identity...

When young farmer, Wilf Fritsch and his mates leave Australia in 1914, to study in Germany, they have no idea of the catastrophe ahead. Their plans are thwarted when World War 1 erupts. Stranded, arrested and imprisoned, they wonder if they will survive the...

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This new Idriess book tells of stirring episodes in the pursuit, of lawbreakers in the primitive lands. Every chapter is authentic. Patrols through the Kimberleys, the wild Fitzmaurice River country, the nor'-west of Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Central Australia; each incident recorded...

A Small Town's Legacies takes the reader on an historical journey that begins in the 1700s with early settlers building homesteads in the swampy wilderness of Northwest Pennsylvania. Their experiences of hardships, ingenuity, and bravery enabled these stalwart people to survive and create a...

Wailing from the Bleeding Nations is a series of political memoirs about the Liberian and Sierra Leonean civil wars fought amongst rivalry warlords in the 1990s and early 2000s. The book followed the frontline experience of a family's peculiar child, a typical representation of...

After an atypical childhood during which he was raised by two Holocaust survivors, Dr. William Reszelbach has devoted years sharing his story with audiences, and learning its roots in Holocaust history, Jewish tradition, and post-World War II culture across Europe. In his first book,...

"Guerrilla Grunt is an incisive account of one Marine officer's pioneering efforts to develop the 2nd Marine Division Counter-guerilla Warfare Center (CGWC), and the only authentic Vietnam combat training center in America, at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, in 1965 ... Guerrilla Grunt is both...

On January 7, 2015, two Islamic radicals attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine in Paris. Twelve people were killed. French policewent on a nationwide alert. Schools throughout the city went into lockdown.This terrorist incident came in the long wake of September...

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Information gives us the power to paint a colorful picture of our predecessors as individuals, and the times in which they lived. This 21st Century man has endeavored to capture and contextualize the life and times of one 19th Century man, and the national...

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Galileo's story may be more relevant today than ever before. At present, we face enormous crises-such as minimizing the dangers of climate change-because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo encountered this problem 400 years ago. His discoveries, based on...

A boy, born in the small town of Fakenham in rural Norfolk, was an unlikely candidate to later hold the position of Surveyor of the Navy, the top shipbuilding post at the Admiralty. He first came to prominence when serving as Assistant Master Shipwright...

The British monarchy has had a significant impact on both local and global history for more than a thousand years. With their own goals and objectives, kings and queens have taken over land, enacted religious reform, and levied taxes. David I. Wood explores the...

Facing the World from Gusii: A Memoir is a personal account of growing up in Gusii, specifically living along the common border between Abagusii and the Maasai. The author captures information and events as he saw them happen as an observer and participant. These...

An engrossing biography of Gabrielle d'Estr馥s, mistress, confidante, and advisor of Henry IV of France who was instrumental in ending the French Wars of Religion. Ideal for readers of Desmond Seward, Ian Mortimer and Alison Weir. Gabrielle d'Estr馥s was just thirty-six hours shy of...

George Frederick Tyler was born in 1883 into an enormously wealthy Philadelphia family whose money was made during the post-Civil War industrial era. Daniel Tyler, his grandson, explores GFT's life with no small degree of bias against what the author thought was an ostentatious...

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,...

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,...

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,...