Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This work establishes the various perspectives surrounding and emanating from the Roman Emperor Commodus. Included are an in-depth analysis of his major influences as a child/youth, particularly in relation to his family, as well as a discussion of the influences that had occurred in...

Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War "log" that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 "Flying Fortress" was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World...

In Peter Maurin: Prophet in the Twentieth Century, Marc H. Ellis traces Maurin's life from his early years--as peasant, brother, and Catholic activist--through his meeting with Dorothy Day. Ellis' Chronicle focuses on the consequences of that meeting: the founding of the Catholic Worker movement...

A history of the Industrial Workers of the World's golden years as lived by one of its guiding lights.Author: Arnold SteadISBN-10: 160846220XISBN-13: 9781608462209Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/23/2014Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.70d

American icon BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, born in Massachusetts to a British immigrant father and colonial mother, published the famous Poor Richards Almanack, helped found the University of Pennsylvania, and was the first Postmaster General of the United States. His likeness adorns, among other things, the...

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...

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...

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 the last days of 1917, Russia declared that it had uncovered a plot by the American ambassador to undermine the new Lenin and Trotsky revolutionary regime. It was a scandal of immense proportions at the time, yet one that has been all but...

One of the most important works on Abraham Lincoln from the era when he was passing out of living memory and into history, this 1917 classic is a rich, evocative portrait of the man and how actions as a leader were shaped by his...

One of the towering figures in global radicalism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, EMMA GOLDMAN (1869-1940) was an anarchist, a feminist, a pacifist, a communist, a unionist, and a proponent of birth control and free love. Her extreme notions made her...

The quadrennial edition of this engaging and informative guide highlights the private and public lives of the most celebrated figures in U.S. politics and is now updated to include the results of the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama. Written in a straightforward style...

"By Pure Luck" tells the remarkable story of how Fela Igielnik survived life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brutality of World War II. But more than that, it reveals the possibility of transforming even the darkest of experiences - starvation, forced labor and...

The large majority of the twenty million Italian Americans are law-abiding, hard-working, and accomplished. Yet the image of Italian Americans is often distorted by stereotypes portrayed in popular media. Profiles of Italian Americans: Achieving the Dream and Giving Back counters those stereotypes with brief...

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) is best known as the author of the Decameron, for which he created a lieta brigata of young men and women narrating a series of popular stories in Italian. Yet during his lifetime and long afterward Boccaccio was celebrated as a...

"The Lives of the Popes and Emperors" enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Florence, 1478; Venice, 1507, 1526 and 1534. Today copies of these editions may be found in at least eight American libraries: New York Public, University of Miami, Chicago,...

He was gunned down at the tender age of twenty- or was he? You've probably heard the legend of William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, at one time or another. Most folks have. But when it comes to the Kid, few things are...

Author: Andrew S. EhrenkreutzISBN-10: 1597404594ISBN-13: 9781597404594Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2008Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d

A window into the world of nineteenth-century California, from two women who experienced it firsthand.In the early years of California's statehood, Emily Brist Ketchum Bancroft (1834-1869) and Matilda Coley Griffing Bancroft (1848-1910) had front-row seats to the unfolding of the Golden State's history. The...

The stories acquired from researching family genealogy haven taken on deep meaning during the last three decades. This is a story of one little girl, who grew into a woman and became a grandmother with wisdom and gray hair. It is a story of...

He was a tough, determined kid from North Charleston, from a poor family on the wrong side of the tracks. She was a shy debutante from a fine old Charleston family. He was a hard-nosed, born leader; she a dreamer and sometime skeptic. From...

"Travellers who require that every nation should resemble their native country, had better stay at home," Mary Wollstonecraft wrote to her lover, Gilbert Imlay, in one of a series of letters addressed to him from her travels through Scandinavia in the summer of 1795....

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Abraham Lincoln's forefathers were pioneers - men who left their homes to open up the wilderness and make the...

Author: John MuirISBN-10: 1594622744ISBN-13: 9781594622748Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2006Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.22d

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals--some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Tartakovsky...

The text comprises an account of Boone's early history, his daring and remarkable career as the first settler of Kentucky, his thrilling adventures with the Indians, and his wonderful skill, coolness and sagacity under all the hazardous and trying circumstances of Western border life...

Author: Alexandre DumasISBN-10: 158963702XISBN-13: 9781589637023Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2002Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.12w x 0.98d

Author: Hans Ludwig RiessISBN-10: 1588209679ISBN-13: 9781588209672Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.88d

Biography of the inventor and manfucturer.Author: Henry G. ProutISBN-10: 1587981041ISBN-13: 9781587981043Publisher: Beard BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2001Pages: 408Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.32h x 6.48w x 1.00d

Adventures of Alf Wilson-Large Print Edition In April of 1862 a group of men to undertake one of the most daring raids of the American Civil War. The Adventures of Alf Wilson is the personal account of the raid by one of its members,...

LIFE AND TIMES OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Written by himself, his early life as a slave and his escape from bondage. Also his connection with the Underground Railroad and covers his relations with John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid.Author: Frederick DouglassISBN-10: 158218366XISBN-13: 9781582183664Publisher: Digital...

Originally published in 1889, George Washington is the first volume in a series of biographies of the Founding Fathers and succeeding generations of like-minded Americans to be reissued. This is a welcome opportunity to remind this generation of leaders of the great story of...

Playboy. Gambler. Pioneer. Oilman. Politician. Eccentric. Philanthropist. These titles and many more have been used to describe E.W. Marland, oil tycoon and tenth governor of Oklahoma. But in the midst of all the rumors and controversy, who was he really? Bad Medicine: The Story...

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester. Of the glittering, licentious court around King Charles II, John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, was the most notorious. Simultaneously admired and vilified, he personified the rake-hell. Libertine, profane, promiscuous, heshocked his...

American Leader in War and Peace explores the life of General Charles P. Summerall, who rose from poverty to high command in a great war.Author: William Gary NicholsISBN-10: 1572493992ISBN-13: 9781572493995Publisher: White Mane Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/07/2011Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 10.90h x 8.30w x 1.00d

Eleazar Louis Ripley Wheelock had fortunate beginnings as the grandson of the founder of Dartmouth College. But he would not take the easy route in life. His personal odyssey would lead him through poverty in pioneer Ohio, climactic battles in the War of 1812,...

Intimate glimpses into the daily life of a South Carolina familyReprinted here for the first time in more than forty years is Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909.This lively memoir offers a candid look into the daily life of...

Margaret Haughery, Irish immigrant to New Orleans, lost everyone she ever loved, but she dedicated her whole life to the service of others. A woman who could not read or write, she possessed extraordinary business acumen, and by the time of her death, including...

Begins with about 100 pages on the county's geography and history; the bulk of the volume consists of genealogical material on the pioneer settlers and descendants.Author: William T. PriceISBN-10: 1556133472ISBN-13: 9781556133473Publisher: Heritage BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2009Pages: 672Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.35d

The best stories are those that really happened. Ranchboy Hunter is a book that seems to involve the reader as well as the author in his sweeping, unforgettable experiences in learning the safe and proper use of firearms, even at the early age of...

Like many Jewish children in Nazi Germany, Rolf Wolfgang M llerich found his world shattered by the violence of Kristallnacht. In the aftermath of that terrible night, England launched Kindertransport-a program to get as many children out of Nazi-controlled territory as possible. In all,...

All That I Saw tells the story of the disruption of the comfortable life of a Hungarian family by World War II and its aftermath, and of Hungary's slide into totalitarian rule as a Communist satellite under the Soviet Union. Csicsery's firsthand accounts of...

Can Man Exist Without Sleep? At the turn of the 19th century, a Trenton newspaper printed a story about a man who claimed to have not slept a wink his entire life. The story sparked a firestorm, turning an obscure street sweeper into a...

Franklin's Autobiography is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this...

The Mitford Society is pleased to present its fifth annual with contributions from Meems Ellenberg, Kathy Hillwig, Robert Morton, Gail Louw, Chiara Martinelli, William Cross, May Tatel-Scott, Ella Kay, Terence Towles Canote, Kim Place-Gateau, Meredith Whitford, and Lyndsy SpenceAuthor: Lyndsy SpenceISBN-10: 1546445439ISBN-13: 9781546445432Publisher: Createspace...

In the late 1800s, young Samuel Lancaster is felled by polio. After a promising beginning as a civil engineer, he is forced to spend a year and a half lying in bed, paralyzed. When he learns of a paralyzed boy who draws pictures by...

This book was published early in the process of the of the 2016 Presidential and Congressional elections. However things got more polarized through the election process. After Donald Trump was inaugurated he has realized how difficult it is to govern our nation. We can...

Robert E. Lee, by Ruth Hill, is a classic American Civil War biography of the great Confederate general. Once upon a time in beautiful Virginia there lived a little boy named Robert Edward Lee. It was in the days before the Civil War when,...

The Honorable Asa Packer led a life of ambition and fulfillment. The Judge worked hard and was smart. With luck, good timing and friends, he saw his wildest dreams come true. He was an associate judge of Carbon County, Pennsylvania, a member of the...

Every night, when mom and dad are arguing, Jetske crawls deep down under the blankets. She doesn't understand what it's about. Her mother talks about people that ended their membership in time. Her father answers that it's too late for that.Later on, Jetske understands...