Biography & Autobiography - Historical

This work examines the life and career of a prominent castle lord of 11th-century Anjou. Robert the Burgundian was an Angevin knight whom the counts of Anjou allowed to amass considerable power on the northwestern march of Anjou.Author: W. Scott JesseeISBN-10: 0813209730ISBN-13: 9780813209739Publisher: Catholic...

Frank Mathias was born in Maysville, Kentucky, (pop. 7000) in 1925 and grew up in nearby Carlisle (pop. 1500), where life in his small town was much like that in towns and villages all across America. He came of age in an era of...

" One of the most important women of the 20th Century, Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was also one of its most prolific letter writers. Yet never before has a selection of her letters to public figures, world leaders, and individuals outside her family been made...

In this study of the life of a Spaniard who came to Mexico as a conquistador and remained as a civilian citizen of New Spain, C. Harvey Gardiner gives his readers a fresh view of the warfare between Spaniard and Indian and of the...

Known as the Great Compromiser, Henry Clay earned his title by addressing sectional tensions over slavery and forestalling civil war in the United States. Today he is still regarded as one of the most important political figures in American history. As Speaker of the...

" Elizabeth Simpson Inchbald (1753-1821) was one of the leading literary figures of the late eighteenth century-an actress, a successful playwright and editor of several collections of plays, a popular novelist, and a drama critic. Considered a beautiful, independent woman, Inchbald was much involved...

" Alfonso X (1221-1284) reigned as king of Castile and Le from 1252 until his death. Known to history as El Sabio, the Wise, or the Learned, his appreciation for science and the arts led him to sponsor a number of books on the...

July 31, 1859My Angel of purity love and Goodness!Forgive this offence and I'll be guilty of the like again the first time I feel like writing. You had as well bid the Sun cease to wander the earth with its heat as to bid...

In this spellbinding biography, the definitive work on Philip, Geoffrey Parker drew upon a vast, previously untapped collection of the king's private correspondence, in which he expressed his emotions, personal thoughts, and social philosophy. This new edition has a Bibliographical Essay, evaluating the many...

Joseph Bonaparte, King of Naples and Spain, claimed that he had never wanted the overpowering roles thrust upon him by his illustrious younger brother Napoleon. Left to his own devices, he would probably have been a lawyer in his native Corsica, a country gentleman...

Born in Shawneetown, Illinois in time to be newly graduated from West Point when the Civil War started, James H. Wilson became a brigadier general by the age of twenty-six. Fueled by boundless ambition and the desire to serve his country, he reorganized the...

Mikhail Bulgakov's The Life of Monsieur de Moliere is a fascinating portrait of the great French seventeenth-century satirist by one of the great Russian satirists of our own century. For Bulgakov, Moliere was an alter ego whose destiny seemed to parallel his own. As...

The monarch is the United Kingdom's head of state, exercising powers that are circumscribed by common law, convention, and statute law. Nowadays, many of the sovereign's functions are ceremonial but in the past the balance between ceremony and decision-making was very different. The foundations...

Provocatively capturing the controversy and sentiments surrounding this period of political imbalance, Actors on Red Alert explores the repercussions of the 1940s blacklist through career interviews with five prominent actors and actresses.Author: Anthony SlideISBN-10: 0810836491ISBN-13: 9780810836495Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/25/1999Pages: 198Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 8.87h...

Trap with a Green Fence is Richard Glazar's memoir of deportation, escape, and survival. In economical prose, Glazar weaves a description of Treblinka and its operations into his evocation of himself and his fellow prisoners as denizens of an underworld. Glazar gives us compelling...

Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern AmericaIn popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West....

Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. Unlike most European sovereigns of his generation, Wilhelm was no mere figurehead, and his imprint on imperial Germany...

Wilhelm II (1859-1941), King of Prussia and German Emperor from 1888 to 1918, reigned during a period of unprecedented economic, cultural, and intellectual achievement in Germany. This volume completes Lamar Cecil's prize-winning scholarly biography of the Kaiser, one of modern history's most powerful--and most...

Through the life of Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918), South Carolina's self-styled agrarian rebel, this book traces the history of white male supremacy and its discontents from the era of plantation slavery to the age of Jim Crow.As an anti-Reconstruction guerrilla, Democratic activist, South Carolina...

A. P. Hill: Lee's Forgotten General is the first biography of the Confederacy's long-neglected hero whom Lee ranked next to Jackson and Longstreet. Although the name and deeds ot this gallant Virginian conspicuously punctuate the record of every major campaign of the Army of...

John Pendleton Kennedy (1795--1870) achieved a multidimensional career as a successful novelist, historian, and politician. He published widely and represented his district in the Maryland legislature before being elected to Congress several times and serving as secretary of the navy during the Fillmore administration....

The Conquest of Labor offers the first biography of Daniel Pratt (1799-1873), a New Hampshire native who became one of the South's most important industrialists. After moving to Alabama in 1833, Pratt started a cotton gin factory near Montgomery that by the eve of...

"Well researched... and well written, this work gives us Kendall, warts and all. We see the avarice, the ambition, and the contradictions of his subject.... This is biography at its best." -- Journal of American HistoryA rare, fascinating personality emerges in Donald B. Cole's...

Once considered the "best American newspaperman London has ever had," Edward Price Bell (1869--1943) helped invent the ideal of a professional foreign news service at the late and great Chicago Daily News, which in its heyday had the second-largest daily newspaper circulation in the...

Though remembered largely by history as Andrew Jackson's nephew, Andrew Jackson Donelson was himself a significant figure in nineteenth-century America: a politician, planter, diplomat, newspaper editor, and vice-presidential candidate. His relationship with his uncle and mentor defined his life, as he struggled to find...

Troy H. Middleton (1889-1976) was the youngest colonel in the American Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. Later, he served as commander of the Army's 45th Division and then the VIII Corps. During World War II, Middleton spent more time in combat...

"Peter Zheutlin's thoroughly researched account will make you wish you'd been around to catch a glimpse of the extraordinary woman as she went wheeling by." -Bill Littlefield, National Public Radio's Only A Game Until 1894 there were no female sport stars, no product endorsement...

At the time of its formation Old Somerset included all the territory that is now Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester counties. In addition to the deeds, wills and commissions, the genealogical material contained herein includes extensive, documented lists of early settlers with considerable biographical data....

Whereas the first volume in this series traced the families of roughly 500 colonists who entered Maryland as either indentured servants or convicts, this volume treats a cross-section of Maryland's colonial population. Researchers will find families living throughout the colony here, though most resided...

What actually became of the indentured servants and bonded immigrants who arrived in America during the colonial period? Were they able to cast off the shackles that had brought them here in the first place, and how long did it take? For his latest...

The four-volume "Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts" is one of the most sought after of all the Cutter titles. Many researchers with ancestors in the northern tier of the United States will find immigrants or 17th-century...

is the product of esteemed genealogist Elizabeth Rixford's efforts to trace her maternal and paternal lines and the main branches of her husband's family, namely: Rixford, Hawkins, Wilson, Flint, Cutting, Hinds, Cook, and Cushman. But, as researchers will appreciate, this work is no ordinary...

This work begins with a brief Introduction in which the compiler recounts the region's historic importance in the French and Indian War and in the Revolutionary War. There is also a special section on regional topography and the legislative origins of Albany County, in...

This work begins with a brief Introduction in which the compiler recounts the region's historic importance in the French and Indian War and in the Revolutionary War. There is also a special section on regional topography and the legislative origins of Albany County, in...

The Hammatt Papers focuses on the first two or three generations of several hundred Ipswich families, and, in the traditional manner, provides information on the lineal descendants of the earliest recorded member of the family in Ipswich, treating of a succession of parents and...

"I had a native ambition to rise from obscurity and make myself useful in the world, to shine and be distinguished." So said the Hon. Neil S. Brown, one of the 259 prominent 19th-century Tennesseans profiled in this extraordinary book. It is this kind...

This volume covers the lineage records of l,500 members new to the Society from 1953 to 1981. Generation by generation, descent is traced from the earliest immigrant ancestor to the l,500 members of the Society who joined between 1953 and 1981, the sole condition...

That part of Texas settled in the early 1820s known as the Austin Colony was comprised largely of the five present-day counties of Bastrop, Fayette, Grimes, Montgomery, and Washington. This book consists mainly of biographical and genealogical sketches of the pioneers and early settlers...

First published in 1872, with a second edition in 1875, Nicholas's "Annals and Antiquities of the County Families of Wales" is still the standard work on Welsh family history and the chief source of genealogical data on the counties and families of the principality....

A companion volume to "This Was the Life: Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1765," this is a compilation of materials relating to the inhabitants of some of the early towns of Frederick County, Maryland. Chapters are devoted to the founding...

"Genealogies of Connecticut Families" is a three-volume collection of family history articles-- each volume has its own index. Its references to some 75,000 persons in more than 400 articles, together with a scholarly introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, the Society's Director of Research, combine...

In this three-volume work will be found all of the family history articles published in "The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine" from its founding in 1895 (as "Publications of the Pennsylvania Genealogical Society") through 1980. Here, too, will be found every Bible record and genealogical fragment...

Sabine's work remains to this day the standard biographical dictionary of the Loyalists. There are three quite distinct parts to the book: a balanced historical essay of some 150 pages; biographical sketches, alphabetically arranged, comprising the vast bulk of the work; and some 120...

Grant and Pleasant Districts, in Preston County, West Virginia, were formed in 1852. Prior to 1863 Preston County was in Virginia. It was carved out of Monongalia County as early as 1818 and is contiguous to Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Garrett County, Maryland. The...

This is the most comprehensive register of Plymouth families ever assembled. It has the names of thousands of Mayflower and sistership antecedents. The data is based largely on records of the town of Plymouth and draws on all marriage and birth records to the...

This is a work of such incredible detail that it is thought to have elevated genealogy to an exact science. It is the definitive statement on the ancestry and relationships of 35,000 residents of eighteenth-century New Haven, Connecticut, and it is the only known...

Doubtless one of the scarcest Huguenot studies and yet unquestionably a classic, Lee's "Huguenots in France and America" is essentially a history rather than a treatise on emigration or a list of names, with primary emphasis on the exposition of facts and notable events....

This is a guide to approximately 2,000 pedigrees as listed in over 7,000 sources of information. The arrangement of the text is alphabetical by family name, the entries providing, in each instance, the exact reference to the books and periodicals wherein the pedigree is...

The works of William Armstrong Crozier are so well known that they require little introduction. In 1905, Crozier launched an ambitious series entitled "Virginia County Records." The series, which was originally published in magazine format, ended eight years later after ten volumes in the...

This is the most important multi-volume work on the genealogy, biography, and history of central Pennsylvania. It has genealogies, biographies, and family sketches, plus lists of early settlers and soldiers of the various wars, including the Revolution. There are also a vast number of...