Biography & Autobiography - Historical

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,...

By GOLD AWARD Winning author Rich DiSilvio Tales of Titans, Vol. III brings great historical figures to life with concise yet compelling essays, coupled with engaging narratives that enlighten readers to their miraculous deeds, and misdeeds, that have significantly shaped history. Volume III features...

Margarete traces her long journey from childhood in East Prussia, to the years in Russian prison camps, and her eventual emigration to Canada. A remarkable story of insight, courage, inspiration, love and forgiveness.Author: Margarete G. MuellerISBN-10: 0978265416ISBN-13: 9780978265410Publisher: LmseditLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize:...

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award when it was first published in 1985, In Kindling Flame tells the impassioned story of a young woman who left Europe for Palestine in 1939, when she was just 18, but returned five years later on a...

"Together, their stories realize in intimate but accessible terms the vagaries of historical memory and Ester's determination to tell the truth, despite the understandable urge among some victims to forget, in the face of an official policy of denial from Turkey that continues today."...

On April 30, 1849, Sarah Bayliss Royce, along with her husband, Josiah, and their daughter, Mary, left her home in Tipton, Iowa, and headed for California in a covered wagon. Along the way, she kept a diary which, nearly thirty years later, served as...

This anthology tells the fascinating story of how medicine was practiced in military hospitals and in the field during the Civil War. Includes first-person accounts by Louisa May Alcott and Walt Whitman.Author: Harold Elk StraubingISBN-10: 0811701387ISBN-13: 9780811701389Publisher: Stackpole BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2014Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

Preface. List of Illustrations. Introduction; I. Richard Ward. II. Henry More. III. Manuscript and Editions. Editorial Principles. Chronology of the Life of Henry More. Ward: The Life of the Learned and Pious Dr. Henry More. Select Letters, Written by the Reverend Dr. Henry More....

Mary Rockwood Powers reluctantly left her comfortable life as a doctor's wife in Wisconsin in 1856, one of the many women whose destiny as a settler of the West was determined by her husband's wishes. Trading in her home for canvas roof and wheels,...

Travel on a journey of evolution from naiveté as a child in the Jim Crow South, to self-actualization at "the Door of No Return," on Goree Island, in Senegal, West Africa. Experience some of the travails of the lawyer as solo practitioner, the last...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This is the first book-length biography of Andrés Bello, the nineteenth-century Latin American intellectual, to appear in English. Bello was also a poet, a literary critic, and an influential statesman whose contributions to nation-building and Spanish American identity are widely recognized across the region....

John Scott, Lord Eldon (1751-1838) was an important English lawyer and a dominant figure in Georgian public life, and ranks among the most important Lord Chancellors in the long history of that office. This biography, the first in approximately 150 years, traces Eldon's public...

This concise study of Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) focuses on the substantial reassessment of Disraeli's career and personality that is currently taking place. Particular reference is made to the role played in Disraeli's conception of life and politics by his Jewishness and his romanticism. The...

The Autobiography of an Unknown South African by Naboth Mokgatle offers a detailed and rich narrative of the author's life and his tribal roots, providing a vivid glimpse into the customs, traditions, and history of the Bafokeng people of South Africa. Mokgatle begins with...

The Autobiography of an Unknown South African by Naboth Mokgatle offers a detailed and rich narrative of the author's life and his tribal roots, providing a vivid glimpse into the customs, traditions, and history of the Bafokeng people of South Africa. Mokgatle begins with...

The Third Duke of Portland served twice as Prime Minster and had a long and distinguished political career from 1760s to the 1780s. This study details how he was transformed from a pillar of the grand Whiggery (he was the brother-in-law of Georgiana, Duchess...

On Whit Monday 1828 a strange youth, barely able to speak and hardly able to walk appeared in Nuremberg. This new case of a 'wild man' excited widespread curiosity, and many prominent figures wanted to test their pedagogical and medical theories on such a...

During the course of the Twentieth Century, nineteen men and one woman - from Robert Cecil, Third Marquis of Salisbury to Tony Blair - have occupied the post of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.Author: D. LeonardISBN-10: 0333918398ISBN-13: 9780333918395Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2004Pages: 391Format:...

Jean Moulin is a universally recognized French hero, celebrated as the delegate of General de Gaulle to Nazi-occupied France in 1942-3 and founder of the National Resistance Council in May 1943. He is known for defiance of the German invaders in June 1940 and...

A biography of David Livingstone giving a balanced account of his strengths and weaknesses. Revered for years as a saint, he was in fact a much more interesting character, difficult, demanding and unsympathetic but also single minded, determined, patient and outstandingly brave. At ten...

A detailed chronology of the life of H.G. Wells, tracing his career from his earliest writings to his world fame as a novelist, prophet and popular educator. This Chronology brings vividly to life his extraordinary energy and industry, and the wide range of his...

Browning both denied and affirmed the value of biography for an understanding of literature. This book narrates the development of his controversial creative life through responses to his work by five key nineteenth-century figures: John Stuart Mill, William Charles Macready, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin...

John Fisher, 1469-1535 was a figure of European stature during the Tudor age. His many roles included those of bishop, humanist, theologian, cardinal, and ultimately martyr. This study places him in the context of sixteenth-century Christendom, focusing not just on his resistance to Henry...

Wilkie Collins is the only leading Victorian novelist whose letters have not been published. This two-volume edition, edited by William Baker and William Clarke, fills a gaping hole in any assessment of one of the nineteenth century's most loved novelists. It is also extremely...

The importance of Colonel Edward M. House in twentieth-century American foreign policy is enormous: from 1913 to 1919 he served not only as intimate friend and chief political adviser to President Woodrow Wilson but also as national security adviser and senior diplomat. Yet the...

Giuseppe Mazzini was one of the leading figures in the political history of nineteenth-century Europe. A vigorous proponent of nationalism, pre-eminent figure in the struggle for Italian independence and unity, and fascinating personality, his ideas were influential throughout Europe. Yet successive Italian governments, fearing...

Accidental presidents, those who assume office as a result of death, assassination or resignation, struggle to establish their legitimacy. This book examines and evaluates the strategies of nine accidental presidents, from John Tyler to Gerald Ford, to demonstrate authority and their capacity to govern.Author:...

An account of how one Labour Party politician, after suffering the biggest setback of his political career, used the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in Grosvenor Square, the battle over trade union reform and the Troubles in Northern Ireland to propel himself to No 10.Author: P....

The life of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's extraordinary and longest-lived monarch The reign of Queen Elizabeth II was exceptional for many reasons: among them her remarkable longevity, her enduring marriage to Prince Philip, her astonishing success in concealing her opinions on virtually any contentious...

Give me liberty or give me death.-Patrick HenryStudying American history offers each of us a front-row seat to the ways in which God brought to life the country known as the United States. During the American Revolution, the thirteen colonies faced off against the...

As the Russian Civil War reached its final, tumultuous stages, 11-year-old Lydia Komarkoff and her parents had already spent 11 months living aboard the steamship Kherson adrift in the Black Sea, seeking refuge from the chaos engulfing their homeland. But on November 14, 1920,...

The 2025 REGISTER OF QUALIFIED HUGUENOT ANCESTORS, 6th Edition: The Huguenot Researcher's Authoritative Sourcebook of Proofs gathers a wealth of genealogical data into one magnificently-detailed 880-page sourcebook of Huguenot evidence, or "proofs" designed to assist the researcher's quest to find and prove a direct...

Author: Horst Freyhofer,Sue FreyhoferISBN-13: 9798218711979Publisher: Transatlantic BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 382Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d

But what if the fight for justice didn't end with his death?What if his story still has the power to change the way we see race and justice today?In this powerful exploration of one of America's darkest moments, The Open Secret in The Barn:...

Mountains can tell us much about our past. Six iconic peaks in Central Victoria, Australia: Mounts Kooroocheang, Beckworth, Greenock, Tarrengower, Alexander and Franklin, tower above the rich volcanic grasslands. Each has borne witness to dramatic changes in Dja Dja Wurrung Country over the past...

"A thorough recounting of the great legislator's life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner's legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today."--The New York Times "An excellent book about the...

A monumental reassessment of Jefferson's character and impact... --BooklistAuthor: Alf J. MappISBN-10: 0819174548ISBN-13: 9780819174543Publisher: Madison BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/21/1995Pages: 514Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.08lbsSize: 9.43h x 7.12w x 1.72d

A Centennial Biographical History of Seneca County, Ohio offers a comprehensive look into the lives and legacies of the individuals who shaped this important Midwestern region. This meticulously researched volume, originally published a century ago, provides detailed biographical sketches of prominent citizens, families, and...

To the enduring spirit of those who shaped the early American landscape, whose lives, though separated by centuries, resonate with the complexities of ambition, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of a legacy. This work is dedicated to the descendants of Augustine Warner Jr., scattered...

This monograph analyzes George Washington as the Intelligence Chief, Spy Master, and Commander in Chief of the Continental Army. It investigates the critical role he played in shaping the American Revolution with the use of espionage, deception, and intelligence operations. It initiates with a...

"George Rogers Clark and the Kaskaskia Campaign" recounts a pivotal episode in the American Revolutionary War. This historical account details the daring expedition led by George Rogers Clark to capture Kaskaskia and other British-held settlements in the Illinois Country. Clark's leadership and strategic brilliance...

This journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. Kept by Halder personally in shorthand it contains notes on conferences, memoranda, staff talks, lectures, reports, etc., as they occurred during his...

Delve into the mind of one of history's most controversial figures with "Oliver Cromwell's Letters And Speeches." This collection offers a unique window into the life, thoughts, and motivations of Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England. Featuring a comprehensive selection of his personal...

Just as an ichnolite is a fossil footprint...This Little Ichnolite of Mine fossilizes memories from a small town on the Mississippi River from 1950 to 1970.Martin Settle recounts a childhood in the woods and on the river, a Catholic education, humorous and morose, friends...

Septimius Severus was Rome's black emperor. Born in the blistering heat of a North African spring in Leptis Magna AD 145, he died in the freezing cold of a northern British winter in York in AD 211. A giant of an emperor, whose career...

A Walloon Family in America: Lockwood de Forest and his Forbears 1500-1848 chronicles the fascinating history of the de Forest family, tracing their roots from Europe to their establishment in America. Emily Johnston de Forest meticulously details the lineage of Lockwood de Forest, beginning...