History - Essays

Was Abraham Lincoln influenced by communism when the Union condemned the rights of Southern states to express their independence? It's shocking to think so. But that's precisely what Walter D. Kennedy and Al Benson Jr. assert in Red Republicans and Lincoln's Marxists. The pair...

In The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers from Smithsonian Books, historian Thomas Fleming, author of The Perils of Peace, offers a fresh look at the critical role of women in the lives of Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison. Fleming nimbly takes...

Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words.Now...

Cynical, crafty, and beholden to no man, Bart Kennedy roamed free of the burdens of society. Bart Kennedy's 1908 A Tramp's Philosophy was written as a distillation of his ideas and experiences into a concept for living. He includes insights on everything from religion...

A collection of essays by FEE President Lawrence W. Reed and historian Burton W. Folsom, Jr. that surveys the economic history of the United States and the modern world. Along the way, they dismiss commonly-held fallacies and present the stories of the individuals who...

Thomas Carlyle was a 19th century Scottish philosopher and historian. Carlyle was also one of the great social commentators of his time.Author: Thomas CarlyleISBN-10: 1515096114ISBN-13: 9781515096115Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2015Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.23d

The Story of Penelope Stout is a historical book written by Thomas Hale Streets in 1897. The book revolves around the life of Penelope Stout, who was a prominent figure in the early colonial period of America. The author has verified the events and...

English landscape painting is often said to be an eighteenth-century invention, yet when we look for representations of the countryside in British art and literature, we find a story that begins with Old English poetry and winds its way through history, all the way...

Part of Belt's City Anthology Series. "A strong series of personal essays, historical exploration, nature writing, and photography. ... Love's anthology gathers [Gary's] resilience without shying away from the city's hard realities."―Chicago Review of BooksOnce the second-largest city in Indiana, and home to the...

Author: Wendy EpsteinISBN-10: 1947237071ISBN-13: 9781947237070Publisher: Nodin PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2018Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 9.40h x 8.50w x 0.90d

Racist physicist Albert Einstein became internationally famous in 1919 when newspapers around the world reported that he had correctly predicted that the gravitational field of the sun would deflect rays of light. The press promoted the virulently racist and segregationist Zionist, Albert Einstein, as...

A reading of this work on "The founding myths of the policy of Israel" must not engender any religious or political confusion.Criticism of the Zionist interpretation of the Torah and of the "historical books" (especially those of Joshua, Samuel and Kings) in no way...

For the full course of his remarkable career, Gary Snyder has continued his study of Eastern culture and philosophies. From the Ainu to the Mongols, from Hokkaido to Kyoto, from the landscapes of China to the backcountry of contemporary Japan, from the temples of...

Short Sermons To News Boys: With A History Of The Formation Of The News Boys������� Lodging House is a book written by Charles Loring Brace in 1866. The book is a collection of short sermons that were originally delivered to newsboys in New York...

The Marvelous History of St. Bernard is a book written by Henri Gheon that tells the story of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a twelfth-century French abbot and theologian who played a significant role in the history of the Catholic Church. The book is a...

The History of Merthyr Tydfil is a book written by Charles Wilkins, first published in 1908. The book provides a comprehensive account of the history of Merthyr Tydfil, a town located in South Wales, from its earliest days to the early 20th century. The...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1885 Edition.Author: Aleander del MarISBN-10: 1498062687ISBN-13: 9781498062688Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.49lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.81d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1831 Edition.Author: Charles W. UphamISBN-10: 1498015115ISBN-13: 9781498015110Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 290Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.61d

""The History Of The Popes From The Foundations Of The See Of Rome To The Present Time V4"" is a comprehensive book written by Archibald Bower. It covers the history of the popes from the beginning of the Roman Catholic Church up to the...

... has captured that essence, that uniqueness, that Americanness, that very humanity and universality of Hannibal, Missouri and the person and works of Mark Twain in his poetry. And it truly was a pleasure to curl up in my Barcalounger and immerse myself in...

Take another walk down memory lane to the old Bronx with the late historian, Bill Twomey. The first volume of The Bronx, In Bits and Pieces held stories of taverns and restaurants, sports, the shoreline, schools, places of worship, monuments, notable people, and more....

Stirring Times in Austria is a classic historical essay by Mark Twain. Here in Vienna in these closing days of 1897 one's blood gets no chance to stagnate. The atmosphere is brimful of political electricity. All conversation is political; every man is a battery,...

Excerpt from Latter-Day Pamphlets: Translations From Musaeus, Tieck, Richter The following Occasional Discourse, delivered by we know not whom, and of date seemingly above a year back, may perhaps be welcome to here and there a speculative reader. It comes to us, - no...

A New York Times Bestseller A timely collection of speeches by David McCullough, the most honored historian in the United States--winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, two National Book Awards, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among many others--that reminds us of fundamental American principles....

In this beautifully designed volume, America's top Lincoln historians offer a diverse array of perspectives on the life and legacy of America's sixteenth president. Spanning Lincoln's life -- from his early career as a Springfield lawyer, to his presidential reign during one of America's...

It has been two decades since Yugoslavia fell apart. The brutal conflicts that followed its dissolution are over, but the legacy of the tragedy continues to unsettle the region. Reconciliation is a long and difficult process that necessitates a willingness to work together openly...

The Austrian writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874-1929) was one of the great modernists in the German language, but his importance as a major intellectual of the early twentieth century has not received adequate attention in the English-speaking world. One distinguished literary scholar of his...

MacArthur's supremacy as a true conversationalist is readily documented. This work on the wisdom and sayings of MacArthur is presented as a new-classicist document in that almost every item listed came from the mouth of General MacArthur and from his writings. He wrote almost...

A one-of-a-kind exploration of the 19th century that ties the time period to our own through essays on a variety of topics in music, film, literature, and art. In Gaslight, Joachim Kalka delves into the mythos of the nineteenth century, exploring our fascination with...

Sixteen senior scholars of American Jewish history-among the men and women whose work and advocacy have moved their discipline into the mainstream of academia-converse on the intellectual and personal roads they have traveled in becoming leaders in their areas of expertise. Through their thoughtful...

The product of over thirty years of research on the American Civil War by Italy's most renowned authority on the subject, this study synthetically analyzes the great drama that from 1861 to 1865 devastated the United States and gave life to the modern American...

Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press in 1996, a big volume collecting all his shorter writings organized by subject. The themes he chose reflected his lifelong concerns: war, history, law, class, means and ends, and...

Now that we've pretty much ruined planet Earth--no big secret--science tells us the human race could be doomed. Well, not all science, but some of it, enough to have sparked a lively interest in setting up someplace else. But where? The answer is the...

The debate between Marxism and Anarchism is decades old. It is no accident that when the class struggle again boils to the surface this debate is revived. This collection of classic and contemporary writings will go a long way toward clarifying the Marxist perspective...

"Lebowitz highlights the parables, fables and myths we humans created in order to weave meaning into our lives and to which we return for comfort." --Atlantic Books TodayOn April 10th, 1815, Indonesia's Mount Tambora erupted. The resulting build-up of ash in the stratosphere altered...

The ten essays assembled in this volume represent the fruit of fifty years of research and study in the fields of Jewish history and World history. They show that the Jewish people has played a progressive role in world history, a role which grew...

Though a relatively small town, Sag Harbor on the East End ofLong Island, New York, has a fascinating history. Members ofthe Algonquin Indian tribe lived and summered here thousandsof years ago. English colonists arrived nearby in 1645, found thesoil ideal for farming and established...

A collection of essays spans the tumultuous decade from 1968, the year of the San Francisco State University strike, to 1978 and the twin traumas of the Jonestown massacre and the assassinations of mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk. This volume provides a...

Oswald Mosley was possibly the most controversial politician of the twentieth century. Many believe he was the greatest thinker of his age, he was certainly the finest orator of his generation. After service in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War, he...

Zionists have always employed the bogey of "anti-Semitism" to force Jews into segregation. After thousands of years of planning and work, the Jewish bankers had finally accumulated enough wealth to buy Palestine and destroy the Gentile world in fulfillment of Jewish Messianic prophecy. They...

The First World War emancipated the Jews of Russia. Turkey and Germany were greatly weakened and were further crippled by unjust debts placed on them through treacherous treaties. Jews in Eastern Europe were segregated and seemed ready for emigration to Palestine--though most did not...

Germany had been very good to the Jews. German Jews were the wealthiest people in the world. In the years following the First World War, the Germans resented the fact that the Jews, Einstein being their chief spokesman, had stabbed the Germans in the...

A new paperback edition of the well-known study by the leading international expert on wealth formation and the wealthy in the 19th and 20th centuries in Britain. It is the first book by a historian to analyse who were the very rich. Until very...

The Sasanian Empire (3rd -7th centuries) was one of the largest empires of antiquity, stretching from Mesopotamia to modern Pakistan and from Central Asia to the Arabian Peninsula. This mega-empire withstood powerful opponents in the steppe and expanded further in Late Antiquity, whilst the...

A panoramic collection of essays written by both established and emerging scholars, American Discord examines critical aspects of the Civil War era, including rhetoric and nationalism, politics and violence, gender, race, and religion. Beginning with an overview of the political culture of the 1860s,...

Despite the catch-cry bandied about after the Holocaust, "Never Again", genocides continue to destroy cultures and communities around the globe.In this collection of essays, Australian scholars discuss the crime of genocide, examining regimes and episodes that stretch across time and geography. Included are discussions...

Three-time nationally syndicated columnist Vox Day has been one of the most astute observers of the American political scene since the turn of the century. Known for successfully predicting the financial crisis of 2008 as well as the election of U.S. President Donald Trump...

For almost three years, novelist and short-story writer Lawrence Block's monthly column, "Generally Speaking," was one of the most popular features in Linn's Stamp News. A general collector of pre-1940 issues, Block had the entire world of stamps as his subject, and he turned...

This is a reprint of the second volume in the Ulster Historical Foundation's Historical Series, which was first published in 1969. These five essays were delivered as lectures at a conference on the Scotch-Irish held in Belfast in 1965. This edition contains an introduction...

Guido de Ruggiero (1888-1948) was perhaps the greatest Italian intellectual historian in the twentieth century. He was a fierce champion of liberalism, an ardent opponent of Fascism, an insightful critic and interpreter of his contemporaries, and a formidable philosopher in his own right. Idealism...