History (Academic) Books

A Survey of American History : source extracts.

"The present volume consists of the first half of my second revised 'General history', with merely such changes in a few matters of detail as were necessary in order to make the book independent of the last half of that work, which part is to be issued as a separate volume unrer the title of "A...

The Cuban-Spanish war -- The Greek-Turkish war -- The Spanish-American war -- The South African war -- The Japanese-Russian war -- A war correspondent's kit

Author: Frothingham, Thomas Goddard, 1865-1937 Subject: World War, 1914-1918, Naval operations

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay PC (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British poet, historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer, and on British history. He also held political office as Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841 and...

Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868.Much of the material has been drawn from the author's earlier book, "European beginnings of American history." As in that work English history has been made the basis of the narrative wherever possible.

Illustrated Universal History, a clear and concise history of all nations, with a full history of The United States to the close of de first 100 years National Independence.

Author: Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway), 1819-1899 Subject: Peninsular War, 1807-1814

Thucydides (c. 460 – c. 395 BC) was a Greek historian and author from Alimos. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history", because of his strict standards of...

Charles-Victor Langlois (May 26, 1863, in Rouen - June 25, 1929, in Paris) was a French historian and paleographer, who specialized in the study of the Middle Ages and taught at the Sorbonne. Langlois attended the École Nationale des Chartes and earned a doctorate in history in 1887. He taught...