History Books
Woman in the Golden Ages
A look back at prominent women of history, their power, their elegance, their beauty, and role in history.
Cavalry Curt: Or, The Wizard Scout of the Army
This juvenile dime novel, first published in 1892, tells the story of “Cavalry Curt,” a Union scout trying to survive in Confederate territory during Sherman’s March to the Sea, and Mara Morland, a young woman whose brother is both a Confederate soldier and an old school friend of Curt. Much...
Origins of the Celts
THIS ESSAY EXPLORES THREE POSSIBLE ORIGINS FOR THE CELTS: EURASIAN, BRETON AND SCYTHIAN.
A Gringo in Mañana-Land
This book covers various random wanderings in Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. It deals with a romance or two, a revolution or so, and a hodge-podge of personal experience. The incidents of the earlier chapters precede, while those of the later ones follow, the...
Sidelights on Negro Soldiers
Published in 1923, Williams discusses the conditions that black soldiers in the United States dealt with during the first world war. Williams also discusses camp life, pay, the 92nd and 93rd Divisions and time in Europe.
The Desclergues of la Villa Ducal de Montblanc
This 1384 pages book describes the history of the Desclergue family of Montblanc in Tarragona, Spain. A lot of attention is paid to their role in the 80 year war in the Netherlands and how the family migrated to Flanders.
The Moon: A Popular Treatise
The reader familiar with astronomical literature will doubtless remark a certain resemblance between the plan on which this book is written and that of Fontenelle’s “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds,” a French classic of the eighteenth century. The author freely acknowledges that it...
Historical Characters in the Reign of Queen Anne
THE reign of Queen Anne is one of the most illustrious in English history. In literature it has been common to call it the Augustan age. In politics it has all the interest of a transition period, less agitating, but not less important, than the actual era of revolution. In war, it is, with the...
The Passing of Morocco
For several years I had been watching Morocco as a man who follows the profession of ‘Special Correspondent’ always watches a place that promises exciting ‘copy.’ For many years trouble had been brewing there. On the Algerian frontier tribes were almost constantly at odds with the French...
The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books
There is no place in the world of which it is less necessary to attempt description (or of which so many descriptions have been attempted) than the once capital of that world, the supreme and eternal city, the seat of empire, the home of the conqueror, the greatest human centre of power and...