History (Academic) Books
Lays of ancient Rome (1888)
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...
An introduction to American history; European beginnings (1914)
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 (1878)
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.
How a free people conduct a long war (1863)
Author: Stillé, Charles J. (Charles Janeway), 1819-1899 Subject: Peninsular War, 1807-1814
History of the Peloponnesian War (1840)
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...
History of ancient civilization (1906)
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...
History by illustration. General Zachary Taylor and the Mexican War (1911)
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850) was the 12th President of the United States (1849–1850) and an American military leader. Initially uninterested in politics, Taylor ran as a Whig in the 1848 presidential election, defeating Lewis Cass. He was a planter and slaveholder based in...
Egypt, ancient and modern (1857)
History of ancient and modern Egypt.
Ancient history (1904)
pt. 1. The Eastern nations.--pt. 2. Greece.--pt. 3. Rome.--pt. 4 The Romano-German or transition age.
A chronological table of universal history (1892)
Louis Heilprin (1851-1912) was a Hungarian American author, historian, and encyclopedia editor. He was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1851. His father, Michael, was also an encyclopedist and scholar of Hebrew history and literature and a follower of Lajos Kossuth. He had a brother Angelo who was a...