History (Academic) Books

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...

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...

History of ancient and modern Egypt.

pt. 1. The Eastern nations.--pt. 2. Greece.--pt. 3. Rome.--pt. 4 The Romano-German or transition age.

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...

Introduction, by S.L. Woodford.- History of former Cuban wars, by Carlos Garcia.- Cuba against Spain, 1895-1898, by Carlos Garcia.- The destruction of the Maine, by G.F.W. Holman.- The naval battle of Manilla Bay, by C.G. Calkins.- Statement of the sinking of the Merrimac, by Francis Kelly.- The...

John Fiske (March 30, 1842 – July 4, 1901) was an American philosopher and historian.

American History, second book (1763 TO THE Present Time), by Arthur C. Perry, Jr., Ph.D., District Superintendent of Schools New York City and Gertrude A. Price, teacher in Public School, New York City.

Six essays on government, society and freedom