Cryfris Llydaweg | History
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THIS ESSAY EXPLORES THREE POSSIBLE ORIGINS FOR THE CELTS: EURASIAN, BRETON AND SCYTHIAN.
Janet Harvey Kelman | History
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The stories in this book are of heroes who lived hundreds of years ago. They caught sight of a beautiful dream and lived and died to make it come true.
Walter McClintock | History
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In the spring of 1896 I went into northwestern Montana as a member of a Government expedition which was appointed by President Cleveland to recommend a national policy for the United States Forest Reserves and to advise the Secretary of the Interior as to the reserving of certain other forests.
James Green | History
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For reasons known to the men of the Australian Imperial Force, I am always interested in meeting others who wear the green badge on their arm. A good soldier is always as proud of the colours he wears on his shoulder as the colours he wears on his breast. He knows that each brigade and battalion possesses a soul of its own, and he is proud to...
Ward Moore | History
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Granpa lost an arm on the Great Retreat to Philadelphia after the fall of Washington to General Lee’s victorious Army of Northern Virginia, so his war ended some six months before the capitulation at Reading and the acknowledgment of the independence of the Confederate States on July 4, 1864. One-armed and embittered, Granpa came home to...
Charles H. Williams | History
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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.
George Waldo Browne | History
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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 of the narrative focuses on Mara’s efforts to...
Paul M. Hollister | History
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As I read in Mr. Hollister’s chapter on Mount Vernon of Washington’s long absence from the home he loved and of the eagerness with which he returned to it after the tumultuous years of the Revolutionary War, I was caught by the fancy that lovers of books have recently gone through a somewhat parallel experience.
Brand Whitlock | History
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The history of democracy’s progress in a mid-Western city—so, to introduce this book in specific terms, one perhaps inevitably must call it. Yet in using the word democracy, one must plead for a distinction, or, better, a reversion, indicated by the curious anchylosis that, at a certain point in their maturity, usually sets in upon words...
Winthrop Packard | History
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TO THE SUMMIT OF MOUNT WASHINGTON ANDOTHER SUMMITS OF THE WHITE HILLS
