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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
A intimate, unvarnished look at a towering historical figure through the eyes of the secretary who stood beside him during his swift ascent to power.
Our campaign around Gettysburg: Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863
John Lockwood
A hastily assembled regiment of New York militia marches south into the summer heat of 1863, entering a landscape of rain, rumor, and impending battle.
Samuel Butler: A Sketch
Henry Festing Jones
A life of restless intellectual independence unfolds through a quiet, meticulously ordered existence in mid-Victorian London.
The autobiography of a seaman (volume 1 of 2)
Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
Courage on the high seas meets political betrayals at home as a fearless British naval captain exposes the deep systemic rot inside his own Admiralty.
The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott
William Hale White
An idealist's search for spiritual honesty leads him out of the narrow church of his youth and into the isolating realities of nineteenth-century London.
The Wentworth Letter
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
A young farm hand seeks religious truth, encounters heavenly messengers in upstate New York, unearths an ancient recorded history on golden plates, and constructs a resilient, rapidly spreading faith amidst relentless frontier persecution.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
A child's gaze rests upon a world where mechanical ponies, ancestral ghosts, and forest miracles belong to the very same landscape.
Cicero
W. Lucas (William Lucas) Collins
A statesman navigates the perilous collapse of a republic, wielding eloquent speech to fight political corruption, survive bloody purges, and construct an enduring philosophical legacy.
Company K, Twentieth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry: Roster and Record, April 24, 1861-July 16, 1865
Andrew Brown
One company of Midwestern volunteers leaves home in 1861, fighting through the bloody center of the American Civil War until its survivors return to farm, build, and age across the expanding nation.
Doing My Bit For Ireland
Margaret Skinnider
A woman rides into the fires of the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising, carrying a rifle and a camera. She leaves behind a vivid, unvarnished record of how a small band of rebels took on an empire.
History of "Billy the Kid"
Charles A. Siringo
Born in the New York slums and dead before twenty-two, Billy the Kid blazed a trail of cold-blooded kills and impossible escapes across the Southwest. Charles A. Siringo tells his story with the lean, unvarnished grit of a man who rode the same trails.
My empress
Marfa Mouchanow
An intimate, clear-eyed record of court life, this memoir follows Russia’s last Empress through the quiet friction, private griefs, and total political collapse that defined her reign.
Reminiscences of a student's life
Jane Ellen Harrison
A fierce, joyful appetite for knowledge powers this vivid memoir of an intellectual pioneer breaking free from Victorian constraints.
The Origin of the Red Cross: "Un souvenir de Solferino"
Henry Dunant
A single day of unimaginable slaughter in the hills of northern Italy becomes the catalyst for a global movement of mercy.
Presidential Candidates:: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860
D. W. (David W.) Bartlett
This collection of biographical sketches captures the political landscape of a nation on the precipice, profiling the ambitious men vying to lead a fractured United States toward the pivotal election of 1860.
Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy
John M. (John Mullin) Batten
A young naval surgeon encounters the quiet drudgery and sudden brutality of gunboat warfare along the muddy rivers of the Union blockade.
Sterne
H. D. (Henry Duff) Traill
An eccentric parson leaps overnight from Yorkshire obscurity to London fame, trailing a brilliant, rambling masterpiece, a scandalized clergy, and a chaotic life of misplaced sentiment.
The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
Anonymous
A young French widow forsakes her family, survives the wilderness, and establishes a lasting institutional foothold in the frozen frontier of New France.