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Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, a Runaway Slave, from Kentucky: Containing an Account of His Three Escapes, in 1839, 1846, and 1848
J. D. (Jacob D.) Green
Driven by a fierce resolve to escape the lash, an enslaved man repeatedly risks his life to break free from the brutal plantation system of nineteenth-century Maryland and Kentucky.
Senatorial Character: A Sermon in West Church, Boston, Sunday, 15th of March, After the Decease of Charles Sumner
C. A. (Cyrus Augustus) Bartol
The sudden death of a towering American senator prompts a solemn Boston pulpit to reflect on what truly constitutes public greatness.
Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People: Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada
Ethel T. Raymond
Tecumseh spent his life defending the red man’s rightful home against relentless American expansion, rising from an orphaned Shawnee boy to the visionary commander of a great tribal confederacy.
The Life of Mr. Richard Savage: Who was Condemn'd with Mr. James Gregory, the last Sessions at the Old Baily, for the Murder of Mr. James Sinclair, at Robinson's Coffee-house at Charing-Cross
Unknown
A bastardized son of the nobility spends his youth cast off by his wealthy mother, turns to writing plays for bread, and suddenly finds himself sentenced to hang for a midnight tavern brawl.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 20: Milan
Giacomo Casanova
A glittering 18th-century world opens through the eyes of a self-styled nobleman whose currency is charm, cash, and sheer audacity. Every encounters—whether in highborn salons, gambling dens, or cheap inns—becomes a canvas for endless intrigue.
The Ways of War
Tom Kettle
A voice of fierce moral clarity challenges the idea that any nation can remain neutral when brute force threatens human freedom.
Why We Love Lincoln
James Creelman
Beneath the polished cynicism of modern power, an enduring love for an unadorned cabin boy reveals the true heart of the American experiment.
William Jennings Bryan: A Concise But Complete Story of His Life and Services
Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch
A modest Illinois lawyer moves to Nebraska, captures a national political party through sheer oratorical brilliance, and challenges the moneyed interests of a rapidly industrializing nation.
Capture and Escape: A Narrative of Army and Prison Life
John Azor Kellogg
A officer is dragged from the Virginia pine thickets into the dark heart of the Confederacy, where survival means picking locks with fingernails and trusting strangers in the night.
Here, There and Everywhere
Hamilton, Frederic, Lord
A globe-trotting British aristocrat recounts his worldwide wanderings, blending dry Victorian humor with vivid historical vignettes from Indian jungles to the Caribbean sea.
Lafayette in America in 1824 and 1825, Vol. 2 (of 2)
Auguste Levasseur
Crossing the young republic on foot, by carriage, and by riverboat, an aging French general completes his final pilgrimage across the nation he helped liberate, met everywhere by cheering crowds, living history, and the quiet weight of memory.
Robert Emmet: A Survey of His Rebellion and of His Romance
Louise Imogen Guiney
A brief, doomed flash of idealism collides with an unyielding state, transforming a failed insurrection into an enduring legend of romantic self-sacrifice.
Roger Williams
May Emery Hall
Driven out of 1630s Massachusetts for defending religious freedom and native land rights, one idealist braves the winter wilderness to establish a radical colony rooted in absolute liberty of conscience.
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II.: With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount
Duty and private devotion collide across sea and shore in a collection of wartime letters. Behind the grand triumphs of the Mediterranean fleet lies a messy, deeply human domestic reality.
The Life of David
Anonymous
An irreverent, iconoclastic eighteenth-century tract strips away pious tradition to examine the reign of Israel’s most famous monarch through a lens of unsparing political skepticism.
Life of St. Vincent de Paul
F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes
A shepherd boy from the French Landes rises through captivity, royal courts, and civil war to reshape European charity forever.
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq
Henry Hunt
An ambitious Wiltshire gentleman trades the comfortable routines of a country landowner for the perilous, high-stakes arena of early nineteenth-century political reform.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
A fallen emperor rides south through hostile towns in disguise while his former secretary measures the collapse of an empire from the post-office and police bureaus of Paris.
Thomas Hart Benton
Theodore Roosevelt
An ambitious Western politician fights to shape a expanding nation while defending a Union destined to tear itself apart over human bondage.