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Early Days Of Old Oregon

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Katharine Berry Judson



Twenty-three stories of the history of early Oregon plus an appendix: A Brief Summary Of The History Of The Old Oregon Country From Original…

The Romance of Missionary Heroism

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John C Lambert and John C. Lambert



The title page gives this book the subtitle, “True stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized …

What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin



In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Great Pirate Stories

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Joseph Lewis French



Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

The Life of Alfred the Great

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Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser



A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…

Great Moments in History

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John G. Stockmyer



Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…

The Colored Cadet at West Point

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Henry Ossian Flipper



Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…

Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale, pour l'abolition de la traite des Noirs

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Société Des Amis Des Noirs, Société Des Amis Des Noirsandjacques Pierre Brissot De Warville and Société Des Amis Des Noirs And Jacques Pierre Brissot De Warville



La Société des Amis des Noirs est une association créée le 19 février 1788 qui avait pour but l'abolition…

Römische Geschichte Buch 2

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Theodor Mommsen



Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Zweites BuchVon der Abschaffung des…

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

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Charles Waddell Chesnutt



Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (version 2)

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Abner Doubleday



Abner Doubleday was a busy man. He rose to be a major general during the American Civil War, started the first cable car company in San Fran…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1C

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David Hume



David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

War

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Pierre Loti



Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a s…

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences

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Sir John Barrow



The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

Recollections of Bush Life in Australia

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Henry William Haygarth



This was written in the mid 1800’s at time when Australia saw an influx of immigration from Europe and when England was sending some prisone…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of A…

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Stephen Leacock



This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …

South African Memories

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Lady Sarah Wilson



Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War

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Eugenia Dunlap Potts



While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An int…

In the Field (1914-1915)

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Marcel Dupont



I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of…

The Child's Book of American Biography

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Mary Stoyell Stimpson



In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …

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