War & Military
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912)
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William Howard Taft
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…
The Life of Frederick William von Steuben
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Friedrich Kapp
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
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Henry Baerlein
Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
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Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
The Western Boundary, and Other Essays
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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno
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Bernard C. Nalty
On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…
Our Air Force: The Keystone of National Defense
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William Lendrum Mitchell
William (Billy) Mitchell was a U.S. Army officer who, during World War I, came to command all U.S. Army air operations in France. He became …
The Capture of Fort William and Mary
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Charles Lathrop Parsons
The Capture of Fort William and Mary took place in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on December 14, 1774, when local Patriots led by John Langdon …
The Battle of Allatoona, October 5th, 1864
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William Ludlow
This is an account of the Union army's strategies and activities in protecting a Union garrison at Allatoona in Bartow Country, Georgia duri…
Up The Slot: Marines in the Central Solomons
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Charles D. Melson
In December that year (1942), patrol flights taking off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal and from the decks of U.S. fleet carriers in the…
A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
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Hugh Gibson
The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume V
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Mandell Creighton
In this volume of Creighton's history, the popes conduct themselves as Italian princes. Pope Alexander VI's daughter, Lucretia Borgia, becom…
With the New Army on the Somme: My Second Year of the War
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Frederick Palmer
Frederick Palmer was already an experienced war correspondent when World War I began in 1914, as he had previously covered six wars, beginni…
The British Soldier: His Courage And Humour
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Edward John Hardy
The Reverend Edward John Hardy, ordained in the Church Of Ireland, was a chaplain in the British army for thirty one years. His 1915 collec…
Yanks - A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) Verse from WWI
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Various
Introduced by Stars and Stripes editor, John T. Winterich (1891-1970) this is a compilation of poetry by members of the American Expeditiona…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume IV
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Mandell Creighton
Volume Four of Creighton's "History of the Papacy" opens with the election of Pope Paul II, whom the author describes as "a m…
Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons
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John C. Chapin
The objectives assigned on Bougainville were to seize a substantial beachhead and build airstrips. Then American planes could assure final n…
Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War
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Adelaide W. Smith
Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…
A Century of Dishonor
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Helen Hunt Jackson
In this work, a predecessor to "Ramona", HH describes the systematic process of segregation, dispossession, and relocation that Na…