Pamela Nagami
Some Famous Women
Louise Creighton (1850-1936) was a British author and women's rights activist. The wife of the Anglican bishop of London, she was the mother…
On the Nature of Things (Munro translation)
Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99-55 BC), the author of "De Rerum Natura" or "On the Nature of Things," was a Roman poet and …
Queen Elizabeth
"The Princess Elizabeth of England was born at Greenwich, between three and four of the afternoon of September 7, 1533. Her birth was a…
The Political History of France, 1789-1910
This little book opens on the eve of the French Revolution. The government is crippled by financial mismanagement, ruled by a King who, in t…
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst o…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
The Beginning of the Middle Ages
In 395 A.D. Theodosius, the last ruler of the undivided Roman Empire died. To his young and incompetent son, Honorius, he left the governmen…
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of t…
Wellington
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with…
Mazarin
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Thou…
William the Third
William Henry, Prince of Orange and Nassau, Dutch William to the English, was born in a state threatened by the military ambitions of Louis …
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded th…
The Roman Empire of the Second Century: Or, The Age of the Antonines
This short overview of the Roman Empire from AD 96-180 opens as the murderers of Domitian raise to power the wise old senator, Nerva. Ignori…
England Since Waterloo
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many edition…
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume I
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the d…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…
Seven Statesmen of the Later Republic
While there are many general histories of the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, the Oxford historian, Charles Oman, writes that his li…
The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)
This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…
Madame de Staël
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Pa…
Bismarck
Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) famously said, "The great questions of the day will not be settled by speeches or the decisions of the ma…