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Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917Why We Are at War : Messages to the Congress January to April 1917 Messages to the Congress January to April, 1917 by Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, with the Presidents proclamation of war April 6, 1917 and his message to the...
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Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in CanadaWhy and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in CanadaIt has been said "Woman has a capacity for suffering," and during all the years of the past, in all countries and among all nations, woman has been proving this...
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Chronicles of Canada series: Volume 10The Passing of New France : a Chronicle of Montcalm 'War is the grave of the Montcalms.' No one can tell how old this famous saying is. Perhaps it is as old as France herself. Certainly there never was a time when the men...
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Four YearsFour Years At the end of the eighties my father and mother, my brother and sisters and myself, all newly arrived from Dublin, were settled in Bedford Park in a red-brick house with several wood mantlepieces copied from marble mantlepieces by the brothers Adam,...
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Indian Games : an historical researchIndian Games : an historical research"There are," says Father Brebeuf in his account of what was worthy of note among the Hurons in 1636, [Footnote: Relations des Jesuites, Quebec, 1858, p. 113.] "three kinds of games particularly in vogue with this people; cross, platter,...
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The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 The materials for the descriptions of the Negro and Doctors' Riots were gathered from the Archives of the Historical Society; those of the immediately succeeding ones, from the press of the times. For the scenes...
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Anne Bradstreet and Her TimeAnne Bradstreet and Her TimeGrave doubts at times arise in the critical mind as to whether America has had any famous women. We are reproached with the fact, that in spite of some two hundred years of existence, we have, as yet, developed no...
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My Lady of the NorthMy Lady of the North It was a bare, plain interior,the low table at which he sat an unplaned board, his seat a box, made softer by a folded blanket. His only companions were two aides, standing silent beside the closed entrance, anxious to...
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Mosaics of Grecian HistoryMosaics of Grecian HistoryThe leading object had in view in the preparation of the present volume has been to produce, within a moderate compass, a History of Greece that shall not only be trustworthy, but interesting to all classes of readers. It must be...
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The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its CivilizationThe Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.I propose to describe the Greatness and the Misery of the old Roman world; nor is there any thing in history more suggestive and instructive. A little city, founded by robbers on the...
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Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03As in the various affairs of the world each thing strives for its perfection and the preservation of its being, so on the other hand does man interest himself in the different concerns of others on some...
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Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812In this short story an attempt has been madewith what success the reader must judgeto present certain phases of Canadian life during the heroic struggle against foreign invasion, which first stirred in...
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Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 PERHAPS it is not necessary to say that the events mentioned in the letters are not imaginaryperhaps the letters themselves tell that! They are truthful accounts of experiences that came into my own life with the Army...
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The Life of Abraham LincolnThe Life of Abraham LincolnThe question will naturally be raised, Why should there be another Life of Lincoln? This may be met by a counter question, Will there ever be a time in the near future when there will not be another Life of...
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Christopher ColumbusChristopher ColumbusWhatever can be known of earth we know, Sneered Europe's wise men, in their snail shells curled; No! said one man in Genoa, and that No Out of the dark created the New World. Spain, as every one knows, was the country behind...
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Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01A generation born since Abraham Lincoln died has already reached manhood and womanhood. Yet there are millions still living who sympathized with him in his noble aspirations, who labored with him in his toilsome life, and whose hearts...
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Woman on the American FrontierWoman on the American Frontier - A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic"The history of our race is the record mainly of men's achievements, in war, in...
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Pickle the Spy Or, the Incognito of Prince CharlesPickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince CharlesThis woful History began in my study of the Pelham Papers in the Additional Manuscripts of the British Museum. These include the letters of Pickle the Spy and of James Mohr Macgregor. Transcripts of them were...
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General History for Colleges and High SchoolsGeneral History for Colleges and High SchoolsThis volume is based upon my Ancient History and Medival and Modern History. In some instances I have changed the perspective and the proportions of the narrative; but in the main, the book is constructed upon the same...
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Algonquin Legends of New EnglandAlgonquin Legends of New EnglandAmong the six chief divisions of the red Indians of North America the most widely extended is the Algonquin. This people ranged from Labrador to the far South, from Newfoundland to the Rocky Mountains, speaking forty dialects, as the Hon....
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