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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan CivilizationsBeacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan CivilizationsIt has been my object in these Lectures to give the substance of accepted knowledge pertaining to the leading events and characters of history; and in treating such a variety of subjects, extending over a...
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A Child's Anti-Slavery BookA Child's Anti-Slavery Book - Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and StoriesThe facts narrated in the following pages occurred in St. Louis a few years ago. They were communicated to the author by a friend residing temporarily in that city. On...
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Journals of Australian ExplorationsJournals of Australian ExplorationsNumerous inquiries having been made for copies of the Journals of the Explorations by the Messrs. Gregory in the Western, Northern, and Central portions of Australia, and as these journals have hitherto only been partially published in a fragmentary form, and...
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The Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery MeetingsThe Anti-Slavery Harp: A Collection of Songs for Anti-Slavery MeetingsThe demand of the public for a cheap Anti-Slavery Song-Book, containing Songs of a more recent composition, has induced me to collect together, and present to the public, the songs contained in this book. In...
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The Peace Negotiations: A Personal NarrativeThe Peace Negotiations: A Personal NarrativeDeparture of Colonel House for Paris to represent the President on Supreme War Council October 17, 1918 Departure of President and American Commission for France December 4, 1918 Arrival of President and American Commission in Paris December 14, 1918...
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From Yauco to Las MariasFrom Yauco to Las Marias - A recent campaign in Puerto Rico by the Independent Regular Brigade under the command of Brig. General SchwanI have ventured to set down in this place the following bald and brief items of our recent history, not because...
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Wyandotté Or, The Hutted Knoll: A TaleWyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A TaleThe history of the borders is filled with legends of the sufferings of isolated families, during the troubled scenes of colonial warfare. Those which we now offer to the reader, are distinctive in many of their leading facts,...
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Thirty Years a SlaveThirty Years a Slave - From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of Louis Hughes The institution of human slavery, as it existed in this country, has long been dead;...
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The Crisis of the Naval WarThe Crisis of the Naval WarOwing to the peculiar nature and demands of naval warfare, but few dispatches, corresponding to those describing the work and achievements of our great armies, were issued during the progress of the war. In a former volume I attempted...
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Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington JailPersonal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail - Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl Title: Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months...
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'Twixt France and Spain Or, A Spring in the Pyrenees'Twixt France and Spain; Or, A Spring in the PyreneesIt has been my endeavour in this volume to provide an illustrated gossiping Guide to the Spas of the Pyrenees. Unlike previous books on the same region, it deals with the resorts in spring, when...
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The Real America in Romance, Volume 6A Century Too Soon: The Age of TyrannyHistorians have bestowed little attention to that important period in our great commonwealth, just after the restoration in England. Though one hundred years before liberty was actually obtained, the sleeping goddess seemed to have opened her eyes...
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Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 03Histoire de la Révolution française, Tome 03Tandis que les armes franaises arrtaient la marche des coaliss, Paris tait toujours dans le trouble et la confusion. On a dj t tmoin des dbordemens de la commune, des fureurs si prolonges de septembre, de l'impuissance des...
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Le Pays de l'orLe Pays de l'orIl tait haut de taille et blond de cheveux; sa figure frache et fine, avec quelque chose de rveur dans l'expression, paraissait indiquer un caractre trs-doux, quoique l'clat de ses yeux bleus accust une certaine force d'me ou du moins une...
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Memoir of William Watts McNair, Late of "Connaught House," Mussooree, of the Indian Survey Department, the First European Explorer of KafiristanMemoir of William Watts McNair, Late of "Connaught House," Mussooree, of the Indian Survey Department, the First European Explorer of Kafiristan Title: Memoir of William Watts McNair, Late of "Connaught House," Mussooree, of the Indian Survey Department, the First European Explorer of Kafiristan Author:...
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The History of a CrimeThe History of a Crime - The Testimony of an Eye-Witness On December 1, 1851, Charras1 shrugged his shoulder and unloaded his pistols. In truth, the belief in the possibility of a coup d'tat had become humiliating. The supposition of such illegal violence on...
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American Indian StoriesAmerican Indian StoriesA wigwam of weather-stained canvas stood at the base of some irregularly ascending hills. A footpath wound its way gently down the sloping land till it reached the broad river bottom; creeping through the long swamp grasses that bent over it on...
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The Real America in Romance, Volume XSustained honor: The Age of Liberty EstablishedWritten history is generally too scholastic to interest the great mass of readers. Dignified and formal, it deals mainly with great events, and often imperfectly with these, because, not pausing to present clear impression by the associations of...
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Freedom's BattleFreedom's Battle - Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present SituationIt is said that we, too, are on the road to freedom, that it is better to be on the certain though slow course of gradual unfoldment of freedom than...
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Sketches of the East Africa CampaignSketches of the East Africa CampaignThese sketches of General Smuts' campaign of 1916 in German East Africa, do not presume to give an accurate account of the tactical or strategical events of this war. The actual knowledge of the happenings of war and of...
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