William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a black civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar.
Edward Everett Hale's The Man Without a Country is a timeless tale of patriotism, redemption, and the profound human need for connection and belonging.
Sir,—The enclosed ancient manuscript I found some years ago in a grocer’s shop in this town, of whom I obtained it with a view of saving what remained from destruction.
St, John (Crevec ur) wrote these "e;Letters"e; during a period of seven years prior to the American Revolutionary War, while farming land near Orange County, New York.
In his autobiography Mark Twain tells his story in his own way, freely expressing his joys and sorrows, his affections and hatreds, his rages and reverence-ending, as always, tongue-in-cheek: Now, then, that is the tale.
THE BLAZING BESTSELLER BY THE GREATEST NAME IN WESTERN FICTIONFrom the deep wild gorges of the sinister Mogollons in the north, down to the shimmering wastes of the Painted Desert, the rustlers murdered and robbed-while Arizona seethed dangerously.
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
Klondike Mike: An Alaskan Odyssey is Merrill Denison's 1943 biography of Mike Ambrose Mahoney, a Canadian who travelled to the North in 1897 in search of gold and adventure.
In Henty''s words, "The Great War between the Northern and Southern States of America possesses a peculiar interest for us, not only because it was a struggle between two sections of a people akin to us in race and language, but because of the heroic courage with which the weaker party, with ill-fed, ill-clad, ill-equipped regiments, for four years sustained the contest with the adversary.
Geronimo's Story of His Life (Illustrated Edition) is a captivating autobiographical account of the famed Chiricahua Apache warrior Geronimo, detailing his life and struggles as a Native American leader during the turbulent late 19th century.
The Internal Threat to the American Way of Life was a talk given by Ezra Taft Benson at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California on December 11, 1961.
"e;THERE is no more agreeable mode of passing a day, and thereby breaking in upon the tedium of a long summer's residence in Charleston, than taking advantage occasionally of the opportunity now afforded for a weekly excursion on Cooper River.
Francisco Carrera y Jústiz identificó en La Constitución de Cuba y el problema municipal los problemas de la sociedad civil cubana desde la época colonial hasta principios del siglo XX.
In 1926, on the advice of his doctor, former newspaperman William Caruthers, whose writings appeared in most Western magazines during a career spanning more than 25 years, retired to an orange grove near Ontario, California.
