"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech he made to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St....
INTRODUCTIONMARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa,...
The first victory by an Asian power over a European one since the Mongol invasions of the 13th Century: that's why the impact of the Russo-Japanese War, dated 1904-05, was so...
*** Premium Ebook ***Former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author, Elizabeth Keckley was the personal dressmaker for Mary Todd Lincoln. She was also...
In the following pages I have endeavoured to present an accurate picture of the Boers in war-time. My duties as a newspaper correspondent carried me to the Boer side, and herein I...
This book: "Hell" is the first part of Dante's epic poem entitled "the Divine Comedy". Is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. Is an allegory of life that...
Compiled from Statements and Documents furnished by Mr. Edward Carbery,Agent of the "Immigration Society of British Guiana," anda Proprietor in that Colony.
Three years of the Vietnam War. Three years of American history from 1965 to 1968 in nine chapters full of details and peculiar anecdotes. This book about the Vietnam War, written...
The book consists of three essays and is an extension of Freud’s work on psychoanalytic theory as a means of generating hypotheses about historical events. Freud hypothesizes...
In an anonymous eve, after a small accident in the home, the author is illuminated by an almost mystic revelation. Afterwards he started to understand the mystery of Alchemy, its...