Here is a partial list of the many works in our treasury. Ever want to read those great history books but never had the time? — Books by historians who are authorities on their topics? Here are selections from them, broken into 5 minute installments for easy reading.
NAME – – – SERIES
Norman Angell||Militarism Before World War I
Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné||The Peasants’ War in Germany
John S. Barry| |The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth, Massachusets
George Lewis Becke||Australia Discovered
Sir John G. Bourinot| |After the American Revolution, Wherse Did the Loyalists Go?
Peter Hume Brown||Scotland’s Presbyterian Reformation
Gilbert Burnet| |Monmouth’s Rebellion
Thomas Carlyle| |The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg| |John Knox and Scotland’s Reformation
Homersham Cox| |Early Christian Martyrs
Julian Corbett| |Drake Captures Cartegena; Raids Cadiz
Sir Edward Creasy| |The Battle of Blenheim| |Defeat of the Spanish Armada| |Battle of Metaurus
Eyre Evans Crowe| |The War of the Flemings with Philip the Fair of France
Jefferson Davis| |Confederate Government’s Last Days
Henry B. Dawson| |California Acquired by the United States
George R. Fairbanks| |Spain’s First Settlements in Florida
George Finlay| |Roger Ravages the Byzantine Empire
George Friedman| |Pondering Hitler’s Legacy
Jean Froissart| |The Jacquerie Rebellion
Edward Gibbon| |Constantinople Founded| |Justinian Code Published
Genevieve Grandcourt| |The “Immortality” of Tissues
John R. Green| |Henry VIII Causes Himself to be Head of the Church of England
George Grote| |Solon’s Early Greek Legislation
François P. G. Guizot| |The February 1848 Revolution In France
Henriette Guizot de Witt| |The February 1848 Revolution In France
Henry Hallam| |The End of the Star Chamber
James Halliwell-Phillipps| |Hamlet, Drama’s Apex
Arthur Helps| |Atlantic Slavery Begins
William Inglis| |The Sinking of the Titanic
Walter Jeffrey| |Australia Discovered
Edward Jenks| |Gold Discovered in Australia
William H. Jervis| |Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
Nikolay M. Karamzin| |The Cossacks Conquer Siberia
Charles Knight| |England Looses Her Last French Territory
Ring Lardner| |From the Early Days of Baseball
Stephen Leacock| |Union of South Africa Formed
R. Legendre||Alexis Carrel Transplants Blood Vessels and Organs
Henry George Liddell| |Death of Antony and Cleopatra
Father John Lingard| |Becket’s Murder
George C. Macaulay| |Herodotus’ Histories (translator)
Thomas Macaulay| |The End of the Star Chamber
Alexander Slidell Mackenzie| |“I Have Not Yet Begun to Fight!”
Justin McCarthy||Earls Flee Ireland
Jules Michelet||Joan of Arc’s Trial and Execution
Henry Hart Milman| |Solomon Builds the Great Temple||England Expels the Jews
James Cotter Morison| |Louis XIV Establishes Absolute Monarchy in France
Napoleon III| |Caesar Conquers Gaul
John Cardninal Newman||Christianity Appears
Francis Parkman||France in Canada
Polycarp| |Letter to the Phillippians
Leopold von Ranke||Prussia Proclaimed a Kingdom
J. Ernest Renan||Christianity Appears
William Robertson| |The Peace of Augsburg and the Abdication of Charles V
Réné François Rohrbacher| |Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
Edgar Sanderson||Abd-el-Kader and France’s Conquest of Algeria
Sir Walter Scott| |Napoleon’s First Campaign
Henry I. Shaw, Jr.||Marines Land on Guadalcanal
W. Morgan Shuster| |The Strangling of Persia
Oliphant Smeaton| |Lorenzo de Medici and Florence’s Renaissance
Tobias G. Smollott| |The Siege of Londonderry and the Battle of the Boyne
William Smyth| |Prussia Invades Silesia
Hatton Turner||First Balloon Ascension
Sir Adolphus W. Ward||The Council of Trent and the Counter-Reformation
Warren Commission||President Kennedy’s Assassination
Henry White||The Saint Bartholomew Day Massacre
Isaac M. Wise||Christianity Appears
James Talboys Wheeler| |Akbar Establishes the Moghul Empire In India
P.F. Willert| |Burgundy’s Zenith
And if you’re now ready to try an entire book, then get one from our Basic History Library (free).
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