History
9 worksHistories, eyewitness accounts and reflections on the people and events that shaped the past.
The History of the Peloponnesian War (Greek: Ἱστορίαι, "Histories") is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League…
Hume's history of England from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the Revolution of 1688, written backwards: first the Stuarts (1754–57), then the Tudors (1759), then the earlier history from the Britons and Romans to…
Eighty-five papers written in New York in 1787 and 1788 to win the state's ratification of the new Constitution: the dangers of disunion, the defects of the Articles of Confederation, and a defence of the proposed…
Having entered the British Navy at the age of twelve, Horatio Lord Nelson achieved the rank of captain at the age of twenty. As captain, he was quickly recognized as a magnetic and controversial figure.
Translated from the German by Oswald Charles Wood, M. D.
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, is a collection of six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840.
Blood's lecture on Napoleon, printed privately at Amsterdam, New York, in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War: a rhapsodic life of “the Soldier of Destiny” from Corsica to St.
Specimen Days first appeared in 1882 within a volume entitled Specimen Days & Collect, published by Rees Welsh and Company in Philadelphia.