History books

Discover the Hidden Heart of Europe. Slovakia is often the ""drive-through"" country of Central Europe-a blur of...  Read More >>

One of the most dramatic tales from early pioneer America, the story of Tom Quick and his one-man war against the...  Read More >>

Aberdeen Travel and Tourism, Scotland. Travel and Tourism, History, People and Culture, Attraction Discovery. Aberdeen...  Read More >>

Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) was an English poet, biographer, and journalist, born in London....  Read More >>

Bartolomé de las Casas (11 November 1484 - 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish landowner, friar, priest, and...  Read More >>

Frank William Boreham OBE (3 March 1871, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England - 18 May 1959, Melbourne, Victoria) was...  Read More >>

Ernest Alexander ""E. A."" Cruikshank FRSC (29 June 1853 - 23 June 1939), was a Canadian Brigadier General, a historian...  Read More >>

This commentary on Galatians was composed by St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407), the great preacher of Constantinople,...  Read More >>

Sketches of Etruscan Places and other Italian Essays, or Etruscan Places, is a collection of travel writings by...  Read More >>

The resurrection from death is a strong component of the Christian faith, which the Nicene Creed, affirms stating:...  Read More >>

Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (born Robindronath Thakur, 7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquets Gurudev, was a Bengali...  Read More >>

Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1 July 1804 - 8 June 1876), best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist,...  Read More >>

St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395 AD), the great theologian and bishop Nyssa, turned his considerable skill to finishing...  Read More >>

Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known in English as George Santayana (1863 - 1952), was a philosopher,...  Read More >>

Alfred the Great (848 - 899) was a king in West Saxon and then the first king of the Anglo-Saxons, king of Britain....  Read More >>

These meditations were originally composed in the 18th century by St. Alphonsus Liguori(1696 - 1787), a Catholic...  Read More >>

St. Gregory of Nazianzus (329 - 390, also known as Gregory the Theologian or Gregory Nazianzen) held the important...  Read More >>

""Those who were in Dublin on Easter Monday 1916 were privileged to witness a scene which for dramatic setting and...  Read More >>

Basil Valentine is the Anglicised version of the name Basilius Valentinus, ostensibly a 15th-century alchemist,...  Read More >>

""What constitutes a precious stone is the question which, at the onset, rises in the mind, and this question, simple...  Read More >>

The Apostolic Constitutions are made up of eight treatises covering the early church's discipline, worship, and...  Read More >>

John McAllister Schofield (1831-1906) was an American soldier who held major commands during the American Civil...  Read More >>

This short treatise was composed by Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; 155 - 240 AD) on how Christians...  Read More >>

Chauncey Mitchell Depew (April 23, 1834 - April 5, 1928) was an attorney for Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad interests,...  Read More >>

St. Irenaeus, the bishop of Lyon, France wrote Against Heresies in 180 AD. It is a collected work made up of 5 books,...  Read More >>