History books

Frank Dilnot (1875-1946) was an English author and journalist, born in Hampshire. He was educated privately and...  Read More >>

George Bouchier Worgan (May 1757 - 4 March 1838) was an English naval surgeon who accompanied the First Fleet to...  Read More >>

St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407), was one of the most important Early Church Fathers, who served first as priest...  Read More >>

Ethel Mary Partridge, Ethel Mary Mairet RDI, or Ethel Mary Coomaraswamy (17 February 1872 - 18 November 1952) was...  Read More >>

Frederic Kidder (April 16, 1804 - December 19, 1885) was an American author and antiquarian. He was born in New...  Read More >>

Lucy Ann Delaney, born Lucy Berry (c. 1830 - after 1891), was an African-American author, and activist, a former...  Read More >>

Alphonsus Liguori CSsR (1696-1787) was an Italian Catholic bishop and spiritual writer. He founded the order of...  Read More >>

Dionysius the Areopagite was a well-known first-century judge from the Areopagus Court in Athens, Greece. He famously...  Read More >>

Mary Augusta Ward CBE (née Arnold; 11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920) was a British novelist who wrote under her married...  Read More >>

In the 4th-century, St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407), the great preacher of Byzantine Constantinople, delivered these...  Read More >>

George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in...  Read More >>

In the 4th-century, this set of 15 homilies on Philippians was delivered by the great preacher of Constantinople,...  Read More >>

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author, orator, and adviser...  Read More >>

This biography relates the story of St. Monica (332 - 387), the mother of St. Augustine. A native of Northern Africa,...  Read More >>

These two short treatises were composed by Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus; 155 - 240 AD.) one...  Read More >>

Sea and Sardinia is a travel book by the English writer D. H. Lawrence. It describes a brief excursion undertaken...  Read More >>

This set of sermons was delivered by St. John Chrysostom (347 - 407), when, most likely, he was a priest in Antioch,...  Read More >>

Bernarr Macfadden (born Bernard Adolphus McFadden, August 16, 1868 - October 12, 1955) was an American proponent...  Read More >>

William Dampier (baptised 5 September 1651; died March 1715) was an English explorer, pirate, privateer, navigator,...  Read More >>

""It will be convenient for me to describe the Florida Seminole as they present themselves, first as individuals,...  Read More >>

William Charles Scully (29 October 1855 - 25 August 1943) is one of South Africa's best-known authors, although...  Read More >>

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A...  Read More >>

""While there is life-and fruit-there is hope. When this truth is realised by the laity nine hundred and ninety-nine...  Read More >>

""AWAY down in the south-western corner of Europe, cut off from the rest of the continent by a range of mountains...  Read More >>

变迁的时代，多数人没有了故乡--或者将家山遗忘在道路的 起点。于是，所谓盛世的浮华，往往暌隔了我们对乡土中国的转顾。 城市虽然不断扩张其边界，农村一点点被吞噬进其现代化的矽肺般 的胸腔。但是，至今农村依旧是广大的存在，像是这个飞扬跋扈时代...  Read More >>