First published in 1893, this sweeping historical account of ancient Parthia (which encompassed most of modern-day Iran as well as parts of Iraq and Afghanistan) ...

“A long association with the Cheyennes has given me a special interest in them, and a special wish that they should be allowed to speak for themselves. ...

Before he returned to his native India from South Africa, where he had been working as a lawyer, Mahatma Gandhi-now known as MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI ...

Are you a mental slave, your mind the servant of outside forces? Would you rather be a mental master, your thoughts taking charge not only of mind and ...

Canadian spiritualist WILLIAM BENJAMIN BASIL KING (1859-1928) was author of best-selling novels hailed-and criticized-as both moral and sentimental, but ...

When in the year 1509 a handsome youth of eighteen came to the throne, the hopes of England ran high. His intelligence, his frank, genial manners, his ...

Originally published in 1910, Maurice Maeterlinck's THE BURIED TEMPLE is written with the author's characteristic care and thoughtfulness. A series of ...

Ireland, helpless against misery and superstition, misled by hatred against her conquerors, the rulers of England, formed sects to fight not so much the ...

In spite of long truces and temporary agreements, Christianity and the State had become two rival powers striving for the mastery of the world, and until ...

A great American crank, in the best sense of the word, Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) spent his life hunting down reports of "anomalous phenomena"-"damned" ...