Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplomat ...

"Politics is the art of the possible," Otto Von Bismarck famously said, and here, in his own words, the art of politics is laid bare by one of the most ...

In 1841, free-born African American Solomon Northup was offered a job in his hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. He followed his employers to the job ...

[A]s long as the past is principally used as a model for imitation, it is always in danger of being a little altered and touched up and brought nearer ...

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is Edward Gibbon's magnum opus, written and published over a 13-year period beginning in 1776. ...

Between states... no punitive war is thinkable because between them a relation of superior and inferior does not exist. Whence it follows that a war of ...

"One of the commonest and saddest of transformations is the change of the gay, laughing young girl, radiant with love and all aglow at the thought of union ...

There have been many and various interpretations of the zodiac and its sway upon humanity, but rarely one so generous as this charming 1894 volume. Its ...

The Works of Eugene Field is a collection of poetry and essays by American author Eugene Field, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1896 ...

Today we turn to the Internet for our daily dose of kooks and indescribable oddities, but once, those seeking to be amused by the incoherent ramblings ...