To the women of future centuries of the United States of America, this record of many women of the first and second centuries, whose lives were full of ...

Every investigation into the causes of the phenomena both of mind and matter was strictly forbidden, because the study of logic and metaphysics was regarded ...

Submitted for the approval of her curious and loving public, Records of a Girlhood (1878) is actress Frances Kemble's attempt to tell her own story. A ...

“…. If a person puts more cattle into his own field, the amount of the subsistence which they consume is all deducted from that which was ...

Passenger fares seem to us to have been very low. Passengers however appear to have been responsible for their own sustenance, the quarters were probably ...

“This is an attempt by a son to record the life of his father… I have striven to be honest, but to be cold was beyond my wishes, as it was ...

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with ...

Before he ascended to the highest office in the land as the United States’ youngest president, Theodore Roosevelt, with illustrations by Frederic ...