Inspired by the then recent unearthing of original documents and letters of Christopher Columbus, the American writer Washington Irving set about, in the ...

In the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. a great change came over the face of Europe; the political order of things was broken up. This movement ushered ...

Any man will sign a note for a thousand dollars if a revolver is held against his head... The law, however, will not hold him for the payment of the note ...

Here, in one volume, are two classic treatises on individual freedom and inherent human worth from one of the most important—and most overlooked—thinkers ...

"If I should lie in a manger all night," she said, standing with her feet well apart and looking up at him, "would I become a boy?" The Bishop tugged ...

On December 5th, 1791, Alexander Hamilton, then the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, delivered to the House of Representatives a speech on the state ...

“The fundamental problem… is that of family structure. The evidence—not final but powerfully persuasive—is that the Negro family ...

A compilation of the history of Islamic authors and writings, A Literary History of the Arabs is considered one of the best explanations of Arabic culture ...

[S]urely that need not and ought not to be the whole of Christmas-only a single day or generosity, ransomed from the dull servitude of a selfish year,-only ...

To the uninitiated, the science or art of Astrology appears complicated and its study too intricate to be followed or understood easily; this notion, however ...