Free History Ebooks and Etexts
Summary: This page features a wide selection of free history ebooks and etexts, including works on world history, U.S. history, ancient civilizations, wars, biographies, and historical analysis. It includes classic texts, scholarly studies, children’s history books, and archival materials. Designed as a resource for students, educators, and history enthusiasts, the collection provides insight into human events, cultures, and the development of civilizations across time.
About History
History (from Greek historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about these events. The term includes cosmic, geologic, and organic history, but is often generically implied to mean human history. Scholars who write about history are called historians.
History can also refer to the academic discipline which uses a narrative to examine and analyse a sequence of past events, and objectively determine the patterns of cause and effect that determine them
Historians sometimes debate the nature of history and its usefulness by discussing the study of the discipline as an end in itself and as a way of providing "perspective" on the problems of the present.
Stories common to a particular culture, but not supported by external sources (such as the tales surrounding King Arthur) are usually classified as cultural heritage or legends, because they do not support the "disinterested investigation" required of the discipline of history. Events occurring prior to written record are considered prehistory.
Herodotus, a 5th-century B.C. Greek historian is considered within the Western tradition to be the "father of history", and, along with his contemporary Thucydides, helped form the foundations for the modern study of human history. Their work continues to be read today and the divide between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused Thucydides remains a point of contention or approach in modern historical writing. In the Eastern tradition, a state chronicle the Spring and Autumn Annals was known to be compiled from as early as 722 BCE although only 2nd century BCE texts survived.
Ancient influences have helped spawn variant interpretations of the nature of history which have evolved over the centuries and continue to change today. The modern study of history is wide-ranging, and includes the study of specific regions and the study of certain topical or thematical elements of historical investigation. Often history is taught as part of primary and secondary education, and the academic study of history is a major discipline in University studies.1*
E-texts History
New Light on the Origins of Vedic Civilization, by Kenneth Chandler PhD HOW ANCIENT IS THE VEDIC TRADITION and how did it begin? Was it the creation of a people who invaded India from outside, as many European scholars believed for centuries? Or did it arise among an indigenous people of northern India?
The Civil War Through the Camera by Henry W. Elson - Patriot Publishing Co. , 1912. An impartial
narrative supplementing the pictures
Prehistoric America by Stephen D. Peet - American Antiquarian Office , 1892
It is very interesting to get a view of a condition of things which once existed, but will never
be seen again.
The Battle of New Orleans by Zachary F. Smith - John P. Morton & Company , 1904 The Battle
of New Orleans took place on January 8, 1815 and was the final major battle of the War of 1812.
The Photographic History of the Civil War by F.T. Miller, R.S. Lanier, J.V. Scaife - The Review
of reviews co. , 1911. The Photographic History of the Civil War was first published in 1911 to
commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the great conflict.
US History since 1877 by James Ross-Nazzal - Connexions , 2010 This is a textbook to be used
for the second part of the US history survey course (U. S. after 1877) at Houston Community College,
written by Dr. James Ross-Nazzal.
Introductory American History by Elbert J. Benton, Henry E. Bourne - Project Gutenberg , 2006.
This is the introductory part of a course in American history embodying the plan of study recommended
by the Committee of Eight of the American Historical Association.
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Ocean to Ocean on Horseback by Willard W. Glazier - Edgewood publishing company , 1899. The
story of a tour in the saddle from the Atlantic to the Pacific; with especial reference to the
early history and development of cities and towns along the route.
Free At Last: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement by Michael Jay Friedman - U. S. Department of
State , 2009. This book recounts how African-American slaves and their descendants struggled to
win the civil rights enjoyed by other Americans.
Women of Influence by Mark Betka, at al. - U. S. Department of State , 2006. Women of Influence: this collection chronicles how 21 notable American women broke new ground, some by championing equal rights for all and others by their accomplishments in fields such as government, literature, and even in war.
The Niagara River by Archer Butler Hulbert - G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1908
As the geologic wonder of a continent and the commercial marvel of the present century, the Niagara
River is one of the most remarkable streams in the world. In historic interest, too, it takes
rank with any American river.
The True Benjamin Franklin by Sydney George Fisher - J.B. Lippincott Company , 1903. This
is an analysis of the life and character of Franklin. The author endeavored to let Franklin speak
for himself. The text is in the way of an estimate of his position, worth, and work, and gives
every essential fact of his career.
Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution. by L. Carroll Judson - Moss & Brother , 1854.
This book contains the condensed substance of more expensive works that have been published relative
to the men and times of the American Revolution.
Ku Klux Klan: Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment by W. L. Fleming, J. C. Lester, D. L. Wilson
- Project Gutenberg , 2010. This small monograph is an early inside view of the Ku Klux Klan in
Tennessee, where it was first born, written some twenty years after the events of Reconstruction,
augmented by an introductory essay written by noted historian Walter L. Fleming.
Hero Stories from American History by Francis K. Ball, Albert F. Blaisdell - The Athenaeum
Press , 1903 This book is intended to be used as a supplementary historical reader for the pupils
from twelve to fifteen years of age.
U.S. History Sourcebook - Basic - CK-12 Foundation , 2009 Contents: Introduction; Colonial America; The Early Republic; Manifest Destiny and the Slavery Question; A Nation Divided: The American Civil War and Reconstruction; The Gilded Age and the Rise of American Power; The Progressive Era; World War I. (3897 views)
The Presidents: A Reference History by Henry F. Graff - Advameg, Inc. , 2009 This a standard resource for students and the general public alike: U.S. presidents from George Washington to George W. Bush are profiled in depth. This is the story of the national political leadership of the country during the nearly two centuries. (5603 views)
Over the Edge: Remapping the American West by V. J. Matsumoto, B. Allmendinger - University of California Press , 1999 From the Gold Rush to rush hour, the history of the American West is fraught with diverse, subversive, and at times downright eccentric elements. This provocative volume challenges traditional readings of western history and literature. (3550 views)
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln - Pennsylvania State University , 2002 Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination. This immense collection includes Lincoln's speeches, letters, and telegrams. It provides a vivid picture of history as lived day-to-day. (6862 views)
The Roosevelt Myth by John Flynn - Devin-Adair , 1949 Roosevelt is the most sainted president of the 20th century. But as John T. Flynn noted in this volume, FDR actually prolonged the Great Depression and deliberately dragged the country into a war that seriously compromised American liberties. (4499 views)
Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr - University of Virginia Library These narratives of witchcraft are no fairy tales. Weird as they seem to us, they were the most intense of realities to thousands of men and women in 17th century America. They were the bulletins of a war more actual than any fray of flesh and blood. (3467 views)
The Decline of the American Republic by John T. Flynn - Mises Institute , 2007 In 1955, John T. Flynn saw what few others journalist did: the welfare-warfare state conspired to bring down American liberty. The New Deal combined with World War Two had fastened leviathan control over a country born in liberty. (6047 views)
The American Story by Garet Garrett - Henry Regnery Company , 1955 The real American story, from its beginning on the empty stage of a New World until now, is entirely improbable. Every attempt to account for it rationally leaves you with a feeling that something important has been left out. (4594 views)
The God of the Machine by Isabel Paterson - G.P. Putnam's Sons , 1943 The author presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published, her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping the world. (8087 views)
Conceived in Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard - Ludwig von Mises Institute , 2000 This book offers a complete history of the Colonial period of American history. Rothbard sheds new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the Revolution. (4940 views)
Digital History: Online American History Textbook by Steven Mintz - University of Houston , 2009 A history of the United States from the Revolution to the present. The book weaves together a very well done story of America. It is encyclopedic in its coverage, with hundreds of pages on everything from Native Americans to the 9-11 attacks. (6692 views)
Outline of U.S. History by G. Clack, M. S. Neely, A. Hamby - Nova Science , 2005 A chronological look at how the United States took shape -- from its origins as an obscure set of colonies on the Atlantic coast a little more than 200 years ago into what one political analyst today calls the first universal nation. (5026 views)
The Loss of the S.S. Titanic: Its Story and Its Lessons by Lawrence Beesley - Historical Text Archive , 2000 Lawrence Beesley boarded the Titanic to go for a holiday in the States. His account of the epic disaster is widely regarded as one of the fairest and most comprehensive of its kind. Full of nautical detail and written with a hair-raising clarity. (8805 views)
A Century of War by John V. Denson - Ludwig Von Mises Institute , 2006 The book covers the history of America's large wars from 1860 through the Cold War, describing the 20th century as the bloodiest in all history. Denson recounts how the wars came about through a series of deceitful political ploys. (8246 views)
Reassessing the Presidency : The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom by John V. Denson - Mises Institute , 2001 This remarkable book is the first full-scale revision of the official history of the U.S. executive state. Contributors examine the usual judgments of the historical profession to show the ugly side of supposed presidential greatness. (6237 views)
The Dropping of the Atomic Bomb: Truman's True Intentions by Dominick Abel Severance - Christendom College , 2007 Truman’s true intention was to use the destruction of a Japanese city to shock the world and manipulate the horror and destructive power of the bomb to create fear in the international community to ensure the security of American political interests. (7064 views)
The Beginner's American History by D. H. Montgomery - Ginn & Company , 1899 A textbook for pupils beginning the study of our history. This is a panorama of the leading events of our history, with their causes and results clearly traced. It is sometimes regarded as the best school history of the United States yet published. (4684 views)
History of the United States by Charles A. Beard, Mary R. Beard - The MacMillan Company , 1921 High school textbook in American history. Focused on the important aspects and movements of each period, treated are the causes and results of wars, rather than military strategy. Full of illustrations, maps, portraits, paintings and photographs. (5985 views)
US History - Wikibooks , 2006 The textbook covers everything that US history students study in high school or college. The contents: the history of colonial america, the early republic, antebellum america, the republic from 1877 to 1989, and from 1989 to the election 2008. (5327 views)
The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant by J. F. C. Fuller - Dodd, Mead and Company , 1929 The reader leaves this book with a sense of knowing and understanding Grant, and believing that Grant's personality was the critical factor in the Union's 1864-1865 Virginia compaigns. This text is an essential Civil War reading. (9612 views)
In and out of the White House, from Washington to the Eisenhowers by Ona Griffin Jeffries - W. Funk , 1960 Since the beginning of our history as a nation, Americans have had a very special interest in both the informal and the official social life of our capital. This book is an intimate glimpse into the social and domestic aspects of the Presidential life. (3798 views)
History of India by C. F. De La Fosse - Macmillan & Co. , 1917 The book deals with events which merit consideration in a general survey of the history of the country, and it remains, as far as it is possible to make it, a connected and consecutive account from the earliest times down to the present day. (18180 views)
India, Old and New by Sir Valentine Chirol - Macmillan and Co. , 1921 Early 20th Century India according to the British diplomat, journalist and historian: the clash of two civilisations, the enduring power of Hinduism, British rule under the east India company, the emergence of mr. Gandhi, Indian parliament, etc. (13498 views)
Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis - Fleming H. Revell Co. , 1905 A series of letters written during the winter of 1903-04: The Eye of India; The City of Bombay; Servants, Hotels, and Cave Temples; The Empire of India; Two Hindu Weddings; The Religions of India; How India Is Governed; The Railways of India; etc. (15389 views)
Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett - Oxford University Press , 1944 Jim Corbett killed a leopard at the age of nine and achieved a legendary reputation as a hunter. Here is the best of his books, which offers fascinating tales of pursuing tigers in the Indian Himalayas during the beginning of 20th century. (43375 views)
Kabir And The Kabir Panth by G.H Westcott - Hesperides Press , 2006 Of all the great Hindu reformers, Kabir have had the greatest influence among the uneducated classes of Northern and Central India. He was described as the Indian Luther. The number of those who are under the influence of Kabir is great. (10457 views)
Orissa under the Bhauma Kings by Pandit Binayak Misra - Vishwamitra Press , 1934 This monograph discusses the problems connected with the Bhauma family. For easy comprehension of the subject the book gives the texts and translations of almost all the published Bhauma records and a large number of inscriptions. (6372 views)
Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley
Historical Sketches, Volume 1 by John Henry Newman, at newmanreader.org
Historical Sketches, Volume 2 by John Henry Newman, at newmanreasder.org
Historical Sketches, Volume 3 by John Henry Newman, : HTML at newmanreasder.org
The Ruins: or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires; and The Law of Nature by Constantin-Francois Volney
On the Philosophy of History by Jacques Maritain, ed. by Joseph W. Evans
The Philosophy of History by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, trans. by J. Sibree, contrib. by Charles Hegel
The Story of Mankind (unillustrated) by Hendrik Willem Van LoonGutenberg text
The Outline of History, Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind (based on the 3rd edition, 1921) by H. G. Wells
A Short History of the World (New York: Macmillan, 1922) by H. G. Wells
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin
The Valet's Tragedy, and Other Studies by Andrew Lang
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: From Marathon to Waterloo by Edward Shepherd Creasy - Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2003
The History of Herodotus (Volume I): Gutenberg text
The History of Herodotus (Volume II): Gutenberg text
The History of Herodotus by Herodotus, trans. by George Rawlinson
An Account of Egypt by Herodotus, trans. by G. C. Macaulay
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages, and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob (framed PDF and DjVu files at cwru.edu)
Lectures on Modern History by John Acton (PDF at McMaster)
Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) by Wayne Te Brake
History of the Thirty Years' War by Friedrich Schiller, trans. by A. J. W. Morrison
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, trans. by Arthur Machen, contrib. by Arthur Symons
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck by Friedrich Trenck, trans. by Thomas Holcroft
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck (Volume 1): Gutenberg text
The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck (Volume 2: Gutenberg text
Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923 by Edward J. Thomas
The World War: A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict by Logan Marshall
History of the 19th Century in Political Cartoons (based on a 1904 book, with edits) by Arthur Bartlett Maurice and Frederic Taber Cooper, ed. by Jim Zwick
Notes of a War Correspondent by Richard Harding Davis (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Jan 2002)
The Days Before Yesterday by Frederick Spencer Hamilton
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story (Doubleday, Page, 1918) by Henry Morgenthau
War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells
The Cross at the Front: Fragments from the Trenches (Revell, 1917) by Thomas Tiplady
Never Again: A Protest and a Warning Addressed to the Peoples of Europe by Edward Carpenter
Defenders of Democracy: Contributions from Representative Men and Women of Letters and Other Arts From Our Allies and Our Own Country (1918), ed. by Militia of Mercy
Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie (Stokes, 1918) by Edward Streeter, illust. by G. William Breck
Now It Can Be Told by Philip Gibbs
Surgeon Grow: An American in the Russian Fighting (New York: Stokes, 1918) by Malcolm Cummings Grow
Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T. E. Lawrence
The War With Germany: A Statistical Summary (second edition, 1919) by Leonard P. Ayres
A Doctor's Diary in Damaraland (London: E. Arnold, 1917) by Henry Francis Bell Walker
Peace and Bread in Time of War by Jane Addams
The Neutrality of Belgium (Funk and Wagnalls, 1915) by Alexander Fuehr
In the Heart of German Intrigue (Houghton Mifflin, 1918) by Demetra Vaka
The Vanguard of American Volunteers in the Fighting Lines and in Humanitarian Service, August, 1914 - April, 1917 (Scribner's, 1919) by Edwin W. Morse
Helping France: The Red Cross in the Devastated Area (Dutton, 1919) by Ruth Gaines
"Mademoiselle Miss": Letters from an American Girl Serving with the Rank of Lieutenant in a French Army Hospital at the Front by Mademoiselle Miss
"My Beloved Poilus" by Agnes Warner
Scott's Official History of the American Negro in the World War by Emmett J. Scott
Private Dowding: The Personal Story of a Soldier Killed in Battle (1966 edition) by Wellesley Tudor Pole
American Women and the World War (Appleton, 1918) by Ida Clyde Clarke
Soldier and Dramatist: Being the Letters of Harold Chapin, American citizen, Who Died for England at Loos on September 26th, 1915 by Harold Chapin (illustrated HTML at Kansas)
Ambulancing on the French Front by Edward Royal Coyle
A Village in Picardy (Dutton, 1918) by Ruth Gaines
At Suvla Bay: Being the Notes and Sketches of Scenes, Characters and Adventures of the Dardanelles Campaign by John Hargrave
The Great Push: An Episode of the Great War by Patrick MacGill
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger (Scribner's, May 1917) by Alan Seeger
England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend by Mrs. Humphry Ward - HTML at Indiana
Fighting France by Edith Wharton
The Truth About the Treaty (Bobbs-Merrill, 1921) by Andr Tardieu, contrib. by Georges Clemenceau
Suitors and Suppliants: The Little Nations at Versailles by Stephen Bonsal
Nazi-Soviet Relations, 1939-1941: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Office by German Foreign Office, ed. by Raymond James Sontag and James Stuart Beddie
Cross-Channel Attack by Gordon A. Harrison
Hitler's War by David Irving
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by Manhattan Engineer District
Summary Report (Pacific War) by United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Summary Report (European War) by United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Tanks for the Memories: An Oral History of the 712th Tank Battalion in World War II by Aaron C. Elson (HTML at tankbooks.com)
The Dentist of Auschwitz: A Memoir by Benjamin Jacobs
Assassins of Memory: Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust by Pierre Vidal-Naquet, trans. by Jeffrey Mehlman
Did Six Million Really Die? by Richard E. Harwood (HTML with commentary at lebensraum.org)
Native Soldiers, Foreign Battlefields: The Wartime Contributions of Canada's First Peoples by Veterans Affairs Canada
The Taste of War: Soldiering in World War II by Alfred De Grazia
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Secrets, Lies and Democracy by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Travels Through France and Italy by Tobias Smollett
A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor - At Gutenberg
Saunterings by Charles Dudley Warner
The Falcon on the Baltic by E. F. Knight
Transatlantic Tensions: The United States, Europe, and Problem Countries, ed. by Richard Haass
Dictionary of National Biography: Index and Epitome (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1903), ed. by Sidney Lee
A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
A Sketch of the Life of Capt. Hedley Vicars, the Christian Soldier (1863) by Catherine Marsh
The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey
The Collection of the History of England by Samuel Daniel
History of the Britons by Nennius, trans. by John Allen Giles
History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, trans. by Aaron Thompson and J. A. Giles
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. by James Ingram
History by Williams of Newburgh, trans. by Joseph Stevenson
The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince, King Edward II by Elizabeth Cary
The History of King Richard the Third by Thomas More (HTML at Renascence Editions)
England Under the Tudors (fourth edition, 1913) by Arthur D. Innes
Henry the Seventh by James Gairdner
The Life of Sir Thomas More by William Roper - HTML at Fordham - HTML at Bartleby
A Treatise of the Canker of Englands Common Wealth by Gerard de Malynes
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54) by Dorothy Osborne, ed. by Edward Abbott Parry
England Under the Restoration (1660-1688) (1923) by Thora G. Stone
Royalty Restored: or, London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy)
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (abridged edition; London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1879) by Samuel Pepys, ed. by Richard Braybrooke
The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1890s slightly expurgated edition) by Samuel Pepys, ed. by Henry B. Wheatley
A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second by Charles James Fox
The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Macaulay - volume I: Gutenberg text
The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Macaulay - volume II: Gutenberg text
The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Macaulay - volume IV: Gutenberg text
The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Macaulay - volume V: Gutenberg text
The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot
Selected Prose and Poetry of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Mary Wortley Montagu, ed. by Richard Bear - HTML at uoregon.edu
Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches (Cassell, 1886) by Edmund Burke
A Letter to a Noble Lord by Edmund Burke
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, Formerly of the Grenadier Guards, and M.P. for Stafford: Being Anecdotes of the Camp, the Court, and the Clubs, at the Close of the Last War with France by Rees Howell Gronow
Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey
The Passing of the Great Queen: A Tribute to the Noble Life of Victoria Regina by Marie Corelli
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey - HTML at Bartleby
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey - Gutenberg text
William Ewart Gladstone by James Bryce
Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England by Daniel Defoe
Letters From England, 1846-1849 by Elizabeth Davis Bancroft
London. Edited by Charles Knight (Volume 1-2) - Knight, Charles, 1791-1873
Old and New London: A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings from the Most Authentic Sources Volume 1-6
London: A Pilgrimage (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1890) by Gustave Dor and Blanchard Jerrold
A Short History of Gateshead by Ian Clark Carlton and F. W. D. Manders
A Short History of Wales by Owen Morgan Edwards
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery by George Henry Borrow
The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (based on the 1775 edition with corrections from the 1785 errata) by Samuel Johnson
In Wicklow and West Kerry by John M. Synge (HTML at Belinus Press)
A View of the Present State of Ireland by Edmund Spenser
The Path to Freedom by Michael Collins
The Aran Islands by John M. Synge, illust. by Jack B. Yeats
Central Europe
The New Central Europe by Stephen Borsody
Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia
Austria: A Country Study, ed. by Eric Solsten
Ruthenia: Spearhead Toward the West by Charles J. Hokky, trans. by Alexander Gallus
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys by Amelia Edwards
Hungary: A Brief History (first edition, 1989), by István Lázár, trans. by Albert Tezla (HTML at Corvinus Library)
Hungary: A Short History, by C. A. Macartney (HTML at Corvinus Library)
Wartime American Plans for a New Hungary: Documents from the U.S., Department of State, 1942-1944 by United States Department of State, ed. by Ignac Romsics
The Hungarians: A Divided Nation, ed. by Stephen Borsody (HTML at Corvinus Library)
Hungary and Hitler, by Gabor Baross (HTML at Corvinus Library)
Hungary Between Wilson and Lenin: The Hungarian Revolution of 1918-1919 and the Big Three, by Peter Pastor (HTML at Corvinus Library)
Hungary, From 1848 to 1860 (London: R. Bentley, 1860), by Bertalan Szemere (page images at Google)
Hungary: The Unwilling Satellite, by John Flournoy Montgomery (HTML at Corvinus Library)
Hungary: Three Years Struggle Against Feudal Reaction and Against Election Reform (1910), by Magyarországi Szociáldemokrata Párt (multiple formats at archive.org)
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia: A Country Study, ed. by Ihor Gawdiak (HTML at LOC)
Progressive Czech (Bohemian) (Chicago, Czechoslovak national council of America, [c1936]), by Bohumil E. Mikula (page images at HathiTrust)
La Tchécoslovaquie et les Tchécoslovaques ; préface de m. Jules Chopin; avec une carte. (Paris, Éditions Bossard, 1919), by V. L. Dedeck-Héry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
T.G. Masaryk, president Československé republiky / napsal Pavel Váša (V Brně : Barvič & Novotný, 1918), by Pavel Váša (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
T.G. Masaryk, president Československé republiky / napsal Pavel Váša (V Brně : Barvič & Novotný, 1919), by Pavel Váša (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
France, Andorra, Monaco
Travels in France and Italy During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789 by Arthur Young
A Little Tour in France by Henry James
Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, on the Ancien Regime As It Existed on the Continent Before the French Revolution by Charles Kingsley
The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte A. Taine, trans. by John Durand
Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre, Written by Herself by by Marguerite de Valois
History of the Franks (1916 abridged translation) by Gregory of Tours, trans. by Ernest Brehaut
The Life of Charlemagne by Einhard, trans. by Samuel Epes Turner
The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogentsous-Coucy by Guibert of Nogent, trans. by C. C. Swinton Bland
Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Margaret Oliphant - Gutenberg ASCII text
Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Margaret Oliphant - Gutenberg 8-bit text
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan, Written by Herself by Marquise de Montespan (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 Mar 2003)
Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV, and of the Regency, Being the Secret Memoirs of the Mother of the Regent by Charlotte-Elisabeth d' Orleans
Memoirs of Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi de Retz
Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy duc de Saint-Simon, trans. by Bayle St. John
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry by Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon
Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by by Madame Campan
Secret Memoirs of Princess Lamballe: Being Her Journals, Letters, and Conversations During Her Confidential Relations with Marie Antoinette (New York and London: M. Walter Dunne, c1901) by Princess of Lamballe, ed. by Catherine Hyde
Lectures on the French Revolution by by John Acton, ed. by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence (PDF at McMaster)
Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke - HTML at Bartleby
Juniper Hall: A Rendevous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney by Constance Hill
The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud, Being Secret Letters from a Gentleman at Paris to a Nobleman in London by Stewarton
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, ed. by Ramsay Weston Phipps
Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon by Constant, trans. by Walter Clark
The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray
The French Revolution by Hippolyte A. Taine, trans. by John Durand - volume 1: Gutenberg text
The French Revolution by Hippolyte A. Taine, trans. by John Durand - volume 2: Gutenberg text
The French Revolution by Hippolyte A. Taine, trans. by John Durand - volume 3: Gutenberg text
The Modern Regime by Hippolyte A. Taine, trans. by John Durand- volume 5: Gutenberg text
The Modern Regime by Hippolyte A. Taine, trans. by John Durand volume 6: Gutenberg text
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon by by Karl Marx, trans. by Daniel De Leon
The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050 by Archibald Ross Lewis
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago (New York: The Century Co., 1919) by Anne Douglas Sedgwick, illust. by Paul de Leslie
Crescendo of the Virtuoso: Spectacle, Skill, and Self-Promotion in Paris during the Age of Revolution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) by Paul Metzner.
Germany
Apocalypse 1945: The Destruction of Dresden (1995) by David Irving (PDF at fpp.co.uk)
Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich by David Irving (PDF with commentary at fpp.co.uk)
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (Gutenberg texts)
DE Mediterreanean Region, Greco-Roman World
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, ed. by Arthur Hugh Clough, trans. by John Dryden
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, trans. by Bernadotte Perrin
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1976), ed. by Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, and Marian Holland McAllister
DF Greece
Description of Greece by Pausanias
Hellenistic History and Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), ed. by Peter Green
Greek Studies: A Series of Essays by Walter Pater - Gutenberg text; unofficial until 31 May 2003
A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest by William Smith
Thucydides Mythistoricus by Francis M. Cornford
Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) by Gregory Crane
The Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia at Sparta, Excavated and Described by Members of the British School at Athens, 1906-1910, ed. by Richard McGillivray Dawkins (page images at Chicago)
The Secret History by Procopius of Caesarea, trans. by Richard Atwater
The Chronographia by Michael Psellus, trans. by Edgar Robert Ashton Sewster (HTML at Fordham)
Italy
A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome by Samuel Ball Platner
Spectacle and Society in Livy's History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) by Andrew Feldherr
Ancient Rome, from the Earliest Times Down to 476 A. D. by Robert Franklin Pennell
Imperial Purple by Edgar Saltus
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, ed. by Henry Hart Milman
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 1
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 2
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 5
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 6
The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine by Eusebius of Caesarea
Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens
Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino by Samuel Butler
History of Florence, and of the Affairs of Italy, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent by Niccolo Machiavelli, contrib. by Hugo Albert Rennert
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Belgium by Joseph E. Morris
Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
The Present State of Russia (London: W. Taylor, 1722-1723) by Friedrich Christian Weber
Russia (1905 edition) by Donald Mackenzie Wallace
The Discovery of Muscovy Etc., contrib. by Richard Hakluyt
The Life and Tragedy of Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress of Russia by Sophie Buxhoeveden
Memories of the Russian Court by Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova
Thirteen Years at the Russian Court: A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II, and His Family by Pierre Gilliard, trans. by Frederic Appleby Holt
Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship by Louise Bryant
Left Behind: Fourteen Months in Siberia During the Revolution, December 1917-February 1919 by Sophie Buxhoeveden
The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome
Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 28 Feb 2002)
Ten Days That Shook the World (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1922) by John Reed
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies, ed. by Glenn E. Curtis
Alpamysh: Central Asian Identity Under Russian Rule by Hasan B. Paksoy
Northern Europe, Scandinavia
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft
Letters from High Latitudes, Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen by Lord Dufferin
Visit to Iceland and the Scandinavian North by Ida Pfeiffer
Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
DP Spain, Portugal
Library of Congress Hispanic and Portuguese Collections: An Illustrated Guide by Library of Congress
The Bible in Spain by George Henry Borrow
The Mendoza Family in the Spanish Renaissance, 1350-1550 (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1979) by Helen Nader
The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipsley
Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages by Thomas F. Glick
The Royal Treasure: Muslim Communities Under the Crown of Aragon in the Fourteenth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977) by John Boswell
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (author's revised edition) by Washington Irving
A History of Aragon and Catalonia (London: Methuen, 1933) by Henry John Chaytor
The Chronicle of James I, King of Aragon by King (of Aragon) James I, ed. by Pascual de Gayangos, trans. by John Forster
The Kingdom of Le n-Castilla Under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 by Bernard F. Reilly
The Kingdom of Le n-Castilla Under Queen Urraca, 1109-1126 by Bernard F. Reilly
To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 by Murray Bookchin
The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier ((based on) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967) by Robert Ignatius Burns
Christian Cordoba: The City and its Region in the Late Middle Ages by John Edwards
The Individuality of Portugal: A Study in Historical-Political Geography by Dan Stanislawski
DR Balkan Region
High Albania by Mary Edith DurhamRoma (Gypsies)
Romano Lavo-lil: Word Book of the Romany; or, English Gypsy Language by George Henry Borrow (Gutenberg text)
The Zincali: An Account of the Gipsies of Spain by George Henry Borrow (Gutenberg text)
Asia
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms by Fa-Hsien, trans. by James Legge
Travels from St. Petersburg, in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia (1763) by John Bell
Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray
Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake
Cyprus as I Saw It in 1879 by Samuel White Baker
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000), ed. by Steven Heydemann
Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918 by Hasan Kayali
Bismya: or, The Lost City of Adab by Edgar James Banks
A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard
Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Defense Persian Gulf Comprehensive Clinical Evaluation Program by Institute of Medicine
History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000) by Ussama Makdisi
Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish, trans. by Ibrahim Muhawi
The Wilderness of Zin by C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence
Palestine Exploration Fund, 1911 by Gustav Dalman and Duncan McKenzie
Sketches of Jewish Social Life in the Days of Christ by Alfred Edersheim
The Works of Flavius Josephus by Flavius Josephus, trans. by William Whiston - HTML at CCEL
Selma Metzger Winkler: Her Experience in Nazi Concentration Camp by Martin A. Winkler
Childhood in Times of War: An Autobiography (1995) by Andrew Salamon
Holocaust in Rumania: Facts and Documents on the Annihilation of Rumania's Jews, 1940-44 by Matatias Carp
Someone is Watching Over Me: A Memoir by Florence Mayer Lieblich
Shattered! 50 Years of Silence: History and Voices of the Tragedy in Romania and Transnistria (electronic edition, 2001) by Felicia Steigman Carmelly
On the Jewish Question by Karl Marx
The Jews and Modern Capitalism by Werner Sombart, trans. by Mortimer Epstein
The Jew, the Gypsy, and El Islam (1898) by Richard Burton, ed. by William Henry Wilkins
The International Jew (this edition ca. 1958) by Henry Ford, ed. by Gerald L. K. Smith
Antisemitism: Its History and Causes (1894) by Bernard Lazare
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion by Sergyei Nilus
Remembering and Understanding the Armenian Genocide by Rouben Paul Adalian
Nagorno Karabagh: A White Paper by Armenian Center for National and International Studies
Polarization Around the Character of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib by Murtaza Mutahhari
A Year Amongst the Persians by Edward Granville Browne
Heroes of the Age: Moral Fault Lines on the Afghan Frontier by David B. Edwards
Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982 by M. Hassan Kakar
Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict by Beth Roy
The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey through India by Dean Mahomet, ed. by Michael H. Fisher
The Edicts of King Ashoka by King Asoka, trans. by Shravasti Dhammika
The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan (1887 edition) by H. G. Keene
Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place by Mahatma Gandhi (text at tripod.com)
Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895 by Eugene F. Irschick
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard M. Eaton
Perspectives on Kerala History: The Second Millennium, ed. by P. J. Cherian
Essays on the Cultural Formation of Kerala: Literature, Art, Architecture, Music, Theatre, Cinema, ed. by P. J. Cherian
A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar: A Contribution to the History of India by Robert Sewell
The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
Cannon Fodder: Growing Up for Vietnam by Phillip Coleman
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither by Isabella Bird (Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Sep 2002)
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883) by Isabella Bird
The Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace - volume I: Gutenberg text - volume II: Gutenberg text
China Through the Stereoscope: A Journey Through the Dragon Empire at the Time of the Boxer Uprising by James Ricalton, ed. by Jim Zwick
Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling - Gutenberg text
Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland - Gutenberg text
Chinese Sketches by Herbert Allen Giles
The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland - Gutenberg text
China and the Manchus by Herbert Allen Giles - Gutenberg ASCII text - Gutenberg 8-bit text
The Civilization of China by Herbert Allen Giles
The History of Rabban Sawma and Mar Yahbh-Allaha, trans. by E. A. Wallis Budge
New Forces in Old China: An Inevitable Awakening (second edition) by Arthur Judson Brown - Gutenberg text
Among the Tibetans by Isabella Bird
Beasts, Men and Gods by Ferdinand Ossendowski
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan by Isabella Bird
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan by Lady Murasaki Shikibu, Izumi Shikibu, and Anonymous (11th Century Japan), trans. by Annie Shepley Omori and Kochi Doi (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Noto: An Unexplored Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell (Gutenberg text)
Africa
The Black Man's Burden: The White Man in Africa from the Fifteenth Century to World War I by Edmund Dene Morel
The Spell of Egypt by Robert Smythe Hichens
Egpyt (La Mort de Philae) by Pierre Loti, trans. by William Peter Baines
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers by Amelia Edwards
Kahun, Gurob, and Hawara by William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Illahun, Kahun, and Gurob by William Matthew Flinders Petrie
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs by Samuel White Baker
In the Heart of Africa by Samuel White Baker
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources by Samuel White Baker
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt by Samuel White Baker
A Voyage to Abyssinia by Jeronimo Lobo, ed. by Henry Morley, trans. by Samuel Johnson
The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White
The Scars of Death: Children Abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda by Human Rights Watch
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges
The Golden Trade: or, A Discovery of the River Gambra, and the Golden Trade of the Aethiopians by Richard Jobson
Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People: The Ibibios of Southern Nigeria (1915) by D. Amaury Talbot
The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle
King Leopold's Soliloquy: A Defense of His Congo Rule by Mark Twain
Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa by David Livingstone
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries, and of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by David Livingstone
The Political Situation by Olive Schreiner and Samuel Cron Cronwright-Schreiner (HTML at Indiana)
Closer Union: A Letter on the South African Union and the Principles of Government by Olive Schreiner
Letters from the Cape by Lucie Duff Gordon
The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle
South Africa's freedom Struggle: Statements, Speeches, and Articles Including Correspondence With Mahatma Gandhi by Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo, ed. by E. S. Reddy
The Opening of the Apartheid Mind: Options for the new South Africa (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993) by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley
Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) by Ivan Thomas Evans
Native Races and the War by Josephine Butler
DU Oceania, Australia, New Zealand
In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines by H. Wilfrid Walker
Early Australian Voyages by John Pinkerton
The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont by Louis de Rougemont
A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay by Watkin Tench - HTML at SETIS
Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Nov 2002
Letters From an Exile at Botany-Bay, To His Aunt in Dumfries by Thomas Watling
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench - HTML at SETIS - Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Nov 2002
The Eureka Stockade by Raffaello Carboni - HTML at SETIS - Gutenberg text; unofficial until 30 Nov 2002
The Hawaiian Archipelago: Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands by Isabella Bird
Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen by Liliuokalani
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa by Robert Louis Stevenson - Gutenberg text - HTML at boondocksnet.com
Project Gutenberg – Ancient History
Project Gutenberg – Medieval History
Project Gutenberg – World History
Internet History Sourcebooks Project Fordham University
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