Books: What to Know

History Without the Footnotes

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

The library

15,618 history

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An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians
Edward William Lane · travel
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An account of the plague which raged at Moscow, in 1771
Charles de Mertens · history
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An account of the principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia
William -1836 Wilkinson · history
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An Account of the Proceedings on the Trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the Charge of Illegal Voting, at the Presidential Election in Nov., 1872, and on the Trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh, and William B. Hall, the Inspectors of Election by Whom Her Vote was Received.
history
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An account of the slave trade on the coast of Africa
Alexander Falconbridge · history
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An Account of the Sore Throat Attended With Ulcers
John Fothergill · science
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An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
Abd Salam active 1820 Shabeeny · travel
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An Account of Two Voyages to New-England, Made During the Years 1638, 1663
John active Josselyn · travel
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An Account of Valle Crucis Abbey, Llangollen, and All the Recent Discoveries
science
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An accurate and authentic journal of the siege of Quebec, 1759
biography
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An Accursed Race
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · history
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An Act to Provide for the Paving, Gravelling, Lighting, and Watching Certain Footways and Carriageways in and Near Brompton Square
history
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An Address Given in to the Late King James by the Titular Archbishop of Dublin
Patrick Russell · ideas
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An address to British females on the moral management of pregnancy and labour, and some cursory observations on medical deportment
William Cooke · history
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An Address to Free Coloured Americans
Anti-slavery Convention of American Women · ideas
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An Address to Lord Teignmouth, president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, occasioned by his address to the clergy of the Church of England
Thomas Sikes · ideas
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An Address to the People of New-England
Samuel Hopkins · ideas
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An Address, Delivered Before the Was-ah Ho-de-no-son-ne or New Confederacy of the Iroquois
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft · science
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An African Adventure
Isaac Frederick Marcosson · travel
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An American at Oxford
John Corbin · travel
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An American Crusader at Verdun
Philip Sidney Rice · biography
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An American Diplomat in China
Paul S. Reinsch · history
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An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr
Alfred Henry Lewis · biography
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An American Religious Movement : A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ
Winfred Ernest Garrison · history
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An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die?
Daniel Defoe · ideas
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An Answer to a scurrilous pamphlet, lately printed, intituled, A letter from Monsieur de Cros, to the Lord ----
William Temple · ideas
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An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Madre
John Gregory Bourke · science
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An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661)
John Evelyn · ideas
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An apology for abolitionists
Conn. Anti-slavery Society of Meriden · ideas
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An Apology for the Colouring of the Greek Court in the Crystal Palace
Owen Jones · history
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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
Robert Barclay · ideas
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An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
Lydia Maria Child · ideas
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An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though It Be of His Worst Enemies.
Daniel Defoe · ideas
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An Appeal to the British Nation on the Humanity and Policy of Forming a National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck (1825)
William Sir Hillary · ideas
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An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
Angelina Emily Grimké · ideas
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An Architect's Note-Book in Spain
M. Digby Sir Wyatt · travel
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An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition
Sheldon Cheney · travel
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An Artilleryman's Diary
Jenkins Lloyd Jones · biography
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An atlas of gas poisoning
Great Britain. Medical Research Committee · history
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An Attempt to Explain the Origin and Meaning of the Early Interlaced Ornamentation Found on the Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man
Gilbert J. French · science
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An Authentic History of the Cato-Street Conspiracy
George Theodore Wilkinson · history
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An Authentick Account of the Measures and Precautions Used at Venice
history
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An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)
Buffalo Bill · biography
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An Aviator's Field Book
Oswald Boelcke · biography
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An economic interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Charles A. Beard · ideas
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An Egyptian oasis
H. J. L. Beadnell · science
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An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville
Ernest Brehaut · biography
The story in one page
An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (4 of 8)
A deputy loses Calais, a fisherman demands more boats, and John Dowland coins his unquiet thoughts into Elizabethan pop hits.
Edward Arber · travel