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 Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America
J. P. MacLean · history
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An historical and moral view of the origin and progress of the French Revolution; and the effect it has produced in Europe
Mary Wollstonecraft · ideas
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An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island
John Hunter · history
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An Historical Narrative of the Great and Terrible Fire of London, Sept. 2nd 1666
Gideon Harvey · history
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An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies
Robert Knox · travel
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An Historical Review of the Royal Marine Corps, from its Original Institution down to the Present Era, 1803
Alexander Major Gillespie · biography
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An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
Henry Charles Lea · history
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An Historical Sketch of the Conceptions of Memory among the Ancients
William Henry Burnham · ideas
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An historical sketch of the First Hillsboro Baptist Church
W. Camp · history
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An Historical Summary of the Post Office in Scotland
T. B. Lang · history
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An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 1 (of 2)
Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga · history
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An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol 2 (of 2)
Joaquín Martínez de Zúñiga · history
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An History of Birmingham (1783)
William Hutton · history
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An Humble Address and Earnest Appeal to Those Respectable Personages in Great-Britain and Ireland, Who, by Their Great and Permanent Interest in Landed Property, Their Liberal Education, Elevated Rank, and Enlarged Views, Are the Ablest to Judge, and the Fittest to Decide, Whether a Connection with, Or a Separation from the Continental Colonies of America, Be Most for the National Advantage, and the Lasting Benefit of These Kingdoms
Josiah Tucker · ideas
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An Humble Proposal to the People of England, for the Increase of their Trade, and Encouragement of Their Manufactures
Daniel Defoe · history
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An Illustrated Account of St. Bartholomew's Priory Church, Smithfield
Normanus · history
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An Illustrated Handbook of Mount Vernon, the Home of Washington
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union · science
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An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
Mary Francis Cusack · history
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An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798.
John of Dublin Jones · history
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An inaugural dissertation on pulmonary consumption
Edward Delafield · science
The story in one page
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
A government spends fortunes defending imaginary gold mines. The author suggests they wake up.
Adam Smith · history
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An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation
Thorstein Veblen · ideas
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An inquiry into the permanent causes of the decline and fall of powerful and wealthy nations
William Playfair · history
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An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (Vol. 1 of 2)
James Sir Steuart · history
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An Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions
Orson Pratt · biography
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An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut
Abner Stocking · biography
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An Introduction to the History of Japan
Katsuro Hara · history
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An Introduction to the History of Science
Walter Libby · science
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An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
James Harvey Robinson · history
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An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
Edward Potts Cheyney · history
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An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians
H. C. Yarrow · science
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An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites
British Museum . Department of Mineralogy · reference
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An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs
Sylvanus Griswold Morley · science
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An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis
Archibald Makellar · history
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An Irish precursor of Dante
Charles Stuart Boswell · myth
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An island hell: A Soviet prison in the far north
S. A. Malʹsagov · biography
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An ivory trader in North Kenia
A. Arkell-Hardwick · travel
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An Observer in the Near East
William Le Queux · travel
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An ode
Charles Sprague · poetry
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An Old City Company: A Sketch of the History and Conditions of the Skinners' Company of London
Lewis Boyd Sebastian · history
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An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving
Edward Corbett · travel
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An Old English Home and Its Dependencies
S. Baring-Gould · history
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An Old New Zealander; or, Te Rauparaha, the Napoleon of the South.
Thomas Lindsay Buick · biography
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An Old Town By the Sea
Thomas Bailey Aldrich · travel
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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
William Sir Orpen · biography
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An Open Letter on Translating
Martin Luther · ideas
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An Open Letter to the Right Honorable David Lloyd George
Lala Lajpat Rai · ideas
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An Oration on the Life and Services of Thomas Paine
Robert Green Ingersoll · biography