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

Anthony Wayne, 1745-1796

Randolph C. Downes · biography

Anthropoid apes

Robert Hartmann · science

Anthropological Survey in Alaska

Aleš Hrdlička · science

Charles W. Darling · science

Anti-Semitism in the United States

Lee J. Levinger · history

Anti-slavery catechism

Lydia Maria Child · ideas

Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter, March 1829

Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions · periodical

Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800

William Frederick Poole · history

Anti-Suffrage Essays

Ernest Bernbaum · ideas

Anticipations of the reaction of mechanical and scientific progress upon human life and thought

H. G. Wells · novel

Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

Frederick Tilberg · history

Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2)

Mrs. Lanaghan · history

Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 2 (of 2)

Mrs. Lanaghan · science

Antiquarian gleanings in the North of England

William Bell Scott · science

Antique Works of Art from Benin

Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers · reference

The story in one page

Antiquities of the Jews

A former general retells his nation's history, starting at the beginning of the world and ending with royal succession.

Flavius Josephus · collection

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park

Jesse Walter Fewkes · science

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace

Jesse Walter Fewkes · science

Antonio Stradivari

Horace Petherick · biography

Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them

Arthur Ruhl · travel

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction

John Davenport · ideas

Apollonius of Tyana, the Philosopher-Reformer of the First Century A.D.

G. R. S. Mead · biography

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1900

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1900

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May 1899

William Jay Youmans · periodical

Arabi and his household

Lady Gregory · biography

Arabia: The Cradle of Islam

Samuel Marinus Zwemer · ideas

Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights

Edward William Lane · science

F. F. Arbuthnot · history

Arabic Thought and Its Place in History

De Lacy O'Leary · ideas

Archæological Essays, Vol. 1

James Young Simpson · science

Archæological Essays, Vol. 2

James Young Simpson · science

Archaic England

Harold Bayley · myth

Archangel: The American War with Russia

John Cudahy · history

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895

Jesse Walter Fewkes · science

Archeological investigations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah

Jesse Walter Fewkes · science

Archeology of the lower Mimbres valley, New Mexico

Jesse Walter Fewkes · science

Thomas Little Sir Heath · biography

Architectural Antiquities of Normandy

John Sell Cotman · history

Henry-Russell Hitchcock · history

Architecture: Classic and Early Christian

T. Roger Smith · history

Architecture: Gothic and Renaissance

T. Roger Smith · history

Arctic exploration

J. Douglas Hoare · travel

Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)

James Miller · play

Are We of Israel?

George Reynolds · ideas

Are we ruined by the Germans?

Harold Cox · history