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

Artificial Light: Its Influence upon Civilization

Matthew Luckiesh · history

Artillery Through the Ages

Albert C. Manucy · history

Arts and crafts in the Middle Ages

Julia de Wolf Addison · history

The story in one page

A woman remembers the nineteenth century, from cake-peddling ancestors to Civil War tension in Maryland.

Marian Gouverneur · biography

Asiatic Cholera: A treatise on its origin, pathology, treatment, and cure

Elijah Whitney · history

Aspects of Modern Oxford, by a Mere Don

A. D. Godley · ideas

Assassination of Lincoln: a History of the Great Conspiracy

T. M. Harris · history

Asser's Life of King Alfred

John -909 Asser · biography

A. H. Sayce · science

Assyrian Historiography: A Source Study

A. T. Olmstead · science

Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains

Washington Irving · travel

J. H. Hill · myth

Astronomical Lore in Chaucer

Florence M. Grimm · poetry

Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarions's "History of the Heavens"

J. F. Blake · myth

Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies

David P. Todd · science

At home in Fiji

C. F. Gordon Cumming · travel

At home in the Smokies

United States. National Park Service · science

John Hargrave · biography

At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative

John Alfred Gray · travel

At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies In Hirsute History

William Andrews · history

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

Thomas Hope Floyd · biography

Athaliah: A Tragedy

J. Donkersley · play

Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

A. B. Drachmann · ideas

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book I

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · history

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book II

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · history

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book III

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · history

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book IV

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · history

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · history

Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete

Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton · history

Athletics and Games of the Ancient Greeks

Edward M. Plummer · manual

Atlanta: A Twentieth-Century City

Atlanta Chamber of Commerce · history

Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World

Ignatius Donnelly · myth

Atlas of ancient & classical geography

Samuel Butler · reference

Atrocious Judges : Lives of Judges Infamous as Tools of Tyrants and Instruments of Oppression

John Campbell Baron Campbell · biography

Attack of Fortified Places. Including Siege-works, Mining, and Demolitions.

James Mercur · history

Attack: An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916

Edward G. D. Liveing · biography

Attila and the Huns

Edward Hutton · history

Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1

John James Audubon · biography

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 1 (of 2)

Francis Hobart Herrick · biography

Audubon the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time. Vol. 2 (of 2)

Francis Hobart Herrick · biography

Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850

John Woodhouse Audubon · biography

Augusta Tabor: Her Side of the Scandal

Caroline Bancroft · biography

Augusta Triumphans

Daniel Defoe · ideas

Augustus: The Life and Times of the Founder of the Roman Empire

Evelyn S. Shuckburgh · biography

Auld lang syne. Second series

F. Max Müller · biography

Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History

Charlotte M. Yonge · myth

Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries

William -1848 Hogan · biography

Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra

J. Rand Capron · science