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

Benjamin Franklin

Robin McKown · biography

Benjamin Franklin

John T. Jr. Morse · biography

Benjamin Franklin and the First Balloons

Benjamin Franklin · science

Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2)

Wiliam Cabell Bruce · biography

Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume 2 (of 2)

Wiliam Cabell Bruce · biography

Horace Woollaston Monckton · science

John S. Humphreys · history

Bess of Hardwick and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson · biography

Bessbrook and Its Linen Mills: A Short Narrative of a Model Temperance Town

J. Ewing Ritchie · history

Best Lincoln stories, tersely told

J. E. Gallaher · collection

Best o' luck: How a fighting Kentuckian won the thanks of Britain's King

Alexander McClintock · biography

Best Stories of the 1914 European War

Betrayed Armenia

Diana Agabeg Apcar · history

Better Homes in America: Plan Book for Demonstration Week October 9 to 14, 1922

Marie Mattingly Meloney · manual

Betting & Gambling: A National Evil

B. Seebohm Rowntree · history

Betty at St. Benedick's

Ethel Talbot · novel

Between Heathenism and Christianity

Charles William Super · ideas

Between the Lines

Boyd Cable · history

Between the Lines: Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After

Henry Bascom -1916 Smith · biography

Beyond the Lines; Or, A Yankee Prisoner Loose in Dixie

John James Geer · biography

Beyond the Marne: Quincy, Huiry, Voisins before and during the battle

Henriette Cuvru-Magot · biography

Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders

George Bird Grinnell · history

Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic (Pertaining to the art of binding books.—Dibdin)

Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company · reference

Bible Atlas: A Manual of Biblical Geography and History

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut · reference

Bible history and brief outline of church history

Volrath Vogt · ideas

The story in one page

Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

The author finds the Bible's best stories already had previous, more ancient owners.

T. W. Doane · history

Bible Studies in the Life of Paul, Historical and Constructive

Henry T. Sell · ideas

Bible Studies: Essays on Phallic Worship and Other Curious Rites and Customs

J. M. Wheeler · science

John C. Miller · ideas

Biblical Geography and History

Charles Foster Kent · history

Biblical Revision, its duties and conditions

Henry Alford · ideas

Bibliographical history of electricity & magnetism, chronologically arranged

Paul Fleury Mottelay · reference

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages

F. Somner Merryweather · history

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness

Thomas Frognall Dibdin · reference

Big Bend National Park, Texas

United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications · travel

Big Bend National Park: Land of Dramatic Contrasts and Scenic Grandeur

W. Ray Scott · travel

Bilingualism: Address delivered before the Quebec Canadian Club

N. A. Belcourt · ideas

Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S.: A Story of the Great War

Percy F. Westerman · novel

Biltmore House and Gardens

Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies)

John Howie · biography

Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Longleat in the county of Wilts, the seat of the Marquis of Bath

Mary Louisa Boyle · reference

Biographical Catalogue of the Portraits at Panshanger, the Seat of Earl Cowper, K.G.

Mary Louisa Boyle · reference

Biographical catalogue of the portraits at Weston, the seat of the Earl of Bradford

Mary Louisa Boyle · reference

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe

Thaddeus Mason Harris · biography

Biographical Notices of the Portraits at Hinchingbrook

Mary Louisa Boyle · reference

Biographical Outlines: British History

Biographical sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin

Biographical Sketches

Nathaniel Hawthorne · biography