History

History investigates past events, civilizations, and intellectual movements through critical analysis of sources. It examines political, cultural, social, and economic transformations over time. This category includes both general historical surveys and specialized historical studies.

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History The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time – Will Durant Will Durant

Overview and Purpose The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time (1st ed. 2001) is a work by…

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Biography A Dual Autobiography – Will Durant Will Durant

Origins and Form of the Book A Dual Autobiography is a joint memoir by the American historian and…

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Ancient History The Story of Civilization – Will Durant Will Durant

Will Durant's Our Oriental Heritage opens a five-volume history of civilization, beginning in the East.

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History The Lessons of History – Will Durant Will Durant

A compact synthesis distilling what the Durants' monumental Story of Civilization taught about human nature, states, and the…

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Biography The Story of Philosophy – Will Durant Will Durant

Will Durant's lively intellectual history guides general readers through the great Western philosophers from Plato to the American…

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History Appeal to the World; or a Vindication of the Town of Boston, from Many False and Malicious Aspersions Contain’d in Certain Letters and Memorials, Written by Governor Bernard, General Gage, Commodore Hood – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

A 1769 pamphlet issued in Boston's name, answering royal officials' accusations and appealing to the world for judgment.

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Business The Complete Servant – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

A practical 1825 London household manual by two career servants detailing the duties, wages, and conduct of every…

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History 7 US Presidents History Failed – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

Samuel Adams argues in 7 US Presidents History Failed that seven presidents were judged too harshly or remembered…

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History Writings of Samuel Adams Vol 4 – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

The fourth volume of Samuel Adams's collected letters and public papers, spanning 1778 to 1802.

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Business Great American Fraud – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

Samuel Hopkins Adams exposes the patent-medicine industry as a business built on fraud and poison, fed by complicit…

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History The dissenters – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

The Dissenters is an anthology edited by John Gabriel Hunt tracing American dissent from the colonial era to…

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History Writings of Samuel Adams – Samuel Adams Samuel Adams

This volume gathers Samuel Adams’s public papers, newspaper essays, and official correspondence from 1770 to 1773.

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Christianity Two Alcuin letter-books – Alcuin Alcuin

A modern Latin edition of two collections of Alcuin's correspondence preserved in British Museum MS Cotton Vespasian A…

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History The bishops, kings, and saints of York – Alcuin Alcuin

Alcuin's Latin hexameter poem chronicles the church of York, its bishops, Northumbrian kings, and saints.

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History Beati Flacci Albini seu Alcuini abbatis, Caroli Magni Regis ac Imperatoris, magistri opera – Alcuin Alcuin

A two-volume Latin collection of Alcuin's works, edited by Frobenius Forster, gathering the writings of Charlemagne's scholarly master.

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