title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2)
or a History of the Life of Mademoiselle de Beleau Known by the Name of the Lady Roxana | Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 | en | | | | Women -- Great Britain -- Fiction; Women -- Europe -- Fiction; Mistresses -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Charles II, 1660-1685 -- Fiction; Europe -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction; Picaresque literature; Historical fiction; Adventure stories | 2009-10-27 |
Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy | Batten, John M. (John Mullin), 1837-1916 | en | | | | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations | 2008-06-12 |
Two Penniless Princesses | Yonge, Charlotte Mary, 1823-1901 | en | | | | Scotland -- History -- James II, 1437-1460 -- Fiction; Knights and knighthood -- Fiction; France -- History -- Charles VII, 1422-1461 -- Fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Fiction; Marriage -- Fiction; Princesses -- Fiction; Prisoners -- Fiction; Chivalry -- Fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | 2001-12-01 |
Before the Dawn
A Story of the Fall of Richmond | Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander), 1862-1919 | en | | | | United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction; Richmond (Va.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction | 2007-05-04 |
Jewish Literature and Other Essays | Karpeles, Gustav, 1848-1909 | en | | A glance at Jewish literature -- The Talmud -- The Jew in the history of civilization -- Women in Jewish literature -- Moses Maimonides -- Jewish troubadours and minnesingers -- Humor and love in Jewish poetry -- The Jewish stage -- The Jew's quest in Africa -- A Jewish king in Poland -- Jewish society in the time of Mendelssohn -- Leopold Zunz -- Heinrich Heine and Judaism -- The music of the synagogue. | | Jews; Jewish literature -- History and criticism | 2009-01-27 |
Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ | Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905 | en | | | | Jesus Christ -- Fiction; Christian fiction; Historical fiction; Rome -- History -- Tiberius, 14-37 -- Fiction; Tiberius, Emperor of Rome 42 B.C.-37 A.D. -- Fiction; Bible. N.T. -- History of Biblical events -- Fiction | 2000-04-01 |
Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works | Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 | en | | | | Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822; Astronomers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Astronomy -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Astronomy -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | 2009-06-03 |
Great Indian Chief of the West
Or, Life and Adventures of Black Hawk | Drake, Benjamin, 1794-1841 | en | | | | Black Hawk, Sauk chief, 1767-1838; Keokuk, Sauk chief, 1780?-1848; Sauk Indians -- History; Fox Indians -- History; Black Hawk War, 1832 | 2006-04-30 |
Suspended Judgments
Essays on Books and Sensations | Powys, John Cowper, 1872-1963 | en | | The art of discrimination -- Montaigne -- Pascal -- Voltaire -- Rousseau -- Balzac -- Victor Hugo -- Guy de Maupassant -- Anatole France -- Paul Verlaine -- Remy de Gourmont -- William Blake -- Byron -- Emily Brontë -- Joseph Conrad -- Henry James -- Oscar Wilde -- Suspended judgment. | | French literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism | 2008-11-05 |
Log-book of Timothy Boardman
Kept On Board The Privateer Oliver Cromwell, During A
Cruise From New London, Ct., to Charleston, S. C., And
Return, In 1778; Also, A Biographical Sketch of The Author. | Boardman, Timothy, 1754-1838 | en | | | Boardman, Samuel Ward, 1830-1917 [Contributor] | Oliver Cromwell (Ship); United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Naval operations; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Personal narratives | 2008-07-12 |
Windsor Castle | Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 | en | | | | Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536 -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603 -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction | 2001-10-01 |
Bunyan | Froude, James Anthony, 1818-1894 | en | | | | Bunyan, John, 1628-1688; Christian literature, English -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century; Authors, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Biography; Puritans -- England -- Biography; Puritan movements in literature | 2009-09-07 |
Early Kings of Norway | Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 | en | | | | Norway -- History -- To 1030; Norway -- History -- 1030-1397; Knox, John, ca. 1514-1572; Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881 -- Dictionaries, indexes, etc | 1999-10-01 |
Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 | Saintsbury, George, 1845-1933 | en | | The kinds of criticism -- I. Crabbe -- II. Hogg -- III. Sydney Smith -- IV. Jeffrey -- V. Hazlitt -- VI. Moore -- VII. Leigh Hunt -- VIII. Peacock -- IX. Wilson -- X. De Quincey -- XI. Lockhart -- XII. Praed -- XIII. Borrow -- Appendix: A. De Quincey. B. Lockhart. | | English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | 2009-11-12 |
The Fairfax County Courthouse | | en | | | | Law -- Virginia -- Fairfax County -- History; Courthouses -- Virginia -- Fairfax County -- History | 2009-05-10 |
The Boy Crusaders
A Story of the Days of Louis IX. | Edgar, John G. (John George), 1834-1864 | en | | | | Louis IX, King of France, 1214-1270 -- Juvenile fiction; Crusades -- Juvenile fiction; France -- Kings and rulers -- Juvenile fiction; Europe -- History -- Juvenile fiction; Church history -- Juvenile fiction; Biographical fiction | 2008-09-19 |
All Afloat
A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways | Wood, William Charles Henry, 1864-1947 | en | | | | Navigation -- History; Canada -- History; Inland navigation -- Canada; Fisheries -- Canada | 2008-03-11 |
The Truce of God
A Tale of the Eleventh Century | Miles, George Henry, 1824-1871 | en | | | | Catholics -- Fiction; Germany -- History -- Henry IV, 1056-1106 -- Fiction; Holy Roman Empire -- History -- Henry IV, 1056-1106 -- Fiction | 2005-03-08 |
The Rock of Chickamauga
A Story of the Western Crisis | Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander), 1862-1919 | en | The Civil War Series, Volume 6 | | | Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 -- Juvenile fiction; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Juvenile fiction; Vicksburg (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Juvenile fiction | 2006-01-01 |
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District | en | Cf. Trinity Atomic Web Site:
http://www.envirolink.org/issues/nuketesting/ | | | Atomic bomb -- Blast effect; Atomic bomb -- Physiological effect; Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945; Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945 | 1996-10-01 |
Notre-Dame De Paris | Hugo, Victor, 1802-1885 | en | | | Hapgood, Isabel Florence, 1850-1928 [Translator] | France -- History -- Louis XI, 1461-1483 -- Fiction; Paris (France) -- History -- To 1515 -- Fiction; Notre-Dame de Paris (Cathedral) -- Fiction; People with disabilities -- Fiction; Clergy -- Fiction; Historical fiction | 2001-04-01 |
Notes of a War Correspondent | Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 | en | | The Cuban-Spanish war -- The Greek-Turkish war -- The Spanish-American war -- The South African war -- The Japanese-Russian war -- A war correspondent's kit | Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909 [Illustrator] | Military history, Modern; Spanish-American War, 1898; South African War, 1899-1902; Greco-Turkish War, 1897; Cuba -- History -- Revolution, 1895-1898 | 2002-01-01 |
Female Suffrage: a Letter to the Christian Women of America | Cooper, Susan Fenimore, 1813-1894 | en | | | | Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Christian women -- Conduct of life | 2000-04-01 |
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 | Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright, 1851-1924 | en | | | | Beatrice, consort of Lodovico Sforza il Moro, Duke of Milan, 1475-1497; Italy -- History -- 1268-1492; Women -- Biography; Nobility -- Italy -- Milan -- History -- To 1500; Nobility -- Italy -- Milan -- Biography; Renaissance -- Italy -- Milan | 2008-05-27 |
Tobacco in Colonial Virginia
"The Sovereign Remedy" | Herndon, G. Melvin | en | | | | Tobacco -- Virginia -- History; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | 2008-11-01 |