Showing posts with label Middle School And High School History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle School And High School History. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Madame Roland, Makers of History by John S. C. Abbott /Project Gutenberg
Just over 300 pages, story of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror from Madame Roland's memoirs.
"The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events of the French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time has yet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained in the memoirs of no other woman so much to invigorate the mind with the desire for high intellectual culture, and so much to animate the spirit heroically to meet all the ills of this eventful life. Notwithstanding her experience of the heaviest temporal calamities, she found, in the opulence of her own intellectual treasures, an unfailing resource. These inward joys peopled her solitude with society, and dispelled even from the dungeon its gloom. I know not where to look for a career more full of suggestive thought."
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"The history of Madame Roland embraces the most interesting events of the French Revolution, that most instructive tragedy which time has yet enacted. There is, perhaps, contained in the memoirs of no other woman so much to invigorate the mind with the desire for high intellectual culture, and so much to animate the spirit heroically to meet all the ills of this eventful life. Notwithstanding her experience of the heaviest temporal calamities, she found, in the opulence of her own intellectual treasures, an unfailing resource. These inward joys peopled her solitude with society, and dispelled even from the dungeon its gloom. I know not where to look for a career more full of suggestive thought."
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
A History of Art for Beginners and Students/Google Books
Title A History of Art for Beginners and Students: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Author Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Publisher F.A. Stokes, 1887
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Author Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Publisher F.A. Stokes, 1887
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
John Muir's Our National Parks/Google Books
Monday, March 7, 2011
Famous Men of Science/Project Gutenberg
FAMOUS MEN OF SCIENCE BY SARAH K. BOLTON
AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "GIRLS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS," "FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS,"
"FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN," "SOCIAL
STUDIES IN ENGLAND," "STORIES
FROM LIFE," "FROM HEART
AND NATURE," ETC.
1889
Preface:
Garfield said, "No page of human history is so instructive and significant as the record of those early influences which develop the character and direct the lives of eminent men."
These sketches show how young men have overcome difficulties, sometimes poverty, sometimes illness; how they have made failures before finding their true vocation. They show the results of energy, perseverance, and untiring devotion; how a cheerful face and a hopeful spirit like Agassiz's, or a gentle and kindly nature like Darwin's, can win its way against opposition.
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AUTHOR OF "POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS," "GIRLS WHO
BECAME FAMOUS," "FAMOUS AMERICAN AUTHORS,"
"FAMOUS AMERICAN STATESMEN," "SOCIAL
STUDIES IN ENGLAND," "STORIES
FROM LIFE," "FROM HEART
AND NATURE," ETC.
1889
Preface:
Garfield said, "No page of human history is so instructive and significant as the record of those early influences which develop the character and direct the lives of eminent men."
These sketches show how young men have overcome difficulties, sometimes poverty, sometimes illness; how they have made failures before finding their true vocation. They show the results of energy, perseverance, and untiring devotion; how a cheerful face and a hopeful spirit like Agassiz's, or a gentle and kindly nature like Darwin's, can win its way against opposition.
Click here.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
A Historical Reader for Schools/Google Books
Title A Historical Reader
Author Henry Elliot Shepherd
Publisher D. Appleton and Co., 1888
Overview
Interesting narratives touching upon American and European historical figures.
Author Henry Elliot Shepherd
Publisher D. Appleton and Co., 1888
Overview
Interesting narratives touching upon American and European historical figures.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Stories of Ancient Peoples/Google Books
Title Stories of Ancient Peoples
Eclectic School Readings
Author Emma Josephine Arnold
Publisher American Book Company, 1901
Length 232 pages
Overview
Eclectic School Readings
Author Emma Josephine Arnold
Publisher American Book Company, 1901
Length 232 pages
Overview
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Masterpieces of the Great Artists, A.D. 1400-1700
Title Masterpieces of the Great Artists, A.D. 1400-1700
Author N. D'Anvers
Publisher G. Bell and sons, 1895
Length 85 pages
Overview
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Comprehensive History of Western Civilization through 16th Century
This site is a wonderful resource! See their time line from the founding of Rome in 753 BC through 1566 - the Ottomans conquer European territories in the Balkans. Links to free resources and online books are given from the time line. The free books are page scans of the books with no comprehensive downloads offered; however, if you use the Google Books Search on my side bar, you may find it in a download friendly form(PDF). Also try Gutenberg Books, also on my side bar, and a general Google search.
Some of these books have already been listed here, but I will attempt to add more of them here.
They offer fairly reasonably priced CD collections as well.
Some of these books have already been listed here, but I will attempt to add more of them here.
They offer fairly reasonably priced CD collections as well.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Children of Ancient Rome/Google Books
Author Louise Lamprey
Publisher Little, Brown, and Company, 1922
Length 262 pages
Overview
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Captains of Industry/Google Books
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Easy Lessons on the Constitution of the United States/Google Books
Easy Lessons on the Constitution of the United States
Author Alfred Bayliss
Publisher W.W. Knowles & Co., 1891
Length 143 pages
Overview
Author Alfred Bayliss
Publisher W.W. Knowles & Co., 1891
Length 143 pages
Overview
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Boy's Froissart: Being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of Adventure, Battle, and Custom in England, France, Spain/Google Books
The boy's Froissart: being Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of adventure, battle, and custom in England, France, Spain, etc
Editor Sidney Lanier
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1879
Length 422 pages
Overview
Editor Sidney Lanier
Publisher C. Scribner's sons, 1879
Length 422 pages
Overview
Friday, November 27, 2009
A History of the United States for Catholic Schools/Google Books
A history of the United States for Catholic schools
Author Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.)
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1914
Length 673 pages
Overview
Publisher Scott, Foresman and company, 1914
Length 673 pages
Overview
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Ginn & Company's Classical Atlas/Google Books
Authors Ginn and Company, Alexander Keith Johnston
Publisher Ginn, 1910
Length 43 pages
Overview here.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
European Hero Stories/Google Books
Monday, May 4, 2009
Geography: or, A Description of the World/Google Books
Geography: or, A description of the world
By Daniel Adams
Edition: 5
Published by Lincoln & Edmands, 1820
335 pagesDated, but still useful.
Main page.
Begin reading here.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
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