Edited by by Pierre Mollier, Daniel Kerjan, Yves Hilvert-Messeca, and Carter Charles Purchase through Amazon This special issue of Ritual, Secrecy and Civil Society, among other things, questions explores the ways in which the secret initiatory societies interface with political and social history. It would be a great mistake to think that organizations such as Freemasonry… Continue reading Ritual and Secrecy Confront Reality
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Oriental Rambles
by George W. Caldwell M.D. Purchase through Amazon No excuse is offered for this volume and no apology is volunteered. The author did the best he could. It is not intended as a guidebook or a romance, but merely as a true account of the events of travel and the points of interest as the ordinary… Continue reading Oriental Rambles
Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
by John D. Whidden Purchase on Amazon John D. Whidden served in various roles on ships since the age of twelve. Although he portrayed himself as a roguish boy, he quickly proved himself as a ship’s gofer, and earned a mate’s position by his early twenties. His travels saw him around the world, with stops at… Continue reading Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days
New Ideas for Online Learning: Keeping up with the Changes
Edited by Melissa Layne Purchase on Amazon Can a growing number of students in distance education reach such levels that conventional education is permanently changed? Does online education reflect the current economic crisis? Are faculty becoming less and less conventional, while adjunct ranks swell still further? Is “education by Skype” potentially more effective than time honored… Continue reading New Ideas for Online Learning: Keeping up with the Changes
New Frontiers in Criminology
Edited by Alain Bauer Purchase through Amazon Criminology owes a great deal as a discipline to the eighteenth century social philosophers, particularly those like Cesare Beccaria who partly built some of their arguments on social contract theory. Certainly some of the aspects of the debate over free will date from then. The publishing of Beccaria’s Dei… Continue reading New Frontiers in Criminology
John Hawke’s Fortune: A Story of Monmouth’s Rebellion
by G. A. Henty Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) was born at Trumpington near Cambridge and attended Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge University. He became a war correspondent and covered the Austro-Italian War, the 1868 British invasion of Ethiopia, the Franco-Prussian War, the Ashanti Wars, the Turco-Serbian War and… Continue reading John Hawke’s Fortune: A Story of Monmouth’s Rebellion
Harvard University Songs
by E. F. DuBois Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Eugene Floyd DuBois (1882-1959) studied medicine at Columbia after doing his undergraduate work at Harvard and graduating in 1903. At Harvard he was business editor of the Harvard Lampoon, the humor magazine, and rowed. He had a lifelong avocational interest in music but as professor… Continue reading Harvard University Songs
Fiat Lux: Full Score, Parts Included
Composed by by Gregory Thomas Woolford Martin Purchase on Amazon (Fiat Lux: Full Score, Parts Included) | Purchase on CreateSpace Purchase on Amazon (Fiat Lux: Piano & Vocal Score) | Purchase on CreateSpace Gregory Thomas Woolford Martin has composed for small and large ensembles, electronica, choir, film, theater, dance and orchestra. He has received grants from… Continue reading Fiat Lux: Full Score, Parts Included
Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
by William Andrew Chatto Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace William Andrew Chatto (1799-1864) initially was employed in the wholesale tea business. However, his real passion was antiquarian scholarship, so in 1834, he gave up the family firm and devoted himself to writing full-time. His first work was entitled, Recollections of Fly-Fishing in Northumberland, under the… Continue reading Facts and Speculations on the Origin and History of Playing Cards
Espionage!
by H. R. Berndorff, Translated by Bernard Miall Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Hans Rudolf Berndorff (1895-1963) was born in Düsseldorf, Germany. From a young age was a journalist with an interest in the bizarre and adventurous, including shipwrecks and piracy. During the Nazi era he published a number of popular novels that steered… Continue reading Espionage!
Debating the Ku Klux Klan
by Julia E. Johnsen Purchase through Amazon The Ku Klux Klan has had several manifestations in the United States. The first emergence was in the 1860s during the Reconstruction Era. Julia Johnsen’s work intersects with the second major resurgence of the Klan during the 1920s. The work takes a unique approach, as the Ku Klux Klan… Continue reading Debating the Ku Klux Klan
Benjamin Franklin and Canada
by Hon. William Renwick Riddell Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace While Benjamin Franklin is of paramount importance to American history, he deserves a place in Canadian history as well. As deputy postmaster general for the British colonies, he established the Canadian post office in Halifax to better link the North American settlements with Britain,… Continue reading Benjamin Franklin and Canada
Eben Holding’s Last Day A-Fishing
by Irving Bacheller Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace In addition to being a writer, Addison Irving Bacheller (1859-1950) founded the Bacheller Syndicate, the first newspaper syndicate in the United States established in 1885 to provide unique content to fill additional space of Sunday papers. It was often with writing by well-known authors like Rudyard… Continue reading Eben Holding’s Last Day A-Fishing
Old Towpaths: The Story of the American Canal Era
by Alvin F. Harlow Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Alvin Fay Harlow wrote on many historical subjects, including mailing services, waybills, the telegraph, stamp collecting and education. Born in Sedalia, Missouri, he attended Franklin College in Indiana and then worked in the coal and timber business, and as a commercial artist, before being able… Continue reading Old Towpaths: The Story of the American Canal Era
The Victor Book of the Opera
By Victor Talking Machine Co., Introduction by Matthew Brewer Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace The Victor Book of Opera carries on the proud tradition of operatic synopsis compendiums with a rich array of historic photos and recording references. With its intricate descriptions of opera synopses spanning the length and breadth of the repertoire,… Continue reading The Victor Book of the Opera
Social Media Writing Lesson Plans for YouTube, Facebook, NaNoWriMo, CreateSpace: Bonus Intro to Blogger
by Dr. Erik Bean and Emily Waszak Purchase through Amazon Your students are already using social networks. Why not take their lessons to where they spend much time? Social Media Writing Lesson Plans published by Westphalia Press imprint of the Policy Studies Organization, Washington, D.C. is geared towards secondary and higher education English and composition teachers… Continue reading Social Media Writing Lesson Plans for YouTube, Facebook, NaNoWriMo, CreateSpace: Bonus Intro to Blogger
Toward the Abyss: Israel and the Palestinians
by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Purchase on Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace The Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not appear to be any closer to a resolution, even after decades of continuous struggle. Since the signing of the historic Oslo Accords, the divide between the two sides has devolved to its lowest point yet, which has made the opportunity… Continue reading Toward the Abyss: Israel and the Palestinians
Florence Nightingale: The Wounded Soldier’s Friend
by Eliza F. Pollard Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) is regarded as the founder of modern nursing. The Nightingale Museum in London includes such curiosities as the lantern she carried on her rounds to the wounded during the Crimean War, more than a thousand of her letters, and her pet owl,… Continue reading Florence Nightingale: The Wounded Soldier’s Friend
Mexico En Marcha
by Manuel Eduardo Hubner Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Los que juzgan el movimiento social y político de México a través de las doctrinas recientes se encuentran generalmente con dificultades teóricas insalvables. No saben que los fenómenos característicos de la revolución fueron ya los motivos determinantes de las luchas por la emancipación a comienzos del… Continue reading Mexico En Marcha
Egypt and Its Betrayal: Personal Recollections by Elbert Farman
by Elbert E. Farman Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Elbert E. Farman was a diplomat, jurist and author of two works, Along the Nile and Egypt and its Betrayal. The works were highlight influenced by Farman’s perspective as the United States Ambassador to Egypt, where he served from 1876-81. During this time, he traveled… Continue reading Egypt and Its Betrayal: Personal Recollections by Elbert Farman
Natural Gas as an Instrument of Russian State Power
by Ion A. Iftimie Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace “Since the Cold War, Russia has been perceived as a broken nation that no longer represents a threat to the North Atlantic Alliance. This book emphasizes that Russia overcame this major vulnerability by developing the capacity to use unilateral economic sanctions in the form of… Continue reading Natural Gas as an Instrument of Russian State Power
La Máquina Oscura
by D. G. Sutter Purchase through CreateSpace | Purchase through Amazon The ground rumbles. The humming beneath begins, a droning monotonous tune that will one day drive us mad. The machines rise and steal oxygen from the air, rotating at dangerous speeds and emitting lethal radiation. Upon the return home to the small village of Montejo de la… Continue reading La Máquina Oscura
Colonial American History: The Essential Story
By Robert Owens Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace This work is written for non-Historians, and is a handy easy-to-read condensed look at Early American History. It is composed of short chapters each of which is designed to be a stand-alone treatment of a segment of time. It is my hope that this… Continue reading Colonial American History: The Essential Story
Between Conflict and Conformity: Freemasonry During the Weimar Republic and the “Third Reich”
Authored by Ralf Melzer Translated by Glenys A. Waldman Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Freemasonry during the Weimar Republic and the ‘Third Reich’…One might ask, “Is that a chapter of forgotten persecution or a legend of persecution?” After extensive research in archives in Berlin, Moscow, and Washington, D.C., the author has determined that… Continue reading Between Conflict and Conformity: Freemasonry During the Weimar Republic and the “Third Reich”
Mitigating High-Impact Threats to Critical Infrastructure: 2013 Conference Proceedings of the InfraGard National EMP SIG Sessions at the Dupont Summit
by Charles L. Manto Purchase on Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace The Electromagnetic Pulse Special Interest Group (EMP SIG) addresses any high-impact threat that could cause long-term nationwide collapse of critical infrastructure. These threats include EMP, extreme space weather, cyber attacks, coordinated physical attacks or widespread pandemics. The EMP SIG provides trusted communications and information for… Continue reading Mitigating High-Impact Threats to Critical Infrastructure: 2013 Conference Proceedings of the InfraGard National EMP SIG Sessions at the Dupont Summit
Negro Poetry and Drama: Revisiting the Voices of Early African American Figures
by Sterling A. Brown, Preface by Whitney Sheperd Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Commissioned by the great Alain Locke and edited by Sterling A. Brown, Negro Poetry and Drama was an essential tool in the African American adult education movement during the early twentieth century. The fight for civil rights was accompanied by a… Continue reading Negro Poetry and Drama: Revisiting the Voices of Early African American Figures
The Discovery of the Five Great Lakes
by Sara Stafford Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace The Great Lakes consist of Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario, and are the world’s greatest concentration, more than 20 percent, of fresh water. In geologic terms they are only about ten thousand years old, formed during the last ice age. Appreciating their history has… Continue reading The Discovery of the Five Great Lakes
The History of Playing Cards: Anecdotes for Their Use in Conjuring, Fortune Telling & Card Sharping
by Rev. Ed. S. Taylor Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace The History of Playing Cards offers a comprehensive look at the history and usage of cards, tracing their movements through India, China, the Middle East, and through Europe, with a heavy emphasis on cards in France and England. Taylor included a great deal of… Continue reading The History of Playing Cards: Anecdotes for Their Use in Conjuring, Fortune Telling & Card Sharping
Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies
by Nathaniel Pitt Langford Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Vigilante Days and Ways examines the difficulty of living in the region that would become Montana and Idaho during the mid-1800s. The work highlights the bloody history of the area by focusing on robbers and other criminals who would lie in wait along the… Continue reading Vigilante Days and Ways: The Pioneers of the Rockies
The First Forty-Niner and the Story of the Golden Tea-Caddy
by James A. B. Scherer Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Samuel Brannan lived across the span of the nineteenth century in the United States. He is believed to have been the first millionaire created by the Gold Rush. Among other things, Brannan is also noted for founding the California Star newspaper, relocating with other… Continue reading The First Forty-Niner and the Story of the Golden Tea-Caddy
The Violin and Old Violin Makers: A Historical & Biographical Account of the Violin
by A. Mason Clarke Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace There is no question about the fascinating tales that come with celebrated violins, as in this volume, and the enormous prices. In 2011, a 1721 Stradivari was sold for nearly ten million pounds. Yet the storied value of old violins has been challenged by the… Continue reading The Violin and Old Violin Makers: A Historical & Biographical Account of the Violin
Bugle Echoes: A Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War
Edited by Francis F. Browne Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace Bugle Echoes offers a vast collection of poetry illustrating the lived experiences of the Civil War. The collection was edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1843-1913) who fought in the Civil War as a soldier in the Forty-Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers. His father, William Goldsmith Browne,… Continue reading Bugle Echoes: A Collection of the Poetry of the Civil War
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia – 1898
by John P. Sheiry Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace The Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia is not the grand lodge for the United States, but at times because of its site it has national importance. The election of Brother William McKinley as president in 1896 was the beginning of an extraordinarily visible… Continue reading Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia – 1898
An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston
by Thomas Starr King Purchase through Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Thomas Starr King delivered this famous address while at the pinnacle of his career as minister of the Hollis Street Church in Boston. It was no small accomplishment in a city which, at the time, nurtured a host of famous orators. But King’s most singular… Continue reading An Oration Delivered Before the Municipal Authorities of the City of Boston
Boston Unitarianism 1820-1850: A Study of the Life and Work of Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham
by Octavius Brooks Frothingham Purchase through Amazon | Purchase through CreateSpace A word of explanation seems to be necessary. Many years ago I proposed writing something in memory of Dr. Frothingham, but abandoned the project on account of the meagerness of the biographical material. Within the twelvemonth, a warm friend and admirer of his asked… Continue reading Boston Unitarianism 1820-1850: A Study of the Life and Work of Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham
Captain Bayley’s Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
by G. A. Henty Purchase through Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace George Alfred Henty (1832-1902) was born at Trumpington near Cambridge and attended Gonville and Caius College in Cambridge University. He became a war correspondent and covered the Austro-Italian War, the 1868 British invasion of Ethiopia, the Franco-Prussian War, the Ashanti Wars, the Turco-Serbian War and… Continue reading Captain Bayley’s Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California
Indian and Scout: A Tale of the Gold Rush to California
By F. S. Brereton, Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Frederick Sadleir Brereton (1852-1957) was a prolific author of children’s books, writing over forty tales of heroism. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. Brereton wrote a variety of stories, such as With Rifle and Bayonet:… Continue reading Indian and Scout: A Tale of the Gold Rush to California
The Log of a Forty-Niner
by Carolyn Hale Russ Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Carolyn Hale Russ uses the diary and personal accounts of her father, Richard L. Hale, to discuss California exploration by settlers from 1849 to 1854. Russ highlights the land and ship excursions her father undertook in order to find adventure and gold. The Log of… Continue reading The Log of a Forty-Niner
Vigilantes of Montana: Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
Vigilantes of Montana: Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains by Thomas J. Dimsdale Purchase through Amazon Coming to Kindle soon! The Vigilantes of Montana, or Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains, offers itself as “being a correct and impartial narrative of the chase, capture, trial and execution of Henry Plummer’s Road Agent Band, together with… Continue reading Vigilantes of Montana: Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the 1850s
by Samuel Adams Drake Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The California Gold Rush really was a bonanza. Between 1849 and 1855 more than $400 million dollars was gathered by the miners; once adjusted, it is a sum today reaching into the trillions. It was a social phenomenon marked by the carnivalesque. In his work… Continue reading The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the 1850s
Rigorous Grading Using Microsoft Word AutoCorrect: Plus Google Docs
by Erik Bean Ed.D. Purchase through Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace This is the Word AutoCorrect booklet you’ve been wanting! It’s the 21st century and teaching and technology have combined for a better student and faculty experience. Whether you’re a full-time professor, adjunct instructor for a dozen schools or one, Rigorous Grading Using Microsoft Word AutoCorrect: Plus… Continue reading Rigorous Grading Using Microsoft Word AutoCorrect: Plus Google Docs
The Torch of Liberty
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Illustrated by Kreigh Collins Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The Torch of Liberty features several Greek stories highlighting the development of democracy. The illustrations in this volume are by Kreigh Collins (1908-1974) who created the comic strip hero Kevin the Bold, and whose papers are collected by the library of… Continue reading The Torch of Liberty
Memoirs of a Poor Relation: Being the Story of a Post-War Southern Girl and Her Battle With Destiny
by Marietta Minnigerode Andrews Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Born in Richmond, Virginia, Marietta Minnigerode Andrews (1869-1931) was the oldest of ten children in a family prominent in the Confederacy but reduced to poverty by the Civil War. She became an art teacher, stained glass artist, and author. A member of the Arts Club… Continue reading Memoirs of a Poor Relation: Being the Story of a Post-War Southern Girl and Her Battle With Destiny
The Wizard
by H. Rider Haggard Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace The Wizard was serialized in the African Review and then published in full in the 1896 issue of Arrowsmith’s Christmas Annual. The hero, a missionary named Owen, has to endure various trials at the hands of African tribal magicians, and discovers his own ability to… Continue reading The Wizard
Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes
by Clarence E. Edwords Purchase on Amazon Clarence E. Edwords’ book is both a culinary history that remains a reference and a reminder of just how different San Francisco has always been, despite how we think it just recently became the capital of the unconventional. Anthony Ashbolt quotes the familiar view of its contemporary Bohemianism… Continue reading Bohemian San Francisco: Its Restaurants and Their Most Famous Recipes
Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington Vol. IV
Purchase on Amazon The Philosophical Society of Washington was founded on March 13, 1871. It was preceded by gatherings at the home of Joseph Henry, the great scientist whose discoveries laid the foundations for advances in magnetism and electromagnetism. Since 1887 it has met at the Cosmos Club, in whose founding the Philosophical members… Continue reading Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington Vol. IV
Harvard Episodes
by Charles Macomb Flandrau Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace When this book first appeared in 1897, the student newspaper the Harvard Crimson, was upset: “With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after… Continue reading Harvard Episodes
British Letters: Illustrative of Character and Social Life
by Edward T. Mason Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Edward Tuckerman Mason (1847-1911) published anthologies on American humor, along with studies of Samuel Johnson and Robert Browning, as well as a still admired – and ahead of its time – work on the Italian actor Tommaso Salvini and his interpretation of Othello. This… Continue reading British Letters: Illustrative of Character and Social Life
Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods
by Frank Rinder Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Frank Rinder (1863-1937) was the art correspondent of the Glasgow Herald and adviser to the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. He had the luck of a substantial bequest to the gallery, which enabled him to be aggressive as its agent. His other books included a history… Continue reading Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods
Hymns to the Gods & Other Poems
by Gen. Albert Pike Purchase on Amazon | Purchase on CreateSpace Albert Pike (1809-1891) began writing as a youth, and “Hymns to the Gods” was his first published poem when he was only 23. He subsequently became a contributor to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine after his book, Prose Sketches and Poems Written in the Western Country,… Continue reading Hymns to the Gods & Other Poems
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