Author: John S C Abbott

The name of Daniel Boone is a conspicuous one in the annals of our country. And yet there are but few who are familiar with the events of his wonde...

We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins,...

David Crockett certainly was not a model man. But he was a representative man. He has exerted a very powerful influence over our history. His wild ...

For some years the author of this work has been collecting materials for writing the history of the French Revolution. With this object in view he ...

The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and injurious habits of...

The life of Washington reveals to us the state of society in our land, the manners and customs of the people, their joys and griefs, one hundred ye...

It would be difficult to find, in all the range of the past, a man whose career has been so full of wonderful and exciting vicissitude as that of L...