A historical reprint of a 1906 guide to Vienna (Wien). Includes century-old perspectives of the legendary city's greatest features. Experience it the way our ancestor's saw it. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any writer, travel- or history-buff.

A historical reprint of a 1904 guide to "The Crescent City." Includes century-old perspectives of NOLA's greatest features. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any writer, travel- or history-buff.

Slavery has existed in one form or another throughout recorded history. And while many races and nationalities have been victims of this abhorrent practice around the world, this "peculiar institution," as it was called in the United States, is particularly tragic inasmuch as our country was founded on the principle of equality for all. Since the Reconstruction, we've struggled with the embarrassing legacy of our forefathers. But as our lands fill with immigrants and generations far separated from the era who bear no responsibility for the crimes of the past century it's important to face the...

Asked by a group of Middle Easterners why they were a target of good-natured jokes, a popular Hispanic comedian recently said, "Because it's your turn." The hypersensitive political-correct crowd would have us believe that there is currently some kind of unprecedented assault on immigrants and immigration. But ours is a country of newcomers, none of whom were welcomed with open arms. The Irish, Jewish and Italians, for instance, were not cosseted as they might be today. They were subjected to mockery as well as employment and housing discrimination. Thankfully, none were so brittle, nor their...

Barnum's 1866 guide to scams of the day. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this historical reprint you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any history buff.

A comprehensive period account of the background and construction of the Eiffel Tower by French scientist and editor Gaston Tissandier (1843 - 1899). Includes 1889 introductory handwritten letter by M. Gustave Eiffel. Copiously illustrated. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this historical reprint you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any history buff.

Frauds of America, or, Beware of shams, how they are worked and how to foil them. The tricks and methods of all kinds of frauds and swindlers, from the petty sneak-thief to the cleverest schemes of the expert bank robber, fully exposed for the protection of the American public. This historical reprint is of the 1902 revision to the original 1896 edition. Handier than the free PDFs on the web, this you can hold, bookmark, highlight and shelve. An inexpensive imperative for any history buff.

For history buffs and writers of period settings, 1893 reprint of easily-read reference of which was said at the time: -Compiled and edited by Hon. Frank Gilbert, Ex-Sub-Treasurer of the U.S. The best arranged, most convenient, most accurate, and latest book on law, business education, etc., in existence. Simple. Practical. Complete. A commercial college brought to your own home. No other book contains what is found in 'Diamond Points.' Invaluable to business and professional men, teachers, students, and everybody.-

"Some men are born rascals. Others have rascality thrust upon them." George H Devol was an infamous gambler - though "cheat" would be a more accurate word. In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes of how he plied his Three-Card Monte and sharp dealing skills to cheat the cheaters and/or suckers on steamboats and in river towns over more than four decades in the mid-nineteenth-century South.