Enhanced Media Publishing: 127 books
Founding Fathers Four Pack
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Essay on John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Founding Fathers Four Pack includes the American classic The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the lesser-known concise Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, the biography Alexander Hamilton by Charles A. Conant and an insightful essay on John Jay by Elbert Hubbard.
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars
Volumes I and II
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The Lives of the Twelve Caesars by 2nd Century Roman historian Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus is our key primary source for biographical information of the first twelve rulers of ancient Rome - Emperors Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus...
by Julius Caesar
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2016
Originally composed for propaganda purposes, Julius Caesar’s war diary is one of the earliest examples of a military science manual, detailing arms technology, tactical maneuvers, battlefield politics, espionage, intelligence and even the role played by luck in ground and sea campaigns.
by George P. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Coral Comes High is Captain George P. Hunt's account of what happened to himself and his company during the initial stages of the Peleliu invasion by the US Marines during World War 2. The company sustains terrible casualties and is isolated in a seemingly hopeless position for a nightmare forty-eight...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2017
In his 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau argues that individuals should not permit governments to overrule their consciences, and that they have a duty to avoid allowing the government to make them the agents of injustice. Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) credited Thoreau's essay with being "the chief cause of the abolition of slavery in America."
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 (Illustrated)
Six Slave Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Slave Narrative Six Pack 2 presents six classics of the genre:
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William Craft and Ellen Craft.
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois.
Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House by Elizabeth Keckley.
The Life of Josiah...
by Douay Rheims
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The name Maccabee in Hebrew, means "hammer". This is properly applied to the first leader of the revolt, Judas, third son of Mattathias, whose attacks were "hammer-like". The name came to be used for his brothers as well, which accounts for the title of the book.
The text...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 (Illustrated)
My Life in the South, The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Army Life in a Black Regiment, John Brown, An Anti-Slavery Crusade and Henry Ward Beecher
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
Slave Narrative Six Pack 7 presents six more essential texts:
My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer.
The Narrative of Lunsford Lane, Formerly of Raleigh, N.C. by Lunsford Lane.
Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
A Plea for Captain John Brown by Henry David...
Stoic Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”
- Epicurus.
Founded in the fourth century BC, Epicureanism was the main alternative philosophy to Stoicism. Based upon the teachings of Greek philosopher Epicurus, the philosophy propounded...
by James Willard Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Bird Woman is historian James Schultz’s biography of Sacajawea culled from the first-hand accounts of various elderly Native Americans who personally knew her. Schultz weaves together the key events in Sacajawea’s story, from her traumatic childhood and adolescence, being captured and taken away...
Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 (Illustrated)
Six Essential Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Slave Narrative Six Pack 3 presents six more essential texts:
Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet Jacobs
Escaping in a Chest: The Lear Green Story by William Still
Up From Slavery by Booker...
This Country of Ours
The Story of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
A classic, comprehensive survey of pre-20th Century American history, H.E. Marshall’s This Country of Ours: The Story of America is a treasure trove of information and essential reading for young historians. This new digital edition of This Country of Ours includes an image gallery.
Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot
Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains is the true account of Hugh "Rising Wolf" Monroe, who came to the Blackfoot country when he was 16 and took part in buffalo hunts, accompanied war parties, saw parts of the United States no white man had...
by James Willard Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Lone Bull's Mistake: A Lodge Pole Chief Story, is the account of Black Otter, a Pikuni (or ‘Blackfoot’) Indian cast out from his tribe for breaking the hunting rules and forced to wander the wilderness in search of redemption.