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Theodore Ayrault Dodge

Best known for moving elephants through high mountain passes in wintertime to the classic application of the double envelopment maneuver to surround and destroy a Roman army on the battlefield at Cannae, Hannibal's achievements have rarely been equaled and never surpassed. Not only did he grasp the importance of each of the elements of a military campaign, he mastered all of them to achieve the kinds of victories which soldiers still seek to emulate.

Despite his status as a great general and his string of victories on the battlefield, Hannibal was defeated in the end. It was Rome, not Carthage that became the superpower of the ancient world. The story of Hannibal's tactical genius but strategic failure holds lessons today for those who are trying to understand why success on the battlefield does not always, or even frequently, lead to victory in war.

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George Rawlinson

Ancient History is a result of the early, exciting days of archaeological exploration. Even today, George Rawlinson's text remains the only brief introduction to the entire panorama of the ancient world. It gives equal weight to each of the civilizations of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean rather than subordinating them to the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome.

Ancient History (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

B. M. Bower

Lonesome Land (1912) delicately balances an idealistic, romantic view of the American West with its hard, gritty reality. Although focused on the West’s often lonesome and open lifestyle, scenes of true Western-genre suspense appear in this critical yet beautiful imaging of the land and its pioneers.

 

Valeria Peyson has spent her life on the East Coast and, therefore, holds a beautifully serene vision of the West in her mind. But in relocating to Hope, Montana, she discovers the hardships of the West’s remote, male-centered way of life—starting with her marriage to a drunken failure, Manley Fleetwood. The west, however, is not without the romantic aspect that Valeria hoped to find. Coming to terms with both kinds of experience, she grows into a stronger person.

Lonesome Land (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) is the undisputed foundation of modern conservatism. It is a brilliant pamphlet against the French Revolution, one rooted in the solid ground of a practical political philosophy. Burke’s central argument is that the French Revolution was driven by a utopian egalitarianism, which was dangerously disconnected from the actual experience of politics. A conservative, he grants centrality to the practical rationality of existing socio-political traditions and institutions, criticizes radical changes at all costs, and advocates gradual political reforms. 

 

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tradition or restraint.”— Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, is a rich and revealing compendium of information and opinion on the largest and most important state in the union at the end of the American Revolution. Presented in the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment as an encyclopedia of useful data, Notes is also an eloquent testament to Jefferson’s faith in the redemptive potential of the republican revolution. Yet Jefferson’s hopes are shadowed by his fears—his anxieties about the future, and the threat that forthcoming generations of Virginians will fail to fulfill Revolutionary Virginia’s promise—are never far below the surface. Notes on Virginia, Jefferson’s only sustained and systematic effort to chart Virginia’s revolutionary transformation, illuminates the sources of his eloquence while offering some of his most memorable turns of phrase.

Notes on the State of Virginia (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Charles McGlashan

History of the Donner Party takes you straight into the most terrifying tragedy of American western emigration. "More thrilling than romance, more terrible than fiction, the sufferings of the Donner Party form a bold contrast to the joys of pleasure-seekers who to-day look down upon the lake from the windows of silver palace cars," writes McGlashan.

In 1846 the Donner Party emigrated across the American prairies toward California. A trip already fraught with adversity worsened when the decision to take Hastings Cutoff proved fatal. A snowstorm trapped close to ninety wagons in the Sierra Nevada, and those who survived divulged horrific stories.

History of the Donner Party (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Tragedy of the Sierra

Frederic Remington

John Ermine of the Yellowstone (1902) is Frederic Remington’s greatest literary achievement. A tragic and realistic story about race, identity, love, and the frontier is still a favorite of American readers today. 

 

John Ermine, known to his Crow tribe as White Weasel, must choose between the tribe that became his family and his white heritage. Although John sees himself as Native American at heart, he chooses to side with his white forbears and serve in the U.S. Army. When the commander’s daughter, Katherine Searles, comes to base camp he attempts to connect with and woo her. His failure poses the question, can women like Katherine and men like John live in the same space? Or is this, tragically, “The End of All Things”?

John Ermine of the Yellowstone (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Elizabeth B. Custer

After the intense and bloody Civil War, Elizabeth and George Armstrong Custer were stationed in Texas, Louisiana, and Kansas. Faced with flash floods, scorpions, wild animals, and Native Americans of uncertain disposition, Elizabeth recounts the reconstruction era of the South and the plains wars with the Native Americans, and the dangerous life of an army officer's wife.

Tenting on the Plains (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): General Custer in Kansas and Texas

Robert Louis Stevenson

Betrayed by the guardian who raised him, young Richard Shelton relies on his cunning to survive the Wars of the Roses. Though history records two sides fighting for control of England, The Black Arrow presents a third side: the exploited commoners joined together by their black arrow weaponry. Through adventures in castles, villages, forests, and aboard a ship, Richard outfoxes captors, bargains his way out of crises, and after many mistakes ultimately proves himself worthy of knighthood.

The Black Arrow (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

James George Frazer

A work that echoes from Freud to Apocalypse Now, this sweeping, controversial, and still influential synthesis of human history is based on the author’s pioneering studies of mythology and religion. Frazer proposes that civilization began by investing in the theories of primitive magic, then progressing through religion, and ending with a belief in the scientific. He finds parallels between Christianity and earlier myths, cults, and rites.

The Golden Bough (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study in Magic and Religion

Andrew Lang

This delightful collection of tales from the East is an edited version of the classic Arabian Nights stories—made accessible for children. Andrew Lang introduces the magic of these fairy and folk tales with such stories as “The Seven Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor,” “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp,” and “The Little Hunchback.” This book will be a well-loved addition to any child's library and provides a basic understanding of an older Eastern culture.

The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

William Howard Russell

As a Washington, DC correspondent for the London Times, the author explored both sides of the American Civil War. Beginning in 1861, he recorded not just military actions, but also the voices and stories of ordinary citizens and soldiers, the sights and sounds of war, travel by rail and steamship, dining with Lincoln, and much more.

My Diary North and South (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Edward Clodd

In 1885 scholar and folklorist Edward Clodd set out to show how dreams and myths informed early humanity’s interpretation of the physical world, as well as society’s development and continuing belief in the supernatural. This book contains chapters on the personification of natural phenomena, beliefs in descent from animals and plants, omens, and dreams as communication between gods and men.

Myths and Dreams (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Francis Galton

In 1869, Galton, a Victorian polymath, composed this first scientific study attempting to establish a link between lineage and accomplishment. In a work that remains controversial to this day, he reached the conclusion that intelligence and ability are inherited, and that intelligence itself is a major contributor to success in life. In the battle of nature versus nurture, Galton was of the opinion that nature will always win.

Hereditary Genius (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): An Inquiry Into Its Laws And Consequences

Charles Webster Leadbeater

First published in 1899, Clairvoyance is Charles Leadbeater's inspiring yet matter-of-fact handbook on the perception of what’s beyond the normal human range of sight and sound. This practice constitutes clairvoyant vision, since one must use one’s astral senses to attain such new information. After a rundown of different types of clairvoyance, Leadbeater provides the reader with a path to develop his or her own clairvoyance.

Clairvoyance (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Andrew Lang’s classic Blue Fairy Book (1889), the first of his Fairy Tale series, contains 37 lovely tales ranging from the well-known “Cinderella” and “Little Red Riding Hood” to lesser know yet equally delightful stories such as “Why the Sea is Salt” and “East of the Sun and West of the Moon.” The book assembles a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories.

The Blue Fairy Book (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

The third of Lang’s famous twelve Fairy Books, this 1892 volume includes such unforgettable favorites as “The Three Little Pigs,” “The Story of the Three Bears,” “The Little Soldier,” “The Magic Swan,” “The Golden Mermaid,” “The Story of the Fisherman and His Wife,” “The Three Musicians,” and many more.

The Green Fairy Book (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Ettore Pais

Taken from the author's lectures, this volume maintains a critical approach to the origins and appreciation of Roman history and its direct indebtedness to its Greek roots. To substantiate his interpretation, Pais delves into Roman excavations, Pompeian frescos, ancient legends, and myths of Rome’s origins and cults as well as topography of early Rome.

Ancient Legends of Roman History (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

Helen A Dallas

With a Latin title meaning "Death, the gate of life?" this 1919 novel by Helen A. Dallas dives into spiritual and philosophical ideas on death and immortality. Dallas specifically draws off the work done by Frederic W.H. Myers, the founder of the Society for Psychical Research and an important influence to later famous psychologists like William James and Carl Jung.

Mors Janua Vitae? (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Discussion of Certain Communications Purporting to Come from Frederic W. H. Myers

C. Staniland Wake

Hodder M. Westropp

This 1874 work considers the earliest deity, Baal; the prevalence of phallic worship in many ancient cultures; ancient views of nature and fertility; the phallus as a revered symbol and charm against evil; the phallus’ role in fertility and licentiousness; circumcision; serpent symbolism associated with phallic worship; and more.

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