Biography/History

This book is a thesis by Dr. Edward Roustio on Indian migration based on the letters and journals of the celebrated Baptist missionary, Isaac McCoy. He labored in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and finally Kentucky.

Published in 1907 by the University Of The South at Sewanee, Tennessee, this is a biography of Confederate General Edmund Kirby-Smith. Smith was a West Point graduate who fought in the Mexican War and served in the famed pre- Civil War Second Dragoons...

325th Anniversary Edition First Baptist Church, Charleston, is the oldest Baptist church in the South and, in the view of many, the most influential single church in the development of the people who came to be called Southern Baptists. Here is the story...

Journal of events while in Fort Delaware prison for fifteen months. Written by Confederate Pastor Isaac W. K. Handy.

Isaac McCoy (1784-1846), the man who lived this book, was a missionary to the American Indians, but his three-decade struggle against countless obstacles to help keep the Indians alive left him little time for teaching religion. The establishment of an...

Leaders of Men gives a close view into the lives of distinguished Americans of yesteryear and identifies the most important elements of success in their lives. This special, three-volume set includes all three volumes and is a perfect gift option.

In addition to pastoring churches in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, David Jones also undertook one of the earliest Baptist missionary endeavors among the American Indians in 1772-1773. During the Revolutionary War and again in the Indian Wars of 1794-1796...

The life of Benjamin Franklin is stranger than fiction. Its realities surpass the idealities of novelists. Imagination would scarcely venture to portray such victories over poverty, obscurity, dificulties, and hardships. The tact, application,...

The author's gigantic work, the record of Christian faith and endurance from the first century to the Anabaptist persecutions in the sixteenth century. Here are stories of men and women who died for their belief. Written in 1659 by a Dutch Mennonite to...

Written by his daughter, Susan P. Lee, originally published in 1893. A valuable narrative of Brigadier-General, C.S.A. Chief of Artillery, Army of Northern Virginia, Rector of Latimer Parosh, Lexington, Va. Dr. Pendleton's address on the "Personal...

The Huguenots; or, Reformed French Church Their principles delineated; their character illustrated; and their sufferings and successes recorded, in three parts: The Huguenot in France, At Home; The Huguenot Dispersed in Europe;and, The Huguenot at...

This work is the first authorized biography of the great Confederate general. Based on correspondence, official records, and a close personal relationship with the general which began when he served as his adjutant general in the Valley and Peninsula...