Biography

This two-part volume includes: Part One: The Life of Christopher Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time by Edward Everett Hale, originally published in 1892. It was in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of...

Originally published in 1838, Able and Mighty Men features the biographies of every man who signed the Declaration of Independence, as well as George Washington and Patrick Henry. The author, L. Carroll Judson, knew or met almost every single man in...

Among the Cree and Salteaux Indians By Canoe and Dogtrain is the story of a Wesleyan missionary to the Indians near Lake Winnipeg, in what is now the Canadian province of Manitoba. In the latter half of the 1800s this was a howling wilderness,...

The Journal begins with Charles Wesley's arrival at Frederica, a month after the brothers 'first set foot on American ground,' and closes on November 6, 1756. There are some gaps in the record which a student of Early Methodism deeply...

The original idea of the Board of Directors of the Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises was to print a book covering the last years of Roloff's life. Then, the realization came that such a book would not be clearly understood by the raders unless they...

"Southwestern Virginia has produced great men in every walk of life-soldiers, statesmen, and scholars, but no man has lived between Roanoke and Bristol, and between the Blue Ridge and Flat Top Mountains who has made a deeper impression on the whole...