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Books Onsite

This page lists the most important transcriptions onsite. Almost all are books; one or two technically are not, but could easily have been published as such. A very few of the items run to no more than twenty pages or so; and then again, some of them to several volumes and thousands of pages.

American History:

In English except as noted, 🇧🇷 Portuguese

Carroll Storrs Alden and Ralph Earle: Makers of Naval Tradition

Stanley Clisby Arthur: The Story of the West Florida Rebellion

Philip and Martha Barbour: Mexican War Journals

Francis F. Beirne: The War of 1812

Herbert E. Bolton: The Spanish Borderlands

Edward Gaylord Bourne: Spain in America

Sidney Breese: The Early History of Illinois

Riley S. Brown: Men, Wind and Sea

Solon J. Buck: Illinois in 1818

A. R. Buchanan, ed.: The Navy's Air War

João Pandiá Calógeras: Formação Histórica do Brasil 🇧🇷

Campbell's Memorial: Address of Citizens of Louisiana . . .

Donald Barr Chidsey: The American Privateers

George Rogers Clark: Memoir (Conquest of the Illinois)

George R. Clark et al.: A Short History of the United States Navy

William Bell Clark: Gallant John Barry

R. D. W. Connor • W. K. Boyd • J. G. de R. Hamilton: History of North Carolina

Robert E. Coontz: From the Mississippi to the Sea

Josephus Daniels: Life of Woodrow Wilson

Forrest Davis: The Atlantic System

Bernard DeVoto: The Year of Decision: 1846

Elizabeth Dramczyk, ed.: The History of Jenkins, Kentucky

John Drury: Old Illinois Houses

Foster Rhea Dulles: The Old China Trade

Dwight Lowell Dumond: The Secession Movement, 1860‑1861

John Easton: A Relation of the Indian War

George Ellis & John Morris: King Philip's War

John Ellis & Francis Roderick: The Life of James Cardinal Gibbons

Holden A. Evans: One Man's Fight for a Better Navy

Eugene S. Ferguson: Truxtun of the Constellation

John Fiske: The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America

Henry Jones Ford: Washington and His Colleagues

Grant Foreman: The Five Civilized Tribes

Douglas Freeman: Robert E. Lee

Robert Lardin Fulton: Epic of the Overland

Luis Galdames: A History of Chile

John Debo Galloway: The First Transcontinental Railroad

Bernardo Galvez: Diary of the Siege of Pensacola

William Addleman Ganoe: The History of the United States Army

William Addleman Ganoe: MacArthur Close‑Up

William Addleman Ganoe: Soldiers Unmasked

Charles Gayarré: History of Louisiana

W. F. H. Godson: History of West Point 1852‑1902

Ronan C. Grady, Jr.: The Collected Works of Ducrot Pepys

William F. Halsey & J. Bryan, III: Admiral Halsey's Story

Alvin F. Harlow: The Road of the Century • The Story of the New York Central

David L. Hieb: Fort Laramie National Monument • Wyoming

M. M. Hoffman: Arms and the Monk! • The Trappist Saga in Mid-America

Robert West Howard: The Great Iron Trail

Claud H. Hulzén, Sr.: Historic Old Fort Niagara

William Hyde: Private Journal

Ray W. Irwin: The Diplomatic Relations of the United States and the Barbary Powers

James R. Jacobs, Tarnished Warrior: Major-General James Wilkinson

Robert Erwin Johnson: Thence Round Cape Horn

John Kendall: History of New Orleans

Grace King: New Orleans, the Place and the People

Agnes Kozlowski: Autobiographical Memoir

J. H. B. Latrobe: West Point Reminiscences

Albert Miller Lea: Notes on the Wisconsin Territory

Enoch Lawrence Lee: Indian Wars in North Carolina 1663‑1763

Lewis Burt Lesley: Uncle Sam's Camels

Charles Lee Lewis: Admiral Franklin Buchanan

James A. Leyden: A Historical Sketch of the Fourth Infantry from 1796 to 1861

Frederick V. Longstaff: Esquimalt Naval Base

Clarence Edward Macartney and Gordon Dorrance: The Bonapartes in America

Camillus Maes: Life of Charles Nerinckx

Thomas P. Magruder: The United States Navy

Bruce E. Mahan: Old Fort Crawford and the Frontier

Richard T. Maxwell: Visit to Monterey in 1842

Henry J. Mercier (?): Life in a Man-of‑War: Scenes in "Old Ironsides"

James M. Merrill: The Rebel Shore

John Moody: The Railroad Builders

Allan Nevins: Sail On • The Story of the American Merchant Marine

Walter B. Norris: Annapolis: Its Colonial and Naval Story

Gordon Carpenter O'Gara: Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of the Modern Navy

Ralph D. Paine: The First Yale Unit

George S. Pappas and Lawrence E. Schick: The Cadet Chapel

Mason M. Patrick: The United States in the Air

Roswell Park: History of West Point

Nathan Howe Parker: Iowa As It Is in 1856

William D. Puleston: Annapolis

Hugh F. Rankin: North Carolina in the American Revolution

Hugh F. Rankin: The Pirates of Colonial North Carolina

Irving Berdine Richman: Ioway to Iowa

Rufus Rittenhouse: Boyhood Life in Iowa Forty Years Ago

William Spence Robertson: The Life of Miranda

Hugh Rodman: Yarns of a Kentucky Admiral

John Sevier: Journal

Guillermo A. Sherwell: Antonio José de Sucre

Constance Skinner: Pioneers of the Old Southwest

Francis Smith: West Point Fifty Years Ago

Alfred Stanford: Force Mulberry

Yates Stirling: Sea Duty

Arthur Tonne: The Story of Chaplain Kapaun Patriot Priest of the Korean Conflict

Archibald D. Turnbull and Clifford L. Lord: History of United States Naval Aviation

U. S. Naval Institute: The Naval Academy at Annapolis, Special 90th anniversary issue

Mark S. Wade: Mackenzie of Canada

E. D. J. Waugh: History of West Point

James Josiah Webb: Adventures in the Santa Fé Trade, 1844‑1847

Gerald E. Wheeler: Admiral William Veazie Pratt, US Navy

Gerald E. Wheeler: Prelude to Pearl Harbor

Arthur Preston Whitaker: The Spanish-American Frontier: 1783‑1795

Samuel Cole Williams: History of the Lost State of Franklin

anonymous: 1812 pamphlet on "Hansen's Mob" (the Baltimore Riot of that year)

anonymous: Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror

In addition, a very substantial part of the following encyclopedic work, comprising many hundreds of articles from a few lines to thousands of words in length, is onsite. I continue inputting entries as background work. Each webpage is thoroughly proofread before being put onsite.

George Washington Cullum:
Biographical Register of the Graduates of the U. S. Military Academy

World History:

🇺🇸 English • 🇫🇷 French • 🇮🇹 Italian • 🇪🇸 Spanish

Royal Memoirs on the French Revolution 🇺🇸

R. H. Allen: Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning 🇺🇸

Mariano Armellini: Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX 🇮🇹

José Balari y Jovany:
Influencia de la Civilización Romana en Cataluña comprobada por la orografía 🇪🇸

Edwyn Bevan: The House of Ptolemy 🇺🇸

John Buchan: Augustus 🇺🇸

J. B. Bury: History of the Later Roman Empire 🇺🇸

Nora K. Chadwick: Celtic Britain 🇺🇸

Thomas G. Chase: The Story of Lithuania 🇺🇸

Thomas Codrington: Roman Roads in Britain 🇺🇸

F. Marion Crawford: The Rulers of the South 🇺🇸

George Dennis: Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria 🇺🇸

Deane Dickason: Wondrous Angkor 🇺🇸

Dmytro Doroshenko/Hannah Keller: History of the Ukraine 🇺🇸

Dmytro Doroshenko: Survey of Ukrainian Historiography 🇺🇸

Dmytro Doroshenko: Taras Shevchenko Bard of Ukraine 🇺🇸

C. R. L. Fletcher: A Handy Guide to Oxford 🇺🇸

Tenney Frank: A History of Rome 🇺🇸

D. M. Gane: Tristan da Cunha 🇺🇸

Henri Giraud: Mes évasions 🇫🇷

W. H. Hall: The Romans on the Riviera and the Rhone 🇺🇸

Nathan Hanover: Abyss of Despair 🇺🇸

Thomas Hodgkin: Italy and Her Invaders 🇺🇸

Margaret Hughes: Les lauriers sont coupés… 🇫🇷

C. Hülsen: Il Foro Romano 🇮🇹

Ernest John Knapton: Empress Josephine 🇺🇸

Hryhory Kostiuk: Stalinist Rule in the Ukraine 🇺🇸

Vahan Kurkjian: History of Armenia 🇺🇸

Rodolfo Lanciani: Pagan and Christian Rome 🇺🇸

Margaret Mackay: Angry Island 🇺🇸

Clarence Manning: The Story of the Ukraine 🇺🇸

Clarence Manning: Ukraine under the Soviets 🇺🇸

K. D. Matthews & A. W. Cook: Cities in the Sand 🇺🇸

Jean Mauclère: Sous le ciel pâle de Lithuanie 🇫🇷

Francesco Mavarelli:
Laudi della Compagnia dei Disciplinati di S. Maria Nuova e di S. Croce a Fratta 🇮🇹

Ewen Montagu: The Man Who Never Was 🇺🇸

André Morize: France Été 1940 🇫🇷

Bessy Myers: Captured 🇺🇸

Oleksandr Ohloblyn: Treaty of Pereyaslav 1654 🇺🇸

G. Ward Price: Giraud and the African Scene 🇺🇸

Corrado Ricci: Umbria Santa 🇺🇸

Dorothea Roberts: Latian Summers 🇺🇸

Complete, but it's an English translation of only part of Ferdinand Gregorovius' Wanderjahre in Italien.

Robert de Saint-Jean: Démocratie, beurre et canons 🇫🇷

Hilary St. George Saunders: Combined Operations • The Official Story of the Commandos 🇺🇸

Scuola Media di Umbertide: Voci della Memoria 🇮🇹

Luigi Serra: Aquila 🇮🇹

George Sherburn: Roehenstart A Late Stuart Pretender 🇺🇸

Volodymyr Sichynsky: Ukraine in Foreign Comments and Descriptions 🇺🇸

Edward Dennis Sokol: The Revolt of 1916 in Russian Central Asia 🇺🇸

Filippo Titi: Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma 🇮🇹

U. S. House of Representatives: Communist Takeover and Occupation of Ukraine 🇺🇸

Giulio Urbini: Spello, Bevagna, Montefalco 🇮🇹

Tommaso Valenti: Curiosità storiche trevane 🇮🇹 (+ some 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 )

John Ward: The Roman Era in Britain 🇺🇸

John Ward: Romano-British Buildings and Earthworks 🇺🇸

George Witts: Archaeological Handbook of Gloucestershire 🇺🇸

David Yellin & Israel Abrahams: Maimonides 🇺🇸

Source Texts from Antiquity:

🇬🇷 Greek • 🇻🇦 Latin • 🇺🇸 English • 🇫🇷 French

Aeneas Tacticus: Siege Defense 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Aetna 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Ammian ("Ammianus Marcellinus") 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Ampelius: Liber Memorialis 🇻🇦

Apicius: de Re coquinaria 🇺🇸

Appian: The Civil Wars 🇺🇸

ps‑Aristotle: de Coloribus, de Mirabilibus, Mechanica 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Asclepiodotus: Tactica 🇺🇸

Augustus: Res Gestae (Monumentum Ancyranum) 🇻🇦 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Caesar: African War 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Caesar: Alexandrian War 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Caesar: Civil Wars 🇺🇸

Caesar: Gallic War 🇺🇸

Caesar: Spanish War 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Calpurnius Siculus: Eclogues 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Cassius Dio: Roman History 🇺🇸

Cato: de Agricultura 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Censorinus: De die natali 🇻🇦 🇫🇷

Cicero: Cato Maior de Senectute 🇺🇸

Cicero: de Divinatione 🇺🇸

Cicero: de Finibus 🇺🇸

Cicero: de Officiis 🇺🇸

Cicero: Laelius de Amicitia 🇺🇸

Claudian: Complete Works 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Colluthus: The Rape of Helen 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Diogenes Laërtius: Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Dio Chrysostom: Complete Works 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Diodorus Siculus: Library of History 🇺🇸 (+ some 🇬🇷)

Books 1‑32 in the Loeb edition: the fragments of Books 33‑40 remain under copyright and cannot be put onsite.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus: The Roman Antiquities 🇺🇸

Einsiedeln Eclogues 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Excerpta Valesiana 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Florus: Epitome of Roman History 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Frontinus: de Aquis 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Frontinus: Strategemata 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Grattius: Cynegeticon 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Herodotus: The Histories 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Historia Augusta 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

al‑Idrisi: Description de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne 🇫🇷

This is the complete modern work by that name, comprising a French translation of only a portion, however, of the complete work by Idrisi.

Isidore of Seville: Etymologies 🇻🇦

Laus Pisonis 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis 🇻🇦

Macrobius: Saturnalia 🇻🇦

Manetho 🇺🇸

Nemesianus: Cynegetica and Eclogues 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Onasander: Strategikos 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Oppian: Cynegetica and Halieutica 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Paulinus of Pella: Eucharisticon 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Pliny the Elder: Natural History 🇻🇦

Plutarch, Lives 🇺🇸

Plutarch, Moralia 🇺🇸 (+ some 🇬🇷)

Only just over half the Moralia; I add to it from time to time.

Polybius: Histories 🇺🇸

Procopius: Anecdota 🇺🇸

Procopius: Buildings 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos 🇺🇸

Quintilian: Institutio Oratoria 🇺🇸

Quintus Curtius: Histories of Alexander 🇻🇦

The Regionaries 🇻🇦

Rutilius Namatianus: de Reditu suo 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Sallust: Jugurthine War 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Sallust: War with Catiline 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Strabo: The Geography 🇺🇸

Suetonius: Lives of the Twelve Caesars 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Tacitus: Annals 🇺🇸

Tacitus: Histories 🇺🇸

Theophrastus: Odors and Weather Signs 🇬🇷 🇺🇸

Varro: de Re rustica 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Velleius Paterculus: Roman History 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

Vitruvius: de Architectura 🇻🇦 🇺🇸

In addition, a very substantial part of the following encyclopedic works, comprising many hundreds of articles from a few lines to tens of thousands of words in length, is onsite. I continue inputting entries as background work. Each webpage is thoroughly proofread before being put onsite.

1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica 🇺🇸

Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities 🇺🇸

Platner and Ashby's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 🇺🇸

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