Nonfiction Works Documents

Many of the world's greatest books are non-fiction works. This Collection will help you to explore both famous and not-so-famous titles.

This interesting book explores the history of writing. We learn more about it from the publisher: "Art does not produce the visible but makes visib...

In this image we see Susan B. Anthony's personal copy of her trial transcript.  She was accused, tried and found guilty of unlawfully voting in t...

Bookcover image of Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, by James M. McPherson. Amazon provides details about this acclaimed book: Filled with...

Bookcover image of Guide to the Battles of Chancellorsville and Fredericksburg, edited by Jay Luvaas and Harold W. Nelson.

Bookcover image of Chancellorsville, by Stephen W. Sears. Amazon provides an overview of this acclaimed book: Sears describes the series of cont...

Bookcover image of Chancellorsville, Second Edition, by Edward J. Stackpole.

The "Roaring Twenties" was a decade of the 20th century - the 1920s - which followed the end of World War One.  It was marked by opposing activit...

This book, by the Pearl-Harbor historian Gordon W. Prange and his co-authors Donald M Goldstein and Katherine V Dillon, tells the story of the Decembe...

This image depicts a farewell letter which Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote to his brother, Mikhail, before he left for the penal colony in Siberia. Click on ...

In 1932, Al Capone was on his way to prison.  Connected to another prisoner with a three-foot-long chain, he tried to bury his face in his should...

On his way to prison, Al Capone made an interesting observation about Prohibition and the outlawing of alcoholic beverages in America: They ought t...

The back-cover of this work tells more about it and its main subject ... Eliot Ness.

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