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Some 'Frightful' War Pictures — Story, Setting & Ideas
World Events
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The Wentworth Letter — Text and Context
Modern Nations
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The hoe cake of Appomattox — Text and Context
Modern Nations
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UHUQU Modern History Library: Public Domain Books on Modern History & Social Change
This library contrasts two scales of modern history: the intimate records of individuals and the sweeping arcs of nations and revolutions. The hundred public-domain titles mix personal narratives from the American Civil War and World War I with foundational histories of the Netherlands, Huguenots, and early American exploration. Four overlapping categories—Revolutions, Modern Nations, Social History, World Events—offer different angles on the same era, so a single conflict can be traced through a memoir, a regimental history, and a strategic study. Readers can enter by theme, by author, or chronologically, using the catalogue notes as a guide without substituting for the source texts.
100 public-domain works107 represented authorsSource-attributed catalogue records
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Revolutions
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Modern Nations
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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Social History
Texts connected with historical lives, social customs, institutions and the worlds in which people lived.
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World Events
A focused group of public-domain works connected by subject, literary setting and recurring questions.
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My country's part — Themes and C...
In World E...
A brief history of the Tenth Mic...
In Modern ...
Notes from Calais base, and pict...
In World E...
The early court of Queen Victori...
In Social ...
Escape from East Tennessee to th...
In Modern ...
The hoe cake of Appomattox — Tex...
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The Highland glen — Reading Comp...
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International cartoons of the wa...
In World E...
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