Reading Hall

"THE DOORS OF WISDOM"

RIDPATH'S LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL LITERATURE
Introduction to universal Literature
Jewells from the Western Civilization
The Book of History
Ancient History
BIOGRAPHIES
HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT GREECE
THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE
HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION
AUTHORS
GENERALITIES
The history of AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIE
  E-READERS
 
HISTORY OF INDIA
HISTORY OF INDIA From the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century BC
(PDF) From the Sixth Century B. C. to the Mohammedan Conquest, Including the Invasion of Alexander the Great
History of India. From the Reign of Akbar the Great to the Fall of the Moghul Empire
 

GEORGE GROTE'S HISTORY OF GREECE

from the earliest period to the generation contemporary with Alexander the Great

   

THE ROMAN EMPIRE FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO THE DEATH OF MARCUS AURELIUS (27 BC-180 AD)

THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMS

ATTILA, KING OF THE HUNS, AND HIS PREDECESSORS. A HISTORICAL TREATISE.

 
ITALY AND HER INVADERS

VOLUME 1. THE VISIGOTHIC INVASION

VOLUME III. THE OSTROGOTHIC INVASION
   
 
HORACE K. MANN'S HISTORY AND LIVES OF THE POPES IN THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
   
CREIGHTON'S HISTORY OF THE PAPACY FROM THE GREAT SCHISM TO THE SACK OF ROME The six Volumes in one)
THE GREAT SCHISM. A.D.1378-1414
THE PAPAL RESTORATION. A.D. 1444-1464
THE ITALIAN PRINCES A.D.1464-1518
THE GERMAN REVOLT A.D. 1517-1527
   
THE REIGN OF THE EMPEROR CHARLES V
THE LIFE OF PIZARRO,with some account of his associates in the Conquest of Peru
THE LIFE OF MARIE DE MEDICIS, (A.D. 1572-1642), Queen of France,CONSORT OF HENRI IV, AND REGENT OF THE KINGDOM UNDER LOUIS XIII
THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION
LOYOLA AND THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE JESUITS
THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO
THE IRISH REBELLION OF 1641
OWEN ROE O'NEILL. (1590–1649) THE LAST OF THE IRISH INDEPENDENTS
The Seven Years' War
THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSION
Cardinal Alberoni(A.D. 1664-1752)
THE REVOLUTION AND THE REVOLUTION SETTLEMENT IN GREAT BRITAIN (1687-1702) With a narrative of the MASSACRE OF GLENCOE of 1692
HISTORY OF THE WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SAC AND FOX NATIONS OF INDIANS,AND PARTS OF OTHER DISAFFECTED TRIBES OF INDIANS,IN THE YEARS 1827, 1831, AND 1832
THE CAMPAIGN OF MARENGO, A.D. 1800
THE FALL OF ROBESPIERRE
HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, A.D. 1861-1865
With Lawrence in Arabia A.D. 1888-1935
THE WOLVES OF THE SEA AND OTHER POEMS
A HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD. VOLUME 1

A HISTORY OF THE MODERN WORLD. VOLUME 2

CONTEMPORARY EAST EUROPEAN PHILOSOPHY

A HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE FROM THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE WAR OF CRIMEA A.D. 1453-1900

HISTORY OF THE BYZANTINE AND GREEK EMPIRES FROM 1057 TO 1454

Reading Hall's General partial contents chronologically listed
ANCIENT HISTORY
Robert William Rogers THE RECOVERY OF THE ANCIENT ORIENT
Robert William Rogers The adventure of the cuneiform writing' decipherment
The Cambridge Ancient History EGYPT AND BABYLONIA TO 1580 B.C.
J.H. Breadsted HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
L.W.King A HISTORY OF SUMER AND AKKAD
L.W.King A HISTORY OF BABYLON FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE MONARCHY TO THE PERSIAN CONQUEST
James Henry Breadsted THE BATTLE OF KADESH. A STUDY IN THE EARLIEST KNOWN MILITARY STRATEGY (Pharaoh Ramses II versus Muwatallish, king of the Hittites, 1274 BC?, 1296 BC?, 1300 BC?)
L.W.King RECORDS OF THE REIGN OF TUKULTI-NINIB I KING OF ASSYRIA, ABOUT B.C. 1275
Hugo Winckler THE HISTORY OF BABYLONIA
The Cambridge History of India VOLUME I ANCIENT INDIA
The Cambridge Ancient History VOLUME II

THE EGYPTIAN AND HITTITE EMPIRES TO 1OOO B.C.

Robert William Rogers

THE HISTORY OF ASSYRIA

Abraham S. Anspacher TIGLATH PILESER III "Pulu" 745-727 BC
A. T. OLMSTEAD WESTERN ASIA IN THE DAYS OF SARGON OF ASSYRIA 722-705 B. C. (A STUDY IN ORIENTAL HISTORY)
Robert William Rogers THE HISTORY OF THE CHALDEAN EMPIRE
A. H. Sayce THE HITTITES. THE STORY OF A FORGOTTEN EMPIRE
P. M. SYKES A HISTORY OF PERSIA, FROM THE ORIGIN TO THE DEATH OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
HISTORY OF OLD GREECE
Jacob Abbott DARIUS THE GREAT (550–486 BC)
Charles W. Fornara and Loren J. Samons Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles
Edward Bulwer Lytton ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL
EVELYN ABBOTT THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PERICLES AND THE GOLDEN AGE OF ATHENS
Jacob Abbott

XERXES (519 BC-465 BC)

GEORGE GROTE Historical Greece FROM THE PEACE OF ANTALCIDAS TO SICILY DURING THE DESPOTISM OF DIONYSIUS THE ELDER
NOAH CALVIN HIRSCHY

ARTAXERXES III OCHUS (425-338 BC)

ARTHUR M. CURTEIS PHILIP II OF MACEDON & ALEXANDER THE GREAT (382-323 BC) THE RISE OF THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE
A.W.PICKARD

DEMOSTHENES AND THE LAST DAYS OF GREEK FREEDOM (384-322 B.C.)

GEORGE GROTE LIFE OF ARISTOTLE (384-322 BC)
JACOB ABBOTT

PYRRHUS OF EPIRUS (319/318–272 BC)

Edwin Robert Bevan

THE HOUSE OF SELEUCUS (358-251 BC)

Edwin Robert Bevan THE HOUSE OF PTOLEMY (331-30 BC)
H. J. W. TILLYARD

THE HISTORY OF AGATHOCLES (320-284 BC)

Friedrich Ueberweg A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY (The Schools of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle)
HISTORY OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
WILHELM IHNE’S. HISTORY OF ROME. THE REGAL PERIOD.
A. H. BEESLY

THE GRACCHI, MARIUS, AND SULLA

Jacob Abbott

HISTORY OF JULIUS CAESAR (100-44 BC)

Arthur Weigall THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MARC ANTONY (83-30 BC)
Jacob Abbott CLEOPATRA (69-30 BC)
René Francis AUGUSTUS. HIS LIFE AND WORK (63 BC-14 AD)
JOHN JAMES VAN NOSTRAND, Jr. THE REORGANIZATION OF SPAIN BY AUGUSTUS
Suetonius

DE VITA CAESARUM

Carlo Maria Franzero THE LIFE AND TIMES OF NERO
Bernard W. Henderson Civil War and Rebellion in the Roman Empire, A.D. 69-70
SHAILER MATHEWS A HISTORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TIMES IN PALESTINE (175 BC-70 AD)
MAURICE PLATNAUER THE LIFE AND REIGN OF THE EMPEROR LUCIUS SEPTIMIUS SEVERUS (AD 146-211)
JOHN B. FIRTH CONSTANTINE THE GREAT. THE REORGANISATION OF THE EMPIRE AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE CHURCH
GERALD HENRY RENDALL THE EMPEROR JULIAN. PAGANISM AND CHRISTIANITY
JOHN HENRY “CARDINAL” NEWMAN THE ARIANS OF THE FOURTH CENTURY
CHARLES ELSEE NEOPLATONISM IN RELATION TO CHRISTIANITY (AN ESSAY)
EDWARD BURTON HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THE FIRST CENTURY
JOHN GIBSON CAZENOVE ST. HILARY OF POITIERS(AD 300-368)
CHARLES GORE LEO THE GREAT (AD 400-461)
WALTER C. PERRY THE FRANKS, FROM THEIR FIRST APPEARANCE IN HISTORY TO THE DEATH OF KING PEPIN
WILLIAM GORDON HOLMES THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA. A HISTORY OF THE SIXTH CENTURY AD
J. B. BURY A HISTORY OF THE LATER ROMAN EMPIRE FROM ARCADIUS TO IRENE (395 TO 800 AD)
J. B. BURY A HISTORY OF THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE FROM THE FALL OF IRENE TO THE ACCESSION OF BASIL I (A.D. 802-867)
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Homes Dudden & J. Barmb

GREGORY THE GREAT (540-604)

Thomas Hodgkin THEODORIC THE GOTH (454-526 ). THE BARBARIAN CHAMPION OF CIVILIZATION
THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY VOLUME II THE RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE
Andrew Crichton THE HISTORY OF ARABIA TO THE DEATH OF MOHAMED
Charles H. Robinson ANSKAR. The Apostle of the North. A.D.801-865
Jacob Abbot King ALFRED OF ENGLAND (871-899)
James C. Prichard THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HINCMAR. (806-882) ARCHBISHOP OF RHEIMS
L.M. Larson CANUTE THE GREAT (995-1035) AND THE RISE OF DANISH IMPERIALISM DURING THE VIKING AGE
J.M. Neale HISTORY OF THE HOLY EASTERN CHURCH- VOLUME II- THE PATRIARCATE OF ALEXANDRIA
Soheil M. Afnan AVICENNA. His life (980-1037) and Work
THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA TURKS AND AFGHANS
E.A. Freeman WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR (1027-1087)
THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY VOLUME V THE CONTEST OF EMPIRE AND PAPACY
A.H. Mathew THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HILDEBRAND. POPE GREGORY VII
Edmund Curtis ROGER OF SICILY AND THE NORMANS CONQUEST OF SICILY (1016-1154)
J.D. Dalgairns St. STEPHEN HARDING. ABBOT OF CITEAUX, (1066-1134) And founder of the Cistercian Order.
T. Duncan Mackie POPE ADRIAN IV (1100-1159)
THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY VOLUME IV THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE (717-145
  A HISTORY OF THE CRUSADES. THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
Jacob Abbot Richard I "Lionheart"
Stanley Lane Poole THE LIFE OF SALADIN (1138-1193) AND THE FALL OF THE KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM
G.P. Upton Frederick I BARBAROSSA (1122-1190)
G. B. Testa THE WAR OF FREDERICK I AGAINST THE COMMUNES OF LOMBARDY.
G.K. Chesterton ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1182-1226)
C.H.Pirie Gordon INNOCENT III THE GREAT (1161-1216), AN ESSAY ON HIS  LIFE AND TIMES
J.D. Carryck The Life of Sir William Wallace (1272-1205)
James J. Walsh THE THIRTEENTH. GREATEST OF CENTURIES
HENRY CHARLES LEA THE INQUISITION OF THE MIDDLE AGES
CLINTON LOCKE THE AGE OF THE GREAT WESTERN SCHISM
The Life and Times of John Huss
I. F. C. HECKER THE BLACK DEATH IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY
The War of the Eight Saintsin Florentine.Memory and oblivion
Leader Scott Fra Angelico ( 1390–1455)
Pasquale Villari Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)
Raymond Beazley PRINCE HENRY THE NAVIGATOR (1394-1460) THE HERO OF PORTUGAL AND OF MODERN DISCOVERY
HENRY EDWARD WATTS THE CHRISTIAN RECOVERY OF SPAIN BEING THE STORY OF SPAIN FROM THE MOORISH CONQUEST TO THE FALL OF GRANADA(711-1492 A.D.)
Julia Cartwright BEATRICE D'ESTE, DUCHESS OF MILAN (1475-1497)
MAXIMILIAN I (1459-1519) Holy Roman Emperor
Ruth Putnam CHARLES THE BOLD, LAST DUKE OF BURGUNDY (1433-1477)
F. Somner Merryweather BIBLIOMANIA IN THE MIDDLE AGES
C. W. C. OMAN THE ART OF WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGES A.D. 378-1515
MODERN HISTORY

THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY VOLUME I

THE RENAISSANCE
JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS THE RENAISSANCE IN ITALY
  THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RODRIGO BORGIA, POPE ALEXANDER VI
Raphael Sabatini The Life of Cesare Borgia
Ferdinand Gregorovius Lucretia Borgia
  Vasco da Gama and his successors
A.F. Pollard HENRY VIII (1491–1547)
Julius Koestlin LIFE OF LUTHER (1483-1546)
Belfort Bax THE PEASANT WAR IN GERMANY (1525-1526)
Belfort Bax RISE AND FALL OF THE ANABAPTISTS
THE CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY VOLUME III THE WARS OF RELIGION
E. ARMSTRONG THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION. THEIR POLITICAL ASPECT
MANDELL CREIGHTON THE AGE OF ELIZABETH (1558-1603)
CAMBRIDGE MEDIEVAL HISTORY VOLUME IV THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR (1618-1648)
WILLIAM NASSAU WEECH URBAN VIII (1623-1644)
David Brewster The Life of ISAAC NEWTON (1642–1727)
JOHN S.C. ABBOTT Peter the Great (1682-1725).
WILLIAM J. STILLMAN The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8
T.H. Dyer A HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE FROM THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE TO THE WAR OF CRIMEA (1453-1900)
JOHN S. C. ABBOTT THE EMPIRE OF AUSTRIA; ITS RISE AND POWER (1232-1792)
CHARLES ALLAN FYFFE A HISTORY OF MODERN EUROPE FROM, 1792 TO 1878
FREDERIC KIDDER. THE BOSTON MASSACRE, MARCH 5, 1770
F. A. BRUTON THE STORY OF PETERLOO, OR THE MASSACRE OF MANCHESTER IN 1820
FREDRIK NIELSEN THE HISTORY OF THE PAPACY IN THE XIXth CENTURY
ELIZABETH WORMELEY LATIMER FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1830-1890)
SIR HARRY JOHNSTON HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AFRICA
Herbert A. Giles CHINA AND THE MANCHUS (1616-1902)
DEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULGER THE LIFE OF YAKOOB BEG (1829-1877) ; ATHALIK GHAZI, AND BADAULET; AMEER OF KASHGAR.
Yuan Wei CHINESE ACCOUNT OF THE OPIUM WAR OF 1888.
JACOB GOULD SCHURMAN THE FIRST BALKAN WARS 1912-1913
Leon Trotsky The History of the Russian Revolution
ARTHUR BULLARD THE DIPLOMACY OF THE GREAT WAR
Eve Curie Life of Madame Curie (1867–1934)