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An
American History
site, which has slowly turned into one of the larger ones on the Web. Started as my small wartime contribution after September?11 when like many other Americans I?found?myself drawn to the history of my own country, its principal subsites now include
American Naval History
(26?complete books currently onsite),
American Railroad History
, and
American Catholic History
, several books on
West Point
(plus over 3400 entries from
Cullum's
Register
). In addition, large sections on
Illinois
,
Iowa
,
Louisiana
, and
North Carolina
are joined by books and articles on the history of a?number of other States, Freeman's monumental
4?volume
biography of Robert?E.?Lee, a book on Washington's presidency and one on Wilson's, a contemporaneous account of the Baltimore Riot of?1812, a book on the San?Francisco earthquake of?1906, the log kept by the Spanish commander at the siege of Pensacola in?1781, the journal of a Mormon pioneer, journal articles on a variety of subjects, and many other items. More is on its way.
A?bare index to the books onsite ? just the books, though more than 200 of them ? is available
here
.
[ 3/8/22:
6184?webpages
(including 88?complete books)
??37,733?pages of print,
1683?photos,
307?maps and plans,
571?other illustrations
]
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My
History of the Americas
section is of course hardly an appendage to United States history, but the other way 'round; still, I'm a North American, so we can expect the broader part of the site to be smaller. Right now, Bourne's
Spain in America
,
Galdames'
History of Chile
, and a large section on the
History of Brazil
, including a full-length book on the subject in addition to a?number of journal articles; W.?S.?Robertson's
Life of Miranda
and Guillermo Sherwell's
Antonio Jose de?Sucre
; and a section on the
History of Canada
.
[ 12/21/17:
173?webpages (including 7?complete books)
??2712?pages of print,
64?photos,
16?maps,
20?other illustrations
]
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The
History of Ukraine
is represented onsite by a good collection of authoritative books: from the earliest times thru World?War?II and into its postwar Soviet era. Three of the books, including a little life of Taras Shevchenko and a massive work on Ukrainian historiography, are by one of Ukraine's best-known historians. The others are by other Ukrainian historians, a noted American Slavic scholar, a
United
States congressional subcommittee, and a 17c?Ukrainian rabbi.
[ 3/8/23:
196?webpages, including 10 books
??2210?pages of print,
25?maps,
7?photos,
25?other illustrations
]
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Readings in British History
is my orientation page to a large number of somewhat disparate resources: a section on Roman Britain (including four complete books) all of which is counted elsewhere; a general survey of Celtic Britain; a book on a
little-known
Stuart pretender; a large section on the British settlement of Tristan da?Cunha; two books on aspects of Britain's World?War?II history; material on English cathedrals; links to specifically British items elsewhere on site, as in the history of Canada and of the United States.
[ 12/11/20:
157?webpages (including 7?complete books)
??1680?pages of print,
15?maps and plans,
142?illustrations
]
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Readings in French History
is a similar orientation page gathering
Royal Memoirs on the French Revolution
; Ernest John Knapton's 1963 biography of
Empress Josephine
; a section with several books on
France at War
(in the?20c); and finally a?few excerpts from the
Souvenirs
of the
Marquise de?Crequy
(1710??1803)
. Also, already counted elsewhere, several hundred more pages of material on the Norman history of Sicily, and French colonial and diplomatic ventures in the Americas.
[ 6/17/21:
104?webpages (including 8?complete books)
??2371?pages of print,
11?photos,
6?maps,
15?other illustrations
]
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Readings in Dutch History
collects journal articles on Dutch maritime power and the 1667?invasion of England; an additional 50?webpages, 1235?pages of print, fall primarily under the history of the United States and of Brazil.
[ 2/13/14:
12?webpages
??223?pages of print,
2?maps,
18?photos
]
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World War II Resources
cuts across what has already been listed above to collect accounts of various aspects of the war.
For now, the Blitzkrieg in France, a British disinformation operation, the naval war (mostly in the Pacific), the Mulberry ports that made the Normandy landings possible, the career of General Giraud and the North African landings, British commando raids in Europe and Africa.
[ 4/8/22:
11?books and a bit of other material:
3168?pages of print; 254?photos or images,
34?maps
]
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Readings in Catholic History
mostly cuts across what has already been listed above under American history ? biographies of James Cardinal Gibbons, pioneer priest Charles Nerinckx, Corean War hero Fr.?Emil Kapaun, and a history of the Trappist abbey of New?Melleray ? but is also starting to include material from European Catholic history.
[ 4/21/23:
6?books and a bit of other material:
1648?pages of print in 115?webpages; 81?illustrations
]
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Readings in Jewish History
includes a biography of the Rambam (Maimonides), a famous contemporary account of the 17c?pogroms in what is now Ukraine, and some journal articles:
[ 12/28/22:
2?books and some other material:
362?pages of print in 37?webpages; 6?illustrations
]
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LacusCurtius:
a large site on Roman antiquity, including a photosampler of Roman and
Etruscan
cities and monuments (with a very large site on
the city of Rome
of course); the complete Latin texts of Pliny the Elder's
Natural History
, Quintus Curtius'
Histories of Alexander the Great
, the
Saturnalia
of Macrobius, and Censorinus'
de?Die Natali
; Suetonius, the
Historia Augusta
, Vitruvius, Claudian, Frontinus, Velleius Paterculus, Celsus, and Cato's
de?Re?Rustica
in both Latin and English; complete English translations of Caesar, Plutarch's
Lives
, Polybius, Cassius Dio, Appian's
Civil Wars
, Dio Chrysostom, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Quintilian, and Oppian; several complete Greek texts in the original Greek; Rodolfo Lanciani's book
Pagan and Christian Rome
, Christian Hulsen's book on the Roman Forum, Bury's
2?volume
History of the Later Roman Empire
, Bevan's
House of Ptolemy
, 4?books on Roman Britain, George Dennis's
Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria
; Platner and Ashby's
Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome
(nearly complete) and most of Smith's
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities
; about 45% of Plutarch's
Moralia
; a?quick sketch of a site for teaching yourself to read Latin inscriptions; some maps of the Roman Empire, and lots more.
A?bare index to the books onsite ? just the books, though more than 200 of them ? is available
here
.
In a different category, one pretty specialized item, but for some few people it should be very useful, and it's free for the downloading:
Polytonic Greek Typinator Set
??a?timesaving utility for anyone inputting a?lot of ancient Greek.
[
5/12/23:
3916
webpages,
779?photos,
772?drawings &?engravings,
120?plans,
139?maps
]
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My
Gazetteer of Italy
??currently over 1600 mostly
non-Roman
pages of churches, frescoes,?etc. ? is my own favorite part of the site. Since?2003, I've mostly been adding to the
Churches of Italy
section, which currently
(2/22/24) covers
712?churches in 401?pages and 1639?photos, as well as several dozen wayside shrines, with more photos of course; plus, quite separately, three entire books on the churches of Rome, covering about 900?of?them, past and present, in great detail; and several books covering many of the churches of Umbria and of the city of L'Aquila in the Abruzzo. (The merest drop in a bucket, by the way: Italy's churches present and past must number at least 500,000.)
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The United States, my home, I?know far less well than I?do Italy: for one thing, they're a much larger country. My
American Scrapbook
for now
??1/21/10 ? is mostly about Kentucky (in particular the little town of
Jenkins
), with a bit of Chicago.
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Also, a?few loose ends that will eventually be better organized; their subjects in roughly chronological order:
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About 16?months' worth of my
diary.
Nothing terribly titillating, really; but it's the laid-back section of this website (read: "easy to put online"), and the raw material for much of the Gazetteer. A?bit of London, France, and Kentucky, and lots of Italy: Rome, Milan, Tuscany, Umbria and the Marche, large tracts of which I?explored on foot, so that the diary includes details that could be useful if you're planning a trip or a bike tour. Illustrated with photos not usually found elsewhere onsite,
cross-linked
to Gazetteer pages and external sites, and partly indexed by place and topic.
In a similar vein, eight
Letters from Colombia
written in?1993.
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6/30/06: 330?pages, 741?photos
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