Historion.net is a digital library of history writings and a database of historiographic information from prehistory to modern times, currently containing 194 books by 151 authors, some 30,000 pages in total. This extensive collection of public domain historical texts is browsable by author, volume or subject. You can find here writers and historians such as Procopius of Caesarea, Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Niccolo Machiavelli, Edward Gibbon, Theodor Mommsen, Francis Parkman, Thomas de Quincey, Theodore Roosevelt, Hippolyte Taine and many more.
Prehistory
- Hendrik van Loon - Ancient Man. The Beginning of Civilizations
- Marquis de Nadaillac - Manners and Monuments of Prehistoric Peoples
General History
- Hendrik van Loon - The Story of Mankind
- James Johonnot - Ten Great Events in History
- H.G. Wells - A Short History of the World
- Edward Creasy - The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo
- P. V. N. Myers - A General History for Colleges and High Schools
- Eugene A. Hecker - A Short History of Women's Rights. From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. With Special Reference to England and the United States
New World
- William Bennett Munro - Crusaders of New France. A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness
- Francis Parkman - The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
- Francis Parkman - Pioneers of France In The New World
Ancient History
- D. G. Hogarth - The Ancient East
Greece
- William Smith - A Smaller History of Greece - from the earliest times to the Roman conquest
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Athens: Its Rise and Fall
- F. B. Tarbell - A History Of Greek Art
- William Stearns Davis - A Day In Old Athens
Rome
- Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome
- John Lord - The Old Roman World. The Grandeur and Failure of its Civilization
- T. G. Tucker - Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul
- Guglielmo Ferrero - Characters and events of Roman History. From Caesar to Nero
- Arthur Gilman - The Story of Rome From the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
- Jacob Abbott - History of Julius Caesar
- A.H. Beesley - The Gracchi, Marius and Sulla. Epochs Of Ancient History
- Thomas de Quincey - The Caesars
- Robert F. Pennell - History of Rome from the Earliest Times Down to 476 AD
England
- Jacob Abbott - History of King Charles II of England
- Ephraim Douglass Adams - Great Britain and the American Civil War
- George Burton Adams - The History of England From the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216)
- Charles James Fox - A History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second
- William Harrison - Description of Elizabethan England, 1577
- Joseph Fisher - The History of Landholding In England
- Anne E. Keeling - Great Britain and Her Queen
- A. F. Pollard - The History of England. A Study in Political Evolution
- Arthur D. Innes - England Under the Tudors
- J. R. Green - Henry the Second
- Charlotte M. Yonge - Young Folks' History of England
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War
- Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament
- John Fiske - The Beginnings of New England Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty
United States
- Ephraim Douglass Adams - Great Britain and the American Civil War
- Helen Elliott Bandini - History of California
- Charles A. Eastman - Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains
- Charles Ramsdell Lingley - The United States Since The Civil War
- John Bach McMaster - A Brief History of the United States
- Albert Bushnell Hart - Formation of the Union. 1750-1829
- Frederick Trevor Hill - On the Trail of Grant and Lee
- Carl Russell Fish - The Path of Empire, A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power
- G. F. R. Henderson - Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War
- George Seay Wheat - The Story of The American Legion
- George Makepeace Towle - The Nation in a Nutshell. A Rapid Outline of American History
- Theodore Roosevelt - Rough Riders
- Theodore Roosevelt - The Naval War of 1812. Or The History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
- Nathaniel W. Stephenson - The Day of the Confederacy, a Chronicle of the Embattled South
- Trumbull White - Our War With Spain For Cuba's Freedom
- Frederick Jackson Turner - Rise of the New West, 1819-1829
- James Bovell Mackenzie - A Treatise on the Six-Nation Indians
First World War
- Mildred Aldrich - On the Edge of the War Zone. From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes
- E. F. Benson - Crescent and Iron Cross
- Friedrich von Bernhardi - Germany and the Next War
- Roger Casement - The Crime Against Europe. A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914
- E. Alexander Powell - Fighting in Flanders
- Arthur Ruhl - Antwerp to Gallipoli. A Year of the War on Many Fronts - and Behind Them
- W.T. Massey - How Jerusalem Was Won. Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine
- Henry Morgenthau - Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
- Francesco Saverio Nitti - Peaceless Europe
- Robert Valentine Dolbey - Sketches of the East Africa Campaign
France
- Francis Loring Payne - The Story of Versailles
- Elizabeth Latimer - France in the Nineteenth Century. 1830-1890
- F. A. M. Mignet - History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814
- Hippolyte A. Taine - The French Revolution
- Hippolyte A. Taine - The Modern Regime
- Hippolyte A. Taine - The Ancient Regime
- Achilles Rose - Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812. Medico-Historical
- William Bennett Munro - Crusaders of New France. A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness
Germany
- Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia
- James Wycliffe Headlam - Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire
Italy
- Niccolo Machiavelli - History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy
- Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco - The Liberation of Italy. 1815-1870
- Edgcumbe Staley - The Tragedies of the Medici
Far East
- Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy - True Version of the Philippine Revolution
- John Biddulph - The Pirates of Malabar and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago
- F. H. King - Farmers of Forty Centuries. Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
Technology
- J. M. Bacon - The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation
- David N. Carvalho - Forty Centuries of Ink
- Herbert N. Casson - The History of the Telephone
- William J. Claxton - The Mastery of the Air
- Frederick A. Talbot - Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
- E. Charles Vivian - A History of Aeronautics
- M. M. Pattison Muir - The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry
- J. Munro - Heroes of the Telegraph
China
- Demetrius Charles Boulger - China
- Wolfram Eberhard - A History of China
- Edward Harper Parker - Ancient China Simplified
- Lewis Hodus - Buddhism and Buddhists in China
- Alexander Brebner - A Little History of China and A Chinese Story
Medieval History
- H. W. C. Davis - Medieval Europe
- John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland - Famous Men of The Middle Ages
Holland
- George Edmundson - History of Holland
- Thomas Colley Grattan - Holland. The History of the Netherlands
Africa
- J.H.T. McPherson - History of Liberia
- Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War
- Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament
- Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje - Native Life in South Africa, Before and Since the European War and the Boer Rebellion
- Josephine Elizabeth Butler - Native Races and the War
Israel
- S. M. Dubnow - Jewish History. An Essay in the Philosophy of History
- Julius Wellhausen - Prolegomena to the History of Israel
- Archibald Sayce - Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations
Ireland
- E. Lynn Linton - About Ireland
- Horace Plunkett - Ireland In The New Century
- Daniel Desmond Sheehan - Ireland Since Parnell
- Michael F. J. McDonnell - Ireland and the Home Rule Movement
Australia
- Ernest Scott - A Short History of Australia
Religion
- William Alexander Linn - The Story of the Mormons: From the Date of their Origin to the Year 1901
- Alfred Wesley Wishart - A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
Turkey
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee - Turkey: A Past and a Future
Canada
- William Wood - The Winning of Canada: A Chronicle of Wolfe
- Francis Parkman - Montcalm and Wolfe
Balkans
- Nevill Forbes, Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D.G. Hogarth - The Balkans. A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Rumania, Turkey
Europe
- Hutton Webster - Early European History
- C. A. Fyffe - History of Modern Europe 1792-1878
- John Holland Rose - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914
- Ramsay Muir - The Expansion Of Europe. The Culmination of Modern History
- R. Cohen - Knights of Malta, 1523-1798
Korea
- F.A. McKenzie - Korea's Fight for Freedom
- F. H. King - Farmers of Forty Centuries. Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan
Wales
- Owen M. Edwards - Short History of Wales
India
- Charles John Griffiths - A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi. With An Account Of The Mutiny At Ferozepore In 1857
- T.W.E. Holdsworth - Campaign of the Indus. In a Series of Letters from an Officer of the Bombay Division
- Theo. F. Rodenbough - Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute. An Account of Russia's Advance Toward India, Based Upon The Reports and Experiences of Russian, German, and British Officers and Travellers
- Archibald Forbes - The Afghan Wars. 1839-42 and 1878-80
- John Biddulph - The Pirates of Malabar and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago
Russia
- John Ward - With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia
Miscellanea
- Charlotte M. Yonge - A Book of Golden Deeds
- P. H. Ditchfield - Books Fatal to Their Authors