History

Antiquityto AD 500

• Solon

  Solon: Poems and Lives

  c. 594 BC · From the Greek

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• Herodotus

  The Histories

  c. 430 BC · From the Greek

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• Thucydides

  History of the Peloponnesian War

  c. 400 BC · From the Greek

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• Xenophon

  Anabasis

  c. 370 BC · From the Greek

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• Xenophon

  The Education of Cyrus

  c. 370 BC · From the Greek

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• Plato

  Letters

  c. 354 BC · From the Greek

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• Aristotle

  The Constitution of the Athenians

  c. 328 BC · From the Greek

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• Polybius

  The Histories (Selections)

  c. 146 BC · From the Greek

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• Sima Qian

  Records of the Grand Historian (Selected Annals and Biographies)

  c. 91 BC · From the Classical Chinese

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• Julius Caesar

  The Gallic War

  c. 58–49 BC · From the Latin

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• Julius Caesar

  The Civil War

  45 BC · From the Latin

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• Sallust

  The Conspiracy of Catiline and The Jugurthine War

  c. 42–40 BC · From the Latin

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• Livy

  The History of Rome, Books I–V

  c. 27 BC – AD 9 · From the Latin

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• Tacitus

  Agricola and Germania

  AD 98 · From the Latin

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• Plutarch

  Parallel Lives (Selections)

  c. AD 110 · From the Greek

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• Tacitus

  The Annals

  c. AD 116 · From the Latin

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• Suetonius

  The Twelve Caesars

  c. AD 121 · From the Latin

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• Arrian

  The Campaigns of Alexander

  c. AD 145 · From the Greek

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• Diogenes Laertius

  Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

  c. AD 230 · From the Greek

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• Augustine

  The City of God (Selections)

  c. AD 413–426 · From the Latin

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Middle Ages500–1450

• Turold

  The Song of Roland

  11th century AD · From the Old French

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• Marco Polo

  The Travels of Marco Polo

  c. 1298 · From the Old French

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• Luo Guanzhong

  Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  14th century AD · From the Chinese

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• Ibn Khaldun

  The Muqaddimah (Selections)

  1377 · From the Arabic

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Renaissance1450–1600

• Niccolò Machiavelli

  Discourses on Livy

  c. 1513–1519 · From the Italian

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17th century1600–1700

• Inca Garcilaso de la Vega

  Royal Commentaries of the Incas

  1609 · From the Spanish

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The Enlightenment1700–1800

• Benjamin Franklin

  The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

  1771–1790 · Original text

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• Edmund Burke

  Reflections on the Revolution in France

  1790 · Original text

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19th century1800–1900

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Lectures on the History of Philosophy

  1833–1836 · From the German

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• Alexis de Tocqueville

  Democracy in America, Volume One

  1835 · From the French

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• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Lectures on the Philosophy of History

  1837 · From the German

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• Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

  Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism

  1845 · From the Spanish

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• Alexis de Tocqueville

  The Old Regime and the Revolution

  1856 · From the French

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• Charles Dickens

  A Tale of Two Cities

  1859 · Original text

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• Leo Tolstoy

  War and Peace

  1865–1869 · From the Russian

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• Ricardo Palma

  Peruvian Traditions (Selections)

  1872–1910 · From the Spanish

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• Friedrich Engels

  The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

  1884 · From the German

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20th century1900–

• Euclides da Cunha

  Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertões)

  1902 · From the Portuguese

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• Max Weber

  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

  1904–1905 · From the German

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• Oswald Spengler

  The Decline of the West (Selections)

  1918–1922 · From the German

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