The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments.

Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese.

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else.

When Alexis de Tocqueville visited America in the 1830s he found a thriving democracy of a kind he had not seen anywhere else.

In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red’s banishment to Greenland are chronicled…

This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World War.

Bakunin’s most famous work, published in various lengths, this version is the most complete form of the work published hitherto.

Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself.

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century.

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century.

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century.

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century.

Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century.

On 27 February 1860, Abraham Lincoln gave this address at the Cooper Union in New York City.

The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content.

“The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu.

This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

The Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent...

For Canada, Champlain is not alone a heroic explorer of the seventeenth century, but the founder of Quebec; and it is a rich part of our heritage that he founded New France in the spirit of unselfishness, of loyalty, and of faith.

The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens) in the 5th Century BC.

Intended for a youthful audience, The Story of the Middle Ages, published in 1906, tells the history of the Middle Ages in simple and entertaining fashion…

In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party.

The U.S. Constitution: The United States Constitution is the legal backbone of the United States of America and comprises the basic laws of the United States Federal Government.