The best types of history books are the ones written soon after it happened — or at least long enough ago that it’s not colored by current political revisionism.  Here are a few I’ve unearthed while researching my writing.

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Note: Most items on this list are geared toward Bible Times or US History.

Key: no marker = free; one $ = zero to five dollars; two $$ = six to twenty dollars; three $$$ = over twenty dollars.

Listings are organized by:

Historical Date – Title – Author – date published – website availability

 

0001 AD,  Sketches of Jewish Social Life, Alfred Edersheim, 1876, Christian Classics Ethereal Library, www.ccel.org.

1769 to approx. 1820:  The Missions and Missionaries of California, volume 2 by Fr. Zephyrin Engelhardt, 1912, The Internet Archives, https://archive.org.

1770s,  Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, Benjamin Morris, 1864, The Internet Archives, https://archive.org.

1800s, History of Amador County, Mason, J.D., editor, 1881, The Internet Archives, https://archive.org.  (Subject: California)

1848,  A Tour of Duty in California, Joseph Warren Revere, 1849, The Internet Archives, https://archive.org.

1870s, The Pacific Tourist, Williams, Henry T., editor, 1876, The Internet Archives, https://archive.org.  (Subject: The Transcontinental Railroad)