Biography

Originally published in 1916, this Book of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences was issued by the Daughters of the American Revolution of Nebraska, and dedicated to the daring, courageous, and intrepid men and women—the advance guard of our...

The true story of Thanksgiving in America is apparently in short supply, and the history of the Pilgrims who settled in the Plymouth colony. Did they commit genocide? Did they steal the Indians’ land? Find out from firsthand accounts about the...

In 1852, a young New York girl began keeping a journal of everyday happenings in the village of Canadaigua. For 20 years, she noted ordinary and extraordinary events, including school days, social outings, the American Civil War, the assassination of...

What does it mean to hear God’s voice and follow it? And can we be certain of the calling God has for us as His children? From Biblical times to the present, men and women have asked these questions and forged out answers that enabled them to...

This book is the last in the series They Knew Their God which Edwin and Lillian Harvey began together and which Lillian continued after her husband’s death. Lillian wrote this volume just before she suffered a stroke which took away her speech and...

Like others in this series, this volume tells of people who did exploits because “they knew their God.” The examples of these giants of the faith remind us, that we too, as Longfellow put it, “can make our lives sublime, and departing...

The particular characters in this volume, written by Edwin F. & Lillian G. Harvey, have been chosen because each heard a Voice and followed, regardless of the consequences. Having wrestled with their sinful natures, they saw in Redemption a cure for...

We have all read the stories of men and women who have achieved unbelievable success through their relentless pursuit of some goal or ambition. The characters described in this volume were also relentless in the pursuit of their goal–to completely...

The Journal begins with Charles Wesley's arrival at Frederica, a month after the brothers 'first set foot on American ground,' and closes on November 6, 1756. There are some gaps in the record which a student of Early Methodism deeply...

God saved B. R. Lakin when he was around 18 years of age while working in the Forest Lands of West Virginia. Soon after that God called him into His service to carry the Gospel all over the world. His ministry had a humble beginning. With a mule for...

The original idea of the Board of Directors of the Roloff Evangelistic Enterprises was to print a book covering the last years of Roloff's life. Then, the realization came that such a book would not be clearly understood by the raders unless they...

"Southwestern Virginia has produced great men in every walk of life-soldiers, statesmen, and scholars, but no man has lived between Roanoke and Bristol, and between the Blue Ridge and Flat Top Mountains who has made a deeper impression on the whole...