Fiction
The Torch of Liberty
by Frederic Arnold Kummer, Illustrated by Kreigh Collins
The Torch of Liberty features several Greek stories highlighting the development of democracy. Frederic Arnold Kummer was the son of a German
emigrant who fought in the Civil War and helped found Kummer & Becker,
the Baltimore banking firm who were agents for the North German Lloyd
Steamship Line.
Roads of Adventure
Authored by Ralph D. Paine
Ralph Delahaye Paine (1871-1925) owed part of his swashbuckling success
as a writer to connections forged at Yale’s secret society Skull and Bones
and to an early friendship with the publisher William Randolph Hearst, for
whom he covered the Spanish American War as well as the Boxer Rebellion
in China.
Horatio Alger Series
In cooperation with American Public University
Edited and Introduced by Dr. Wallace Boston
Careers in the Face of Challenge:
Horatio Alger’s Telegraph Boy
The young Horatio Alger heroes often sold newspapers or delivered
telegrams, a reminder of how technology has moved on. The reader will
find this prototypical Alger story both a good read and food for thought
in an era when the technology has indeed moved on but the cha