William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was the first American to win international acclaim as an historian.

The book ""William Hickling Prescott"" by Harry Thurston Peck is a biography of the American historian and writer William Hickling Prescott.

"For Maids and Mothers: The Overtaught Woman," is an article by Harry Thurston Peck (1856-1914), an American classical scholar, author, editor, historian and critic, originally published in the 1899 issue of "The Cosmopolitan" magazine.

Including more than 30 illustrations.] This book was originally published in 1896 and tells the story of Mabel, a five-year-old girl who is always getting herself in tricky situations, but read how her previous acts of kindness are repaid.