Political Science
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
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Mandell Creighton
Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…
Rise of the Macedonian Empire
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Arthur M. Curteis
Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…
The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution
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Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…
The Promise of American Life
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Herbert Croly
The book is said to "offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs" that "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate…
Twenty Years of the Republic
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Harry Thurston Peck
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…
Common Sense
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Thomas Paine
In November 1774, Norfolk native Thomas Paine arrived in Philadelphia. He came under the recommendation of Benjamin Franklin, and indeed it…
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Edmund Burke
There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …
Women of Versailles
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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
United States Senate Election Cases
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Anne M. Butler and Wendy Wolff
Article I, section 5, of the United States Constitution gives each house of Congress power to judge the elections, returns, and qualificatio…
A Greater than Napoleon
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B. H. Liddell Hart
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (c. 236-c.183 B.C.) was one of the greatest military tacticians and strategists of all time. Only in his …
Handbook of Home Rule
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James Bryce
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…
State of the Union Addresses
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Theodore Roosevelt
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Ukraina and the Peace-conference
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Stanislav Dnistriansky
The 19th century was the Golden Age of Nationalism in Europe. By the end of the century many countries achieved their national self-determin…
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness
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William Godwin
It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…
The World's Best Orations
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Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
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Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
Lothrop Stoddard's most famous treatise on race. Written in the aftermath of the First World War, Stoddard examines the racial trends of his…
Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
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Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activi
This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its invest…
State of the Union Addresses
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Rutherford B. Hayes
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Modern England
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Oscar Browning
This short survey opens with the accession of that portly spendthrift, King George IV. With British support, Greece becomes independent. The…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
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Mrs. Philip Snowden
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…