Social Science
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
The Truth About the Congo
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Frederick Starr
After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year in Congo during the peak of European colonization. He can…
Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This is a book about men—as such. It differentiates between the human nature and the sex nature. It will not go so far as to allege man's ma…
American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
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Daniel Garrison Brinton
This work was done to begin to draw distinction between myth and reality in the Native American hero lore. It comes at a time when not much…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. Spirits Of The Corn An…
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James Frazer
The eighth volume in The Golden Bough collection, and second volume of The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. The investigations into the …
Tea and Tea Drinking
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Alfred Arthur Reade
Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning tea, the pleasures found in its drinking, effects, benefits, cautions, et…
Practical Etiquette
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Cora C. Klein
Good manners for social situations. (Summary by Cathy Howell)
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict
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Thomas Archer
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…
Thoughts on the Death Penalty
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Charles C. Burleigh
This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including hi…
The Road
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Hilaire Belloc
"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…
Mark Twain's Partner
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Michael J. Phillips
In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
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Herbert Mayo
"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 1
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerc…
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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United States Work Projects Administration
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address, with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
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Various
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
Among the Head-hunters of Formosa
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Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commissio…
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National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst ca…
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…