Social Science

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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 …

Berlins Drittes Geschlecht

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Magnus Hirschfeld



"Berlins Drittes Geschlecht" ist eine populärwissenschaftliche Beschreibung der LGBTQ+ Kultur im Berlin der Jahrhundertwende.…

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…

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…

My Friends the Savages

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Giovanni Battista Cerruti



The author writes his experiences with the Sakai peoples in the Malay peninsula (SE Asia), focusing on their lifestyle and customs. What imp…

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…

Leyendas de los Indios Guaraníes

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Filiberto De Oliveira Cézar



Oliveira nos entrega, siguiendo la línea de sus Leyendas de los indios Quíchuas, un compendio de 14 historias guaraníes…

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…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2

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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 exerci…

The City of Din

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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie



A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

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