Social Science
With Poor Immigrants to America
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
The Aftermath of Slavery
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
Dark Princess
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…
The Idea of Progress
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…
Industrial Conspiracies
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…
The Psychology of Peoples
"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…
A Century of Negro Migration
Dr. Woodson describes the internal migration of African Americans within the United States, including the Northern Migration and the draw of…
Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …
More Australian Legendary Tales
The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bo…
Your Negro Neighbor
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS
Porto Rico
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…
Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls
A complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls, the methods by which the procurers and panders lure innocent young …
Genetic Studies of Genius
It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…
A Social History of the American Negro
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
Neighbourhood
If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…