Social Science
Manners and Rules of Good Society
The title of this work sufficiently indicates the nature of its contents. The Usages of Good Society relate not only to good manners and to …
Mark Twain: A Biography
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April …
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…
Oracles of Nostradamus
Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of …
Woman and War
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
California Sketches New And Old
Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps,…
The Measurement of Intelligence
An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the solois…
They Who Knock at Our Gates
In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had ar…
Americans All, Immigrants All
The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …
Revolted Woman
One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He pai…
The Science - History of the Universe
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…
Anno 2070
Een schrijver die vrij hardhandig met de nukken en grillen van de toekomst kennis maakte, was de negentiende-eeuwse professor Pieter Harting…
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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 Book of the Ancient Greeks
An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.The sp…
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short …
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…
The Social History of Smoking
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…
Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on D…
The Romance of the Romanoffs
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…