Social Science
Industrial Conspiracies
Industrial Conspiracies is a powerful address by renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow, delivered shortly after his notable acquittal in the McNam…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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
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…
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)
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 second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Workers
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
Women's Wild Oats
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…