Jim Locke
Fact Stranger than Fiction
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…
The Life of Washington, Volume 5
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…
The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution
In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to furt…
Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…
Minnie's Sacrifice
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
Cane
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…
Jess
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…
The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.
The House of Mystery
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…
Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …
Ireland Under the Tudors, Volume 2
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…
St. Elmo
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…
Black No More
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
The Man of Feeling
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
The Garies and their Friends
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…