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Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch

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Eva Shaw McLaren and Eva Shaw Mclaren


This is a brief biography of the Scottish physician and suffragist Dr. Elsie Inglis. Dr. Inglis founded a maternity hospital for the poor…

All in the Day's Work

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Ida M. Tarbell


In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigativ…

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2

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Ida M. Tarbell


Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…

Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart

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Paul L. Briand, Jr.


This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…

The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829

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Richard B. Morris


In this short (58 page) work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred du…

Dr. Elsie Inglis

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Frances Balfour


Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after ope…

A Political Pilgrim in Europe

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Mrs. Philip Snowden


Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…

Aspects of the Novel

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E. M. Forster


This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a V…

The Long Road of Woman's Memory

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Jane Addams


In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…

Introduction

In Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

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President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and 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…

Commission Findings, part 1

In Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

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President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Is and President'S Commission On The Accident At Three Mile Is


At 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, a serious accident occurred at the Three Mile Island 2 nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Th…

Strikes and the Spirit of Wonder

In Fancies Versus Fads

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G. K. Chesterton


A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves…

CHAPTER XVIII. How a Free Government existing in a corrupt City may be preserve…

In Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli


In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

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