Culture & Heritage
Folk-Lore and Legends: North American Indian
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Unknown
This is a wonderful compilation of stories that serve to paint a vivid and beautiful image of the Native American figure. The exploration o…
Dark Princess
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W. E. B. Du Bois
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…
Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War
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Various
This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…
Stories and Pictures
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I. L. Peretz
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship…
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem
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Sutton Griggs
Imperium in Imperio is a historical fiction novel by Sutton Griggs, published in 1899. The novel covers the life of Belton Piedmont, an educ…
Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead
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Allen Raine
The story centers around the Owens' family and young ‘Morva of the Moor’, the prettiest girl in the world.The Owens of Garthowen, once a pre…
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures
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Montague Glass
Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York P…
The Sturdy Oak
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Various
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely gener…
The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)
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Anonymoustranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler, Unknowntranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler and Unknowntranslated By George Henry Needler
The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Li…
Tales from Silver Lands
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Charles Finger
The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American i…
Savage Holiday
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Richard Wright
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…
Camden's Compliment to Walt Whitman
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Various
On the occasion of Walt Whitman's 70th Birthday a "Committee of Citizens" in Camden, NJ held a special commemoration in his honor.…
The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and N…
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Mary Shauffler Labaree
Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage i…
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Sir Walter Scott
During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 18
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Cliff-Dwellers
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Henry Blake Fuller
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territ…
The Golden Book of Springfield
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Vachel Lindsay
The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, whe…
The Garies and their Friends
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Frank Webb
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…
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
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Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
Black Tales for White Children
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Nancy Stigand and Chauncey Hugh Stigand
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…