Modern (20th C)
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo
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Edmund Dene Morel
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…
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…
Frederick Douglass
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Booker T. Washington
An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become one of the most important and influential abolitionists, authors…
Rasputin and the Russian Revolution
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Catherine Radziwill
Princess Catherine Radziwill exposes Rasputin as a charlatan and pawn of Germany in this two-part analysis. Part one discusses the social an…
History of the Jews in America
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Peter Wiernik
Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…
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 North American Indian, Volume 1
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Edward Sherriff Curtis
Edward Sherriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist who was funded by J.P. Morgan to produce a series on Native Americans. …
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…
Dispatches from the Ruhr
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Ernest Hemingway
Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the …
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…
The Trial of a New Society
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Justus Ebert
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…
Barbarous Mexico
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John Kenneth Turner
Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances tha…
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution
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John Dryden Kuser
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…
Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4
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Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
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…
Freedom's Battle
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Mahatma Gandhi
A collection of writings and speeches by Gandhi during the British rule of India following World War I. - Summary by KHand
The World Crisis, Volume 1
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Winston S. Churchill
An inside view of the critical years leading up to World War I, as well as the first few key months. Told by (at the time) Britain's First L…
The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads
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Arthur Henry Patterson
"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.I acquired…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…