Political Science

The Colored People of Chicago

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Louise DeKoven Bowen and Louise Dekoven Bowen


This book presents a summary of the findings conducted by the the Juvenile Protective Association in Chicago before the changes brought on b…

The Life of Washington, Volume 5

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John James Marshall


Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…

Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905

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Harry Thurston Peck


Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…

The Promise of American Life

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Herbert Croly


The book is said to "offer a manifesto of Progressive beliefs" that "anticipated the transition from competitive to corporate…

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psycho…

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Frederick Adams Woods


Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…

Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question

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James Bryce


The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

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John James Marshall


This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

United States Senate Election, Expulsion, and Censure Cases, 1793-1990

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Anne M. Butler and Wendy Wolff


Article I, section 5, of the United States Constitution gives each house of Congress power to judge the elections, returns, and qualificatio…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1901 - 1908)

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Theodore Roosevelt


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

The First Two Stuarts and the Puritan Revolution 1603-1660

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner


Samuel Rawson Gardiner was an eminent British historian of the Victorian era whose works on the 17th century remain a respected source. This…

Final Report of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities…

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Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activi


This report presents the findings and recommendations of the Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities based on its invest…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1877 - 1884)

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Rutherford B. Hayes


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Ukraina and the Peace-conference

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Stanislav Dnistriansky


The 19th century was the Golden Age of Nationalism in Europe. By the end of the century many countries achieved their national self-determin…

Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV

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Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand


Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…

What is Industrial Democracy

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Norman Thomas


An explanation of the concept of industrial democracy and its relation to capitalism. (Summary by progressingamerica)

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome, Volume II

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Mandell Creighton


Mandell Creighton's history of the Papacy continues in Volume II with the condemnation in 1415 of Jan Hus by the Council of Constance and hi…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1849 - 1856)

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Millard Fillmore


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness.…

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William Godwin


It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…

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…

Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 2: Of the Rights of Things.

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William Blackstone


The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…

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