Political Science

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…

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…

The Old Regime and the Revolution

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville


A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 (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,…

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…

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,…

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 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…

Rise of the Macedonian Empire

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Arthur M. Curteis


Through diplomacy and conquest the Kingdom of Macedonia under Philip II (382-336 BC) came to dominate ancient Greece. To the classical Greek…

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…

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

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Millard Fillmore


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