Social Science

The Negro

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W. E. B. Du Bois


Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

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Archibald Grimké


In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

Tradiciones Argentinas

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Pastor Servando Obligado


Recopilación de tradiciones, usos, costumbres, expresiones y anécdotas de la vida en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX. …

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2

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W. E. B. Du Bois


The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…

Lamp of Wisdom

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William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

The Cambridge Medieval History, Volume 02, The Rise of the Saracens and the Fou…

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Various


The present work is intended as a comprehensive account of medieval times, drawn up on the same lines as The Cambridge Modern History but wi…

History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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Randolph Silliman Bourne


A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…

Why We Love Music

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Carl Emil Seashore


Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

Researches into the Physical History of Man

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James Cowles Prichard


Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of t…

Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer

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Dexter C. Bloomer


As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …

Our Southern Highlanders

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Horace Kephart


Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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Various


These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827

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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs


Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…

The Story of Santa Klaus

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William S. Walsh


Who was Santa Klaus? Did he exist? In this study of custom and folklore, the author looks at the real and the legendary man, according to va…

Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax D…

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Samuel Henry Prince


The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb."The following pages [are] the result of an o…

Galateo

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Giovanni della Casa and Giovanni Della Casa


A book on the practice of mannerly behaviour at Court, originally written in Italian but translated into English for the Elizabethan court. …

Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address, with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt

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Various


Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

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Isabel Eaton


This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

The Great Beach

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John Hay


Written by John Hay, a naturalist and co-founder of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, The Great Beach is an exploration into the natur…

Ancient Civilizations of Mexico and Central America

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Herbert Spinden


The ancient cultures of Mesoamerica developed art, stone cities, and sciences (especially astronomy and mathematics), to a degree that surpa…

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