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Ch. 7 Ireland in the Forties: The Gentry, Part 1

In Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself

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Frances Power Cobbe


Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…

The Rights of the Defeated

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 25 - The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Low…

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Alfred D. DeCelles and Alfred D. Decelles


The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…

Samuel Johnson, Part 1

In Little Journeys to the Homes of English Authors

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Elbert Hubbard


Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

The 'Jacobins'

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 24 - The Family Compact: A Chronicle of the Rebelli…

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W. Stewart Wallace


The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…

Athens and Brownsville

In The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 1

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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 exerc…

I. An Old Master

In An Old Master and Other Political Essays

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson


This is a collection of five essays published by Woodrow Wilson in 1893, while he was Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University (s…

August 1927, pt.3

In Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

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Francis Russell


The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…

Chapter I Birth and Ancestry

In The Life of Florence Nightingale

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Sarah Tooley


Journalist and author Sarah Tooley was best known in her time for her biography of Queen Victoria and this biography of Florence Nightingale…

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