Modern (20th C)

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…

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…

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

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…

Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …

Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary

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Arthur Henry Patterson


Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on…

Woman and Labour

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Olive Schreiner


I should like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us—“You will look back at us with astonishment! You will …

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on…

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United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives


This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…

The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1

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Henry Baerlein


Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…

Gallipoli

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John Masefield


John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termi…

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commissio…

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National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders


The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst ca…

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…

My War Experiences in Two Continents

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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan


Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…

In Ship and Prison: A Story of Five Years in the Continental Navy with Captain …

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William P. Chipman


The incidents of this book are taken largely from the log-book of Captain Tucker, and are intended to picture the stirring times in which he…

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…

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…

Cape Coddities

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Roger Livington Scaife and Roger Livingston Scaife


A message from the past from a former Cape Cod resident who delves in all things that make Cape Cod special. From explaining the adventures …

France, Spain and the Rif, Part 1

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Walter Burton Harris


The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a terr…

Sea-Power in the Pacific

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Hector Charles Bywater


During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict …

This Giddy Globe (Version 2)

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Oliver Herford


A geography of the world at the time, told with a wit and humor unusual in non-fiction and historical texts while staying true to the subjec…

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