Modern (20th C)
Syria: the Desert and the Sown
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Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…
Thoughts on South Africa
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Olive Schreiner
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village
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Tickner Edwardes
If you love the quiet of the country - the real quiet which is not silence at all, but the blending of a myriad scarce-perceptible sounds yo…
The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War
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Horatio W. Dresser
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. D…
Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups
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House Un-American Activities Committee
A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations tha…
Mark Twain and the Happy Island
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Elizabeth Wallace
This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace an…
Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack
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United States Senate
A joint bipartisan report by the U.S. Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Rules and Administration, addressing security, planning, an…
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo
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Edmund Dene Morel
Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…
Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch
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Eva Shaw McLaren and Eva Shaw Mclaren
This is a brief biography of the Scottish physician and suffragist Dr. Elsie Inglis. Dr. Inglis founded a maternity hospital for the poor…
Frederick Douglass
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Booker T. Washington
An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become one of the most important and influential abolitionists, authors…
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…
History of the Jews in America
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Peter Wiernik
Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…
All in the Day's Work
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Ida M. Tarbell
In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigativ…
The North American Indian, Volume 1
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Edward Sherriff Curtis
Edward Sherriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist who was funded by J.P. Morgan to produce a series on Native Americans. …
Dispatches from the Ruhr
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Ernest Hemingway
Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the …
Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart
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Paul L. Briand, Jr.
This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…
Versailles
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Karl Friedrich Nowak
World War 1 ended with the Paris Peace Conference (January 1919 to January 1920), which in turn resulted in the signing of five peace treati…
France, Spain and the Rif, Part 2
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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…
The Iron Hunter
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Chase Salmon Osborn
This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later a…
World's War Events
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Francis J. Reynolds
World's War Events is a 3-volume history of World War I, assembled in 1919 from articles contributed by "statesmen, commanders, histori…