Political Science

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner



Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…

Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke



There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …

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,…

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…

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…

A Greater than Napoleon, Scipio Africanus

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B. H. Liddell Hart



Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (c. 236-c.183 B.C.) was one of the greatest military tacticians and strategists of all time. Only in his …

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