Political Science
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …
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Justin Mccarthy
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves i…
A History of American Political Theories
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Charles Edward Merriam
"A description and analysis of the characteristic types of political theory that have from time to time been dominant in American polit…
The American Credo
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H. L. Mencken
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind, published in 1920, is a commentary on US politics, specif…
The Colored People of Chicago
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Louise DeKoven Bowen and Louise Dekoven Bowen
This book presents a summary of the findings conducted by the the Juvenile Protective Association in Chicago before the changes brought on b…
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psycho…
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Frederick Adams Woods
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1869 - 1876)
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Ulysses S. Grant
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,…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1845 - 1848)
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James K. Polk
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,…
The Life of Washington, Volume 5
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John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
The Old Regime and the Revolution
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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville
A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…
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…
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…
Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 2: Of the Rights of Things.
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William Blackstone
The Commentaries on the Laws of England by Sir William Blackstone, are a prominent and authoritative 18th century dissertation on the common…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)
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…