Social Science
Our Southern Highlanders
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Horace Kephart
Our Southern Highlanders is a memoir of the Pennsylvania-born writer and librarian Horace Kephart, documenting his experiences and cultural …
Woman and the Republic
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Helen Johnson
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…
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Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …
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…
The Truth About the Congo
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Frederick Starr
After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year in Congo during the peak of European colonization. He can…
The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him
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William H. Councill
William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…
Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (Version 2)
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William Henry Hudson
A boy (between the ages of 4 and 12) discovers the natural world around him in his home in the Argentine Pampas and in Buenos Aires. Author …
Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
This is a book about men—as such. It differentiates between the human nature and the sex nature. It will not go so far as to allege man's ma…
Practical Etiquette
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Cora C. Klein
Good manners for social situations. (Summary by Cathy Howell)
American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent
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Daniel Garrison Brinton
This work was done to begin to draw distinction between myth and reality in the Native American hero lore. It comes at a time when not much…
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…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. Spirits Of The Corn An…
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James Frazer
The eighth volume in The Golden Bough collection, and second volume of The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild. The investigations into the …
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict
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Thomas Archer
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…
Tea and Tea Drinking
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Alfred Arthur Reade
Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning tea, the pleasures found in its drinking, effects, benefits, cautions, et…
Mark Twain's Partner
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Michael J. Phillips
In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…
The Road
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Hilaire Belloc
"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…
Thoughts on the Death Penalty
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Charles C. Burleigh
This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including hi…
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…
Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein
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Herbert Mayo
"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address, with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
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Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …