Social Science
On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara
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Samuel Gamble Bayne
This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…
The Medicine-Men Of The Apache
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John Gregory Bourke
“Herewith I have the honor to submit a paper upon the paraphernalia of the medicine-men of the Apache and other tribes. Analogues have been …
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia
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Kellogg Durland
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume I
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Struggles and Triumphs, or Forty Years' of Recollections of P.T. Barnum, writte…
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P. T. Barnum
The 1873 edition of the autobiography of the founding genius of the "Greatest Show on Earth," P.T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum. It d…
Save the Girls
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Mason Long
Save the Girls is an 1880 American anti-white-slavery book by reformed gambler Mason Long. In it, the author crusades against the social evi…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Christmastide
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William Sandys
Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music is a collection of essays detailing the early traditions of Christmas i…
Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Tim…
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Frederick Edward Maning
Introduction to Old New ZealandPhilip SteerVictoria University February 2004Frederick Edward Maning is best known as an author, but he was a…
Native Races and the War
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Josephine Butler
Josephine Elizabeth Butler was a Victorian era British feminist who was strongly committed to liberal reforms. As a result of her efforts, i…
Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia
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Isabel Eaton
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…
Droll Stories of Isthmian Life
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Evelyn Saxton
Enjoy these stories compiled from the travels and customs of life from the Isthmus! Our author takes us along a journey and tells the tales …
Why Are So Few Men in the Churches? And Remedies
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Charles N. Queen
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 5
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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 exerci…
A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa
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Robert Louis Stevenson
CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK INCORPORATES QUOTATIONS CONTAINING RACIST SLURS. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A BOWDLERIZED COPY, SEE BETWEEN ABOUT 07.…
Yanks - A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) Verse from WWI
Read by John Greenman
Various
Introduced by Stars and Stripes editor, John T. Winterich (1891-1970) this is a compilation of poetry by members of the American Expeditiona…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 4
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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 exerci…
Brazil. Stray notes from Bahia
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James Wetherell
Observations and reflections from James Wetherell who was Britain's Vice-Consul of Bahia and prior, Vice-Consul of Paraiba, during a period …
The Return of the Exiles and the West African Church
Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
Edward Wilmot Blyden
A lecture delivered at the Breadfruit school house, Lagos, West Africa, January 2, 1891E.W. Blyden (1832 to 1912) was born in the Caribbean …
The Delinquent, Vol. IV, Nos. 1-7
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National Prisoners' Aid Association
The Delinquent (formerly The Review) was a monthly periodical published by the National Prisoners' Aid Association.