Social Science

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

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W. E. B. Du Bois


In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …

Invisible Helpers

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C. W. Leadbeater


Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…

The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East

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Walter A. Wyckoff


A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…

Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life

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Lyman Abbott, Thomas Byrnes, Helen S. Campbell and Thomas Wallace Knox


A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, ske…

The Alps, the Danube and the Near East

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Frank G. Carpenter


Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many …

The Book of the Ancient Greeks

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Dorothy Mills


An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming of the Greeks to the Conquest of Corinth by Rome in 146 B.C.The sp…

Society as I Have Found It

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Ward Mcallister


Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

National Gambling Impact Study Commission Final Report

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National Gambling Impact Study Commission


The National Gambling Impact Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and eco…

Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix

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Francis Tiffany


A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …

A Social History of the American Negro

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley


A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…

Porto Rico: The Land of the Rich Port

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Joseph B. Seabury


Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…

Herein is Love

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Reuel Howe


Prescient look at the church, its message and role in society, both perceived and true, focused through the lens of the biblical doctrine of…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

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Tickner Edwardes


Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century

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Hester Lynch Piozzi


Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…

Women of America

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John Ruse Larus


The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…

Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume 1: Mental and Physical Traits of a Thousand G…

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Lewis Terman


It should go without saying that a nation's resources of intellectual talent are among the most precious it will ever have. The study of the…

Baltimore Hats

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William T. Brigham


It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labo…

Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome

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William Henry Samuel Jones


This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…

The Religious Experience of the Roman People

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W. Warde Fowler


A series of lectures delivered by Professor Fowler at Edinburgh University for a public audience, concerning the development and decay of t…

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