Social Science

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…

Practical Etiquette

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Cora C. Klein


Good manners for social situations. (Summary by Cathy Howell)

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 …

Bushido: el alma del Japón

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Inazō Nitobe


Inazō Nitobé, plasmó el código de los samuráis, guerreros japoneses, para dar a conocer y difundir los valores y…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commissio…

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National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders


The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst ca…

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…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…

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United States Work Projects Administration


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 City of Din

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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards

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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley


A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…

Mobilizing Woman-Power

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Harriot Stanton Blatch


Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

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Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern


"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 2

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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…

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…

The Social Settlement Movement in Chicago

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Josephine Hunt Raymond


This is Ms. Raymond's thesis submitted for the awarding of her master's degree from the University of Wisconsin (Madison.) Raymond clearly k…

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