Jim Locke
Thomas Hobbes
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
The Chronicles of America Volume 12 - Washington and his Comrades in Arms
This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by G…
Cleopatra
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a…
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…
The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…
A Social History of the American Negro
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…
Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Aftermath of Slavery
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…
The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
Savage Holiday
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…
The Life of Washington, Volume 2
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…
The Phantom Public
“The Voice of the People has been said to be the voice of God: and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true…
Sowing and Reaping
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Laws (version 2)
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
The Chronicles of America Volume 15 - Jefferson and his Colleagues
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…