Jim Locke
The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors
A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series
Scarlet Sister Mary
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…
The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…
True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life
The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
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 …
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Essays
The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragme…
The Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent
Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series
Chicago May: Her Story
This is a cold-blooded recital of fact, a plain, unvarnished statement from a client to a lawyer. It is the history of the life of a notorio…
Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Noted historian sets out to locate and research a rare manuscript: the French version of -- "The Golden Legend" -- and meets the d…
Biography of an American Bondman, By His Daughter
Josephine Brown's Biography of an American Bondsman faithfully follows the trajectory of her father's life as previously explored in his own…
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involveme…
Epochs of American History: The Colonists 1492-1750
This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…
The Primitive
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…
Minnie's Sacrifice
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
The House of Mystery
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…
Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…