Social Science
With Poor Immigrants to America
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…
The Sins of Hollywood
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…
My Chinese Marriage
Mae Watkins, a University of Michigan student, unexpectedly falls in love with a Chinese international law student in the midst of World War…
The Alps, the Danube and the Near East
Journeying through many countries including Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Switzerland and Greece, the author gives an in-depth account of many …
The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…
Neighbors
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
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…
Twilight in Italy
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
A Century of Negro Migration
Dr. Woodson describes the internal migration of African Americans within the United States, including the Northern Migration and the draw of…
Slave Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Porto Rico
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…
The Sexes in Science and History
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of wom…
Your Negro Neighbor
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)
Our Southern Highlanders
"Our Southern Highlanders" by Horace Kephart delves into the lives and landscapes of the Appalachian region, focusing particularly…
The Business of Being a Woman
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "T…
The Idea of Progress
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…
The Science - History of the Universe
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…