Social Science
Culture and Anarchy
Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book…
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…
Your Negro Neighbor
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS
London Labour and the London Poor
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.This vo…
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…
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…
No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…
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…
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…
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)
Five Stages of Greek Religion
A historical account written in the early 20th century The work explores the evolution and various phases of Greek religion focusing on the …
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…
The Book of the Dead
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the …
Short Nonfiction Collection
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no accoun…
The Workers
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
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…
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …
The Web of Indian Life
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion
The second volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. The superstition and magical purpose …
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea …