Social Science
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address, with an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt
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Various
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
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…
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
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…
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…
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 City of Din
Read by Amelia Chesley
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…
Leyendas de los Indios Guaraníes
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Filiberto De Oliveira Cézar
Oliveira nos entrega, siguiendo la línea de sus Leyendas de los indios Quíchuas, un compendio de 14 historias guaraníes…
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…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Tradiciones Argentinas
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Pastor Servando Obligado
Recopilación de tradiciones, usos, costumbres, expresiones y anécdotas de la vida en la Argentina de principios del siglo XX. …
Berlins Drittes Geschlecht
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Magnus Hirschfeld
"Berlins Drittes Geschlecht" ist eine populärwissenschaftliche Beschreibung der LGBTQ+ Kultur im Berlin der Jahrhundertwende.…
With Poor Immigrants to America
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Stephen Graham
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…
Whom We Shall Welcome: Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and …
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The President'S Commission On Immigration And Naturalizatio
In 1952, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had many provisions objectionable to many Americans. President T…
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West
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Walter A. Wyckoff
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
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Jane Addams
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
The Golden Bough. Part VI. The Scapegoat
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James Frazer
The ninth book in The Golden Bough Series. With The Scapegoat the general discussion of the theory and practice of the Dying God is brought …
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
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Hattie Greene Lockett
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…
The Complete Bachelor
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Walter Germain Robinson
This volume was written by the author to help people with proper etiquette for certain social dilemma issues.i.e. male manners while being s…
Five Stages of Greek Religion
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Gilbert Murray
A historical account written in the early 20th century The work explores the evolution and various phases of Greek religion focusing on the …