Social Science

In Indian Mexico

by Frederick Starr Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…

Following the Color Line

by Ray Stannard Baker Read by Roger Melin 4.9
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionate…

The Aftermath of Slavery

by William A. Sinclair Read by Jim Locke 4.5
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…

What Dress Makes of Us

by Dorothy Quigley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
What Dress Makes of Us is a sharp and humorous exploration of women's fashion and its social implications, penned by Dorothy Quigley in 1897…

A Century of Negro Migration

by Carter Woodson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Dr. Woodson describes the internal migration of African Americans within the United States, including the Northern Migration and the draw of…

The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States

by Winfield Hazlitt Collins Read by David Wales 3.8
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty

by Frederick Adams Woods Read by Leon Harvey 5
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion

by James Frazer Read by Leon Harvey 5
The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bo…

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet

by Rupert H. Wheldon Read by Ben Adams 4.3
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men

by Mary Wollstonecraft Read by David Wales 3.8
Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Women of America

by John Ruse Larus Read by Linda Andrus 4.8
The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…

The Indian To-day

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of t…

The Nether World

by George Gissing Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

The Negro

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 4
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Thoughts on South Africa

by Olive Schreiner Read by Rachel May Ferriman 3.3
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

Among the Head-hunters of Formosa

by Janet B. Montgomery Mcgovern Read by Anonymous 4.7
"Among the Head-hunters of Formosa contains the substance of observations made during a two-years' stay in Formosa — from September 191…

Dark Princess

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Verla Viera 4.6
This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

Your Negro Neighbor

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley Read by KevinS 4.5
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

by Mahatma Gandhi Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
First written in Gandhi's native language Gujarati, this booklet advocates for Indian non-violent self-rule during the struggle for Indian i…

Porto Rico

by Joseph B. Seabury Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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…

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