Political Science
Birth Control and the State
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Carlos Blacker
This essay is one of a great number that endorse the principle of eugenics, a controversial study and practice that aims for society or gove…
Friends of Ukraine Publications
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Various
A number of publications distributed by the Friends of Ukraine in the period after the First World War when the Ukraine was struggling for i…
Reflections on Violence
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Georges Sorel
Considered one of the more controversial books from the 20th century, Sorel's Reflections on Violence argues in favor of uprisings and strik…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
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Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
Anti-Dictator
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Étienne De La Boétie
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…
The Partition of Europe
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Philip Guedalla
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…
State of the Union Addresses
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Martin Van Buren
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
On Liberty
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John Stuart Mill
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is an essay about individual freedom and its limits. Mill argues that people should be free to think, speak, …
State of the Union Addresses
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James Buchanan
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Charles James Fox
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Henry Offley Wakeman
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…
A Textbook of European History
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Lionel Cecil Jane
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
State of the Union Addresses
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Benjamin Harrison
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Cavour
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Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…
Whom We Shall Welcome
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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…
Your Pay Envelope
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John Richard Meader
A Critique of Classical Socialism presented in a series of letters to a Mr. Smith. The author was the editor of the New York-based "Com…
The Beggars of Paris
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Louis Paulian
Here, as in France, begging is made a profession. And it is very important that the public should realize the fact, that ' thoughtless almsg…
Finland and the Tsars
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Joseph R. Fisher
Fisher’s treatment of the history of Finland, in the context of its relations with Russia, was released in 1899—at the start of the first at…
A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome
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Mandell Creighton
Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…
Lives of Greek Statesmen
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George William Cox
In the darkest days of the Persian War when the armies of Xerxes were overrunning northern Greece, Athens faced destruction. The desperate A…
The Progressive Woman
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Various
A Monthly Magazine of aspiration devoted to the economic and political interests of women, edited by Josephine Conger-Keneko. - Summary by K…