Social Science

With Poor Immigrants to America

by Stephen Graham Read by Ted Lienhart 5
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…

Notes On Democracy

by H. L. Mencken Read by Lisa Reichert 5
American journalist H.L. Mencken’s Notes On Democracy was originally published in 1926, yet is still relevant almost 100 years later.Mencken…

American Indians

by Frederick Starr Read by mpinedag 4.7
School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food…

How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

Human Nature And Conduct

by John Dewey Read by William Allan Jones 4.2
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …

The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict

by Thomas Archer Read by Peter Yearsley 4.6
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…

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…

Uganda to the Cape

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.8
Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

Twilight in Italy

by D. H. Lawrence Read by Peter Tucker 4.3
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…

Neighbors

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

Oil!

by Upton Sinclair Read by Bob R 4.2
The two main characters of “Oil” are James Arnold Ross, called “Dad”, and his son James Jr., called “Bunny”. The book is loosely based on a …

The Sexes in Science and History

by Eliza Burt Gamble Read by Rapunzelina 4.9
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of wom…

No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet

by Rupert H. Wheldon Read by Ben Adams 4.4
>Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the V…

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 Idea of Progress

by John Bagnell Bury Read by Barry Ganong 5
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

The Business of Being a Woman

by Ida M. Tarbell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
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…

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

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…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
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

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…

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