Social Science

The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism

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Harriet Beecher Stowe and Samuel Robert Wells


The object in reprinting this most interesting review is simply to show the progress made in moral, intellectual, and physical science. The …

Wonderful London

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Anonymous


"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

The Passing of the Great Race

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Madison Grant


The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…

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…

Woman and the Republic

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Helen Johnson


First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…

Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psycho…

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Frederick Adams Woods


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

The Negro Laborer: A Word to Him

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William H. Councill


William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

The Woman Movement

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Ellen Key


Ellen Key's 'The Woman movement' follows the development of the feminist movement striving towards a greater emancipation of women in the pu…

Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity

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Richard Alfred Davenport


This book contains many brief tales from history of commoners pretending to be kings and kings pretending to be commoners. Learn the fate of…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 5. The Spirits Of The Cor…

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James Frazer


The seventh volume in The Golden Bough series by Sir James George Frazer. The figure of the dying and reviving god in Oriental religions of …

A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman from the South

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Anna J. Cooper


Published in 1892, this is the author's first work. Its eight essays are considered a seminal text of Black feminism. Its theme is that thro…

The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 2. Taboo and the Perils o…

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James Frazer


The third volume of The Golden Bough. The term Taboo is one of the very few words which the English language has borrowed from the speech of…

The Web of Indian Life

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Sister Nivedita


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 Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching) or Prajna-Paramita

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Unknowntranslated Bywilliam Gemmell


The Diamond Sutra, also known as the ‘Diamond Cutter Sutra’ or ‘Vajracchedika Prajnaparamita Sutra,’ is a remarkable Buddhist text and is co…

An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the Afr…

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Thomas Clarkson


Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …

Uganda to the Cape

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Frank G. Carpenter


Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

Strange Peoples

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Frederick Starr


Starr presents a compendium of descriptions from several peoples (races) around the world as it was in the late XIX century. - Summary by Ma…

Tea and Tea Drinking

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Alfred Arthur Reade


Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning tea, the pleasures found in its drinking, effects, benefits, cautions, et…

American Indians

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Frederick Starr


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…

Our Androcentric Culture, or the Man-Made World

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


This is a book about men—as such. It differentiates between the human nature and the sex nature. It will not go so far as to allege man's ma…

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