Social Science

Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

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Herbert Mayo


"In the following Letters I have endeavoured to exhibit in their true light the singular natural phenomena of which old superstition an…

Thoughts on the Death Penalty

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Charles C. Burleigh


This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including hi…

The Road

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Hilaire Belloc


"We are arrived at a chief turning-point in the history of the English highway. New instruments of locomotion, a greater volume of traf…

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…

Mark Twain's Partner

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Michael J. Phillips


In 1861, a 26-year-old Sam Clemens "went west" with his older brother Orion. By that time he'd had some experience with publishing…

The City of Din

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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…

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…

The Truth About the Congo

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Frederick Starr


After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year in Congo during the peak of European colonization. He can…

Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards

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Catherine Gasquoine Hartley


A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the plac…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 1

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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 exerc…

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…

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 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…

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…

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. …

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…

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 …

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…

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