Social Science

Woman and the New Race

Read by Becky Cook


Margaret Sanger


Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…

The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Élisabeth Celnart


A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Army Life in a Black Regiment

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson


These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …

Lessons on Manners for Home and School Use

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Edith E. Wiggin


It is true that good manners, like good morals, are best taught by the teacher's example. It is also true that definite lessons, in which th…

The Indian To-day

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Charles Alexander Eastman


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…

Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

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Mahatma Gandhi


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

The Soul or Rational Psychology

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Emanuel Swedenborg


Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died in London, England. He was a voluminous writer of scientific treatise…

An Address to Free Colored Americans

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An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women


The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life…

The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

Read by Christine Lamberton


Florence Hartley


A guide for ladies, written in 1860, on what is accepted as correct behavior in polite society. The advice covers dress, travelling, staying…

Domestic Manners of the Americans

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Frances Milton Trollope


Next to de Alexis de Tocquville's almost contemporary Democracy in America, Frances Trollope's work may be the most famous (or at least noto…

Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839

Read by James K. White


Frances Anne Kemble and Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble


Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of eve…

In Defense of Women

Read by ML Cohen


H. L. Mencken


In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while ot…

Underground Man

Read by Ruth Golding


Gabriel Tarde


This post-apocalyptic novella tells the story of the downfall of civilisation and mankind following a solar cataclysm in the late 20th centu…

What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin


In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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Margaret Fuller


Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…

The Psychology of Peoples: Its Influence on Their Evolution

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Gustave Le Bon


"It is barely a century and a half ago that certain philosophers, who, it should be remarked, were very ignorant of the primitive histo…

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

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Gustave Le Bon


"Civilisations as yet have only been created and directed by a small intellectual aristocracy, never by crowds. Crowds are only powerfu…

Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960

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United States Supreme Court


Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robins…

Deportation: Its Meaning and Menace. Last Message to the People of America

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Emma Goldman


A pamphlet written by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman shortly before their deportation from the US in 1919. - Summary by Krzysztof Rowińs…

Drugging a Nation

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Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.


Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…

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