Social Science
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
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Winfield Hazlitt Collins
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…
Woman and War
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Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She is credited with being the first Inte…
California Sketches New And Old
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Oscar Penn Fitzgerald
Here we meet all sorts of characters and situations in California’s early history: gunmen, outlaws, lynch mobs, raging storms, mining camps,…
The Measurement of Intelligence
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Lewis Terman
An explanation of and a completed guide for the use of the Stanford revision and the Simon Binford intelligence test - Summary by the solois…
Oracles of Nostradamus
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Charles A. Ward
Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of …
They Who Knock at Our Gates
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Mary Antin
In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had ar…
Americans All, Immigrants All
Read by Mark F. Smith
U. S. Department Of The Interior Office Of Education
The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …
Revolted Woman
Read by Bev J Stevens
Charles George Harper
One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He pai…
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 7: Anthropology & Medicine
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Francis Rolt-Wheeler
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…
Anno 2070: een blik in de toekomst
Read by Marcel Coenders
Pieter Harting
Een schrijver die vrij hardhandig met de nukken en grillen van de toekomst kennis maakte, was de negentiende-eeuwse professor Pieter Harting…
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them
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Dr. Benjamin Rush
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short …
In the Land of Cave and Cliff Dwellers
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Frederick Schwatka
An adventurer and explorer of no mean repute, Lieutenant Frederick Schwatka leads an expedition by mule train into the forbidding Sierra Mad…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
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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…
The Social History of Smoking
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George L. Apperson
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…
Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
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President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and President'S Task Force On 21St Century Policing
In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on D…
The Romance of the Romanoffs
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Joseph Martin Mccabe
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…
The Aftermath of Slavery
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William A. Sinclair
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
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John Bagnell Bury
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…
Twilight in Italy
Read by Peter Tucker
D. H. Lawrence
This is one of the author's "travel books", recounting his walking journeys in and around the Lago di Garda in Northern Italy. Eve…
Concerning Genealogies
Read by Roger Melin
Frank Allaben
Written over a century ago, this comprehensive book offers insight into the methods used (still to this day, in spite of modern computers) t…