Modern (20th C)

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on the United States Capitol

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United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives



This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…

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…

Sinking of the "Titanic" : most appalling ocean horror

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Jay Henry Mowbray



The Titanic was thought to be the safest ship to set sail as it embarked on its maiden voyage. Unfortunately, history tells us differently. …

Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary

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Arthur Henry Patterson



Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives

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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…

Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt

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Arthur Henry Patterson



Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …

Germany Before the War

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Napoleon-Eugène Beyens



Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume VI, Kansas Narratives

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United States Work Projects Administration



These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

Gallipoli

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John Masefield



John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termi…

Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission Report)

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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…

My War Experiences in Two Continents

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Sarah Broom Macnaughtan



Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume I, Alabama Narratives

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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…

Sea-Power in the Pacific

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Hector Charles Bywater



During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict …

France, Spain and the Rif, Part 1

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Walter Burton Harris



The Guerra del Rif—the Rif War. 1921 to 1926. It was the slogging bloody 5-year long climax of Spain’s effort to secure dominion over a terr…

Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case

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Francis Russell



The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…

From Metternich to Bismarck: A Textbook of European History

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Lionel Cecil Jane



This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…

Cape Coddities

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Roger Livington Scaife and Roger Livingston Scaife



A message from the past from a former Cape Cod resident who delves in all things that make Cape Cod special. From explaining the adventures …

Sowjet-Rußland im Umbau

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Fritz Schotthöfer



Sammlung von Aufsätzen über die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse im jungen Sowjet-Rußland. Der Autor bereiste als Journa…

This Giddy Globe (Version 2)

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Oliver Herford



A geography of the world at the time, told with a wit and humor unusual in non-fiction and historical texts while staying true to the subjec…

By Desert Ways to Baghdad

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Louisa Jebb Wilkins



Every age witnesses the birth of some great soul. Sometimes events bring these people to the attention of the world. More often than not, th…

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