Modern (19th C)

Narratives of Colored Americans

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Abigail Mott


Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty

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Stephen Coleridge


Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…

Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion

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Various


The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2

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Ida M. Tarbell


Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…

Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

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Various


This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

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Tickner Edwardes


Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen

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Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie


This book is a biography of four woman authors whose names were well known by readers at the time of its publication (1883) : Anna Barbaud, …

Man and Nature on the Broads

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Arthur Henry Patterson


From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosy…

The Australian Explorers - Their Labours, Perils, and Achievements

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George Grimm


"The Story of the Exploration of Australia is one which we cannot willingly let die. There are many reasons for keeping alive the remem…

The Complete Confectioner

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Hannah Glasse


The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is fro…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

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Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

The Life of Clara Barton - Volume 2

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William E. Barton


Clarissa Harlowe Barton (December 25, 1821 – April 12, 1912) was a pioneering American nurse who founded the American Red Cross. She was a h…

Upper Canada Sketches

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Thomas Conant


This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario),…

History of The New York Times, 1851-1921

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Elmer Holmes Davis


A beautifully written and witty history of The New York Times, and of newspaper publishing in general, from the 1850s to 1921 by three-time …

Frostiana: or a history of the River Thames in a frozen state

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George Davis


The frost fair of 1814 began on 1 February, and lasted four days. A printer named George Davis published a 124-page book, "Frostiana; o…

The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the Unit…

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett


The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of c…

The Great White North

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Helen S. Wright


Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS

The American Postal Service, Second Edition

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Louis Melius


The history of the postal service in the United States goes back to the colonial period, but was established more formally with the issuing …

Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk

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Harry Brittain


The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterw…

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