Social Science

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…

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…

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…

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 State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville



A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.

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 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…

Five Stages of Greek Religion

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Gilbert Murray



A historical account written in the early 20th century The work explores the evolution and various phases of Greek religion focusing on the …

Our Southern Highlanders (Version 2)

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Horace Kephart



"Our Southern Highlanders" by Horace Kephart delves into the lives and landscapes of the Appalachian region, focusing particularly…

Lamp of Wisdom

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William H. Councill



William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…

Why We Love Music

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Carl Emil Seashore



Psychologists have not explained why we love music. A technical psychologist indulges in generalizations and predictions in a practical and …

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

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Archibald Grimké



In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

The Complete Bachelor

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Walter Germain Robinson



This volume was written by the author to help people with proper etiquette for certain social dilemma issues.i.e. male manners while being s…

The Wedding Day in All Ages and Countries

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Edward J. Wood



The Wedding-day in all Ages and Countries is the title of a new work from the press of Harper & Brothers. In this book we find an exhaus…

The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 3

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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…

In Indian Mexico

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Frederick Starr



In this work, Starr delves into the anthropological side of Mexico's Natives ("Indians") at the end of the XIX century. Researche…

The Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume I

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James Frazer



The tenth volume in The Golden Bough series. Frazer discusses the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If right, the Golden Boug…

Criminal man: according to the classification of Cesare Lombroso

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Gina Lombroso



This book is an English summary and paraphrase of the multi-volume Italian work of the same name compiled by Cesare Lombroso, the father of …

History of a Literary Radical, and Other Essays

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Randolph Silliman Bourne



A posthumous collection of Bourne's writing from publications such as The Atlantic Monthly and early issues of The New Republic, with a long…

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