Jim Locke
Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…
Minnie's Sacrifice
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
The House of Mystery
The House of Mystery is based upon the complicated plot involving two women who look exactly alike, one rich and one poor, and so mistaken i…
Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…
Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…
The Primitive
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)
The Theory of Psychoanalysis
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…
Black No More
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
The Garies and their Friends
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…
Cane
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innume…
The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.
Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Volume 2
This second volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1642-1660. It, like the first, was a period of dramatic, and even of violent…
Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …
The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…
Ireland Under the Tudors, Volume 2
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…