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An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers

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Henry Fielding


Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentence…

Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Bu…

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism. It was published in response to …

Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topi…

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Daniel Wallace Culp


The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, w…

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…

In Darkest England and the Way Out

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William Booth


William Booth (1829 – 1912) was the founding General of the Salvation Army in late nineteenth century England. Finding his salvation as a te…

Two American Slavery Documents

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James Mars


This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James …

An Apache Campaign In The Sierra Madre

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John Gregory Bourke


An account of the expedition [of the U.S. Army] in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883. (Book subtitle) Bourke w…

Carpenter's World Travels: Alaska Our Northern Wonderland

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Frank G. Carpenter


Early twentieth century travel book about Alaska with stories of major cities, Indian tribes, customs and geography of what would become ou…

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 Life of Clara Barton - Volume 1

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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…

Your Negro Neighbor

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley


An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS

London Labour and the London Poor Volume III

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Henry Mayhew


Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV

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Frantz Funck-Brentano


The court of French King Louis XIV was not a safe place to be. It was filled with plots and intrigues, leaving observers and commentators wi…

Stories of the Cave People

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Mary Marcy


"In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories or sketches, to present only the first steps in human progress. Man has rise…

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development

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Sir Francis Galton


Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. …

A Failure of Initiative: Final Report of the Select Bipartisan Committee to Inv…

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United States House Of Representatives


In September 2005, the House of Representatives created the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to H…

In Quest of El Dorado

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Stephen Graham


Lively (and often unsparing) descriptions of the people, places, and customs that the author encounters as he attempts to retrace the steps …

The Future of the Women's Movement

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Helena Swanwick


"There may seem to be a disappointing lack of prophesy in a book avowedly dealing with the future; but since I believe the women’s move…

The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits

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William Hazlitt


William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illus…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass


Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

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