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The Facts of Reconstruction

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John R. Lynch


After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation

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Henry Watson Wilbur


A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude towar…

The Story of Manhattan

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Charles Hemstreet


The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishe…

The Witches of New York

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Q. K. Philander Doesticks


A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Phi…

Bk4,C5-Montezuma swears allegiance to Spain,royal treasures

In History of the Conquest of Mexico

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William H. Prescott


Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

The Aërial Acrobat Pt 1 Showing That it Takes More Than Muscle and Skill to Wor…

In Careers of Danger and Daring

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Cleveland Moffett


In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

33 - Book 15, Ch 08-09

In The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 3

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Flavius Josephus


Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the …

The Special Methods of Psychotherapy

In Psychotherapy

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Hugo Münsterberg


Talking about viewing the Ocean "If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemic…

Illusions of the Senses

In The Seven Follies of Science

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John Phin


The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve…

05 Chapter IV

In Herndon's Lincoln

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William H. Herndon and Jesse William Weik and William H. Herndon


A biography of Abraham Lincoln by his long-time law partner, William Herndon and Herndon's collaborator, Jesse Weik. The book is notable for…

10 - Where He Found His Neighbor

In Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half

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Jacob A. Riis


These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

The Nation That the World Honors - Belgium

In Birdseye Views of Far Lands

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James T. Nichols


Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of maki…

The Case Against Introspection

In American Psychology, 1900-1922

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Knight Dunlap


This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academ…

Private Security Personnel and Military Functions, Accuracy, Reliability, and C…

In Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contracto…

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United States Senate Committee on Armed Services


The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated b…

28 - Of Baptism, pt 1

In Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4

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John Calvin


Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western worl…