Social Science
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
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Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
Leyendas de los Indios Guaraníes
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Filiberto De Oliveira Cézar
Oliveira nos entrega, siguiendo la línea de sus Leyendas de los indios Quíchuas, un compendio de 14 historias guaraníes…
The Golden Bough
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James Frazer
The ninth book in The Golden Bough Series. With The Scapegoat the general discussion of the theory and practice of the Dying God is brought …
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 …
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
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National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst ca…
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…
Mobilizing Woman-Power
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
Harriot Stanton Blatch, a suffragist in her own right, was the daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was one of the champions of women’s ri…
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races
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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…
With Poor Immigrants to America
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Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham, a Brit with Russian language skills, traveled by sea in 1913 with a group of poor Russian and other Slavic immigrants to New…
The City of Din
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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie
A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…
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…
Whom We Shall Welcome
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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…
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. …
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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United States Work Projects Administration
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 Workers
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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…
Comentarios reales de los incas
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Inca Garcilaso De La Vega
El Inca Garcilaso esta considerado el primer autor mestizo de latinoamerica (era hijo de padre nacido en España, y de madre inca amer…
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 …