Social Science

Drugging a Nation

by Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr. Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.5
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…

Oil!

by Upton Sinclair Read by Bob R 4.2
The two main characters of “Oil” are James Arnold Ross, called “Dad”, and his son James Jr., called “Bunny”. The book is loosely based on a …

The Sins of Hollywood

by Ed Roberts and Edward Roberts Read by Chuck Williamson 4.2
Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

The Indian To-day

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Based in part upon the author's own observations and personal knowledge, it was the aim of the book to set forth the status and outlook of t…

Uganda to the Cape

by Frank G. Carpenter Read by BettyB 4.8
Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

Americans All, Immigrants All

by U. S. Department Of The Interior Office Of Education Read by Mark F. Smith 4.9
The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …

American Indians

by Frederick Starr Read by mpinedag 4.9
School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The seventh volume is on Anthropology written by the editor himself and on Medi…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

by John M. Douglass Read by Verla Viera 4.4
Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States

by Winfield Hazlitt Collins Read by David Wales 3.8
This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects the state of knowledge at that time, of course. The text contains s…

Slave Narratives

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew Read by Gillian Hendrie 5
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.This vo…

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones

by George Frederick Kunz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mys…

Our Southern Highlanders

by Horace Kephart Read by Lyndon Ashworth 4.8
"Our Southern Highlanders" by Horace Kephart delves into the lives and landscapes of the Appalachian region, focusing particularly…

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

by Émile Durkheim Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A study and analysis of religion as a social phenomenon by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. (Summary by Erin Stone)

Neighbors

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…

Following the Color Line

by Ray Stannard Baker Read by Roger Melin 4.9
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionate…

The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict

by Thomas Archer Read by Peter Yearsley 4.6
"Bare, unpicturesque, and sordid as are the conditions of poverty, there are sights in London which everybody may and should see - sigh…

Human Nature And Conduct

by John Dewey Read by William Allan Jones 4.2
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist saw Social Psychology as much a physical science …

The Sexes in Science and History

by Eliza Burt Gamble Read by Rapunzelina 4.9
In this revised second edition of her first book "The evolution of woman" (1894), subtitled "An inquiry into the dogma of wom…

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