Social Science
Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …
The Workers
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
The Suffragette
This history of the Women's Suffrage agitation is written at a time when the question is in the very forefront of British politics. What the…
Why Are So Few Men in the Churches?
The strength of the book is in its facts and suggestions considered in a matter of fact and suggestive way. It offers criticism in the spiri…
Malaria: A Neglected Factor in the History of Greece and Rome
This short book has the objective of showing how important it is to stamp out malaria as soon as possible. Unlike a plague that suddenly tak…
In Times Like These
"Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests pr…
Woman and the Republic
First published in 1897, the book is considered to be the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage. It allows readers to underst…
A Footnote to History
CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK INCORPORATES QUOTATIONS CONTAINING RACIST SLURS. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A BOWDLERIZED COPY, SEE BETWEEN ABOUT 07.…
Balder The Beautiful
The eleventh volume of The Golden Bough series. Fire festivals in exotic nations, magical properties of flowers, the concept of the external…
More Australian Legendary Tales
The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…
An Enquiry Into The Causes Of The Late Increase Of Robbers
Early eighteenth century England saw the criminal element bargaining with magistrates and lawyers to be released or receive lenient sentence…
Lancashire Characters and Places
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…
A Study of British Genius
The psychological and anthropological character of genius in the British Isles was investigated by Ellis. Citing and collating an extensive …
The Woman Movement
Ellen Key's 'The Woman movement' follows the development of the feminist movement striving towards a greater emancipation of women in the pu…
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
“By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an examination into the myths and traditions constituting the unwritten literature of thi…
Kentucky Narratives
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Campaigns of Curiosity
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist who, at about age 23, moved to London. While trying to break into English journalism and to keep …
The Negro Laborer
William H. Councill, former slave and contemporary of Booker T. Washington was founder of Huntsville Normal School, now Alabama Agricultural…
The Golden Bough
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 …
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases
Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases presents a collection of pivotal United States Supreme Court decisions that shaped the landscape of …