Jim Locke
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
Prejudices, Second Series
Mencken is famous for his sometimes-savage attacks on almost everything humans can in their stupidity and priggishness and prejudice conjure…
The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…
Wild Bird Guests
How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their en…
Laws (version 2)
Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having fail…
The Phantom Public
“The Voice of the People has been said to be the voice of God: and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…
The Heart of Happy Hollow
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
The Frozen North
It is in this world that Mayde has created his fascinating The Frozen North: "Great as are the barren grounds, or tundri, as they are c…
William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist
"THE author of this volume desires . . . to say . . . that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and…
Sowing and Reaping
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…
The Three Lieutenants
A few years have passed since the adventures of Terence, Jack, and Alick as midshipmen in the British Navy. They have each gone on their pat…
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …
The Uncalled
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
The Life of Washington, Volume 4
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …
This Finer Shadow
"This Finer Shadow" by Harlan Cozad McIntosh is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book intricately explores themes of…