Jim Locke
Fact Stranger than Fiction
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
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…
The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…
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…
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 …
Smoke Bellew
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in …
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book III
The five-volume work chronicling the adventures of father Gargantua and son Pantagruel is a vehicle for Rabelais' satire of sixteenth-centur…
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, …
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…
Ireland Under the Tudors, Volume 2
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…
The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…
St. Elmo
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…
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 …
Psychology of the Unconscious
Jung says in his subtitle that this work is a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido and a contribution to the history of…
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
Whitman: An Interpretation in Narrative
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …
Paul Clifford
Most men who with some earnestness of mind examine into the mysteries of our social state will perhaps pass through that stage of self-educa…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 1
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Antic Hay
The epigram to this work from Christoher Marlowe applies to the plot of this story: "My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns / Shall wi…