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Ray Stannard Baker - Following the Color Line
Subtitled «An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy», we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years...
14 hours 40 minutes
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499
Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Mob Rule In New Orleans
Born into slavery in Mississippi in 1862, Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the founders of...
2 hours 27 minutes
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466
Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné - History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 1
The History of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century , by Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, is a classic work on the great events that re-opened the Christian gospel to a needy world. It tells of how the twenty-year-old...
15 hours 40 minutes
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460
E. W. Hornung - Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA...
5 hours 33 minutes
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448
Olive Gilbert - Narrative of Sojourner Truth (version 2)
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree) was born into slavery in 1797 (or thereabouts) in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York. This narrative, as told by Sojourner Truth to her friend Olive Gilbert, recounts to the...
3 hours 58 minutes
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439
Elizabeth Bisland - In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty...
4 hours 9 minutes
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515
Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle - Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
This book is a popular science book written in the late 1600s. It is written as a series of conversations between a gallant philosopher and a countess, while walking in her garden and gazing at the stars. The...
3 hours 43 minutes
