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Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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John R. Lynch - Facts of Reconstruction

After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26...

Guero 8 hours 7 minutes

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History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

Political Science

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Friedrich Schiller - History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by...

Alan Winterrowd 3 hours 13 minutes History of the Thirty Years War

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Gene Sharp - From Dictatorship to Democracy

From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. The book was written in 1993...

Kara Shallenberg and 1 more 3 hours 49 minutes

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Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

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Imbert de Saint-Amand - Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty

Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had...

Libby Gohn and 6 more 11 hours 9 minutes

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Gene Sharp - There Are Realistic Alternatives

Violence in society and politics, whether in the form of war, terrorism, dictatorship, oppression, usurpation, or genocide, is widely recognized as a grave problem. The objective of this essay is to explore a...

Benjamin Gittins 2 hours 9 minutes

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Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

Political Science

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Jefferson Davis - Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward...

Robert Hoffman and 7 more 12 hours 56 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - On the Laws

On the Laws (Latin: De Legibus) was written shortly after Cicero's «On the Commonwealth» during the last years of the Roman Republic. The three surviving books (out of an original six), in order, expound on Cicero's...

Geoffrey Edwards 4 hours 11 minutes

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General Fiction

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George Eliot - Felix Holt, The Radical

«Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is a sincere radical. The setting of the book, the 1832 parliament election, is used...

acousticwave and 11 more 19 hours 8 minutes

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Josiah Priest - Bible Defence of Slavery

The full title of this book is Bible Defense of Slavery; and Origin, Fortunes, and History of the Negro Race, by Rev. Josiah Priest, A. M. 5th edition. This is a compilation of pro-slavery literature and...

JoeD 19 hours 50 minutes

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Political Science

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Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influenced conservative...

Michael Reuss 10 hours 48 minutes

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Philosophy

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Prince (Version 3)

The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a...

Bob Neufeld 3 hours 26 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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