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Margaret Fuller - Woman in the Nineteenth Century

Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the...

Bruce Pirie and 8 more 10 hours 14 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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W. O. E. Oesterley - Immortality and the Unseen World

The full title of this book is Immortality and the Unseen World — A Study in Old Testament Religion . Oesterley describes the beliefs that pre-Christian Hebrews and Semites held regarding the afterlife and the...

JoeD 9 hours 24 minutes

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Business & Economics

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Jack London - People of the Abyss

Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid...

Peter Yearsley 6 hours 28 minutes

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Performing Arts

P. T. Barnum - Humbugs of the World

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal...

Barry Eads and 20 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

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President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing - Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on December 18, 2014, President Barack Obama signed an executive order...

Anita Roy Dobbs and 7 more 3 hours 25 minutes United States Government Reports

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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H. L. Mencken - Damn! A Book of Calumny

Henry Louis «H. L.» Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the «Sage of...

Wasichu 2 hours 26 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Emma Goldman - Anarchism and Other Essays

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first...

Lee Elliott and 1 more 6 hours 57 minutes

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War & Military

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Army Life in a Black Regiment

These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the United States during the late civil war. It was, indeed, the first colored...

FNH 8 hours 40 minutes

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Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960

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United States Supreme Court - Civil Rights and Equal Protection Cases 1950-1960

Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1950 and 1960. (summary by Kelli Robinson)

Kelli Robinson 2 hours 9 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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H. L. Mencken - In Defense of Women

In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand it as reactionary. While Mencken didn't champion women's rights,...

ML Cohen 4 hours 20 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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