James K. White
92 books
War & Military
453
Heywood Broun - A.E.F.: With General Pershing and the American Forces
In 1917, the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe to fight alongside the French and British allied forces. American journalist Heywood Broun followed the AEF and reported on their experiences. He...
5 hours 18 minutes
Law
439
Emmerson W. Manning - Practical Instruction for Detectives
Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline briefly and...
2 hours 38 minutes
Literary Fiction
426
Charles Waddell Chesnutt - House Behind the Cedars
In this, Chesnutt's first novel, he tells the tragic story of love set against a backdrop of racism, miscegenation and “passing” during the period spanning the antebellum and reconstruction eras in American history....
7 hours 29 minutes
*Non-fiction
410
Frances Anne Kemble - Journal of A Residence On A Georgian Plantation, 1838-1839
Fanny Kemble was a British actress who married mega-plantation owner, Pierce Butler of Georgia. During her marriage she kept journals of everyday life, and after some years grew to detest the institution of slavery...
11 hours 59 minutes
Memoirs
416
Lucy Ann Delaney - From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom
In From the Darkness Cometh the Light, or Struggles for Freedom Delaney tells the story of how she was born into slavery of her mother--a freeborn black woman who had been kidnapped and sold on the blocks--but escaped...
59 minutes
