Modern (20th C)
The Negro in Literature and Art
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Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…
Barbarous Mexico
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John Kenneth Turner
Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances tha…
The Trial of a New Society
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Justus Ebert
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress
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John Dryden Kuser
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…
Freedom's Battle
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Mahatma Gandhi
A collection of writings and speeches by Gandhi during the British rule of India following World War I. - Summary by KHand
Imperialism and World Politics
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Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Dr. Elsie Inglis
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Frances Balfour
Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after ope…
The History of a Lie
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Herman Bernstein
A presentation and deconstruction of the "Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion", an anti-Semitic work fabricated in order to brand Je…
The Cruise of the Walrus on the Broads
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Arthur Henry Patterson
"This is an account of my latest sailing adventures on board a clumsy small sea-boat, on the pleasant waterways of Broadland.I acquired…
News From No Man's Land
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James Green
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…
A Short History of Pittsburgh
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Samuel Harden Church
Samuel H. Church presents a brief history of the city of Pittsburgh, split into three domains: historical, industrial, and intellectual. His…
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania
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Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American hi…
The Birth of Yugoslavia
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Henry Baerlein
Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…
Secrets of Crewe House
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Campbell Stuart
Campbell Stuart, a Canadian, was involved in British efforts of propaganda during the two World Wars. His most active work was done during t…
Ukraina and the Peace-conference
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Stanislav Dnistriansky
The 19th century was the Golden Age of Nationalism in Europe. By the end of the century many countries achieved their national self-determin…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
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Mrs. Philip Snowden
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…
The Crisis
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerc…
In Ship and Prison
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William P. Chipman
The incidents of this book are taken largely from the log-book of Captain Tucker, and are intended to picture the stirring times in which he…
Germany Before the War
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Napoleon-Eugène Beyens
Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…