Jim Locke
Virginia
Virginia does everything right: she attends a finishing school, marries the first man who proposes, and devotes her life to her husband and …
The Negro
Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …
Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had exte…
The Aftermath of Slavery
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian…
The Cross-Cut
A Colorado mining story dealing with an attempt by Squint Rodain and his son to wrest the Blue Poppy Silver Mine from Robert Fairchild. An e…
The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…
Epochs of American History: Expansion and Reform 1889-1926
This fourth volume covers the presidencies from Harrison to Taft highlighting the various struggles to define the aims of a modern democrati…
The Chronicles of America Volume 09 - Colonial Folkways
This work according to the subtitle is "a chronicle of American life in the reign of the Georges." It describes land, locales, hou…
Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Volume 1
This first volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1603-1642. It was a period of dramatic, and even of violent, changes in the s…
Savage Holiday
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…
Crime: The Autobiography of a Crook
This is not what one could call in any shape or form a pretty story. It is the plain unvarnished tale of a man who has been a notorious crim…
The Life of Washington, Volume 2
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…
The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
Scarlet Sister Mary
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…
The Chronicles of America Volume 15 - Jefferson and his Colleagues
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…
The Phantom Public
“The Voice of the People has been said to be the voice of God: and however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true…
Sowing and Reaping
This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…