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The Passing of the Great Race
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Madison Grant
The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 073
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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside." With these…
Astounding Stories 07, July 1930
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Sewell Peaslee Wright
Issue seven of this seminal science-fiction magazine - Summary by Annise
Five Lectures on Blindness
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Kate M. Foley
The [five] lectures were written primarily to be delivered at the summer sessions of the University of California, at Berkeley and at Los An…
Solitude (Wilcox)
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you;. . Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,. . But has trouble enou…
Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics
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Archibald Grimké
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 063
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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 63 features essays on a variety of topics: t…
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the Unit…
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of c…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…
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Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062
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Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…
Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 2
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George Thomas Bettany
Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. In this collection, we learn about men who developed specialities, of ten…
Louwes Lectures
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Laurence Boisson de Chazournes
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The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
Life
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The following statement expresses Wilcox's unique blending of New Thought, Spiritualism, and a Theosophical belief in reincarnation: "A…
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 - Miscellany
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Enjoy listening to some of The Great Agnostic's fiery articles, speeches and introductory remarks at a variety of banquets, expositions (lik…
Black No More
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George Schuyler
Being an account of the strange and wonderful workings of science in the land of the free, A.D. 1933-1940. (Summary by author)
Lectures on the Harvard Classics
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Charles William Eliot
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044
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Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--…