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Epochs of American History
This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…
The Mob Violence and the American Negro
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…
The Gift of Black Folk
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…
Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…
Conquest of New France
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…
The Passing of the Great Race
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…
Fact Stranger than Fiction
I desire, to place before the colored youth, of my class, another concrete proof of the fact that, even in the United States, where the hand…
Whitman: An Interpretation
"You want to know in a word the sum total of my life philosophy as I have tried to live it and as I have tried to put it in my book. I …
Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…
Ireland Under the Tudors
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…
The Life of Washington
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …
St. Elmo
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…
The Life of Washington
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
The Man of Feeling
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
The Fathers of the Constitution
In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to furt…
Walker's Appeal
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
The Frozen North
It is in this world that Mayde has created his fascinating The Frozen North: "Great as are the barren grounds, or tundri, as they are c…
Minnie's Sacrifice
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…
Jess
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are com…