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The Gift of Black Folk: The Negroes in the Making of America

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W. E. B. Du Bois


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…

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…

The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution

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Carl L. Becker


Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

St. Elmo

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Augusta Jane Evans


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…

Savage Holiday

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Richard Wright


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…

Rousseau and Education According to Nature

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Thomas Davidson


In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…

The Life of Washington, Volume 5

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John James Marshall


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 Garies and their Friends

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Frank Webb


The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…

William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist

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Archibald Grimké


"THE author of this volume desires . . . to say . . . that it is his earnest hope that this record of a hero may be an aid to brave and…

The Fortunes of Nigel

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Sir Walter Scott


During the turbulent moment in English history involving King James 1 and 6, Nigel Olifaunt, a Scottish lord, seeks to protect his family ho…

The Negro

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W. E. B. Du Bois


Nevertheless, I have not been able to withstand the temptation to essay such short general statement of the main known facts and their fair …

Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love

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Baba Premanand Bharati


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…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

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John James Marshall


This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

Wild Bird Guests

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Ernest Baynes


How to entertain them; with chapters on the destruction of birds, their economic and aesthetic values, suggestions for dealing with their en…

Sowing and Reaping

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Frances E. W. Harper


This novel is subtitled A Temperance Story, which identifies explicitly the focus of the work. Frances Harper is a Christian moralist and us…

The Cross-Cut

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Courtney Ryley Cooper


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…

William The Outlaw (Abridged)

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Richmal Crompton


This 1927 abridged book contains seven of the ten hilarious adventures by the world's most misunderstood eleven-year-old English boy. - Summ…

The Uncalled

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…

Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography

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Robert R. Moton


He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…

The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races

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Oscar Micheaux


This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …

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