When Fredrika Bremer arrived in New York from Sweden in October 1849, she was already famous throughout America for her novels and for her r…
In Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 2
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
