Category Archives: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The Convivio
Author(s): Dante Alighieri Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between...
Towards Democracy
Author(s): Edward Carpenter “Civilization sinks and swims, but the old facts remain—the sun smiles, knowing...
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
Author(s): Andrew Lang The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang is a book...
Strange Pages from Family Papers
Author(s): Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer “Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a...
Stories of the Cave People
Author(s): Mary Marcy “In this little book I have sought, in a series of stories...
The Aftermath of Slavery
Author(s): William A. Sinclair This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the...
The Domestic Slave Trade Of The Southern States
Author(s): Winfield Hazlitt Collins This 1904 history of slavery in the southeastern United States reflects...
Tea and Tea Drinking
Author(s): Alfred Arthur Reade Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning...
The Book of the Ancient Greeks
Author(s): Dorothy Mills An Introduction to the History and Civilization of Greece from the Coming...
The Night Side of New York
Author(s): Various This nonfiction collection of sketches, by “members of the New York press,” takes...
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Author(s): Margaret Fuller Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the...
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
Author(s): Henry Mayhew Subtitled, “A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will...
The Workers – An Experiment in Reality: The East
Author(s): Walter A. Wyckoff A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the...
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume III, Florida Narratives
Author(s): Various These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project...
The Workers – An Experiment in Reality: The West
Author(s): Walter A. Wyckoff A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the...
Legends of Old Honolulu
Author(s): William Drake Westervelt Hawai’i: land of wonder and beauty and a culture rich in...
The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi
Author(s): Hattie Greene Lockett “By a brief survey of present day Hopi culture and an...
Vindication Of The Rights Of Men, In A Letter To The Right Honourable Edmund Burke; Occasioned By His Reflections On The Revolution In France
Author(s): Mary Wollstonecraft Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) attacks aristocracy and...
The Truth About the Congo
Author(s): Frederick Starr After traveling extensively through Mexico and other countries, Starr spent a year...
The Negro Problem
Author(s): Various This is a collection of essays, edited by Booker T. Washington, representative of...
Your Negro Neighbor
Author(s): Benjamin Griffith Brawley An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as...
Women’s Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards
Author(s): Catherine Gasquoine Hartley A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British...
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018
Author(s): United States Supreme Court These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court...
The Revolutions of Civilization
Author(s): William Matthew Flinders Petrie British archaeologist & Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, discusses the history of...
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Author(s): Various These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project...
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XII, Ohio Narratives
Author(s): Various These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project...
Tea: Its Mystery and History
Author(s): Samuel Phillips Day Samuel Phillips Day traces the history of tea from Asia to...
Shadowings
Author(s): Lafcadio Hearn This is another of the popular books that Lafcadio Hearn wrote on...
The People of the Abyss
Author(s): Jack London Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world...
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, Vol. I, No. 4
Author(s): W. E. B. Du Bois The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP...