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By: Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951) | |
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Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But the story also focuses on the white man's obsession with black women. The issue of miscegenation is at the center of the plot, involving the two central characters, both black, but light skinned. They are Sydney Wyeth and Mildred Latham. Sydney is the author of a book that he tries to sell to members of the black community, especially, because he is interested in advancing the race through education... |
By: Osgood E. Fuller (1835-1900) | |
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Brave Men and Women: Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs
Brave Men and Women is a collection of stories about historical figures who, through success and failure, made an impact on their world. As noted in the Preface, the author's aim "has simply been to form a sort of mosaic or variegated picture of the Brave Life - the life which recognizes the Divine Goodness in all things, striving through good report and evil report, and in manifold ways, which one is often unqualified to judge, to attain to the life of Him who is 'the light of the world'." - Summary by Kristin Hand |
By: Osmond Tiffany (1823-) | |
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A sketch of the life and services of Gen. Otho Holland Williams Read before the Maryland historical society, on Thursday evening, March 6, 1851 | |
By: Osmund Airy (1845-1928) | |
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English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded the masterly Peace of Westphalia for France, confronts the rebellions of the nobility known as the Fronde. By the time of his death in 1661, Mazarin has completed the work of Richelieu and made Louis XIV an absolute monarch, ready to extend his borders by conquest. But in Holland, the young Stadtholder, William III of Orange, resolutely opposes Louis's military... |
By: Oswald Boelcke (1891-1916) | |
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An Aviator's Field Book Being the field reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916 |
By: Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz (1876-1910) | |
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The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest |
By: Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934) | |
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Right Above Race | |
Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation |
By: Ottokar Theobald Otto Maria Czernin von und zu Chudenitz (1872-1932) | |
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In the World War |
By: Owahyah | |
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Birch Bark Legends of Niagara |
By: Owen Wister | |
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Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the great hero (for the North) in the Civil War and the 18th President of the United States. This short biography is only 145 pages in a little pamphlet size. The author is famous for his stories of the Old West, but he also wrote a substantial body of nonfiction literature. | |
The Pentecost of Calamity
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that nation. (Wister: “the new Trinity of German worship – the Super-man, the Super-race, and the Super-state.”) He was but one of many literary personages who joined in this effort. A moving quote: “Perhaps nothing save calamity will teach us what Europe is thankful to have learned again – that some things are worse than war, and that you can pay too high a price for peace; but that you cannot pay too high for the finding and keeping of your own soul.” | |
Lady Baltimore
Augustus visits King's Port, South Carolina, at the request of his Aunt Carola, and at her expense. She wants him to research geneaologies and records to find proof that he is descended from royalty so that he can join her exclusive club, the Colonial Society. While there, he becomes involved in a love affair between John Mayrant and Eliza La Heu. | |
A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge |
By: P. H. (Peter Harden) Eley (1876-) | |
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An Epoch in History |
By: P. H. (Pieter Hendrick) Kritzinger (1870-1930) | |
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In the Shadow of Death |
By: P. T. Ross | |
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A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition |
By: Pat Beauchamp Washington (1900-) | |
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Fanny Goes to War |
By: Patrick Henry (1736-1799) | |
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. In attendance were Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Reportedly, the crowd, upon hearing the speech, jumped up and shouted, “To Arms! To Arms!” |
By: Patrick MacGill (1890-1963) | |
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The Amateur Army | |
The Red Horizon |
By: Paul B. Du Chaillu (1835-1903) | |
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The Land of the Long Night |
By: Paul Barron Watson (1861-1948) | |
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The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa |
By: Paul Elmer More (1864-1937) | |
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Benjamin Franklin |
By: Paul Hentzner (1558-1623) | |
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Travels in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Fragmenta regalia; or, Observations on Queen Elizabeth, her times and favourites |
By: Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) | |
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In Old Plantation Days
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy to spend their lives in service of their benevolent owner. His attempt to find success was only partially realized, as his stories drew not only criticism but, in some cases, anger at their very stereotypical nature. The book itself, however, proved to be more lucrative than previous fiction works had been for the author. |
By: Paul P. de La Gironière (1797-1862) | |
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Adventures in the Philippine Islands |
By: Paul Rosenfeld (1890-1946) | |
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Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers |
By: Paul Schellhas (1859?-1945) | |
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Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Vol. 4, No. 1 |
By: Paul T. (Paul Thomas) Gilbert (1876-1953) | |
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The Great White Tribe in Filipinia |
By: Pedro Sancho | |
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An Account of the Conquest of Peru |