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By: Clara Erskine Clement Waters (1834-1916) | |
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A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture |
By: Richard Hakluyt (1552-1616) | |
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Discovery of Muscovy |
By: Filson Young (1876-1938) | |
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Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery |
By: Cyrus Thomas (1825-1910) | |
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The Problem of the Ohio Mounds |
By: Richard D. Blackmore (1825-1900) | |
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Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War |
By: Elisha Benjamin Andrews (1844-1917) | |
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History of the United States, Volume 1 |
By: F. Marion Crawford (1854-1909) | |
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Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome | |
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome |
By: John R. Lynch (1847-1939) | |
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The Facts of Reconstruction
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected to the US Congress in 1873. There, he continued to be an activist, introducing many bills and arguing on their behalf. Perhaps his greatest effort was in the long debate supporting the Civil Rights Act of 1875 to ban discrimination in public accommodations.In 1884 Lynch was the first African American nominated after a moving speech by Theodore Roosevelt to the position of Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois... |
By: Fay-Cooper Cole | |
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The Tinguian
The Tinguian. Social, Religious, and Economic Life of a Philippine TribeBy Fay-Cooper Cole INTRODUCTION It seems desirable, at the outset, to set forth certain general conclusions regarding the Tinguian and their neighbors. Probably no pagan tribe of the Philippines has received more frequent notice in literature, or has been the subject of more theories regarding its origin, despite the fact that information concerning it has been exceedingly scanty, and careful observations on the language and physical types have been totally lacking... |
By: Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) | |
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The Land of Little Rain
The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: "This is the sense of the desert hills--that there is room enough and time enough. . . The treeless spaces uncramp the soul." Her story begins with the water trails that lead toward the few life giving springs--the way marked for men by ancient Indian pictographs. Life and death play out at these springs... |
By: Richard Henry Dana (1815-1882) | |
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To Cuba and Back |
By: William Wells Brown (1814?-1884) | |
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Three Years In Europe
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steamboatman and as a conductor for the Underground Railroad in Buffalo, New York. In 1843, he became a lecturer for the Western New York Anti-Slavery Society, and was a contemporary of Frederick Douglass.Brown went to Europe in 1849 to encourage British support for the anti-slavery movement in the United States... |
By: George Dunderdale (1822-1903) | |
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The Book of the Bush
While the world was young, nations could be founded peaceably. There was plenty of unoccupied country, and when two neighbouring patriarchs found their flocks were becoming too numerous for the pasture, one said to the other: "Let there be no quarrel, I pray, between thee and me; the whole earth is between us, and the land is watered as the garden of Paradise. If thou wilt go to the east, I will go to the west; or if thou wilt go to the west, I will go to the east." So they parted in peace.(excerpt from book) |