Modern (20th C)

Syria: the Desert and the Sown

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Gertrude Bell


Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…

Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack

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United States Senate


A joint bipartisan report by the U.S. Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Rules and Administration, addressing security, planning, an…

Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups

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House Un-American Activities Committee


A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations tha…

Mark Twain and the Happy Island

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Elizabeth Wallace


This Mark Twain Memoir by Elizabeth Wallace paints an idyllic portrait of his time in Bermuda, not long before his death in 1910. Wallace an…

Thoughts on South Africa

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Olive Schreiner


'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …

Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo

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Edmund Dene Morel


Morel explains the history and formation of the Congo Free State, owned by King Leopold II. However, Morel, a humanitarian, focuses on the a…

Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch

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Eva Shaw McLaren and Eva Shaw Mclaren


This is a brief biography of the Scottish physician and suffragist Dr. Elsie Inglis. Dr. Inglis founded a maternity hospital for the poor…

All in the Day's Work

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Ida M. Tarbell


In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigativ…

The Trial of a New Society

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Justus Ebert


In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…

The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley


Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…

Frederick Douglass

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Booker T. Washington


An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become one of the most important and influential abolitionists, authors…

Daughter of the Sky: The Story of Amelia Earhart

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Paul L. Briand, Jr.


This is an engaging biography of the renowned aviator. In his introduction, Briand says, " Amelia Earhart was one of America’s great he…

The North American Indian, Volume 1

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Edward Sherriff Curtis


Edward Sherriff Curtis was an American photographer and ethnologist who was funded by J.P. Morgan to produce a series on Native Americans. …

History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik


Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland

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Frederick Herman Tilberg


The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodie…

Barbarous Mexico

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John Kenneth Turner


Through personal experience and extensive travel in Mexico in the late 1900s, the author of “Barbarous Mexico” depicts the circumstances tha…

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

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John Dryden Kuser


This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…

Dispatches from the Ruhr

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Ernest Hemingway


Before finding celebrity as an author, including his 1954 Nobel Prize, Ernest M. Hemingway honed his craft as a journeyman reporter. In the …

Dr. Elsie Inglis

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Frances Balfour


Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after ope…

News From No Man's Land

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James Green


James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…

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