Social Science
Look at Latin America
Joan Raushenbush delivers us with is a lively, accessible introduction to the peoples and cultures of Latin America in the 1930s, written to…
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short …
Researches into the Physical History of Man
Prichard’s Researches into the Physical History of Man has been called the most important pre-Darwinian anthropological work in English of t…
They Who Knock at Our Gates
In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had ar…
The Recording Angel
"The Recording Angel," by Edwin Arnold Brenholtz, is one of the earliest examples of an American proletarian novel, a work intende…
The Social History of Smoking
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…
Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…
Mutual Aid
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution is a book by Peter Kropotkin on the subject of mutual aid, written while he was living in exile in England…
The Crisis
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerci…