History/Society/Politics

Abelard and Heloise
A selection from The Letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise

Abigail Adams
A selection from The Letters of Abigail Adams to John Adams

John Adams, Selected Letters of John Adams to Abigail Adams

Samuel Adams, The essay On The Boston Massacre

Jane Addams, A selection from Twenty Years at Hull House

Susan B. Anthony, A selection from The Trial of Susan B. Anthony

Mary Antin, A selection from the book, The Promised Land

Marcus Aurelius, A selection from The Meditations

Jane Austen, A Letter to Her Niece

Buffalo Bill (W.F. Cody)
A selection from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody)

Julius Caesar, A selection from The Gallic Wars

Giacomo Casanova
A selection from the autobiography, The Story of My Life

Willa Cather, A Personal Sketch of the Prairie School House

Winston Churchill
A selection from The River War:
An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

Carl von Clausewitz, A selection from On War

Rebecca Harding Davis, A selection from The Civil War

Frederick Douglass, A selection from My Bondage and My Freedom

W. E. B. Du Bois, A selection from The Souls of Black Folk

Mohandas Gandhi, A selection from My Experiments with Truth

Mohandas Gandhi, A selection from My Experiments with Truth

Johann Wolfgang Goethe, A selection from Autobiography

Emma Goldman, A selection from Living My Life

Ulysses S. Grant
A selection from The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

Lady Augusta Gregory
A selection from the book Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland

Alexander Hamilton, A selection from Federalist Paper #1

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., A selection from The Path of the Law

Julia Ward Howe
A selection from The Other Side of the Woman Question:
A Response to Francis Parkman

Thomas Jefferson, A selection from Memoirs of Thomas Jefferson

Mother Jones, A selection from The Autobiography Of Mother Jones

Helen Keller, A selection from The Story of My Life

Abraham Lincoln
A selection from his Speech at the Cooper Institute, New York February 27, 1860

Thomas Macaulay, A selection from History of England

Niccolo Machiavelli, A selection from The Prince

James Madison, A selection from the Federalist Paper Number 38

Alfred Thayer Mahan
A selection from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

Murasaki Shikibu, A selection from The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu

Thomas Paine, A selection from The Crisis

Gifford Pinchot, A selection from The Fight for Conservation

Plutarch, A selection from The Life of Alexander

Jacob Riis, A selection from The Battle with the Slum

Eleanor Roosevelt
A selection from Women Must Learn to Play the Game as Men Do

Margaret Sanger, A selection from Woman And The New Race

Lady Sarashina, A selection from The Diary Of Lady Sarashina

George Bernard Shaw
A selection from the preface of The Heartbreak House

William Tecumseh Sherman
A selection from Memoirs of William Tecumseh Sherman

Sei Shonagon, A selection from The Pillow Book

Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A selection from Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897

Elinore Pruitt Stewart
"The Adventure of the Christmas Tree" from Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Cornelius Tacitus, A selection from The Annals

Ida Tarbel, A selection from The History of the Standard Oil Company

Alexis de Tocqueville, A selection from Democracy in America

Sojourner Truth
A selection from The Autobiography of Sojourner Truth

Frederick Jackson Turner
A selection from The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Booker T. Washington, A selection from Up from Slavery

H. G. Wells, A selection from The Human Adventure

Ida B. Wells-Barnett
A selection from Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Edith Wharton, A selection from Fighting France

Walt Whitman, A selection from Specimen Days

Lady Francesca Wilde
A selection from Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland

Zitkala-Sa, A selection from Impressions of an Indian Childhood

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