Society & Culture

Society & Culture/

Collection AAA
A collection of samples from Today's Books on Education

Society & Culture/History

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

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

Elizabeth Blackwell
A selection from Pioneering Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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

Christopher Columbus
A selection from the Journal of Christopher Columbus

Rebecca Harding Davis, A selection from The Civil War

Dorothea Dix, The Memorial To The Massachusetts Legislature

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

Emma Goldman, A selection from Living My Life

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

Alexander Hamilton, A selection from Federalist Paper #1

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

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

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

Lillian D. Wald, A selection from The House on Henry Street

Booker T. Washington, A selection from Up from Slavery

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

Edith Wharton, A selection from Fighting France

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

Society & Culture/Literature

Collection AAA, A collection of Short Stories (authors A-F)

Collection AAA, A collection of Short Stories (authors G-K)

Collection AAA, A collection of Short Stories (authors L-P)

Collection AAA, A collection of Short Stories (authors R-Z)

Herman Hesse, A selection from the novel Siddartha

Victor Hugo, Love in Prison

Society & Culture/Personal Journals

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

Jane Austen, A Letter to Her Niece

Society & Culture/Philosophy

Aristotle, A selection from Metaphysics

Averroes
A selection from On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy

Henri-Louis Bergson, A selection from Creative Evolution

Cicero, A selection from The Orator

Carl von Clausewitz, A selection from On War

Confucius, A selection from The Analects

René Descartes, A selection from Discourse on Method

John Dewey, A selection from Democracy And Education

Ralph Waldo Emerson, A selection from Experience

Ralph Waldo Emerson, A selection from Nature

G. W. F. Hegel
A selection from Introduction to The Philosophy of Art

Thomas Hobbes, A selection from The Leviathan

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

David Hume
A selection from An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Edmund Husserl, A selection from Ideas

William James, What Makes a Life Significant?

William James, A selection from The Varieties of Religious Experience

Immanuel Kant, A selection from Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Yoshida Kenko, Essays of Yoshida Kenko

Lao Tzu, A selection from the Tao Te Ching

Gottfried Leibniz
A selection from On the Ultimate Origination of Things

John Locke, A selection from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Niccolo Machiavelli, A selection from The Prince

Moses Maimonides, A selection from The Guide for the Perplexed

John Stuart Mill, A selection from Autobiography

Michel de Montaigne, The essay Of Fear

Thomas More, A selection from Utopia

Friedrich Nietzsche, A selection from Beyond Good and Evil

Blaise Pascal, A selection from Pensees

Charles Sanders Peirce, A selection from How to Make our Ideas Clear

Gifford Pinchot, A selection from The Fight for Conservation

Plato, A selection from The Republic

Jean Jacques Rousseau
A selection from The Confessions of Jean-jacques Rousseau

Josiah Royce, A selection from the book The World and the Individual

Bertrand Russell, A selection from Appearance and Reality

Friedrich Schiller
A selection from On the Aesthetic Education of Man

Arthur Schopenhauer, Selections from Thinking for Oneself

Benedict de Spinoza, A selection from A Theologico-Political Treatise

Henry David Thoreau, A selection from Walden

Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Miguel de Unamuno, A selection from The Tragic Sense of Life

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

Alfred North Whitehead, A selection from The Concept of Nature

Ludwig Wittgenstein, A selection from Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Society & Culture/Places & Travel

John James Audubon, A selection from Birds of America

Mary Austin, A selection from The Land of Little Rain

William Bartram
A selection from Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida,...

Henry Walter Bates
A selection from The Naturalist on the River Amazons

Isabella Bird
A selection from A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

John Burroughs, A selection from The Spell of the Yosemite

Richard Burton, A selection from Lake Regions of Central Africa

Richard Henry Dana, Jr., A selection from Two Years Before the Mast

Margaret Fuller
A selection from At Home and Abroad; or,
Things and Thoughts in America and Europe

W.H. Hudson, A selection from The Naturalist in La Plata

Washington Irving, A selection from The Voyage

Samuel Johnson
A selection from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

Lewis and Clark, A selection from The Journals of Lewis And Clark

John Muir, A selection from The Mountains of California

Frederick Law Olmsted
A selection from the report Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove

Francis Parkman
A selection from The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life

Marco Polo, A selection from The Travels of Marco Polo

John Wesley Powell, A selection from The Canyons of the Colorado

Theodore Roosevelt, A selection from An Autobiography

Ernest Shackleton, A selection from South

John Millington Synge, A selection from In Wicklow and West Kerry

Henry David Thoreau
A selection from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

George Washington
A selection from Major George Washington's Journal to the River Ohio, Etc.

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

Mary Wollstonecraft
A selection from Letters on Sweden, Norway, And Denmark

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