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The Life-Story of a Russian Exile - Marie SUKLOFF
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The Life-Story of a Russian Exile - Marie SUKLOFF
  • Author: Marie SUKLOFF
  • Genre: Political Science / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activist, Sukloff carried out an assassination plot against a Russian governor known for murderous pogroms and...
England, Canada and the Great War - Louis-Georges DESJARDINS
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England, Canada and the Great War - Louis-Georges DESJARDINS
Mr. Desjardins was driven to write this work to refute statements uttered by the nationalist Henri Bourassa, which the former feared painted all Quebecers with the same unpatriotic brush in respect to their contribution to the Great War. (Summary by...
The Escaping Club - A. J. EVANS
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The Escaping Club - A. J. EVANS
  • Author: A. J. EVANS
  • Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Described by some as one of the greatest escape books published. The Escaping Club recounts Evans' escape to Switzerland from a supposedly "escape-proof" German prison camp during World War I. After repatriation and rejoining the war, Evans again...
Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary - Unknown
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Tales Of The Royal Irish Constabulary - Unknown
  • Author: Unknown
  • Genre: Law / Modern (20th C)
The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the armed police force of the United Kingdom in Ireland from the early nineteenth century until 1922. About seventy-five percent of the RIC were Roman Catholic and...
The Fireside Chats - Franklin D. ROOSEVELT
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The Fireside Chats - Franklin D. ROOSEVELT
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty radio addresses made throughout his terms as President of the United States between 1933 and 1944. The speeches are snapshots of American life during the turbulent decade that included the Great Depression...
The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire - Charles McLean Andrews
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The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire - Charles McLean Andrews
The first half of this book describes the devastating earthquake that hit San Francisco in 1906, and the subsequent destruction caused by fire. Various eyewitnesses and victims give their account on the tragedy. In the second half, a number of...
The Martyrdom Of Belgium; Official Report Of Massacres Of Peaceable Citizens, Women And Children By The German Army; Testimony Of Eye-Witnesses - George COOREMAN
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The Martyrdom Of Belgium; Official Report Of Massacres Of Peaceable Citizens, Women And Children By The German Army; Testimony Of Eye-Witnesses - George COOREMAN
The title says it all. World War I narratives of German activities in Belgium after the German invasion of this neutral country. - Summary by david wales...
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
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In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
  • Author: Marcel Dupont
  • Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last...
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 - Harris Newmark
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Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 - Harris Newmark
Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He gathers into this well-written book his reminiscences of the period from 1853 to 1913, as Los Angeles developed...
The Red Battle Flyer - Manfred von Richthofen
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The Red Battle Flyer - Manfred von Richthofen
Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron, was a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. He is considered the top ace of...
Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland - Frederick Herman Tilberg
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Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland - Frederick Herman Tilberg
The American Civil War battle at Antietam, Maryland,(called Sharpsburg by the Confederacy) on 17 September 1862, has been called the bloodiest day of that conflict. Confederate General Lee’s invasion of the North was repulsed, and when the fighting...
Thoughts on South Africa - Olive Schreiner
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Thoughts on South Africa - Olive Schreiner
  • Author: Olive Schreiner
  • Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (20th C)
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding Boer-English relations. The book was published posthumously in 1923. Prospective listeners should be aware...
Margaret Sanger; an autobiography - Margaret SANGER
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Margaret Sanger; an autobiography - Margaret SANGER
  • Author: Margaret SANGER
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical / Modern (20th C)
Margaret Sanger, an advocate for birth control rights, chronicles the story of her struggles, including her times in jail and in exile, in order to legalize birth control options for women. She details the uphill battles of not only convincing...
The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia - Kellogg Durland
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The Red Reign: The True Story of an Adventurous Year in Russia - Kellogg Durland
  • Author: Kellogg Durland
  • Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Travel & Geography / Modern (20th C)
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting read, knowing as we do what fell out for Russia in the next decade. The Russian Revolution did not appear from...
Mark Twain and the Happy Island - Elizabeth Wallace
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Mark Twain and the Happy Island - 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 and Twain met in Bermuda in 1908, became fast friends, and shared time together on the island and regular...
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania - Frederick Herman Tilberg
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Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania - Frederick Herman Tilberg
On the gently rolling farm lands surrounding the little town of Gettysburg, Pa., was fought one of the great decisive battles of American history. For 3 days, from July 1 to 3, 1863, a gigantic struggle between 75,000 Confederates and 88,000 Union...
The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse - Ellen Newbold La Motte
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The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse - Ellen Newbold La Motte
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe and treat soldiers in World War I. In Belgium she served in a French field hospital,...
Stories of the Ships - Lewis R. Freeman
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Stories of the Ships - Lewis R. Freeman
While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military at the beginning of the 20th century. Stories of the Ships is a 1919 collection of accounts described in the first...
A Short History of Pittsburgh - Samuel Harden Church
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A Short History of Pittsburgh - Samuel Harden Church
Samuel H. Church presents a brief history of the city of Pittsburgh, split into three domains: historical, industrial, and intellectual. His goal is to demonstrate to the reader that Pittsburgh is a noteworthy city, ready for your consideration. -...
Over There: War Scenes On The Western Front - Arnold Bennett
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Over There: War Scenes On The Western Front - Arnold Bennett
Bennett's served in many capacities in the WWI war effort. After a visit to the Western Front he wrote this 1915 collection of essays about his impressions. He declined being awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) at the end of the war. -...
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
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The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literature and other arts including poets, artists, musicians, and orators. These range from well known figures such...
Infamous Day: Marines At Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 - Robert James Cressman
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Infamous Day: Marines At Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 - Robert James Cressman
Historical overview and personal reminiscences published in 1992. Pearl Harbor attack 7 December 1941. Part of U.S. Government U.S. Marine Corps World War II Commemorative Series. - Summary by David Wales...
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918 - Francis Edward Tourscher
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Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918 - Francis Edward Tourscher
In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. Twenty-three of the sisters died because of their ministrations. This is an account of their heroic work...
Vietnam: The Advisory Years to 1965 - Robert Futrell
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Vietnam: The Advisory Years to 1965 - Robert Futrell
This book explains the policy of the United States and France toward Vietnam beginning after World War II until the beginning of America's entry into the Vietnam War in 1965. Summary by Craig Campbell...
Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo - Edmund Dene Morel
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Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade on the Congo - 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 atrocities commited in the Congo through the enslavement of the native population, leading to the deaths of as...
The Last Secrets - John Buchan
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The Last Secrets - John Buchan
  • Author: John Buchan
  • Genre: Modern (20th C) / Exploration
The author, John Buchan, maintains that "the main lines of the earth's architecture have been determined" during the first two decades of the twentieth century, and all that remains is but "amplifying our knowledge of the groyning and buttresses and...
Prowling About Panama - George A. Miller
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Prowling About Panama - George A. Miller
In 1903, Panama became a brand new state in Central America by seceding from Colombia in order to facilitate the construction of the Panama Canal, which was finished in 1914. This fledgling nation was home to the oldest inhabited European settlement...
Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack - United States Senate
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Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack - United States Senate
A joint bipartisan report by the U.S. Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Rules and Administration, addressing security, planning, and response by the U.S. Capitol Police, the Capitol Police Board, the FBI, and Departments of Homeland...
Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch - Eva Shaw McLaren
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Elsie Inglis - The Woman With the Torch - 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 in Edinburgh (then known as the Hospice, but later as the Elsie Inglis Memorial Hospital), and was known for...
Syria: the Desert and the Sown - Gertrude Bell
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Syria: the Desert and the Sown - 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 20th century. In this vivid and painstakingly documented narrative, Bell recounts her visits to Damascus,...
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution - John Dryden Kuser
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Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution - 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 Haiti’s history of its invasion and occupation by the U.S. military. Dryden offers his views of elements of...
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology - Various
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Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology - Various
  • Author: Various
  • Genre: Science / Technology & Engineering / Modern (20th C)
Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin. In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of...
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission Report) - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
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Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission Report) - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst came during a two-week period in July, first in Newark and then in Detroit. Each set off a chain reaction in...
The Trial of a New Society - Justus Ebert
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The Trial of a New Society - Justus Ebert
  • Author: Justus Ebert
  • Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (20th C)
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working conditions. Representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) came in to help organize...
All in the Day's Work - Ida M. TARBELL
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All in the Day's Work - 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 investigative journalist. Ms. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 work, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which...
Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups - House Un-American Activities Committee
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Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups - 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 that espouse racial hatred and un-Democratic positions then at work in the United States. (Early 1950s) -...
The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War - Horatio W. Dresser
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The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War - Horatio W. Dresser
This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the...
News From No Man's Land - James Green
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News From No Man's Land - James Green
  • Author: James Green
  • Genre: War & Military / History / Modern (20th C)
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Force in World War I. This memoir was published 1917, while the war was on-going. “In spite of necessary...
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