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- American Historical Documents: 1000–1904. 1909–17.
- 47 works trace the United States from the settling of the continent to early twentieth-century international relations.
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- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States. 1989.
- Illustrated and annotated edition of all Inaugural addresses from George Washington to George W. Bush.
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- Adams, Henry. 1918. The Education of Henry Adams.
- An honest and probing reflection of one man’s life in relation to the world around him.
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- Bacon, Francis
- 1909–14. Essays, Civil and Moral.
Whether turning a phrase or observing the politics of the day, the Essays epitomize Bacon as the master of English prose.
- 1909–14. The New Atlantis.
This account of an ideal state reveals both practical methods and unique fantasy.
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- Burke, Edmund
- 1909–14. A Letter to a Noble Lord.
A personal defense from the master of prosaic irony.
- 1909–14. Reflections on the French Revolution.
The prophetic warning against the pulling down of all that is good in society with the bad.
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- Cicero. 1909–14. Letters.
- The epistles of the great orator and politician offer both personal insight and policy initiative.
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- Du Bois, W.E.B. 1903. The Souls of Black Folk.
- W.E.B. Du Bois sets out to show to the reader “the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century.”
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- Grant, Ulysses S. 1885–86. Personal Memoirs.
- Among the greatest of military memoirs, Grant wrote to the last month of life to restore his family fortunes.
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- Harrison, William. 1909–14. A Description of Elizabethan England.
- Observations and comments on life in pre-Elizabethan England.
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- Jusserand, Jean Jules. 1916. With Americans of Past and Present Days.
- Seven Pulitzer Prize–winning biographical vignettes trace U.S.–French relations.
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- Lincoln, Abraham. 1897. Political Debates Between Lincoln and Douglas.
- The seven masterpieces of debate on the evil of slavery.
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- Mill, John Stuart. 1869. On Liberty.
- This timeless essay addresses points on civil liberties that resonate into our twenty-first century world.
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- Milton, John. 1909–14. Areopagitica.
- Responds to attempts of the day to “license,” or ban, religious and political writings.
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- Paine, Thomas. 1776. Common Sense.
- An instant bestseller, this popular pamphlet set the foundation for the “Declaration of Independence.”
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- Pliny the Younger. 1909–14. Letters.
- A glimpse into the daily life of a Roman patrician.
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- Plutarch. 1909–14. Lives.
- Biographies of Greeks and Romans aimed more at the kernel of a man than the facts of his life.
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- Rhodes, James Ford. 1917. History of the Civil War, 1861–1865.
- The Pulitzer Prize–winning chronicle for the general reader of four bloody years that stemmed from the practice of slavery.
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- Riis, Jacob. 1890. How the Other Half Lives.
- Through sensationalist prose and photography, Riis reveals the appalling living conditions in the Lower East Side of turn-of-the-century New York City.
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- Roosevelt, Theodore
- 1899. The Rough Riders.
Roosevelt’s memoir of his adventures, triumphs and defeats in the Spanish-American War.
- 1913. An Autobiography.
The life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken Presidents in American history.
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- Rousseau, Jean Jacques. 1909–14. On the Inequality among Mankind.
- The movers of the French Revolution would embrace the ideas elaborated herein.
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- Smith, Adam. 1909–14. Wealth of Nations.
- The first complete system of political economy by the articulator of laissez-faire capitalism.
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- Voltaire. 1909–14. Letters on the English.
- An examination of the English free thinkers, scientists, religion and government.
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- Washington, Booker T. 1901. Up from Slavery.
- This autobiographical work reveals a forceful and potent voice in the fight for African-American equality from a century ago.
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- Wollstonecraft, Mary. 1792. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
- The first great feminist treatise.
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