Politics

Cotton is king, and pro-slavery arguments: comprising the writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this important subject

The volume assembles the pro‑slavery essays of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe and…

Woman and Socialism

August Bebel

August Bebel’s Woman and Socialism is a polemical treatise that frames the “woman question” as inseparable…

The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians

Xenophon

Xenophon’s Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians is a comparative political treatise that opens with…

The new freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

Woodrow Wilson

The work is a political manifesto assembled from the speeches President Woodrow Wilson delivered during his…

Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865

Abraham Lincoln

This volume gathers the public speeches and private correspondence of Abraham Lincoln from the early days of…

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

Edward J. Ruppelt

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects is a nonfiction account that reads like an official military…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill

The work is a systematic catalogue of John Stuart Mill’s extensive writings on logic, scientific method, and…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a volume of critical and historical essays by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, assembled with a…

The Treaty With China, its Provisions Explained New York Tribune, Tuesday, August 28, 1868

Mark Twain

The work is a contemporary newspaper essay published in the New York Tribune on August 28, 1868, in which the…

Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth

Henry George

Progress and Poverty, Volumes I and II is a systematic treatise that seeks to explain why material wealth has…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 3 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work opens with a sweeping, almost comic appraisal of Reverend Edward Nares’s monumental memoir of…

International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850

Various

The volume is a nineteenth‑century periodical that opens with an extensive biographical essay on Lord Henry…

Theologico-Political Treatise — Part 1

Benedictus de Spinoza

The work is a philosophical‑political essay in which Spinoza launches a sweeping critique of superstition,…

Area Handbook for Bulgaria

Keefe, Eugene K.; Baluyut, Violeta D.; Giloane, William; Long, Anne K.; Moore, James M.; Walpole, Neda A.

The Area Handbook for Bulgaria is a government‑style reference work produced by the Foreign Area Studies…

The Invisible Government

Dan Smoot

The book is a polemical history that argues a hidden network of elites has steered U.S.

The Forgotten Man, and Other Essays

William Graham Sumner

The volume is a posthumous gathering of William Graham Sumner’s economic and social essays, assembled after…

Proposed Roads to Freedom

Bertrand Russell

The work is an extended essay that sets out to trace the intellectual and organisational roots of modern…

Fabian Essays in Socialism

The book is a collection of essays that trace the evolution of socialist thought from the late‑19th‑century…

The I. W. W.: A Study of American Syndicalism

Paul F. Brissenden

The work is a contemporary historical survey of the Industrial Workers of the World, written in 1919 by Paul…

Americanism

Theodore Roosevelt

The work is a political address by Theodore Roosevelt that frames itself as a celebration of “Americanism”…

Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects

United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

This volume is a collection of declassified FBI memoranda, telegrams and correspondence from the summer of…

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)

Edmund Burke

The volume gathers a series of Edmund Burke’s political pamphlets and letters, the first of which opens with…

The Railroad Question A historical and practical treatise on railroads, and remedies for their abuses

William Larrabee

The Railroad Question is a nineteenth‑century treatise that blends historical survey with a polemic on…

After the Rain : how the West lost the East

Samuel Vaknin