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The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 7 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private

Thomas Jefferson

The five republics of Central America: their political and economic development and their relations with the United States

Dana Gardner Munro

Dana Gardner Munro’s study is a systematic survey of the five Central American republics, written from the…

The political novel

Joseph Blotner

The work is an academic essay that treats the political novel as a distinct field of study, positioning…

Newer ideals of peace

Jane Addams

The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind

Gobineau, Arthur, comte de

The work is a nineteenth‑century treatise that seeks to map the “moral and intellectual diversity of races”…

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics

Various

The September 1864 issue of The Atlantic Monthly gathers a series of essays, reviews, and literary sketches…

History of the United States of America, Volume 5 (of 9): During the first administration of James Madison

Henry Adams

The work is a scholarly chronicle of the United States during James Madison’s first administration, written…

A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3

De Alva Stanwood Alexander

This three‑volume work is a scholarly survey of New York’s partisan turbulence from the colony’s final years…

A Critical Analysis of Patriotism As an Ethical Concept A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 1, 1918

Clarence Reidenbach

Clarence Reidenbach’s dissertation, submitted to Yale’s graduate faculty in 1918, is a scholarly treatise…

China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference

John Dewey

The work is a contemporary diplomatic report by John Dewey, a scholar of international affairs, that examines…

Recent Developments in European Thought

The work is a scholarly survey of Western intellectual life from the aftermath of the 1870 Franco‑Prussian…

Abraham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln

This work is the text of Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, a formal presidential speech delivered…

The Commonwealth of Oceana

James Harrington

The Commonwealth of Oceana is a seventeenth‑century political treatise that begins with an extensive…

Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 2 With a Memoir and Index

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The volume is a mixed‑genre compilation assembled by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, whose “Critical,…

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies

John Dickinson

The work is a collection of political pamphlets written by John Dickinson, the Pennsylvania “Farmer,”…

Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies

Adams, John; Leonard, Daniel

Novanglus and Massachusettensis is a two‑part political pamphlet first issued in 1774‑75, bringing together…

The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer

Jonathan Swift

This volume gathers Jonathan Swift’s contributions to the eighteenth‑century periodicals The Tatler, The…

Society in America, Volume 1 (of 2)

Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau’s Society in America is a travel‑memoir that doubles as a sociological survey of the United…

The Law

Frédéric Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat’s The Law is a polemical essay that frames the protection of life, liberty and property as…

Area Handbook for Albania

Keefe, Eugene K.; Elpern, Sarah Jane; Giloane, William; Moore, James M.; Peters, Stephen; White, Eston T.

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

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon

George Washington Plunkitt

The book is a collection of speeches and interviews given by George Washington Plunkitt, a longtime Tammany…

Slavery: Letters and Speeches

Horace Mann

Horace Mann’s Slavery: Letters and Speeches is a polemical collection that frames the abolitionist cause as a…

The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

American Anti-Slavery Society

The Anti‑Slavery Examiner, issued by the American Anti‑Slavery Society, is a polemical periodical from the…

Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address is a political‑historical document that opens with a direct appeal…