Genres: Books Biographies & Memoirs

The Acquisition of Hawaii

Secretary of State Foster to John Stevens, November 8, 1892 Sir: Adverting to your current dispatches in relation to the course of political events in the Hawaiian Islands, many of

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Race and Civil Rights
1945–1989

Black Power

Source: Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), 34–36, 37–38, 40, 41, 44–45, 46, 47, 50–51, 52–55. Black

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Race and Civil Rights
1929–1941

Along This Way

Source: James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1961; originally published 1933), 409–13. Excerpt(s) from Along this Way by James Weldon

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Race and Civil Rights
1917–1929

The Souls of Black Folk

Source: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Chicago: A. C. McClurg, 1903), 3–6, 9–12, 42–44, 50–53, 55–56, 57; available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Souls_of_Black_Folk/ZdV1AAAAMAAJ?hl=en . . .After the Egyptian

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Race and Civil Rights
1877–1917

An Appeal to Caesar

Source: Albion Tourgée, An Appeal to Caesar (New York: Fords, Howard, and Hulbert, 1884), 68–69, 71–72, 74, 309–13; available at https://www.google.com/books/edition/An_Appeal_to_Caesar/qsMxAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1. The failure of the Reconstruction Acts to accomplish the

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Of The Division of Labor

Source: Adam Smith, “Of the Division of Labour,” in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, edited with an Introduction, Notes, Marginal Summary and an

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1491–1764

Justice

Source: David Hume, “Justice,”A Treatise of Human Nature in The Philosophic Works of David Hume 4 vols. vol. 2 Edinburgh: Adam Black and William Tait and Charles Tait, Fleet Street,

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Of Property

Source: John Locke, “Of Property” in Two Treatises of Government, ed. Thomas Hollis (London: A. Millar, [1689] 1764). http:// oll.libertyfund.org/title/222. Accessed: January 30, 2020. §.26. God, who hath given the

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