Genres: Books Biographies & Memoirs

1491–1764

Mercantilism

Source: Thomas Mun, England’s Treasure by Foreign Trade. (1664) in A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce from the Originals of Mun, Roberts, North, and Others, with a

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1945–1989

Black Power

Source: Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (New York: Vintage Books, 1967), 3–5, 25, 30–31, 34–35, 37–38, 40–43, 44–45, 47–48, 49, 50, 52, 184–185.

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1929–1941

Along This Way

Source: James Weldon Johnson, Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson (New York: Da Capo Press, 2000), 311–313, 317–318, 319–321. Copyright 1933 by James Weldon Johnson; copyright renewed

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1877–1917

The Race Problem in America

Source: Alexander Crummell, The Race Problem in America (Washington, DC: William R. Morrison, 1889), available at https://archive.org/details/26219475.4758.emory.edu. . . . Races, like families, are the organisms and the ordinance of

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1945–1989

The Feminine Mystique

Source: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: W. W. Norton, 1963), pp. 15 and 18. The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women.

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1917–1929

Voluntary Motherhood

Source: “Voluntary Motherhood,” National Birth Control League, 1917, Library of Congress Microfilm, LCM 131:104 . Birth control when based on the theory of voluntary motherhood becomes the new moral standard and

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1917–1929

Filial Relations

Source: Jane Addams, Democracy and Social Ethics (New York: Macmillan, 1902). . . . There is no doubt that, in the effort to sustain the moral energy necessary to work

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