Social Science Books

Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!

Victoria C. Woodhull

Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!! These Three; but the Greatest of These Is JusticeA Speech on the Impending Revolution, Delivered in Music Hall, Boston, Thursday, Feb. 1, 1872, and the Academy of Music,..

The rise, progress, and phases of human slavery

James Bronterre O'Brien

This little Work, by an eloquent denunciator of the manifold evils of Profitmongering and Landlordism, whose entire life was devoted to the advocacy of Social Rights, as distinguished from Socialistic..

The Great Harry Thaw Case

Benjamin H. Atwell

A great trial has come to a close. It has attracted the attention of the entire civilized world for three widely separated and distinctly defined reasons—the unusual degree of heart interest underlyin..

Ploughshare and Pruning-Hook - Ten Lectures on Social Subjects

Laurence Housman

These papers, originally given as lectures, make no pretence to the solution of the social or political problems with which they are concerned. Whether these lectures were primarily intended for ..

Three Visitors to Early Plymouth

John Pory

We all know what the Pilgrim Fathers wrote about themselves and their settlements on the (not so) “stern and rockbound coast”; but how many people know that they were visited thrice, between 1622 and ..

The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards

William Ridgeway

The following pages are an attempt to arrive at a knowledge of the origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards by the Comparative Method. In treating of the Distribution of gold and the prio..

The English Prison System

Evelyn Ruggles-Brise

The International Prison Congress at Washington the invitation of the British Government to hold the next Quinquennial Congress of 1915 in London. The invitation was accepted with enthusiasm. The..

How to Get Married, Although a Woman

Irene W. Hartt

It is natural for girls to wish to marry. The desire to do so is not to be condemned, but rather applauded, for it is Heaven-born. There are plenty who hold up their hands in holy horror when it ..