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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases

Ida B. Wells-Barnett's pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases awakened the American society that the Post Civil War did not change the racism entirely. With documented evidences Ida proved the failure of Federal Government to safe guard Black race's freedom and the rights to participate in the reconstruction of society. She urges th..

American Notes

by Rudyard Kipling

American Notes for General Circulation is a travelogue by Charles Dickens detailing his trip to North America from January to June 1842. While there he acted as a critical observer of North American society, almost as if returning a status report on their progress. This can be compared to the style of his Pictures from Italy written four years late..

The Uncommercial Traveller

by Charles Dickens

The Uncommercial Traveller is Dickens' observations on contemporary life published through the Journal All the Year Round he founded himself and contributed to it regularly with his articles, essays and reports. His travel to Europe and America has produced many writings for this journal which are neither categorized to any subject or theme startin..

Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson

by Robert Louis Stevenson

ROBERT LOUIS BALFOUR STEVENSON (1850–94), novelist, essayist, and poet, was descended from a famous family of lighthouse builders. He was born at Edinburgh, Scotland, and was intended for the ancestral profession of engineer. Abandoning this, he tried law with no better success, and finally devoted himself to his destined vocation of letters...

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

by Mark Twain

Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses is an 1895 essay by Mark Twain, written as a satire and criticism of the writings of James Fenimore Cooper. In his essay The Literary Offenses of Fenimore Cooper, Twain asserted Cooper's popular Deerslayer, a Leatherstocking tale, committed 114 "offenses against literary art out of a possible 115." Generally..

Essays on Paul Bourget

by Mark Twain

A collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget".He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer tur..

Heretics

by G. K. Chesterton

Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G.K. Chesterton in 1905. In his first essay, Chesterton describes his understanding of the words Orthodox and Heretic as they apply to, and have changed in, the modern period. Chesterton argues that in modernity, "The word 'orthodoxy' not only no longer means being right; it practic..

Eugenics and Other EvilsEugenics and Other Evils

by G. K. Chesterton

The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exist..