Western culture, according to Veblen, is unique because of its comprehension of science. Above all else, he identifies this as the defining characteristic ...

The influence of free and universal education, together with that of political institutions which at every point inculcate self-respect and stimulate ambition ...

The Works of Eugene Field is a collection of poetry and essays by American author Eugene Field, originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1896 ...

Author Washington Irving believed this, his monumental biography of America's first great military hero and president, to be his finest literary achievement. ...

Born Edward Henry Harriman in 1848 of an ordained deacon father in the Presbyterian Church and well-connected socialite mother, Young Edward attended private ...

In visiting a rice plantation, my object was not so much to satisfy myself that the slave-owners of America are kind to their negroes, as to satisfy the ...

Now when Titus, going his rounds along these ravines, saw them full of dead bodies, and observed the thick matter running from these clammy corpses, he ...

Completed just days before his death and hailed by Mark Twain as "the most remarkable work of its kind since the Commentaries of Julius Caesar," this is ...