Essays Books

Collected Works of Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

As a storywriter and poet, Edgar Allan Poe was master of the macabre and one of America's great literary geniuses. His collection of poems, short stories, and literary criticism not only helped define..

Gettysburg Address

Abraham Lincoln

At Gettysburg, the famous Civil War battleground, Abraham Lincoln said: "The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." This is something..

Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave

Frederick Douglass

Excerpts from the author of the book Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass, a Slave written by himself.In the first narrative of my experience in slavery, written nearly forty years ago, and i..

Historical Lectures and Essays

Charles Kingsley

Historical Lectures and Essays is a collected work of essays by Charles Kingsley contains the essays including below The First Discovery Of AmericaCyrus, The Servant Of-The LordAncient Civil..

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

Various Authors

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence is written by various authors about  the Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of  Slavery to the Present Time.  Excerpts from the book: It ..

Darkwater

W.E.B. Du Bois

Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil is a literary work by W.E.B. Du Bois. Published in 1920, the text incorporates autobiographical information as well as essays, spirituals, and poems that were al..

The Negro Problem

W.E.B. Du Bois

The Negro Problem is a collection of seven essays by prominent Black American writers, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Laurence Dunbar, edited by Booker T. Washington, and published in 1903. It cove..

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America

W.E.B. Du Bois

Based on his Harvard University doctoral dissertation, The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870 (1896) was Du Bois' first book. It was published in the Har..