“There are few more interesting spots in Africa than the little corner of the west coast occupied by the Republic of Liberia…” And so the story of the Republic of Liberia’s... More > foundation begins in this account by Dr. J.H.T. McPherson, a Fellow in History at Johns Hopkins University. ‘History of Liberia’ was initially published in the journal Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science in 1891. This publication by Developing Press and The Liberian Times features an all new preface by Dr. Fred PM van der Kraaij of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs as well as Liberia’s Declaration of Independence and three constitutions which had been in effect in Liberia prior to the initial publication of this book.< Less
PLUNKITT OF TAMMANY HALL
BY GEORGE WASHINGTON PLUNKITT
A Series of Very Plain Talks on Very Practical Politics, Delivered by Ex-senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany Philosopher, from... More > His Rostrum—the New York County Court House Bootblack Stand
RECORDED BY WILLIAM L. RIORDON< Less
"Theodore Herzl was the first Jew who projected the Jewish question as
an international problem. "The Jewish State," ...
was the first public expression, in a modern language, by a... More > modern
Jew, of a dynamic conception of how the solution of the problem could
be accelerated and the ancient Jewish hope, slumbering in Jewish
memory for two thousand years, could be fulfilled." - Louis Lipsky< Less
