Date of Publication: 1883First published in 1859, this controversial scientific work is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.It introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1859 “ONE OF THE CLASSIC DEFENSES OF FREEDOM IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The essay On Liberty was probably Mill’s only abiding work on politics… comparable to...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1776One of three known copies. “The only one in private hands. This is the third Dunlap printing. John Dunlap, as one of the leading printers in Philadelphia, produced numerous...
Learn MoreDate of Manuscript: ca. 1350Contains Magna Charta; Statues of the Realm; Register of Writs. First Issued in 1215 as a result of an angry encounter, on the plains of Runnymeade, between an assembly of Barons...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1776Sixth Edition. A political treatise first published on January 10, 1776 urging immediate separation from England. Of this Paine states, “Everything that is right or natural pleads for...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1792First edition of this classic work on freedom, equality, and education. “Wollstonecraft’s major work caused an outcry when it was published and is hailed as a cornerstone of...
Learn MoreDate of Publication: 1855My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass.It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an...
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