Jacques Barzun
French-American historian known for his studies of the history of ideas and cultural history
1900s
Kaddish
Hymn praising God that is recited during Jewish prayer services
Up from Slavery
1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington . The book describes his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, to his work establishing vocational schoolsmost notably the Tuskegee Institute in Alabamato help Black people and other disadvantaged minorities learn useful, marketable skills and work to pull themselves, as a race, up by the bootstraps
Artful
American Thoroughbred racehorse.
The Book of Tea
Long essay linking the role of chad to the aesthetic and cultural aspects of Japanese life.
Anne of Green Gables
1908 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery . Written for all ages, it has been considered a classic children’s novel since the mid-20th century
The Call of the Wild
Short adventure novel by Jack London, published in 1903 and set in Yukon, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand
Just So Stories for Little Children
1902 collection of origin stories by the British author Rudyard Kipling
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James
Hiroshima Diary
Japanese physician who survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945 and kept a diary of his experience