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From wikipedia:
Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Anglo-Irish priest, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, and poet, famous for works like Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, The Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is less well known for his poetry. Swift published all of his works under pseudonyms — such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M.B. Drapier — or anonymously.

Read Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, one of 15 of his works in various formats and languages, available free from Project Gutenberg.


Jonathan Swift

Wendell Phillips (29 November 1811 – 2 February 1884) was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator.

Read "Toussaint L'Ouverture: A lecture by Wendell Phillips, free from thelouvertureproject.org.


Wendell Phillips

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Carrie Amelia Nation (November 25, 1846 – June 9, 1911) was perhaps the most famous person to emerge from the temperance movement—the battles against alcohol in pre-Prohibition America—due to her habit of attacking saloons with a hatchet. She has been the topic of numerous books, articles and even a 1966 opera at the University of Kansas.

Read The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation by Carry Amelia Nation, free from Project Gutenberg.


Carrie Nation

André Paul Guillaume Gide (November 22, 1869 – February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism in-between the two World Wars.

Read Andre Gide's "banquet speech" accepting the Nobel Prize, provided free from Nobelprize.org


Andre Gide

Marilyn French (born November 21, 1929) is an American author, known for her feminist novels and non-fiction.

Hear Marilyn French discuss her work on the Woman's Hour, a radio program streaming in RealAudio format, free from the British Broadcasting Company.

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As the last of the log cabin Presidents, James A. Garfield attacked political corruption and won back for the Presidency a measure of prestige it had lost during the Reconstruction period.

Read James Garfield's Inaugural Address, delivered in 1881, free from usa-presidents.info.


James Garfield

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Sojourner Truth (c. 1797–1883) was the self-given name, from 1843, of an American abolitionist born into slavery from Hurley, New York. (Her original name was Isabella Baumfree, but some sources list her name as Isabella Van Wagener.)

Read The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth, free from Project Gutenberg.


Sojourner Truth

Charles X, King of France and of Navarre (October 9, 1757 – November 6, 1836) was born at the Palace of Versailles. He was the grandson of Louis XV and his Polish queen, Maria Leszczyska, and youngest son of Louis, dauphin de France, who never reigned, and his German wife Marie-Josèphe of Saxony. He became King of France in 1824 and reigned until the French Revolution of 1830 when he abdicated rather than become a constitutional monarch. He was the last king of the senior Bourbon line to reign over France.

Boies Penrose (November 1, 1860 – December 31, 1921) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1897 until his death in 1921.


Boies Penrose