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Montaigne: Selected Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1592
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
James Baldwin
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1961
On Being Sane in Insane Places
David L. Rosenhan
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1973
On the Equality of the Sexes
Judith Sargent Murray
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1790
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1496
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory
Judith Butler
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1988
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1992
Reflections On The Revolution In France
Edmund Burke
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1790
Second Treatise of Government
John Locke, C. B. Macpherson, ed.
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1689
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
Jonathan Edwards
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1741
Speech to the Second Virginia Convention
Patrick Henry
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1775
Take the Tortillas Out of Your Poetry
Rudolfo Anaya
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1995
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation
John Freeman
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Gregory Boyle
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2009
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2021
The Articles of Confederation
Benjamin Franklin
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1781
The Collected Schizophrenias
Esmé Weijun Wang
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019
The Danger of a Single Story
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009
The Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1776
The Federalist Papers
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1787
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Robert Darnton
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1984
The Harvest Gypsies: On the Road to the Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 1936
The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain
Langston Hughes
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1926
The Significance of the Frontier in American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 2009
The Singer Solution to World Poverty
Peter Singer
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1999
The Tragedy of the Commons
Garrett James Hardin
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1968
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Walter Benjamin
Nonfiction | Essay / Speech | Adult | Published in 1935
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2017
Thick: And Other Essays
Tressie Mcmillan Cottom
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult | Published in 2019
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Cherrie Moraga, ed., Gloria Anzaldua, ed.
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Cheryl Strayed
Nonfiction | Essay Collection | Adult