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• Social ethics
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• King Lear and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1998), by Judy Kronenfeld (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Moral Aspects of Economic Growth, and Other Essays (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1998), by Barrington Moore (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell)
• "Head I Win, Tails You Lose!" Truth and Integrity in Public Life (ACSJC occasional paper #5; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, ca. 1990), by Tom Ryan (PDF in Australia)
• What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (originally published 1883; added introduction dated 1951), by William Graham Sumner, contrib. by William Clinton Mullendore (Gutenberg text)
• Modernity (c1996), by John Leonard (PDF with commentary at jleonard.net)
• The Public Conscience: Social Judgments in Statute and Common Law (New York: Henry Holt and Co., c1922), by George Clarke Cox (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Social Environment and Moral Progress, by Alfred Russel Wallace (HTML at wku.edu)
• Democracy and Social Ethics (New York and London: Macmillan, 1902), by Jane Addams
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Harvard
• Der Darwinismus und die Soziale Ethik: Ein Vortrag Gehalten zur Hundertjahrfeier von Darwins Geburtstage vor der Philosophischen Vereinigung in Bonn (in German; Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1909), by Erich Becher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ethics of Coöperation (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1918), by James Hayden Tufts (Gutenberg text)
• Living Issues in Ethics, by Richard T. Nolan and Frank G. Kirkpatrick (PDF files at Wayback Machine)
• Practical Sociology in the Service of Social Ethics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1902), by Charles Richmond Henderson (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Social Rights and Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies (2 volumes; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: Macmillan and Co., 1896), by Leslie Stephen
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
• Dare We Be Christians (Boston et al.: Pilgrim Press, c1914), by Walter Rauschenbusch (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Essays on Evangelical Social Ethics (Wilton, CT: Morehouse-Barlow Co., 1983), ed. by David F. Wright (PDF files in the UK)

• Protest and Engagement: Philosophy After Apartheid at an Historically Black South African University, ed. by Patrick Giddy (PDF at crvp.org)

• Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, by David Hume, ed. by Eugene F. Miller (HTML at econlib.org)

• A Fatal Drifting Apart: Democratic Social Knowledge and Chicago Reform (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2007), by Laura M. Westhoff (PDF at Ohio State)

• Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy (2005-) (full serial archives)

• The American Magazine of Civics (partial serial archives)

• The Immigrants in America Review (full serial archives)

• Moral, Legal and Political Values in Romanian Culture, ed. by Mihaela Czobor-Lupp and J. Stefan Lupp (multiple formats at Google; may be labeled differently on cover page)

• Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by Georgia Warnke (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Learn About the United States: Quick Civics Lessons for the Naturalization Test (2013), by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)
• The American Citizens Handbook (fourth edition; Washington: National Education Association of the United States, 1951), ed. by Joy Elmer Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Citizen's Almanac: Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States (2013), ed. by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)
• Our Constitution and Government, contrib. by Catheryn Seckler-Hudson (partial serial archives)

• Learn About the United States: Quick Civics Lessons for the Naturalization Test (2013), by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (PDF at uscis.gov)
• Dislocalism: The Crisis of Globalization and the Remobilizing of Americanism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), by Sarika Chandra (PDF at Ohio State)
• Americanization of the Finnish People in Houghton County, Michigan (Duluth: Finnish Daily Pub. Co., 1921), by Clemens Niemi
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Americanization Through Homemaking (Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., 1929), by Pearl Idelia Ellis (page images at LOC)
• The Italians in Chicago: A Study in Americanization (Chicago: Italian American Pub Co., 1928), by Giovanni Ermenegildo Schiavo, contrib. by Jane Addams, illust. by Rocco D. Navigato (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Church and the Immigrant (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1921), by Georgia Elma Harkness, contrib. by G. W. Tupper (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Russians and Ruthenians in America: Bolsheviks or Brothers? (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by Jerome Davis, contrib. by Charles Hatch Sears
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Re-Forging America: The Story of Our Nationhood (New York and London: C. Scribner's Sons, 1927), by Lothrop Stoddard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Revolutionary Radicalism: Its History, Purpose and Tactics; With an Exposition and Discussion of the Steps Being Taken and Required to Curb It (4 volumes; Albany: J. B. Lyon and Co., 1920), by New York (State) Legislature Joint Committee Investigating Seditious Activities
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust

• Schools of Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue (c2002), by F. K. Prochaska (PDF at Civitas)
• "Our Duties As Citizens": Sermon Preached at the Golders Green Synagogue, London, N.W.II, on Sunday, April 26th, 1931, by Isaac Livingstone (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Literature Matters (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by J. Hillis Miller, ed. by Monika Reif-Hülser (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
• Bibliothèque de la Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Essays in the History of Ideas (originally published 1948; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Humanistic Studies (partial serial archives)
• Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1859), by Frederick William Robertson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Relation of Literature to Life, by Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text)
• Saturday Papers: Essays on Literature From the Literary Review (first (and only known) volume of selections from The Literary Review of the New York Post; New York: Macmillan, 1921), by Henry Seidel Canby, William Rose Benét, and Amy Loveman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opinions, Literary and Otherwise (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Henry W. Taft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Leona Toker (PDF at Ohio State)

• Curiosities of Literature (3 volumes; London: G. Routledge and Co., 1858), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Benjamin Disraeli
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google
  • Volume III: page images at Google
• Curiosities of Literature (compilation of articles originally published in editions from 1798-1823), by Isaac Disraeli, ed. by Stuart Heath (HTML at spamula.net)

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