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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)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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: Macmillan, 1902), by Jane Addams
  • page images at Harvard
  • Gutenberg text
• 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
  • HTML at NASA
  • PDF files at philosophy-religion.org
• 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 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 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)
• 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

• 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 (PDF and Epub with commentary at opensuny.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)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pocket University (23 volumes; Garden City, NY: Pub. for N. Doubleday, Inc. by Doubleday, Page and Co., 1924), ed. by Bliss Perry, Thomas L. Masson, Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson, George Iles, Hamilton Wright Mabie, and Lyman Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared by a Staff of Literary Experts, With the Assistance of Many Living Novelists (20 volumes; New York: Issued under the auspices of the Authors Press, c1908), ed. by Rossiter Johnson
  • Volume I (About - Austen): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Austin - Behn): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Bellamy - Bulwer-Lytton): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Bulwer-Lytton - Claretie): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Cobb - Cooper): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (Coppée - Dickens): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Dickens - Dumas): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Dumas - Fothergill): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Fouque - Hardy): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Hardy - Hugo): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Hugo - Lever): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Lewald - Mulbach): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIII (Mulock - Reade): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIV (Reid - Scott): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XV (Scott - Sterne): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVI (Stevenson - Tourgee): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XVII (Trollope - Zola): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XVIII (Mythology and Folk-Lore): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XIX (Dictionary of Biographies, revised 1927): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XX (Dictionary of Famous Names): multiple formats at Google
• The Bed-Book of Happiness (London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1914), ed. by Harold Begbie (Gutenberg text)
• Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
  • 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
• The Harvard Classics (50 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1909-1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • without volume 50 ("Editor's Introduction..."): HTML at Bartleby
• The Library of Romance: A Collection of Traditions, Poetical Legends, and Short Standard Tales and Romances, of All Nations (London: O. Hodgson, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern (special edition, 31 volumes; New York: The International Society, c1896-1899), ed. by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Gilbert Runkle, and George H. Warner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Little Classics (18 volumes), ed. by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)

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