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Good Girl Work: factories, sweatshops...

Growing Up in Coal Country

Concise History of Science and Invention: an illustrated timeline

The Industrial Revolution: Steam and Steel

On the Origin of Species.

by Charles Darwin

Philosophy 101

The Jungle

by Upton Sinclair

A Doll's House.

by Henrik Ibsen

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

A Tale of Two Cities

Charles Dickens

Les Misérables: The History of the World's Greatest Story

Broadway documentary

Faust. Part One and Two.

Goethe

Van Gogh

Cezanne

Renoir

Impressionism