Early Modern

The South American Republics

Read by Piotr Nater


Thomas Cleland Dawson



The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?&quo…

Poems of American History

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Various



A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing throug…

Locke

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Thomas Fowler



John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…

The Court and Character of King James

Read by Patrick Wallace


Anthony Weldon



Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier…

The Symbolism of Freemasonry

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Albert Mackey



Illustrating and explaining the science and philosophy, the legends, myths and symbols of the fraternity of Freemasons.(Summary by Brother M…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

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Giorgio Vasari



The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

The Cossacks

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William Penn Cresson



One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack s…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy

Read by Barry Ganong


John Tulloch



This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this vol…

Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness

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William Godwin



It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…

The Historical Evolution of the Ukrainian Problem

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky



A short history of Ukrainian national aspirations, written by one of the most prominent Ukrainian historians. Published in the early months …

Pioneers of the Old South

Read by Jim Locke


Mary Johnston



In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

Read by Verla Viera


John M. Douglass



Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

Gleanings of a Mystic

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Max Heindel



In “Gleanings of a Mystic” are found twenty-four lessons which were formerly sent out to students. It is the wish of the writer of this intr…

The Reformation

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Various



The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

An Outline History of Japan

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Herbert Henry Gowen



A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek

A History of Witchcraft in England

Read by Silas Jackson


Wallace Notestein



A chronological survey of witchcraft in early modern Britain, covering witchcraft under the reigns of various monarchs, the literature of wi…

The Fathers of New England

Read by Jim Locke


Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris



This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …

The South American Republics

Read by Piotr Nater


Thomas Cleland Dawson



This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…

La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

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Francis Parkman, Jr.



Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Early Hanoverians

Read by Pamela Nagami


Edward Ellis Morris



In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

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