History
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England
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The Venerable Bede
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England gene…
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America
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Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain a…
The History of London
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Walter Besant
Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth …
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
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Polycarp
Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians (often simply called To the Philippians) composed around 110 to 140 AD is described by Irenaeus as foll…
This Country of Ours, Part 2
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
Give Me Liberty
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Patrick Henry
This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…
The Story of Napoleon
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …
This Country of Ours, Part 3
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall's book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I
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John Bagnell Bury
J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third editi…
A Diary from Dixie
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Mary Chesnut
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…
Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphan…
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John Foxe
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…
Famous Men of Greece
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John Henry Haaren
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…
United States Historical Documents
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Various
The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1
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Giacomo Casanova
This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…
Early Kings of Norway
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Thomas Carlyle
"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…
Beasts, Men and Gods
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Ferdinand Ossendowski
“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”The d…
The Road
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Jack London
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
The Book of Art for Young People
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Agnes Ethel Conway
This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in th…
My Life on the Plains
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George Armstrong Custer
George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1
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Ida M. Tarbell
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…