History
Royal Children of English History
Read by Cori Samuel
E. Nesbit
From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…
The Awakening of Europe
Read by Laura Caldwell
M. B. Synge
The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interest…
American Psychology
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Various
This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an acade…
A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aureli…
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John Bagnell Bury
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …
My Southern Home
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…
Daniel Boone
Read by William Tomcho
Reuben Gold Thwaites
Daniel Boone was a great hunter, explorer, surveyor, and excellent rifleman; he knew Indians and fought them skillfully. His life was filled…
The Annals
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…
The Story of Cole Younger
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Cole Younger
Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raide…
The Annals
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…
A Voyage to the South Sea
Read by Tom Crawford
William Bligh
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…
A Short History of the World
Read by Kristine Bekere
H. G. Wells
A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…
Southern Horrors
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …
Woman and the New Race
Read by Becky Cook
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
The Great Gold Rush
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William Henry Pope Jarvis
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in …
A Popular History of Ireland
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Dress Design
Read by Libby Gohn
Talbot Hughes
Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
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John Bagnell Bury
J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…
Europe and the Faith
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Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Raffald
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …