History
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise w…
Historical Tales, Vol VI: French
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers t…
Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)
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Richard Burton Deane
Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4
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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…
1939 Radio News
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News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file …
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 12
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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…
The Book of the National Parks
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Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…
Afloat on the Ohio
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Reuben Gold Thwaites
Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…
A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb
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Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás
“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…
Montcalm and Wolfe
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) has been hailed as one of America's great nineteenth century historians, along with William Prescott, John Lothr…
Martyred Armenia
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Fa'Iz El-Ghusein
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His ac…
The Dancing Mania
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Justus Hecker
Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…
The British Army From Within
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E. Charles Vivian
This 1914 book gives a picture of the British Army structure and life in the early hours of World War I. Summary by david wales
1970-1979 Radio News
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News from the 1970's I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1970's new…
History Plays for the Grammar Grades
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Mary Ella Lyng
A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young - ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susa…
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume I, From the Beginning until t…
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Simon Dubnow
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…
1943 Radio News
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News from 1943. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1943 news file …
East by West, Vol. 2
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Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883…
A Cry From An Indian Wife
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…