History
Extracts from 'The New and Complete Newgate Calendar', Vol. 1
Read by Roy Schreiber
William Jackson
Volume One of the New and Complete Newgate Calendar, covering the years 1700 through 1723, relates stories of British trials, the persons ac…
Autobiography Memories and Experiences, Volume 2
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Moncure Daniel Conway
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist, Unitarian, clergyman and author. This second volume of his autobiography covers the year…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
WWII News and Related Sound files from 1937
Various
Old Time Radio Programs. WWII News and Related Sound files from 1937
The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 1
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Ida M. Tarbell
Volume 1 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln covers his life from his boyhood to his election to the presidency in 1860. Tarbell, in addit…
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3
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Isaac D'Israeli
This is the third and final volume of Isaac D'Israeli's monumental work Curiosities of Literature. It covers a great range of diverse topics…
Royal Romances of Today
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Kellogg Durland
"In the year 1907, the Woman’s Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marri…
The Precipice
Read by Mary Schneider
Elia Wilkinson Peattie
Elia Peattie was an outspoken journalist and social activist who gave her attention to such areas as orphanages, charity hospitals, the Woun…
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins
Read by Jim Locke
W. L. Hunter
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as …
The Ukraine
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George Raffalovich
“We are not the same nation with Russian people,” the statement which all Ukrainians wish to convey to the whole world for centuries. The st…
A Book of Scoundrels
Read by Greg Lewin
Charles Whibley
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
Idle Hours In A Library
Read by David Wales
William Henry Hudson
“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing am…
Bible (YLT) 15: Ezra
Read by Mark Penfold
Young's Literal Translation and Young'S Literal Translation
This book describes the return of Israelites from exile in Babylon. One group returns to rebuild the Temple and restore the worship of The L…
Umbrellas and Their History
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William Sangster
A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica)
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - 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 …
Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV
Read by Celine Major
Francis Parkman, Jr.
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earn…
A History Of England
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Charles William Chadwick Oman
A one-volume survey of the history of England from Celtic and Roman times through the end of the nineteenth century. Muscular prose makes an…
Great Epochs in American History, Volume II
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Francis Whiting Halsey
This is the second volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the buil…