History
The Alhambra: A Series Of Tales And Sketches Of The Moors And Spaniards
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Washington Irving
This is a collection of essays, verbal sketches, and stories by Washington Irving. Irving lived at the Alhambra Palace while writing some of…
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
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Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…
History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries
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Samuel Cheetham
The intention of this work is to provide a sketch of the History of the Church in the first six centuries of its existence, resting througho…
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
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Jefferson Davis
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
The French Revolution
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Hilaire Belloc
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both c…
History of the United States, Vol. II: Conflict & Independence
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Charles Austin Beard
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. III
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Edward Gibbon
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…
Bible (KJV) NT 02: Mark
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King James Version
Second Gospel or account of the ministry of Jesus of Nazareth in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Commonly regarded as the first re…
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roos…
Bible (KJV) 05: Deuteronomy
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King James Version
Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible, and of the Jewish Torah/Pentateuch. The Hebrew title, "[spoken] words", is take…
Libro II de la Historia de Heródoto
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Herodotus
Las Historias (en griego antiguo ἱστορίαι historíai 'aproximaciones, investigaciones') de Heródoto de Halicarnaso (484–despu&e…
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
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Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with …
The Book of Tea
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Kakuzō Okakura
The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many…
The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers and United States Army Corps Of Engineers
This is the official report, published nearly 11 months after the first and only atomic bombings in history (to date), of a group of militar…
This Country of Ours, Part 6
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…
Alexander Hamilton
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Charles A. Conant
Alexander Hamilton was a significant figure in the political and economic development of the early United States. He served in the American …
Sergeant York and His People
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Sam K. Cowan
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…
Minor Works of Josephus
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Flavius Josephus
There are 3 parts to this collection.(1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing it…
History of the United States, Vol. III
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Charles Austin Beard
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…
The Life of Kit Carson
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Edward S. Ellis
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…