Modern (19th C)
Building a State in Apache Land
Read by Tony Posante
Charles Poston
Building a State in Apache Land by Charles Debrille Poston is a compilation of articles published in 1894 in the Overland Monthly magazine. …
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village
Read by Peter Yearsley
Tickner Edwardes
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
Builders of United Italy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Rupert S. Holland
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…
The Day of Sir John Macdonald
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Sir Joseph Pope
A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secret…
Fifty Years Ago
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Walter Besant
Sir Walter Besant (1836-1901) was a prolific novelist and historian. He wrote Fifty Years Ago to present a picture of life, manners, and soc…
Beacon Lights of History
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John Lord
A continuation of United States history, Volume 12 discusses key US leaders in the time up to and including the Civil War. In this volume a…
The Tribune of Nova Scotia
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William Lawson Grant
Joseph Howe (1804-1873) was one of Nova Scotia's greatest and best-loved politicians. He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the …
The South American Republics
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Thomas Cleland Dawson
This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…
Arizona's Yesterday
Read by Tony Posante
John Cady, Basil Woon and John H. Cady
Arizona's Yesterday Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer. Written by John Henry Cady and revised and rewritten in 1915 by noted Pla…
Wonderful London
Read by Peter Yearsley
William James McGlothlin
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…
Sixty Years in Southern California
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Harris Newmark
Harris Newmark was personally acquainted with every person and family involved in the founding of the city of Los Angeles, California. He ga…
The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
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Oscar D. Skelton
In conformity with its title, this volume, save for the earlier chapters, is history rather than biography, is of the day, more than of the …
Triumphant Democracy
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Andrew Carnegie
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in …
A History of Our Own Times
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…
Frederick Douglass
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Booker T. Washington
An account of the life of Frederick Douglass, who escaped slavery to become one of the most important and influential abolitionists, authors…
Tombstone
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Walter Noble Burns
First published in 1927, "Tombstone" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Nob…
Strange Stories Of The Civil War
Read by David Wales
Various
Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…
Narratives of Colored Americans
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Abigail Mott
Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …
The Monitor and the Merrimac
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John Worden
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…
A History of Our Own Times
Read by Pamela Nagami
Justin Mccarthy
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…