History
Voyage Round the World in His Majesty's Frigate Pandora
Read by Roy Schreiber
George Hamilton
George Hamilton was the surgeon assigned to the frigate Pandora. The British Admiralty ordered the ship to the Pacific to arrest the Bounty …
The Log-Cabin Lady
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Unknown
'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear throu…
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
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Rees Howell Gronow
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century P…
President Lincoln's Attitude Towards Slavery and Emancipation
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Henry Watson Wilbur
A review of events prior to, during and following the American Civil War bringing an insightful perspective on Lincoln's true attitude towar…
The Freedmen's Book
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Lydia Maria Child
Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …
Five Months at Anzac
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Joseph Lievesley Beeston
A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force . From his leaving Australi…
Biographies in Sound
WA4CZD
Biographies in Sound was an hour-long documentary radio program that was produced and broadcast in the 1950s. It's one of the best examples …
The Treaty with China
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New Y…
The Normans in European History
Read by Pamela Nagami
Charles Homer Haskins
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …
Cocoa and Chocolate
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Arthur William Knapp
As that heavenly bit of chocolate melts in our mouths, we give little thought as to where it came from, the arduous work that went in to its…
The Backwoods of Canada
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Catharine Parr Traill
The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…
Captains of Industry
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James Parton
In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised t…
Auguste Comte and Positivism
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John Stuart Mill
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…
The Life of Captain James Cook
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Arthur Octavius Kitson
“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care ha…
Hero Tales from American History (version 2)
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Theodore Roosevelt
The purpose of this book "is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die…
1945 Radio News
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News from 1945. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1945 news file …
Historical Mysteries
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Andrew Lang
Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history.
Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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Mary White Rowlandson
This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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Jacob A. Riis
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…