Early Modern

The South American Republics, Part II

Read by Piotr Nater


Thomas Cleland Dawson



This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…

A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

Read by Silas Jackson


Wallace Notestein



A chronological survey of witchcraft in early modern Britain, covering witchcraft under the reigns of various monarchs, the literature of wi…

The Early Hanoverians

Read by Pamela Nagami


Edward Ellis Morris



In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

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Francis Parkman, Jr.



Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)

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Casimir Stryienski



This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2

Read by Barry Ganong


John Tulloch



In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion

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Various



The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

The Age of Anne

Read by Pamela Nagami


Edward Ellis Morris



This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborou…

The Counter-Reformation

Read by Pamela Nagami


Adolphus Ward



The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resur…

Histoire générale du IVe siècle à nos jours. Tome 04. Renaissance et Réforme. L…

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Alfred Nicolas Rambaud



Ouvrage collectif sous la direction d'Ernest Lavisse et Alfred Rambaud. Le quatrième volume de la série raconte l'époqu…

The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France

Read by Jim Locke


George Wrong



The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…

A General History of the Pyrates (version 2)

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Captain Charles Johnson



A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book published in Britain containing biographies of c…

History of the Jews in America

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Peter Wiernik



Peter Wiernik was an influential Yiddish journalist in Chicago after immigrating from Vilna when he was twenty. He also wrote in Hebrew and…

Essai sur les révolutions suivi des Etudes historiques

Read by Christiane Jehanne


François-René de Chateaubriand



Essai historique, politique et moral sur les révolutions anciennes et modernes, considérées dans leurs rapports avec la…

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Julia Ward Howe



A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…

The Old Regime and the Revolution

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville



A calm, philosophical inquiry into the causes of the French Revolution, and the working of the Old Regime. In this work, M. de Tocqueville h…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 1

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Mercy Otis Warren



A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

The Story of the Trapper

Read by Ted Lienhart


Agnes C. Laut



Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…

The Magic of the Horse-Shoe

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Robert Means Lawrence



The study of the origin and history of popular customs and beliefs affords an insight, otherwise unattainable, into the operations of the hu…

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon

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James Anthony Froude



"The story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII" (subtitle). Froude weaves his tale from a wide…

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