Early Modern
This Country of Ours
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall offers a captivating journey through the history of the United States, tailored for you…
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo
Bernal Díaz del Castillo, conquistador español, participó en la conquista de México. En su Historia verdadera de…
Essays
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution
Read by Maria Therese
Rev. James Maccaffrey
This first volume of a two volume set traces the trials and triumphs of the Catholic Church during the period before the reformation up to t…
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Read by Michael Reuss
Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a seminal work by Edmund Burke, published in 1790, that offers a profound critique of the French …
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement
Read by David Leeson
William Bradford
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…
History of the United States
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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…
Der Antichrist
Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel
Friedrich Nietzsche
Der Philosoph Friedrich Nietzsche ist nicht unumstritten, wurde von den Nazis mißverstanden und für ihre Ideologie mißbrauc…
A Short History of the United States
Read by Allyson Hester
Edward Channing
A Short History of the United States by Edward Channing offers a comprehensive overview of the American experience, tracing the nation’s dev…
A Treatise Of Human Nature
Read by George Yeager
David Hume
This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…
History of the United States
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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 Silence Dogood Letters
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Benjamin Franklin
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…
The Phenomenology of Mind
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…
Summa Theologica
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
The Journey of Coronado
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Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
Read by Peter Yearsley
Allan Fea
“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Read by James K. White
John Relly Beard
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…
Home Life in Colonial Days
Read by Susan Morin
Alice Morse Earle
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…
History of the Thirty Years War
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Friedrich Schiller
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…
Areopagitica
Read by Moira Fogarty
John Milton
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter o…