History
1947 Radio News
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News from 1947. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1947 news file …
WWII News and Related Sound files from 1932
Various
Old Time Radio Programs. WWII News and Related Sound files from 1932
Republic: A Novel of America's Future
Read by Charles Sheehan-Miles
Charles Sheehan-Miles
A domestic terrorist attack evokes a violent and oppressive response from the U.S. government... a labor dispute ends in violence... a young…
Regulations for the order and discipline of the troops of the United States : p…
Read by David Olson
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin, Baron Von Steuben
More commonly know as "The Blue Book" written by "Baron von Steuben" this publication was key to organizing the young Am…
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4
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Charles F. Horne
A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history. Volume 4: John Adams, Louis A…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac
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Charles W. Colby
The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded theCompany of One Hundred Asso…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 08 - Great Fortress: A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720…
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William Wood
Louisbourg was no mere isolated stronghold which could be lost or won without affecting the wider issues of oversea dominion. On the contrar…
The Story of the French Revolution
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Ernest Belfort Bax
Preface Excerpt: "The following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in &q…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 17)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is volume 4 chapter 17 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…
Abigail Adams and Her Times
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Laura E. Howe Richards
This is a young person's biography of Abigail Adams that will appeal to readers of all ages. In the author's own words, "I am not writi…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 10 - A Chronicle of Montcalm
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William Wood
Montcalm is, of course, a very prominent character in every history of New France. This book gives a brief history of the Montcalm family in…
The Sign of the Cross in the Nineteenth Century
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Jean-Joseph Gaume
A book that examines the sign of the Cross made by Christians since the primitive church up until the 19th century. It looks at stories of m…
Report of the Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contracto…
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United States Senate Committee on Armed Services
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated b…
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Old Time Radio Programs News Broadcasts and Blurbs. Mostly WW2 related. NEWS REPORTS PAGE 2
The Social History of Smoking
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George L. Apperson
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…
The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543
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John Leland
John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I
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Francis Whiting Halsey
This is the first volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the build…
The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…
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Eva March Tappan
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…
The Chronicles of America Volume 03 - Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
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William Wood
Citizen, colonist, pioneer! These three words carry the history of the United States back to its earliest form in 'the New World called Amer…
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland Volume III, From the Accession of Nich…
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Simon Dubnow
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became authority of Jewish history and an a…