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The Pacific Story - Single Episodes
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
THE PACIFIC STORY The Pacific Story was broadcast on NBC at 11:30pm, with the first broadcast on July 11, 1943. The series lasted 184 weeks…
Martin Luther
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Carl E. Koppenhaver
This short, engaging volume summarizes the life of a priest who, intending to spark a lively academic debate by nailing 95 theses on a churc…
Historical Tales, Vol V: German
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume V of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers th…
Behind the Scenes
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Elizabeth Keckley
This is the autobiography of Elizabeth Keckley, a former slave who bought her freedom with the money she earned as a seamstress. She eventua…
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 08
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Pioneers of France in the New World
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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…
Historic Adventures: Tales from American History
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Rupert S. Holland
This is a collection of early American stories, interesting read. (Summary by sidhu177)
The Lincoln Story Book
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Henry L. Williams
Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Fo…
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
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Henry Morgenthau
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Great Englishwomen
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M. B. Synge
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their countr…
The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine
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William Carleton
A story about the Irish, just before the onset of the famine of 1847, with all the color and dialogue of a man who lived it. (Summary by JCa…
My Hunt After 'The Captain'
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally publ…
The Mohawk Valley
Read by Roger Melin
W. Max Reid
An in-depth view and early history of the Mohawk Valley in upper New York state, covering the time period of 1609-1780. This historical piec…
Goldsmith's Friend Abroad Again
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Mark Twain
This satire on the U.S.A.'s myth of being the "Home of the Oppressed, where all men are free and equal", is unrelenting in its pur…
Our Journey to Sinai
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Agnes Von Blomberg Bensly
Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Ju…
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works
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Various
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…
Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who…
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Irwin Leslie Gordon
A short, humorous biography of famous people from 5000 BC to 1914. -- S. McGaughey From the Introduction, "The editor begs leave to in…
The Westminster Alice
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Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
The French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille
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Thomas Carlyle
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, fir…
A Description of New England
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Captain John Smith
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted fo…