History
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…
News reports
Explore a collection of Old Time Radio programs featuring news broadcasts and blurbs, primarily focused on World War II. These reports provi…
The Aftermath of Slavery
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William A. Sinclair
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…
The Itinerary of John Leland
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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…
The Sea
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Frederick Whymper
Everything about the sea: history of ships, famous mariners and life on shipboard, adventure, shipwrecks and daring rescues. - Summary by K…
Great Epochs in American History
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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
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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 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…
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland
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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…
The Medici
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G. F. Young
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton
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Horatio Nelson
Explore the intimate correspondence between one of Britain's most celebrated naval heroes, Horatio Nelson, and his beloved, Lady Hamilton. T…
The Chronicles of America
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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…
A Short History of France
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Agnes Mary Frances Robinson
After the Roman conquest, the Celtic Gauls adopted Roman culture and speech. The Germanic invasions ultimately transformed France into a Cat…
The Romance of the Romanoffs
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Joseph Martin Mccabe
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…
The Idea of Progress
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John Bagnell Bury
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…
Phallic Worship
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Hargrave Jennings
A fairly scholarly, short survey of religious sexual symbols and practices from ancient times to the near-present, and within various countr…
Radio News
Explore the news from 1949 in this collection. This compilation includes various news segments, talk shows, and specials from that year. Whi…