History

1945 Radio News

4.7
Experience the news from 1945 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from tha…

Tell It All

by Fanny Stenhouse Read by Danielle Cartwright 4.8
Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts …

The Medici

by G. F. Young Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…

Richard II

by William Shakespeare Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Richard II is a historical tragedy by William Shakespeare that delves into the complexities of power, kingship, and the nature of authority.…

The Antiquities of the Jews

by Flavius Josephus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the …

Memoirs of a Revolutionist

by Peter Kropotkin Read by Elin 4.9
Peter Kropotkin was a Russian anarcho-communist and scientist. This is his autobiography, and he writes not only about his own life, but als…

History of the United States

by Charles Austin Beard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts

by Frank R. Stockton Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Buccaneers is non-fiction, a highly readable history of how piracy began and spread throughout the region in response to the plundering of S…

Historical Tales

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by Kalynda 4.6
Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises…

Queen Victoria

by E. Gordon Browne Read by Michele Eaton 4.4
Queen Victoria offers an insightful exploration of the life and reign of one of history's most iconic monarchs. From her ascension to the th…

Commentaries on the Laws of England

by William Blackstone Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
~ BOOK THE FIRST ~The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir Willi…

A Child's History of England

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
A Child's History of England is Charles Dickens' engaging retelling of England's past, crafted specifically for younger readers. Spanning fr…

The Constitution of the United States of America

by United States Government and Unit Read by Kristen McQuillin 4.7
This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

Early Kings of Norway

by Thomas Carlyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…

Discoverers and Explorers

by Edward R. Shaw Read by Laura Caldwell 4.4
Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry g…

A Short History of the World

by H. G. Wells Read by Kristine Bekere 4.2
A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

The Jesuits in North America

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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 Discovery of New Worlds

by M. B. Synge Read by Laura Caldwell 4.5
This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of…

The General History of the Pyrates

by Captain Charles Johnson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. …

Magna Carta

by Unknown Read by Jim Mowatt 4.7
The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version…

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