History
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Read by Ruth Golding
John Leighton
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
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William James McGlothlin
37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…
History of the Civil War
Read by Celine Major
James Ford Rhodes
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…
History of the Inquisition of Spain
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Henry Charles Lea
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…
Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers
Read by David Wales
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times
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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…
Römische Geschichte
Read by redaer
Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Römische Geschichte Fünftes BuchDie B…
30 American Poems
Read by Bellona Times
Various
This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …
The Story of Books
Read by Adam Marcetich
Gertrude Burford Rawlings
Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egypti…
Historic Girls
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Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Twelve short stories of real girls who have influenced the history of their times. (Summary by Carmen H)
Station Life in New Zealand
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Mary Anne Barker
Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) tha…
The Frozen North
Read by Laura Victoria
Edith Horton
The Frozen North offers short sketches of the first men who bravely took great risks to explore the unknown polar regions and unlock the mys…
French History for English Children
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Caroline Emelia Stephen
A history of France from Ancient Gaul up until 1880, written in short easy to comprehend chapters aimed at teaching English children. (Summa…
History of France
Read by Adele Pooley
Charlotte Mary Yonge
A brief history of France from the early 800AD to the 1870s, focusing on the successive heads of state and the different wars which shaped F…
A History of the Philippines
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David Prescott Barrows
This book is one of the earliest studies of Philippine history by an American scholar. In preparation for this book, the author conducted et…
Neighbors
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
John Charlton Hardwick
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores how people have explained the natural world during the last few centuries, w…
A Brief History of Carthage
Read by Joshua Jared Scott
Joshua Jared Scott
A short history of the ancient city of Carthage, from the time of its founding through its destruction at the conclusion of the Third Punic …