History

Minor Works of Josephus

by Flavius Josephus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
There are 3 parts to this collection.(1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing it…

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

What Prohibition Has Done to America

by Fabian Franklin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

Great Moments in History

by John G. Stockmyer Read by John G. Stockmyer 4.7
Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…

The World’s Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This is the first 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 Ta…

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

The Colored Cadet at West Point

by Henry Ossian Flipper Read by James K. White 4.7
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end…

History of the United States

by Charles Austin Beard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

Elizabethan Demonology

by Thomas Alfred Spalding Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025) 4.6
Elizabethan Demonology: An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Gene…

The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation

by Patrick Weston Joyce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a k…

Alexander the Great

by Jacob Abbott Read by Lizzie Driver 3.9
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, h…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The fifth volume is on Biology written by Caroline E. Stackpole. It discusses b…

Historical Tales

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

1944 Radio News

4.7
Explore the news from 1944 in this collection. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from that year, providing a glimp…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

The Experienced English Housekeeper

by Elizabeth Raffald Read by Phil Benson 4.7
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times offers a sweeping narrative of France's rich and complex past, crafted by the esteemed h…

The Republic

by Plato Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and pol…

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