Modern (19th C)
The King's Son
Read by Alan Chant
Frederick William Bourne
Billy Bray, was an unconventional Cornish preacher. He was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England. After leaving sch…
Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin
Read by Verla Viera
Frank Tilton
The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…
Imperialism and World Politics
Read by Alister
Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Epochs of American History
Read by Jim Locke
Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson
This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…
The Crime of the Congo
Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Conan Doyle brings the skills of thorough analysis in his documenting of the atrocities occurring in the Congo Free State (an area now kn…
The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Lower Canada Rebellion
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Alfred D. DeCelles and Alfred D. Decelles
The Rebellions of 1837–1838 were two armed uprisings that took place in Lower Canada (now Quebec and Labrador) and Upper Canada (now Ontario…
History of the Early Settlement of Bowmanville and Vicinity
Read by TriciaG
John T. Coleman
"Early settlers of Bowmanville, Darlington, Clarke, and surrounding country, with sketches of the habits and customs of the aborigines,…
The Western Boundary
Read by Alister
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
A Daughter of the Seine
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Jeanette Eaton
This biography of Madame Roland was written for young adults but can be equally enjoyed by adult readers. Madame Roland was a key figure in …
A Footnote to History
Read by Alister
Robert Louis Stevenson
CONTENT WARNING: THIS WORK INCORPORATES QUOTATIONS CONTAINING RACIST SLURS. IF YOU WANT TO CREATE A BOWDLERIZED COPY, SEE BETWEEN ABOUT 07.…
How We Elected Lincoln
Read by David Wales
Abram J. Dittenhoefer
Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…
The Birth of Yugoslavia
Read by EastCentralMinnesota
Henry Baerlein
Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…
What America Owes to Women
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer
As American women have been imperfectly represented in the world, it is our aim in this volume to give a pen protrait of the American Woman …
Hokitika, New Zealand
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Various
A pamphlet version of four papers on the beginnings of the town and borough of Hokitika on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand…
James B. Eads
Read by Barry Eads
Louis How
Captain James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than 50 p…
A Month on the Norfolk Broads
Read by TND
Walter Rye
Back in the late 1880s, Walter Rye and a number of friends accompanied by an American couple (who were researching the history of their Norf…
History Of Missouri
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Emily Steinestel Macnamara
A simplified history of the state of Missouri, from ancient Prehistoric times to the late 19th century, written chiefly in words of one syll…
Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Read by Ted Lienhart
Lyman Copeland Draper
A 1903 reprint of a volume published in 1856, edited by Lyman Draper. Contents recorded include: three memoirs of early 19th century Wiscons…
Michigan Historical Collections
Read by Ted Lienhart
Historical Society Of Michigan
The Michigan Historical Society solicited accounts by Michigan pioneers about the early settlement of various locations, or early developmen…
Orion Clemens
Read by John Greenman
Fred W. Lorch
Orion Clemens (July 17, 1825 – December 11, 1897) was the first and only Secretary of the Nevada Territory. His younger brother Samuel Langh…