Modern (19th C)

Poland: A Study of the Land, People and Literature

Read by Piotr Nater


George Brandes


"I had accepted an invitation to deliver three lectures in French in the town-hall of Warsaw." Thus begins the description of the …

History of the Early Settlement of Bowmanville and Vicinity

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John T. Coleman


"Early settlers of Bowmanville, Darlington, Clarke, and surrounding country, with sketches of the habits and customs of the aborigines,…

How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time

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…

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…

Tejas, la primera desmembración de Méjico

Read by Mario Pineda


Carlos Pereyra


Reseñas históricas de la separación de la provincia de Tejas desde el punto de vista de un historiador y diplomá…

A Month on the Norfolk Broads

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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…

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 1

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Otto von Bismarck and Otto Von Bismarck


A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…

The King's Son, Or, a Memoir of Billy Bray

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…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 2 of 4

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…

History Of Missouri In Words Of One Syllable

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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…

Hokitika, New Zealand: The Birth of a Borough

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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…

A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America

Read by Ted Lienhart


Rebecca Burlend


Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account o…

The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …

Read by Carol Pelster


Washington Irving


Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…

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…

An Inaugural Dissertation on Pulmonary Consumption

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Edward Delafield


At a time when diseases termed "consumption" were among the leading cause of death in the county, physicians such as Edward Delafi…

Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 2

Read by Alister


Otto Von Bismarck


A collection of Bismarck’s speeches translated by art historian Edmund von Mach and published in 1914 as part of THE GERMAN CLASSICS—an exte…

The Western Boundary, and Other Essays

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…

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 15

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Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic,…

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George Livermore


Collects the speeches, writings, public statements and legislative acts of the Founding Fathers and Framers of the United States against sla…

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