Modern (19th C)

The South American Republics, Part II

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Thomas Cleland Dawson


This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

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Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy


Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…

Builders of United Italy

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Rupert S. Holland


Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…

An Outline History of Japan

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Herbert Henry Gowen


A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek

Triumphant Democracy

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Andrew Carnegie


Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in …

The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story

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John Worden


The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Tickner Edwardes


Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

Narratives of Colored Americans

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Abigail Mott


Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …

An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

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Theron Clark Crawford


The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is …

The County Regiment

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Dudley Landon Vaill


A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War.

Strange Stories Of The Civil War

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Various


Here are twelve narratives of some events in the American Civil War, most told by a participant or contemporary observer. - Summary by David…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

Read by Pamela Nagami


Justin Mccarthy


Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

Read by John Greenman


Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Tin Horns and Calico

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Henry Esmond Christman


In the early 19th century, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, hundreds of square miles of land were still the feudal domains of large l…

Wonderful London

Read by Peter Yearsley


William James Mcglothlin


"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

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William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

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John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Christmas Under Three Flags

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox


This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

Tombstone: An Iliad of the Southwest

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Walter Noble Burns


First published in 1927, "Tombstone" defined the legend of lawman-gunfighter Wyatt Earp. A mixture of fact and fiction, Walter Nob…

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