Modern (19th C)

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…

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

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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…

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…

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…

The Western Boundary, and Other Essays

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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 Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2

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Henry Baerlein


Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…

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…

James B. Eads

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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…

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 3 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…

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

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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…

Orion Clemens

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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…

A Century of Dishonor

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Helen Hunt Jackson


In this work, a predecessor to "Ramona", HH describes the systematic process of segregation, dispossession, and relocation that Na…

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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