Modern (19th C)
John Bull's Vineyard: Australian Sketches
Read by Phil Benson
Hubert de Castella and Hubert De Castella
An account of the origins of the wine industry in Victoria, Australia. Born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Hubert de Castella was one of a numbe…
Speeches of Prince Bismarck, Part 1
Read by Alister
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…
La frailocracia filipina
Read by Claudia Caldi
Marcelo H. Del Pilar Y Gatmaitán
Con estas consideraciones que invitaban a reflexionar sobre el status quo en la colonia española de Filipinas, el autor analiza el ab…
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…
War Prison Diary
Read by Barry Eads
Michael Dougherty
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
España y América
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Antonio Sánchez Moguel
Conjunto magestral de obras literarias e históricas de personajes hispanoparlantes de ambos lados del Atlántico. El autor exam…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 25 - The 'Patriotes' of '37: A Chronicle of the Low…
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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
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
Epochs of American History: Division and Reunion 1829-1889
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…
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…
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: 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 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 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…
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 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…