Modern (20th C)
The Night The Mountain Fell
Read by David Wales
Edmund Christopherson
A severe earthquake, centered in the vacation area of West Yellowstone, Montana, shook the ground and its inhabitants and visitors on August…
Stories of the Ships
Read by David Wales
Lewis R. Freeman
While most associate the "Great War" with trenches, barbed wire, machine guns, and poison gas, ships played roles in the military …
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable
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Jean S. Remy
Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…
The Red Reign
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Kellogg Durland
Kellogg Durland spent a year in Russia as a journalist in 1906, during a seminal period in Russian history. This is a highly interesting rea…
The Pentecost of Calamity
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Owen Wister
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality in…
The Bolshevik Myth
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Alexander Berkman
The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922) is a book by Alexander Berkman who with his partner Emma Goldman was deported from the USA under the 19…
The Truth about the Titanic
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Archibald Gracie
Colonel Archibald Gracie was the first survivor of the sinking of the Titanic to die, and this first-hand account was published posthumously…
Our Army at the Front
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Heywood Broun
During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by nota…