Jim Locke

The Heart of Happy Hollow

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Jim Locke
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …

The Chronicles of America Volume 11 - Eve of the Revolution

by Carl L. Becker Read by Jim Locke
Here is a look at the evolution of thought and events that led Benjamin Franklin to make this statement: "British subjects, by removing…

Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, Volume 2

by Alphonsus Rodriguez Read by Jim Locke 5
This is Volume 2 of the extensive 3-volume set written by the renowned Jesuit, Alphonsus Rodriguez. This set will help you to grow in holine…

The Life of Washington, Volume 3

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 5
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cor…

The Chronicles of America Volume 02 - The Spanish Conquerors

by Irving Berdine Richman Read by Jim Locke 4.6
A discussion of the adventures of the Spanish explorers from Columbus to Pizarro. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

by William Cabell Bruce Read by Jim Locke
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

The Chronicles of America Volume 01 - The Red Man's Continent

by Ellsworth Huntington Read by Jim Locke 3.9
Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. - Summary by Jim LockeGroup: Chronicles of America Series

The Uncalled

by Paul Laurence Dunbar Read by Jim Locke 3.5
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…

The Primitive

by Chester Himes Read by Jim Locke
A nerve-twisting novel of passion and destruction (Summary by a literary critic)

The House of Evil

by William Le Queux Read by Jim Locke 3.6
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.

Epochs of American History: Expansion and Reform 1889-1926

by John Spencer Bassett Read by Jim Locke
This fourth volume covers the presidencies from Harrison to Taft highlighting the various struggles to define the aims of a modern democrati…

The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 5
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…

Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography

by Robert R. Moton Read by Jim Locke 3
He says about this work: "I have tried to record the events that have given character and colour to my own life, and at the same time t…

Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Volume 1

by Richard Bagwell Read by Jim Locke
This first volume of a history of Ireland focuses on the years 1603-1642. It was a period of dramatic, and even of violent, changes in the s…

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 3.5
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 3.9
In November, 1897, I submitted to the American Academy of Political and Social Science a plan for the study of Negro problems. This work is …

Scarlet Sister Mary

by Julia Peterkin Read by Jim Locke 3.7
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 5

by Max Arthur Macauliffe Read by Jim Locke 4.8
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had exte…

The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South

by Velley Lester Read by Jim Locke 5
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…

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