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Julia Ward Howe -- The Singer of a Nation's Song

In Heroines of Service

Read by Lynette Caulkins

Mary Rosetta Parkman

From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…

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In Say and Seal, Volume 2

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Anna Bartlett Warner

The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

IV: The Botanical Renaissance of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, part …

In Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany

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Agnes Arber

Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to cat…

Chapter 29

In Regiment of Women

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Clemence Dane

Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls'…

The Call

In The Red Cross Girls with the Stars and Stripes

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Margaret Vandercook

The Red Cross Girls are back one last time! In this final book of the series, some of our girls prepare to join the American soldiers in Fr…

Preface

In The Boy Travellers in Mexico

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Thomas Wallace Knox

An engaging travelogue published in 1890, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. From the preface: "a bo…

Chapter 26 - The Opening of the Dardanelles Campaign (September 1, 1914 - April…

In A History of the Great War, Volume Two

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John Buchan

This is the second of a four-volume history of the First World War, covering the period from the opening of the Dardenelles Campaign in Sept…

Preface

In The Romance of the Romanoffs

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Joseph Martin Mccabe

The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…

Patsy Mitchner

In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…

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Various

These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…

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