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The "Defenestration" at Prague, the Thirty Years War, AD 1618, by Samuel R. Gar…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Read by Leah MacKenzie

Charles F. Horne

A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Henry David Thoreau

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Scaramouche

Read by Gord Mackenzie

Rafael Sabatini

Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

FMR 47 The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees from Syria

In Forced Migration Review

Read by Leah Morrison

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England

In Anthropology

Read by Leah Astbury

Various

University of Oxford Podcasts

'Wilt Thou Harass a Driven Leaf?'

In Gleams of Sunshine

Read by Just Leah

Joseph Horatio Chant

This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Chu…

Deciding upon a New Move

In The Ice Queen

Read by Leah Emery

Ernest Ingersoll

When four young people decide to undertake a skating trek across the Arctic ice, there are sure to be adventures. Aleck becomes “Captain,” …

Longlegs The Blue Heron Receives Callers

In The Adventures of Grandfather Frog

Read by Leah Sosewitz

Thornton W. Burgess

Longlegs the Blue Heron felt decidedly out of sorts. It was a beautiful morning, too beautiful for any one to be feeling that way. Indeed, i…

The Kid on the Housetop

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)

Read by Leah Baskett

Aesop

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…