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Epochs of American History

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…

Finding a Way Out

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…

Savage Holiday

by Richard Wright Read by Jim Locke 4.6
Savage Holiday is an unforgettable story--a high tension drama that throbs with suspense and shows the reader what it's like to be Erskine F…

Ireland Under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum

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 Life of Washington

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4.6
Volume 2 of The Life begins with some early biography, but moves quickly to Washington's military career as a colonel in the battles against…

Jefferson and his Colleagues

by Allen Johnson Read by Jim Locke
In this volume, we have the Virginia Dynasty of presidents: Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. America at this time was involved in expansion w…

The Chronicles of America

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…

The Life of Washington

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 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

Discoveries

by John Middleton Murry Read by Jim Locke 4.8
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…

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 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 Primitive

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

Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection

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 Theory of Psychoanalysis

by Carl Gustav Jung Read by Jim Locke 3.7
Jung says the following in his introduction: "in these lectures I have attempted to reconcile my practical experiences in psychoanalysi…

The Garies and their Friends

by Frank Webb Read by Jim Locke
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…

The House of Evil

by William Le Queux Read by Jim Locke 3.7
Intrigue and murder stemming from excessive greed in upper-class society of England in the early twentieth century.

The Gift of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois Read by Jim Locke 3.4
This essay is an attempt to set forth more clearly than has hitherto been done the effect which the Negro has had upon American life. Its th…

Ireland Under the Tudors

by Richard Bagwell Read by Jim Locke 5
Volume 2 continues the social, political, and religious dynamics of Tudor England, particularly during the tumultuous reign of the Protestan…

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…

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