Early Modern
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine
Read by Peter Dann
Thomas Carlyle
Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…
The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King …
Read by Patrick Wallace
Anthony Weldon
Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier…
Locke
Read by Pamela Nagami
Thomas Fowler
John Locke (1632-1704) was an English philosopher and physician who, after Sir Francis Bacon, was one of the first of the British empiricist…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
The Cossacks: Their History and Country
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William Penn Cresson
One of the earliest histories of the Cossacks to appear in English, with an emphasis on the exploits of famous Cossack leaders and Cossack s…
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1
Read by Barry Ganong
John Tulloch
This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this vol…
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness.…
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William Godwin
It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conc…
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South
Read by Jim Locke
Mary Johnston
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into th…
The Indians in Wisconsin's History
Read by Verla Viera
John M. Douglass
Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…
The Historical Evolution of the Ukrainian Problem
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Mykhailo Hrushevsky
A short history of Ukrainian national aspirations, written by one of the most prominent Ukrainian historians. Published in the early months …
The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England
Read by Jim Locke
Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
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Albert Mackey
Illustrating and explaining the science and philosophy, the legends, myths and symbols of the fraternity of Freemasons.(Summary by Brother M…
The South American Republics, Part II
Read by Piotr Nater
Thomas Cleland Dawson
This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…
The Early Hanoverians
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Edward Ellis Morris
In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…
La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
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Francis Parkman, Jr.
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…
An Outline History of Japan
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Herbert Henry Gowen
A history of Japan from its origins to the early 20th century. - Summary by Kazbek
The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)
Read by Pamela Nagami
Casimir Stryienski
This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…
Gleanings of a Mystic: A Series of Essays on Practical Mysticism
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Max Heindel
In “Gleanings of a Mystic” are found twenty-four lessons which were formerly sent out to students. It is the wish of the writer of this intr…
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2
Read by Barry Ganong
John Tulloch
In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…