History
Southern Horrors
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
The Great Gold Rush
Read by Cate Barratt
William Henry Pope Jarvis
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in …
A Popular History of Ireland
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
Dress Design
Read by Libby Gohn
Talbot Hughes
Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great
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John Bagnell Bury
J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…
Europe and the Faith
Read by Ray Clare
Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Raffald
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Gaston Maspero
A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Ce…
Army Life in a Black Regiment
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …
The Underground Railroad
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William Still
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various met…
Historical Tales
Read by Kalynda
Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises…
True Stories from History and Biography
Read by Susan Morin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…
Stories of South Pole Adventure
Read by Steve C
Frank Mundell
The famous search for the North-West Passage led many daring pioneers to penetrate into the unknown and to brave the dread perils of the Arc…