History

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

The Aftermath of Slavery

by William A. Sinclair Read by Jim Locke 4.5
This work describes conditions and forces the black population of the South faced after freedom was brought by the Civil War. As Sinclair pu…

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard Read by Readerad 4.1
Lothrop Stoddard's most famous treatise on race. Written in the aftermath of the First World War, Stoddard examines the racial trends of his…

Historical Tales

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by Kalynda 4.6
Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers t…

Israel in Europe

by George Frederick Abbott Read by mpinedag 4.8
G. F. Abbott delivers a complete historical review of the Jewish peoples in the European continent from the third century BC and up to the e…

Zone Policeman 88

by Harry A. Franck Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Harry A. Franck was an American travel writer. After publishing Vagabond Journey Around the World, he spent 3 months in the Canal Zone of Pa…

Historical Tales

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by Kalynda 4.5
Volume VII of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This seventh volume cover…

Eastern Pilgrims

by Agnes Smith Lewis Read by Owlivia 4.8
"When two friends and myself resolved, in the summer of 1868, to absent ourselves for a year from home, for the purpose of visiting [th…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…

Horizons West

4.5
Horizons West is a captivating radio docu-drama that explores the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. This engaging program brings to life …

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In this insightful chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's acclaimed work, The History of England, from the Accession of James II, the narrat…

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth

by T. D. Bonner Read by Gary Olman 4.3
Buried amid the sublime passes of the Sierra Nevada are old men, who, when children, strayed away from our crowded settlements, and, gradual…

Great Epochs in American History

by Francis Whiting Halsey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
This is the first volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the build…

The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

by Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard and Elizabeth L. Gebhard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…

Signs of Change

by William Morris Read by Deborah Brabyn 4.4
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by Celine Major 4.8
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earn…

Letters of John Quincy Adams to His Son

by John Quincy Adams Read by DaleBarkley 4.2
A collection of nine letters written by the sixth president of the United States, John Quincy Adams, to his teenage son. "Their purpose…

Oscar Wilde Discovers America

by Lloyd Lewis
In 1882, Oscar Wilde toured North America from New York to San Francisco and Montreal to New Orleans, lecturing on art and home decoration. …

Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

by Alma Lutz Read by PhyllisV 4.9
Alma Lutz's outstanding biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and historical significance …

The Bible in Its Making

by Mildred Duff Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the …

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