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From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Th…

New Discoveries at Jamestown

Read by Mark F. Smith


John L. Cotter


Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first &q…

The Burial of the Guns

Read by Mark F. Smith


Thomas Nelson Page


This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his wr…

Round the Moon (Version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Jules Verne


Jules Verne’s sequel to his “From the Earth to the Moon” begins with a short chapter to catch you up, if you missed the first book.Then we j…

More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Read by Mark F. Smith


Frank Gelett Burgess


Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s c…

The Federalist Papers (version 2)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison


“The Federalist Papers” are a collection of 85 linked essays that explain the construction of the U.S. government and why it was built that …

Blake of the "Rattlesnake"

Read by Mark F. Smith


Frederick Thomas Jane


Fred Jane, who later went on to publish his famous "Jane's Fighting Ships", doubtless was noting the success of other books that f…

The Red Badge of Courage (Version 3)

Read by Mark F. Smith


Stephen Crane


A youth, caught up in patriotic fervor and dreams of glory, enlists in the Union Army. In his first battle, though, he runs away. Deeply ash…

Americans All, Immigrants All

Read by Mark F. Smith


U. S. Department Of The Interior Office Of Education


The United States Department of the Interior, Office of Education partnered with the Columbia Broadcasting System to present a series of 26 …

The Work of Music: Music and Psychology

In Wolfson College Podcasts

Read by Eric Clarke


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Book 13

In Leaves of Grass

Read by Eric


Walt Whitman


American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

05 - Why the Lamb Is Meek

In Fairy Tales from Brazil

Read by Eric


Elsie Spicer Eells


This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…

Book 1, part 7

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 1

Read by Eric


Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Herodotus


The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon

In Anthropology

Read by Morgan Clarke


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Sacred Rites in Kant's Soul

In Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion

Read by Steve Clarke


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Current Crisis Through the Lens of History

In Politics and International Relations Podcasts

Read by Timothy Clarke


Various


Podcasts from the Department of Politics and International relations and its centres.

Using Religion to Justify Violence

In Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics

Read by Steve Clarke


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

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