History
Sound of History
John Goerzen
Episode #2 of the Sound of History podcast focuses on West Berlin, featuring two historic speeches from that city. The first speech was made…
Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland
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Constance Campbell Petrie and Thomas Petrie
Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was t…
The Gift of Black Folk
Read by Jim Locke
W. E. B. Du Bois
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…
Faded Pictures
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William Vaughn Moody
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2…
Zone Policeman 88
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Harry A. Franck
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…
Washington and His Colleagues
Read by Jim Locke
Henry Jones Ford
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions o…
In the Wake of the Buccaneers
Read by Steven Seitel
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
Ah, the Buccaneers... “We hear much of the bold, wild ways of these adventurers; Perchance it is the fact that we all appreciate bravery—and…
Brave Men and Women
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Osgood E. Fuller
Brave Men and Women is a collection of stories about historical figures who, through success and failure, made an impact on their world. As…
Porto Rico
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Joseph B. Seabury
Puerto Rico was acquired by the United States in 1898 following the Spanish-American War. This volume was written in 1903 as Book XII in the…
The World’s Story
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Eva March Tappan
This is the thirteenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva Mar…
Women of the French Revolution
Read by Celine Major
Winifred Stephens Whale
(Excerpt) One aspect of this subject of revolutionary women, their connection with the secret societies of the day I have purposely ignored.…
The Desert
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Mathilde Blind
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.
Women of America
Read by Linda Andrus
John Ruse Larus
The present volume completes the story of woman as told in the series of which it forms part. The history of nations is, in its ultimate ana…
Zorra Boys at Home and Abroad
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William Alexander MacKay
By Zorra, in the following sketches, is meant a little district in Oxford county, Ontario, some ten miles square, composed of part of East a…
The Chronicles of America
Read by Jim Locke
Carl L. Becker
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
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John James Marshall
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's re…
True Stories of Girl Heroines
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Evelyn Everett-Green
Twenty short stories retelling the heroic deeds of teenaged girls and young women from history. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
St. Clair's Defeat
Read by Phil Schempf
William James McGlothlin
St. Clair's defeat was a battle fought between the United States and the Western Confederacy of Native Americans on November 4, 1791, during…