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This Country of Ours, Part 2

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall



Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…

Give Me Liberty

Read by Mark F. Smith


Patrick Henry



This speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the V…

The Story of Napoleon

Read by Patrick Saville


Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall



This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately …

This Country of Ours, Part 3

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall



Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall's book of stories from the history of the United States begins with acco…

Fort Laramie - Single Episodes


Old Time Radio Researchers Group



FORT LARAMIE Fort Laramie opened with "Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier. The saga of figh…

A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol I

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John Bagnell Bury



J. B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it was such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third editi…

A Diary from Dixie

Read by Laurie Anne Walden


Mary Chesnut



Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, a well-educated South Carolina woman who was married to a Confederate general, kept extensive journals during th…

Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

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John Foxe



The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

La Corte de Carlos IV

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Benito Pérez Galdós



La Corte de Carlos IV es el segundo de la primera serie de los 46 Episodios Nacionales, escritos por Benito Pérez Galdós, que …

Famous Men of Greece

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John Henry Haaren



Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…

United States Historical Documents

Read by Michael Scherer


Various



The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

Historia de la célebre Reina de España Doña Juana, llamada vulgarmente La Loca

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William James McGlothlin



Como implica el título, esta es una biografía de Doña Juana, conocida como Juana la Loca, hija de Fernando II de Arag&o…

Early Kings of Norway

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Thomas Carlyle



"The Icelanders, in their long winter, had a great habit of writing; and were, and still are, excellent in penmanship. It is to this fa…

Beasts, Men and Gods

Read by Mark F. Smith


Ferdinand Ossendowski



“Beasts, Men and Gods” is an account of an epic journey, filled with perils and narrow escapes, in the mold of “The Lord of the Rings.”The d…

The Road

Read by Barry Eads


Jack London



Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…

The Book of Art for Young People

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Agnes Ethel Conway



This is a charming book on Art History for children (and everyone else). Each chapter focuses on a great painting, reproduced in color in th…

My Life on the Plains

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George Armstrong Custer



George Armstrong Custer (December 5, 1839 – June 25, 1876), one of the most mythologized figures in American history, was an United States A…

The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1

Read by Tom Weiss


Ida M. Tarbell



The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…

Ten Books on Architecture

Read by Fredrik Karlsson


Marcus Vitruvius Pollio



On Architecture is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augus…

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