Memoirs

A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America

Read by Ted Lienhart


Rebecca Burlend



Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account o…

A pilgrimage to my motherland. An account of a journey among the Egbas and Yoru…

Read by Faith Abiola-Ellison


Robert Campbell



Robert Campbell (1829-84) was a Jamaican-born printer, journalist, and teacher who, along with Martin Robison Delany (1812-85), made up the …

War Prison Diary

Read by Barry Eads


Michael Dougherty



The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…

Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Frances Power Cobbe



Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…

The Autobiography of Lord Alfred Douglas


Lord Alfred Douglas



Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas wrote his autobiography in his late fifties, some 29 years after the death of Oscar Wilde. Since the publication…

How We Elected Lincoln; Personal Recollections of Lincoln and Men of His Time

Read by David Wales


Abram J. Dittenhoefer



Dittenhoefer as a young man campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 and was an elector for Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. Born in Cha…

The Third Voyage of James Cook, Volume 2

Read by David Cole


James Cook



Only months after his return from his mammoth Second Voyage, the Admiralty ordered Cook back to the Pacific, ostensibly to return Omai, a yo…

The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge

Read by David Gunn


Calvin Coolidge



A relatively short, autobiographical account of the life of Calvin Coolidge, 30th president of the United States of America. The contents sp…

The Heir of Slaves; an Autobiography

Read by James K. White


William Pickens



In the first of two autobiographies, Pickens describes his early life struggling to help his family free themselves from a system of tenant …

Dr. Benjamin Rush, A Memorial

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Dr. Benjamin Rush



An autobiographical account of Dr. Benjamin Rush, written by himself, containing his views on many subjects including medicine, the American…

The Thames to the Solent by Canal and Sea

Read by Garth Burton


J. B. Dashwood



An attempt to sail a small boat from the River Thames to the Solent in the English Channel, using a canal and river route. (Summary by Garth…

A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium

Read by Ted Lienhart


Hugh Gibson



The author was an American diplomat, the Secretary of the American Legation in Brussels, at the beginning of World War I in 1914. This book …

Reminiscences of an Army Nurse During the Civil War

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Adelaide W. Smith



Adelaide Smith was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War and here recounts some of her observations and memories. - Summary by Lyn…

Years of My Youth

Read by Ted Lienhart


William Dean Howells



After the Civil War William Dean Howells served for 15 years as Assistant Editor and then Editor of the prestigious 'Atlantic' Magazine. For…

Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Vol 1

Read by Ted Lienhart


Lyman Copeland Draper



The Wisconsin Historical Society was founded in 1846, even before Wisconsin achieved U.S. statehood. The Secretary, Lyman Draper, began in …

Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet

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Roberts Vaux



The Memoirs of the life of Anthony Benezet is a compilation celebrating the life of one of the first truly influential abolitionists during …

Babe Ruth's Own Baseball Book

Read by Mark Harrington


Babe Ruth



This book is an autobiographical account by one of baseball's legendary names. Ruth writes about his introduction to the game in his youth i…

The Iron Hunter

Read by Ted Lienhart


Chase Salmon Osborn



This is an autobiography by Michigan Governor Chase Osborn. Osborn was born in 1860 in a log house in Huntington County, Indiana and later a…

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