Early Modern

This Country of Ours, Part 5

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…

Essays book 1

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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: V…

Read by Maria Therese


Rev. James Maccaffrey


This first volume of a two volume set traces the trials and triumphs of the Catholic Church during the period before the reformation up to t…

Reflections on the Revolution in France

Read by Michael Reuss


Edmund Burke


Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…

Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650

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William Bradford


The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…

History of the United States, Vol. V: Sectional Conflict & Reconstruction

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Charles Austin Beard


Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

Der Antichrist

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Friedrich Nietzsche


Der Philosoph Friedrich Nietzsche ist nicht unumstritten, wurde von den Nazis mißverstanden und für ihre Ideologie mißbrauc…

A Short History of the United States

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Edward Channing


Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American histor…

History of the United States, Vol. IV: The West and Jacksonian Democracy

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Charles Austin Beard


Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 2

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David Hume


This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…

The Silence Dogood Letters

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Benjamin Franklin


As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…

Summa Theologica - 04 Pars Prima, On Man

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Saint Thomas Aquinas


The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…

The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…

The Journey of Coronado

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Pedro De Castañeda


In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places

Read by Peter Yearsley


Allan Fea


“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …

Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography

Read by James K. White


John Relly Beard


François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…

Home Life in Colonial Days

Read by Susan Morin


Alice Morse Earle


CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…

History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

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Friedrich Schiller


The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

Areopagitica

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John Milton


A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter o…

Essays book 2

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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

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