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The "Defenestration" at Prague, the Thirty Years War, AD 1618, by Samuel R. Gar…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Read by Leah MacKenzie


Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Henry David Thoreau


Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Scaramouche

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Rafael Sabatini


Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

FMR 47 The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees from Syria

In Forced Migration Review

Read by Leah Morrison


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England

In Anthropology

Read by Leah Astbury


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Kid on the Housetop

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)

Read by Leah Baskett


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

The Use of Sources in Instruction in Government and Politics

In The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 3, November 1909

Read by Leah W


Various


"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geogr…

'Wilt Thou Harass a Driven Leaf?'

In Gleams of Sunshine

Read by Just Leah


Joseph Horatio Chant


This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Chu…

Deciding upon a New Move

In The Ice Queen

Read by Leah Emery


Ernest Ingersoll


When four young people decide to undertake a skating trek across the Arctic ice, there are sure to be adventures. Aleck becomes “Captain,” …

Mistress Jekyll-Hyde

In Humorous Poems

Read by Leah Autry


Ignatius Brennan


This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundi…