Early Modern

Epochs of American History

by Reuben Gold Thwaites • Read by Jim Locke • 4★

This first of four volumes is a description and detailed analysis of the formation and development of the thirteen colonies of America. A ti…

History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution

by Mercy Otis Warren • Read by LibriVox Volunteers • 4★

A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…

A History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome

by Mandell Creighton • Read by Pamela Nagami • 5★

Volume III of this History of the Papacy opens with the Council of Basel in revolt against Pope Eugenius IV, who doggedly defends papal auto…

Logick

by Isaac Watts • Read by InTheDesert • 4.9★

The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth with a Variety of Rules to guard against error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life,…

Oliver Cromwell

by Samuel Rawson Gardiner • Read by tombooker • 4.2★

The following work gives within a short compass a history of Oliver Cromwell from a biographical point of view. The text has been revised b…

Hobbes

by Leslie Stephen • Read by Pamela Nagami

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…