History

The Underground Railroad

by William Still Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstanc…

Minor Works of Josephus

by Flavius Josephus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
There are 3 parts to this collection.(1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing it…

Great Moments in History

by John G. Stockmyer Read by John G. Stockmyer 4.7
Great Moments in History is a collection of ten momentous events in World and Americanhistory, covered by live, on-the-spot newscasters. Th…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects

by Giorgio Vasari Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellen…

The Story of 'Mormonism'

by James E. Talmage Read by Nathan Markham 4.5
A few years before James E. Talmage was called to serve as an apostle for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the…

South African Memories

by Lady Sarah Wilson Read by SallyMc 4.6
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she …

Nehemiah

by King James Version Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the wal…

The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation

by Patrick Weston Joyce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a k…

The National Geographic Magazine

by National Geographic Society Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 1 published in 1889. Topics of articles are:Announcement by the National Geographic SocietyIntr…

Foxe's Book of Martyrs

by John Foxe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

Drugging a Nation

by Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr. Read by Edmund Bloxam 4.5
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near t…

The Constitution of Athens

by Aristotle Read by Geoffrey Edwards 4.6
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the lat…

History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

History of the United States

by Charles Austin Beard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

How the Other Half Lives

by Jacob A. Riis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

History of the Christian Church

by Samuel Cheetham Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
History of the Christian Church by Samuel Cheetham offers a concise overview of the Church's development during its formative first six cent…

The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty

by Sir John Barrow Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the co…

The Facts of Reconstruction

by John R. Lynch Read by Guero 4.9
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justi…

The Experienced English Housekeeper

by Elizabeth Raffald Read by Phil Benson 4.7
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …

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