History
The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War
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Gaius
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Vol 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition'
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Robert Falcon Scott
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time.…
Democracy In America - Single Episodes
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen,…
The Prairie Traveler
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Randolph B. Marcy
Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…
France in the Nineteenth Century
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Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (S…
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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Bartolomé De Las Casas
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…
Pirates of Panama
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Alexandre Exquemelin
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…
Three Years In Europe
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William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…
The Petticoat Commando
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Johanna Brandt
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
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John Leighton
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
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William James McGlothlin
37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
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James Ford Rhodes
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2
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Henry Charles Lea
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…
Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers
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John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 2
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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…
Römische Geschichte Buch 5
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Theodor Mommsen
Mommsen erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Römische Geschichte Fünftes BuchDie B…
30 American Poems
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Various
This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …