War & Military
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
Read by Aaron Bennett
Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman
It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…
Breaking the Outer Ring: Marine Landings in the Marshall Islands
Read by Aaron Bennett
John C. Chapin
By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…
Bloody Beaches: The Marines at Peleliu
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Gordon D. Gayle
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…
War Prison Diary
Read by Barry Eads
Michael Dougherty
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
Life and Times of Joseph Warren
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Richard Frothingham, Jr.
Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
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Henry C. Trumbull
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
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Benson John Lossing
Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…
Imperialism and World Politics, Part 3 of 4
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Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1913 - 1922)
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Woodrow Wilson, Andwarren G. Harding and Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
The Sailor's Word-book, H - M
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William Henry Smyth
A digest of sea terms and phrases, including flora, fauna, fish, fowl and fable of the sea, weaponry aboard ship, parts of a ship, qualities…
Shout Treason: the Trial of Aaron Burr
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Francis F. Beirne
Much has been written about Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and other founding fathers who were at the center of United States v…
From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War
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Jon T. Hoffman
In February 1942, Lieutenant General Thomas Holcomb, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the creation of a new unit designated the 1…
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1909 - 1912)
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William Howard Taft
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
The Greek War of Independence (1821-1827)
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Charles D. Chambers
Written in the style and language of Thucydides, and intended for students in the early stages of learning to read Ancient Greek, this brief…
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, December 1827
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs and Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
Because the US Constitution gives the power of relating to (and control over) Indian tribes to the federal government, Congress requires upd…
The Life of Frederick William von Steuben
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Friedrich Kapp
The Life of Frederick William Von Steuben: Major General in the Revolutionary Army - tells the story of Baron Steuben, who had been an offic…
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2
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Henry Baerlein
Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
Read by Leon Harvey
Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
The Western Boundary, and Other Essays
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Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno
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Bernard C. Nalty
On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…