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The Art of Music
A survey of music from the late nineteenth century ('modern' at the time), including references to style, comments on traditionalism and nat…
MIT 21M.380 Music and Technology
Instructor: Prof. Christopher Ariza
This course is an investigation into the history and aesthetics of music and technology as deployed in …
Contemporary American Composers
Discusses American composers considered significant at the end of the 19th century. - Summary by Anthony St. Pierre
Chapter VI, The New Century
In Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion
The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …
Modern Columbia (Twentieth century), by Francis E. Clarke
In The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…
Essays on Modern Novelists
A collection of essays on 19th century novelists, both famous ones and those largely forgotten now. Among the writers presented most wrote i…
A Bittersweet Decade
History of the Eighteenth Century
University of Oxford Podcasts
Beyond Tomorrow
The Abominations of Modern Society
The Abominations of Modern Society by Thomas De Witt Talmage offers a thought-provoking exploration of societal issues that resonate as stro…
Jazz
Long before 1900 there began a fusion of African and European musical forms from which, at the end of the nineteenth century, "jazz” em…
When The Old Century Was New
In Free, and other stories
Theodore Dreiser's first collection of short fiction, published in 1918. Dreiser was known primarily as a novelist (Sister Carrie, An Americ…
Ode, To the Nineteenth Century
In Lake Lyrics and Other Poems
A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of O…
Life in a Mediaeval City
A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…
The Social War
Described by io9.com contributor Jess Nevins as “the worst science fiction novel of the 19th century,” The Social War of 1900, or The Conspi…
Additions from Frank Knight Collection
Additions to the Old Time Radio Researchers Library from the reel-to-reel collection of Frank Knight.
Romance Moderne
In 30 American Poems
30 American Poems offers a curated selection of poetic works from the late 19th to early 20th centuries, showcasing the voices of American p…
Blake Nicholas
Fancy Free
In One-Act Play Collection 009
Ninth volume of one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. A Dramatic Evening Narrator: April6090 Mr Thaddeu…
Fight of the Century
In News From The 30's Through The 70's
Explore the fascinating world of news from the 1930s through the 1970s. This collection offers a unique glimpse into the events and stories …