Biography & Autobiography
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
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United States Work Projects Administration
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Gleanings in Graveyards
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Horatio Edward Norfolk
Interesting, witty, and unusual epitaphs found in graveyards in England, Wales, Scotland, and more. Feast on this gem:Dr. I. Letsome wrote …
Biographies In Sound
Read by Jack Haley
Jack Haley narrates "A Portrait of Fred Allen", an audio biography of Fred, who had died earlier in that year. The program feature…
Zubin Mehta
Radio Netherlands
Zubin Mehta, born in Bombay, is a charismatic and cosmopolitan orchestra conductor with an international career that has spanned continents.…
As I Knew Him
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Thomas De Witt Talmage and Eleanor McCutcheon Talmage
The Autobiography of Thomas De Witt Talmage, he was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid 19th cen…
Ingersoll on ERNEST RENAN
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…
Sir Titus Salt, Baronet
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Robert Balgarnie
Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mil…
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers
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Elbert Hubbard
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…
Hobbes
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Leslie Stephen
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) famously wrote that in the state of nature "the life of man" was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, a…
The Girls' Book of Famous Queens
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Lydia Hoyt Farmer
In the annals of history, women have played an important part; and among the famous sovereigns of the world, queens, as well as kings, have …
Adventures in Silence
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Herbert W. Collingwood
What is it like inside the life of a person who cannot hear, whose reality is silence? In eloquent, sensitive style, Herbert Collingwood ad…
Cardinal Wolsey
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Mandell Creighton
From the "Twelve English Statesmen," series of books. A brief history of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey who helped shape England's foreign…
Beneath the Banner
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Frederick J. Cross
The subtitle of this book, "Being Narratives of Noble Lives and Brave Deeds" defines the author's choice of notable figures of his…
Adventures in Idealism
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Eugene Benjamin, Boris Bogen, Saul Drucker, Jacob Lipman, Solomon Lowenstein, Bernard Palitz, Joseph W. Pincus, Katharine Sabsovich and George W. Simon
Professor H. L. Sabsovich is recognized as one of the foremost figures in the field of Jewish social service. A great part of his active lif…