Early Modern
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Julia Ward Howe
A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution Vol. 1
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Mercy Otis Warren
A contemporary three-volume history of the American Revolution written with an Enlightenment tone that covers the background of the era span…
The Story of the Trapper
Read by Ted Lienhart
Agnes C. Laut
Canadian outdoors-woman and popular author Agnes Laut vividly portrays the men who braved the western wildernesses of Canada and U.S. year-a…
The Magic of the Horse-Shoe
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Robert Means Lawrence
The study of the origin and history of popular customs and beliefs affords an insight, otherwise unattainable, into the operations of the hu…
The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon
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James Anthony Froude
"The story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII" (subtitle). Froude weaves his tale from a wide…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
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Various
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …
The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
In The Footprints Of The Padres
Read by David Wales
Charles Warren Stoddard
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…
Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy
Read by David Wales
James Moores Ball
Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…
Anti-slavery in America from the Introduction of African Slaves to the Prohibition of the Slave Trade (1619-1808)
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Mary S. Locke
Traces the origins of the abolitionist movement in the North American colonies of the British Empire through the American Revolution, to the…
The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
Read by Pamela Nagami
Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Samuel Rawson Gardiner remains a respected source on the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), which began as a civil conflict between Protestant p…
An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
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Thomas Clarkson
Thomas Clarkson was one of the most influential abolitionists in England leading up the passage the Slavery Abolition Act in 1823. He wrote …
Customs and Fashions in Old New England
Read by Ted Lienhart
Alice Morse Earle
Alice Morse Earle was an antiquarian historian of the New England region where she was raised. But rather than focusing as most historians d…
The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 04, The Thirty Years' War
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Various
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Renaissance and the Reformation: A Textbook of European History 1494-1610
Read by Pamela Nagami
Emmeline Tanner
Dame Emmeline Tanner writes of the Renaissance that its "special characteristic was the revolt against authority and the rise to import…
Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV
Read by Pamela Nagami
Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Historical Backgrounds of the Great War; The War: Its Origins and Warnings
Read by Ted Lienhart
Frank James Adkins
Author Frank J. Adkins, a lecturer at Cambridge University, arranged a series of European history lectures at the beginning of World War I f…
Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question
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James Bryce
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published i…
The Pianoforte Sonata
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John South Shedlock
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at t…