History

Bacon

Read by Bill Boerst


Richard William Church


This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Historical Tales, Vol IV: English

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

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Charles F. Horne


Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than …

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli


In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

Historical Tales, Vol VI: French

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers t…

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe


Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise w…

Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

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Richard Burton Deane


Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

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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 prio…

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 12

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee


Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

1939 Radio News


WA4CZD


News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file …

Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb

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Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…

The Book of the National Parks

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Robert Sterling Yard


Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…

The Common Law

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


A history and review of the common law in the United States. (summary by TB27)

The Dancing Mania

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Justus Hecker


Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…

Montcalm and Wolfe

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


Francis Parkman (1823-1893) has been hailed as one of America's great nineteenth century historians, along with William Prescott, John Lothr…

1970-1979 Radio News


WA4CZD


News from the 1970's I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1970's new…

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