Modern (19th C)

Trial of Susan B. Anthony

Read by Maria Kasper


William James Mcglothlin


In 1872, after the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, the women’s suffrage movement in the United States adopted a n…

Loss of the Sultana

Read by Roger Melin


Chester D. Berry


April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been releas…

A History of California: The American Period

Read by Steven Seitel


Robert Glass Cleland


The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New Englan…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader…

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Ethel T. Raymond


Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk …

The Exiles of Florida

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Joshua Giddings


“The Author of the following work has endeavored to give a faithful record of … the Exiles of Florida. Torn from their native land, their fr…

The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, Vol…

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W. E. B. Du Bois


The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slav…

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

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Susanna Moodie


As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…

Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn

Read by David Wales


Robert Marshall Utley


It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Ind…

Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of …

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Agnes C. Laut


This, volume 22 of the Chronicles of Canada series, describes the exploration of the Canadian Pacific coast, British Columbia, and Alaska. I…

Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr…

Read by Steven Seitel


Sir Grafton Elliot Smith


(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …

The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth

Read by Delmar H Dolbier


George Alfred Townsend


A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…

Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881

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James B. Gillett


James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, …

Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable

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Jean S. Remy


Lives of the Presidents Told in Words of One Syllable is a halting account in presidential history - quite literally! From Washington to Jac…

A Glimpse of India

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Clara Swain


A Glimpse of India: being a collection of extracts from the letters Dr. Clara A. Swain, first medical missionary to India of the Woman's For…

''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism

Read by Danielle Cartwright


Fanny Stenhouse


Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts …

The History of the Suez Canal

Read by Availle


Ferdinand de Lesseps


A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is…

Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War

Read by David Wales


Various


Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)


William Westgarth


Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at…

Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign

Read by David Wales


John Ashton


"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like…

London Labour and the London Poor Volume II

Read by Gillian Hendrie


Henry Mayhew


Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

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