Political Science

State of the Union Addresses

by Millard Fillmore Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on…

by United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives Read by Aaron Bennett 3.5
This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…

Israel and Hamas Conflict

by Jim Zanottiandjeremy M. Sharp and Jim Zanotti And Jeremy M. Sharp Read by Elsie Selwyn 3.1
This short report, written for the Congressional Research Service with the aim of informing U.S. legislative debate, covers the Israel-Hamas…

The Christian Commonwealth

by John Eliot Read by Aaron Decker 4.3
John Eliot, a North American missionary, advocates for post-civil-war England to adopt a representative democracy, using the Mosaic Law as a…

Birth Control and the State

by Carlos Blacker Read by KevinS 3.5
This essay is one of a great number that endorse the principle of eugenics, a controversial study and practice that aims for society or gove…

Friends of Ukraine Publications

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
A number of publications distributed by the Friends of Ukraine in the period after the First World War when the Ukraine was struggling for i…

Reflections on Violence

by Georges Sorel Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Considered one of the more controversial books from the 20th century, Sorel's Reflections on Violence argues in favor of uprisings and strik…

Abraham Lincoln's Lyceum Address

by Various Read by John Greenman 5
Long before he was President and having just started his law practice, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln delivered (January 27, 1838) a speech on …

Anti-Dictator

by Étienne De La Boétie Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Étienne de La Boétie was the closest friend of Michel de Montaigne and the subject of the latter's famous essay "On Frien…

The Partition of Europe

by Philip Guedalla Read by Pamela Nagami 2.8
Philip Guedalla writes, "History is the most interesting part of geography, and European history is particularly dependent upon the con…

State of the Union Addresses

by Martin Van Buren Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bryn Roberts 5
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is an essay about individual freedom and its limits. Mill argues that people should be free to think, speak, …

State of the Union Addresses

by James Buchanan Read by LibriVox Volunteers
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Charles James Fox

by Henry Offley Wakeman Read by Pamela Nagami 4.5
Charles James Fox (1749-1806) was a prominent British Whig member of Parliament and the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger. A staunch op…

A Textbook of European History

by Lionel Cecil Jane Read by Pamela Nagami 4
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…

State of the Union Addresses

by Benjamin Harrison Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Cavour

by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco Read by Pamela Nagami 4.3
Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810-1861) was an Italian statesman and a leading figure in the movement for Italian unification. A nobleman…

Whom We Shall Welcome

by The President'S Commission On Immigration And Naturalizatio Read by LibriVox Volunteers
In 1952, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had many provisions objectionable to many Americans. President T…

Your Pay Envelope

by John Richard Meader Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A Critique of Classical Socialism presented in a series of letters to a Mr. Smith. The author was the editor of the New York-based "Com…

The Beggars of Paris

by Louis Paulian Read by Leon Harvey 2.3
Here, as in France, begging is made a profession. And it is very important that the public should realize the fact, that ' thoughtless almsg…

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