War & Military
A Magnificent Fight
Read by Aaron Bennett
Robert James Cressman and Robert J. Cressman
It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense B…
Imperialism and World Politics
Read by Alister
Parker Thomas Moon
Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was pu…
Breaching the Marianas
Read by Aaron Bennett
John C. Chapin
The [15 June 1944] campaign on Saipan…brought many American casualties, and it also heralded the kind of fighting which would be experienced…
Battle of New Orleans
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Reau Folk
Rather than being a synopsis of the Battle of New Orleans as a military victory, the book also touches upon the greater significance of the …
War Prison Diary
Read by Barry Eads
Michael Dougherty
The diary kept by Michael Dougherty, a Union private in the American Civil War, while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. Doughe…
Postage stamps of war
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Douglas B. Armstrong
A very brief introduction to postal stamps used and issued during times of war. The principal focus might be said to be placed upon the Grea…
Historical Romance of the American Negro
Read by Jim Locke
Charles H. Fowler
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …
Breaking the Outer Ring
Read by Aaron Bennett
John C. Chapin
By the beginning of 1944, United States Marine forces had already made a dramatic start on the conquest of areas overrun by the Japanese ear…
Bloody Beaches
Read by Aaron Bennett
Gordon D. Gayle
On D-Day 15 September 1944, five infantry battalions of the 1st Marine Division’s 1st, 5th, and 7th Marines, in amphibian tractors (LVTs) lu…
Life and Times of Joseph Warren
Read by Robert Morel
Richard Frothingham, Jr.
Joseph Warren was one of the popular leaders of Boston during the early stage of the American Revolution. He grasped its basis idea of civil…
War Memories of an Army Chaplain
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Henry C. Trumbull
Henry Clay Trumbull was the Chaplain of the Tenth Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers in the American Civil War. In this memoir, he gives his…
Psychological Examining in the United States Army
Read by Leon Harvey
Robert Mearns Yerkes
When, on April 6, 1917, the Nation was called to war a group of experimental psychologists promptly assembled to consider means of psycholog…
The Western Boundary
Read by Alister
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf Von Moltke
Moltke’s The Western Boundary was originally published in the journal Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift in 1841. The essay came in the wake of ca…
Biographical Sketches of the Signers
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Benson John Lossing
Lossing's Biographical Sketches of the Signers contains short descriptions of the Lives of the Signers from this well-respected American his…
Shout Treason
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Francis F. Beirne
Much has been written about Aaron Burr, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and other founding fathers who were at the center of United States v…
With the New Army on the Somme
Read by Ted Lienhart
Frederick Palmer
Frederick Palmer was already an experienced war correspondent when World War I began in 1914, as he had previously covered six wars, beginni…
State of the Union Addresses
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Woodrow Wilson, Andwarren G. Harding and Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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,…
The Sailor's Word-book
Read by czandra
William Henry Smyth
A digest of sea terms and phrases, including flora, fauna, fish, fowl and fable of the sea, weaponry aboard ship, parts of a ship, qualities…
The Birth of Yugoslavia
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Henry Baerlein
Henry Baerlein expands on his articles first published in the Fortnightly Review to explain the historical context and challenges facing Yug…
Cape Gloucester
Read by Aaron Bennett
Bernard C. Nalty
On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…