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Nootka Goes to War

In A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound

Read by Sue Anderson

John R. Jewitt

John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off t…

Driving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, in 1915

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 036

Read by Sue Anderson

Emily Post

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the discovery of X-rays, earthquak…

The Little Maid

In Very Short Stories And Verses For Children

Read by Sue Gill

Lucy Clifford

Very Short Stories And Verses For Children is a children's book by Lucy Clifford compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about…

The Eiffel Tower, an Excerpt from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth …

In LibriVox 19th Anniversary Collection

Read by Sue Anderson

Robert Warne Routledge

"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

Yellowstone Expedition of 1871

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093

Read by Sue Anderson

United States Geological Survey

"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…

Chicago Race Riots of 1919, Coroner's Official Report

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 078

Read by Sue Anderson

Cook County Coroner

Twenty short nonfiction works, chosen by the readers. "That thing up there on the stand with the American flag on top is a machine gun,…

1 - My Mammy's Soup; The Whiskey Barrel

In Reminiscences of a Southern Hospital, by Its Matron

Read by Sue Anderson

Phoebe Yates Pember

Phoebe Yates Pember served as a matron in the Confederate Chimborazo military hospital in Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War, overseei…

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