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The "Defenestration" at Prague, the Thirty Years War, AD 1618, by Samuel R. Gar…

In The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11

Read by Leah MacKenzie


Charles F. Horne


A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

Walden

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Henry David Thoreau


Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thorea…

Scaramouche

Read by Gord Mackenzie


Rafael Sabatini


Scaramouche is a romantic adventure and tells the story of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution. His successive endeavors as a la…

FMR 47 The vulnerability of Palestinian refugees from Syria

In Forced Migration Review

Read by Leah Morrison


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Hiring a wetnurse in seventeenth-century England

In Anthropology

Read by Leah Astbury


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Uncle Wiggily's Rain Storm

In Uncle Wiggily's Story Book (Version 2)

Read by Leah Emery


Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggily, the Gentleman Rabbit, has had a lot of adventures. Here are some of the most amusing and exciting ones. As always, Uncle Wi…

Twilight

In Poems

Read by Leah Autry


Frances Louisa Bushnell


This is a collection of poems by Connecticut poet Frances Louisa Bushnell. Ms Bushnell was an eminent person in her local social circles, an…

The Use of Sources in Instruction in Government and Politics

In The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 3, November 1909

Read by Leah W


Various


"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geogr…

The Vision of Brutus

In The Story of the Romans

Read by Leah Chamblee


H. A. Guerber


A collection of short stories and histories of Rome, from its beginning to its end. (Ann Boulais)

The Women in the Case By Mary Sams Cooke

In Short Stories From Life

Read by Leah Emery


Various


Life Magazine held a short story contest. Stories must be no more than 1500 words. Authors were paid for the number of words under that maxi…

Mistress Jekyll-Hyde

In Humorous Poems

Read by Leah Autry


Ignatius Brennan


This is a collection of fun poems by West Virginia poet M. Ignatius Brennan. In his poems, the poet makes fun of the people in his surroundi…

Sonnet

In Poems

Read by Just Leah


Alice Meynell


This is a volume of poems by Alice Meynell. - Summary by Carolin

'Wilt Thou Harass a Driven Leaf?'

In Gleams of Sunshine

Read by Just Leah


Joseph Horatio Chant


This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Chu…