History
1941 Radio News
WA4CZD and P. G. Wodehouse
News from 1941. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1941 news file …
Signs of Change
Read by Deborah Brabyn
William Morris
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…
A Popular History of the Art of Music
Read by Tony Oliva
W. S. B. Mathews
Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compas…
The Country of the Pointed Firs
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Sarah Orne Jewett
The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War
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Gaius
The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Vol 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition'
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Robert Falcon Scott
Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time.…
Democracy In America - Single Episodes
Old Time Radio Researchers Group
DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen,…
The Prairie Traveler
Read by Angel5
Randolph B. Marcy
Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…
France in the Nineteenth Century
Read by Cate Barratt
Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (S…
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Read by Arnie Horton
Bartolomé De Las Casas
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…
Pirates of Panama
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Alexandre Exquemelin
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…
Three Years In Europe
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…
The Petticoat Commando
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Johanna Brandt
In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Read by Ruth Golding
John Leighton
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), …
True Stories of Wonderful Deeds
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William James McGlothlin
37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865
Read by Celine Major
James Ford Rhodes
Superbly written, this overview of the Civil War, won a Pulitzer Prize in History in 1918. Rhodes covers not only the battles and the gener…
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2
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Henry Charles Lea
Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…
Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers
Read by David Wales
John Stevens Cabot Abbott
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 2
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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…
30 American Poems
Read by Bellona Times
Various
This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US …