History

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

by John Maynard Keynes Read by Graham McMillan 4.2
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) was a best seller throughout the world, published by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes attended the …

Four Discourses Against The Arians

by Athanasius of Alexandria Read by Jonathan Lange 4
In spite of Nicea's condemnation of Arius in 325, Arianism was far from dead. For decades after Nicea, political intrigue and personality cl…

The Legends of Genesis

by Hermann Gunkel Read by JoeD 4.6
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical ana…

The Life of Alfred the Great

by Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.2
The Life of Alfred the Great offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of one of England's most revered monarchs. Written by Bishop Asser, …

The Journal of Lewis and Clarke

by Meriwether Lewis Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…

Atlantis

by Ignatius Loyola Donnelly Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born i…

Famous Men of Modern Times

by John Henry Haaren Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Famous Men of Modern Times offers a captivating exploration of influential figures who shaped the modern world. Through a series of biograph…

The Afghan Wars

by Archibald Forbes Read by Phil Griffiths 4.4
The First Anglo–Afghan War was fought between British India and Afghanistan from 1839 to 1842. It was one of the first major conflicts durin…

Hannibal

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Hannibal by Jacob Abbott offers a captivating exploration of one of history's most renowned military leaders. This biography delves into the…

The Jesuits in North America

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

History of Rome

by Robert F. Pennell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
History of Rome offers a concise yet comprehensive overview of Rome's evolution from its legendary beginnings to the fall of the Western Emp…

Ten Days that Shook the World

by John Reed Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

The Great Apostasy

by James E. Talmage Read by Matthias Whitney 4.7
Elder James E. Talmage, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, makes a survey of the Latter-day Saint view of the Gr…

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

by Olive Gilbert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

Great Pirate Stories

by Joseph Lewis French Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

The Science - History of the Universe

by Francis Rolt-Wheeler Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity wri…

Famous Men of Greece

by John Henry Haaren Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Famous Men of Greece offers a captivating exploration of the lives of notable figures from ancient Greece, bringing history to life through …

Auguste Comte and Positivism

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bill Boerst 4.9
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

The Life of George Washington

by Josephine Pollard Read by ACBowgus 4.5
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …

The Pirates Own Book

by Charles Ellms Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Pirates Own Book by Charles Ellms offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of some of history's most notorious sea robbers. This coll…

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