Modern (19th C)

The South American Republics, Part II

Read by Piotr Nater


Thomas Cleland Dawson


This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, a…

Builders of United Italy

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Rupert S. Holland


Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…

Reminiscences of My Life in Camp

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Susie King Taylor


Susie King Taylor was a Black nurse in the 33rd United States Colored Troops in the Union Army during the American Civil War, a teacher and …

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

Read by Pamela Nagami


Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy


Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…

The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story

Read by Jeffery


John Worden


The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit r…

The County Regiment

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Dudley Landon Vaill


A sketch of the second regiment of Connecticut volunteer heavy artillery, originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War.

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

Read by John Greenman


Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

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Theron Clark Crawford


The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is …

Triumphant Democracy

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Andrew Carnegie


Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in …

Three Accounts of Peterloo

Read by Phil Benson


Francis Archibald Bruton


A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…

The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

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William Cowper Brann


William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to b…

Christmas Under Three Flags

Read by DrPGould


Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox


This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

Read by Pamela Nagami


Justin Mccarthy


Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…

Tin Horns and Calico

Read by Maria Kasper


Henry Esmond Christman


In the early 19th century, in the Hudson Valley of New York State, hundreds of square miles of land were still the feudal domains of large l…

Narratives of Colored Americans

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Abigail Mott


Abigail Mott was a Quaker and abolitionist from New York who, along with fellow Quaker M. S. Wood, has compiled a provocative collection of …

The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race

Read by Theoden Humphrey


John Clay Coleman


"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of …

Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty

Read by Jeffery


Stephen Coleridge


Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological…

Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion

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Various


The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion …

The Life of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Ida M. Tarbell


Volume 2 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln begins at chapter 22 with Lincoln's first inauguration, and ends with an account of his funer…

Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Tickner Edwardes


Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…

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