reader:"Chris Patten, Anne Deighton, Barbara Harris-White, Alan Wolfe and Linda Yueh"

Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery a…

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs

Read by James K. White

Stanley Lane-Poole

A history of the pirating activities along and around the "Barbary coast" between the 15th and 19th centuries, from the time of th…

South American Jungle Tales

Read by James K. White

Horacio Quiroga

The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact …

Six Months In Mexico

Read by James K. White

Nellie Bly

This is an account of Nellie Bly's travels through Mexico in 1885. The book was originally a series of individual articles that she submitte…

Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent.

Read by James K. White

Washington Irving

The Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, Gent. (1824) is a compilation of eight humorous and observational letters written by American writer, Wash…

Bertram Cope's Year

Read by James K. White

Henry Blake Fuller

This novel was perhaps the most daring and affirmative LGBT literature of the first two decades of the 20th century in America. In this stor…

Mardi Vol. 2

Read by James K. White

Herman Melville

Mardi is Melville's first purely fictional work. In it he contemplates man's beliefs, and questions whether or not one faith has value over …

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun

Read by James K. White

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun

This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced h…

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 1

Read by James K. White

Robert Paltock

This is a story about a Cornish man who becomes stranded on an island and survives much like Robinson Crusoe did. Although he finds enough t…

Violets And Other Tales

Read by James K. White

Alice Dunbar Nelson

This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and…

Marion, the Story of an Artist's Model

Read by James K. White

Onoto Watanna

In this Asian/Canadian perspective on "foreignness," Marion (the protagonist) eventually leaves the cruelty of racial discriminati…

Stanton White: A Romance of the New South

Read by James K. White

Asa Zadel Hall

In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (version 2)

Read by Linda Olsen Fitak

Edwin Abbott Abbott

This is a satirical novel written by Edwin A. Abbott, first published in 1884. Abbott uses a two-dimensional world, with himself as the prot…

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