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The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
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Olive Gilbert
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…
The Underground Railroad, Part 1
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William Still
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still."Dear Sir:—For mo…
Chancellorsville and Gettysburg
Read by Mark F. Smith
Abner Doubleday
Abner Doubleday began the Civil War as a Union officer and aimed the first cannon shot in response to the bombardment opened on Ft. Sumter i…
Through the Brazilian Wilderness
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Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt's popular book Through the Brazilian Wilderness describes his expedition into the Brazilian jungle in 1913 as a member of the Roos…
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2)
Read by Mark Nelson
Booker T. Washington
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the posi…
Sergeant York and His People
Read by Brett W. Downey
Sam K. Cowan
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in…
John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs
Read by Peter Kelleher
Jack London
Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…
The Rough Riders
Read by William Peck
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt's personal account of The Rough Riders, the name affectionately bestowed on the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one …
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby
Read by Mark F. Smith
John S. Mosby
This is not a work of fiction! These are the actual memoirs of a legendary leader of partisans who bedeviled the Union army for years, almos…
Among the Tibetans
Read by Availle
Isabella L. Bird
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeav…
The Maine Woods
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Henry David Thoreau
On August 31, 1846, twenty-nine-year-old Henry David Thoreau left his cabin on Walden Pond to undertake a railroad and steamboat journey to …
Gallipoli Diary
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John Graham Gillam
Major John Graham Gillam, British Supply Officer, wrote in his World War I Gallipoli Diary that when he sailed from England for the Dardanel…
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650
Read by David Leeson
William Bradford
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…
Inca Lands
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Hiram Bingham
Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Pea…
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
Read by Sue Anderson
John Muir
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- s…
Iconoclastic Memories of the Civil War
Read by Winston Tharp
Ambrose Bierce
At the outset of the American Civil War, [the writer Ambrose] Bierce enlisted in the Union Army's 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment....In Februa…
A Confederate Girl's Diary
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Sarah Morgan Dawson
Sarah Morgan Dawson was a young woman of 20 living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when she began this diary. The American Civil War was raging. …
Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
Read by William Tomcho
John D. Rockefeller
A good book by the oil revolutionist of the 20th century. As they say "Men should listen to experience" and this book is all about…
My Confession
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Leo Tolstoy
"My Confession" is a brief autobiographical story of Leo Tolstoy's struggle with a mid-life existential crisis of melancholia. It …
The Story of My Life (Version 2)
Read by George Cooney
Helen Keller
An autobiography of Helen Keller published when the author was still in her early 20's. The narrative reveals how her mind developed and mat…
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