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A Mix-Up with the American Revolution: Encounter with the Ship "Boston"

In Travels to Oaxaca

Read by Sue Anderson


Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville, Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry De Menonville and Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville


Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts …

Colorblindness, An Early Account (1794)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065

Read by Sue Anderson


John Dalton


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …

Chicago Race Riots of 1919, Coroner's Official Report

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 078

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Cook County Coroner


Twenty short nonfiction works, chosen by the readers. "That thing up there on the stand with the American flag on top is a machine gun,…

Letter from William Blake to Mr. Butts, 16th August, 1803

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075

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William Blake


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of…

Martha Maxwell, Taxidermist, at the Centennial Exposition (1876)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 073

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Mary Emma Dartt Thompson


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside." With these…

Carranza's Tragic Flight to Death (1920)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 091

Read by Sue Anderson


Sophie Anita Treadwell


"Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles." Store purchases by tube was one of John Watkins Jr'…

Letters on Landscape Painting #3

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088

Read by Sue Anderson


Asher B. Durand


"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study…

WPA Art Collection

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 096

Read by Sue Anderson


United States Government


"Can we solve the problems confronting us? Well, the answer is an unequivocal and emphatic yes." This quote, from U.S. President R…

Saved by a Nose

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 099

Read by Sue Anderson


Edward Carpenter


"Instead of letting ourselves, at the thought of mealtime, fall into a state of chronic mental flutter that incapacitates us for any se…

Artists Look at Roads

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093

Read by Sue Anderson


Richard F. Weingroff


"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…

The Clay Melting Pots Used in 19th Century Glass Manufacture (1849)

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090

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Apsley Pellatt


In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor cr…

Appearance of the 17-year Cicada in Rhode Island in 1903

In LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

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Alpheus S. Packard


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

The Day The Piano Went Up The Hill

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 092

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Dennis M. Knobloch


Calling men the "Bawling Brotherhood," Sarah Grand penned a lively essay on The New Aspect of the Woman Question in 1894. Stenogra…

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