Early Modern

The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine

Read by Peter Dann


Thomas Carlyle


Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunat…

The Historical Evolution of the Ukrainian Problem

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Mykhailo Hrushevsky


A short history of Ukrainian national aspirations, written by one of the most prominent Ukrainian historians. Published in the early months …

The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England

Read by Jim Locke


Charles Andrews, Charles Mclean Andrews and Charles Morris


This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same …

The Early Hanoverians

Read by Pamela Nagami


Edward Ellis Morris


In this short book Edward Ellis Morris writes a vivid account of the reigns of the first two Georges. Scarcely had the fifty-four-year-old k…

The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation

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Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

The Indians in Wisconsin's History

Read by Verla Viera


John M. Douglass


Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

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…

La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Eighteenth Century (National History of France)

Read by Pamela Nagami


Casimir Stryienski


This panoramic history of the last days of Bourbon France opens with the death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the minority of the ill-educated, Lo…

The Age of Anne

Read by Pamela Nagami


Edward Ellis Morris


This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborou…

Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 2

Read by Barry Ganong


John Tulloch


In this second volume of his work on English rational theology in the seventeenth century, Tulloch describes the lives and works of the grou…

The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 03, The Wars of Religion

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Various


The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli)

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Julia Ward Howe


A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one…

The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France

Read by Jim Locke


George Wrong


The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…

The Counter-Reformation

Read by Pamela Nagami


Adolphus Ward


The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation, and remembered for its infamous Inquisition, was the period of Catholic resur…

Poems of American History, The Period of Growth

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Various


This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …

Andreas Vesalius, The Reformer of Anatomy

Read by David Wales


James Moores Ball


Vesalius (born in Brussels, 1514-1564) is one of the foundation stones of modern medicine. Forsaking the study of anatomy by reading the anc…

In The Footprints Of The Padres

Read by David Wales


Charles Warren Stoddard


The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This…

The Magic of the Horse-Shoe

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Robert Means Lawrence


The study of the origin and history of popular customs and beliefs affords an insight, otherwise unattainable, into the operations of the hu…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 6

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…

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