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Auguste Comte and Positivism

Read by Bill Boerst


John Stuart Mill


Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

The Normans in European History

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Charles Homer Haskins


Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston …

Hero Tales from American History (version 2)

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Theodore Roosevelt


The purpose of this book "is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die…

The Backwoods of Canada

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Catharine Parr Traill


The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superi…

The Life of Captain James Cook

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Arthur Octavius Kitson


“In publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care ha…

1945 Radio News


WA4CZD


News from 1945. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1945 news file …

The Gettysburg Address (version 4)

Read by Jim Cadwell


Abraham Lincoln


The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 03

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Thomas D'Arcy McGee


Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…

How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob A. Riis


How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

The Story of Manhattan

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Charles Hemstreet


The history of New York City is told as a story, in few words. It begins with Henry Hudson's discovery of Manhattan in 1609. And it finishe…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

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Various


A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915

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Anonymous


The title is, I think, self explanatory. The nurse in question went out to France at the beginning of the war and remained there until May 1…

Considerations on Representative Government

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John Stuart Mill


Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…

The Gettysburg Address (version 2)

Read by John Greenman


Abraham Lincoln


The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States hist…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot


François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a do…

Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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Mary White Rowlandson


This is the story of Mary Rowlandson’s capture by American Indians in 1675. It is a blunt, frightening, and detailed work with several momen…

The Works of Tacitus, Vol. I

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only…

Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen

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Jacob Christoph Burckhardt


Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen von Jacob Christoph Burckhardt (1818 - 1897), herausgegeben von Jacob Oeri (1844-1908). 1905 veröffent…

Essay on the Trial by Jury

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Lysander Spooner


FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…

Signs of Change

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William Morris


In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw him…

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