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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…

New Discoveries at Jamestown

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John L. Cotter


Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first &q…

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…

Priest on Horseback-Father Farmer: 1720-1786

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Eva K. Betz


A historical novel for children, which tells the story of several months in the life of the then famous Father Farmer, as he traveled a Mass…

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…

1941 Radio News


WA4CZD and P. G. Wodehouse


News from 1941. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1941 news file …

Römische Geschichte Buch 8

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Theodor Mommsen


Mommsen erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur.Römische Geschichte Achtes Buch (Ausgabe v…

The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Sarah Orne Jewett


The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

Famous American Statesmen

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Sarah Knowles Bolton


A sketch of the lives of some of America's early Statesmen: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Andr…

The Life of Charlemagne (Einhard)

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Einhard


Einhard was employed by Charlemagne as a court historian. At the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious, he wrote a biog…

Democracy In America - Single Episodes


Old Time Radio Researchers Group


DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA Democracy in America is a well-produced dramatization of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book of the same name. These fourteen…

The Prairie Traveler

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Randolph B. Marcy


Commissioned by the US War Department and written in 1859 by a decorated US Army captain, The Prairie Traveler is a complete how-to travel g…

The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War

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Gaius


The Catiline Conspiracy and the Jugurthine War are the two separate surviving works of the historian commonly known as "Sallust". …

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Vol 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition'

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Robert Falcon Scott


Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time.…

A Popular History of the Art of Music

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W. S. B. Mathews


Preface by W.S.B. Mathews: I have here endeavored to provide a readable account of the entire history of the art of music, within the compas…

Three Years In Europe

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William Wells Brown


William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave--his father a white man who never acknowl…

The Petticoat Commando

Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022)


Johanna Brandt


In introducing the English version of this book I venture to bespeak a welcome for it, not only for the light which it throws on some little…

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds

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Anonymous


37 short pieces perfect for newer recorders. These one page Stories of (mostly) Wonderful Deeds were written for Little Folk to teach them a…

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

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Bartolomé De Las Casas


A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…

Pirates of Panama

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Alexandre Exquemelin


This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaenech…

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