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Six Years in the Prisons of England

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Frank Henderson


A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fello…

1942 Radio News


WA4CZD


News from 1942. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1942 news file …

Epistulae Morales Selectae

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca


Seneca is an important repository of Stoic doctrine. His reputation, based on the ancient testimony, has remained ambiguous down to the pres…

Strange Pages from Family Papers

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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer


“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003

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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…

Bacon

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Richard William Church


This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007

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Various


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 1

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Charles F. Horne


Great Men and Famous Women is an 8-volume work by various authors containing “A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than …

Historical Tales, Vol IV: English

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …

Historical Tales, Vol VI: French

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews


Volume VI of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fifth volume covers t…

Mounted police life in Canada : a record of thirty-one years' service (1916)

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Richard Burton Deane


Learn more about the famous and respected Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This book is the personal recollections of one ‘Mountie'; his life,…

Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1

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Niccolò Machiavelli


In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful…

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe


Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe moved to California from Massachusetts during the Gold Rush of the mid-1800’s. During her travels, Louise w…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4

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François Pierre Guillaume Guizot


François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prio…

1939 Radio News


WA4CZD


News from 1939. I usually share these via torrent but I don't think all these files are available on archive.org so here's a 1939 news file …

A Popular History of Ireland, Book 12

Read by Sibella Denton


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…

A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb

Read by Nicholas James Bridgewater


Abdu’L-Bahá ‘Abbás


“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the C…

Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

The Book of the National Parks

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Robert Sterling Yard


Robert Sterling Yard was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeto…

Montcalm and Wolfe

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


Francis Parkman (1823-1893) has been hailed as one of America's great nineteenth century historians, along with William Prescott, John Lothr…

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