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The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampt…

Read by Joel Kindrick


Thomas R. Gray


This is a detailed description of the massacre that took place on August 21-23, 1831 that became known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Nat Turner…

A Minor War History

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Martin Alonzo Haynes


A personal history of the American Civil War taken from the author's own letters to 'the girl he left behind', who later became his wife. Th…

With the Anzacs in Cairo

Read by Adam Bielka


Guy Thornton


Guy Thornton recounts his experiences serving as a military chaplain with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) while stationed …

The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa

Read by Aaron Bennett


Joseph H. Alexander


The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc from Formosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans, Japanese,…

The Causes Of The American Civil War

Read by David Wales


John Lothrop Motley


John Lothrop Motley (1814 – 1877) was an American author and popular diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of th…

Untimely Papers

Read by Ben Adams


Randolph Silliman Bourne


This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal "The Seven Arts," before the…

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…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

Read by Pamela Nagami


Justin McCarthy and Justin Mccarthy


Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise o…

The Normans in Europe

Read by Pamela Nagami


Arthur Henry Johnson


This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks …

War the Creator

Read by Lee Smalley


Frank Gelett Burgess


Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Becau…

Builders of United Italy

Read by Ciufi Galeazzi


Rupert S. Holland


Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…

A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General …

Read by Pamela Nagami


Justin Mccarthy


Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harr…

The Roman Triumvirates

Read by Pamela Nagami


Charles Merivale


In this short volume, the British historian, Charles Merivale, describes the long conflict by which the rule of one man replaced the Roman R…

The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson

Read by Jim Locke


Maud Wilder Goodwin


Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

Read by Jim Locke


William Bennett Munro


The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter

Read by Aaron Bennett


Lynn Montross


It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could h…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865

Read by John Greenman


Ward Hill Lamon


Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February - May, 1…

Read by David Wales


Susan R. Jervey


Two diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February – May, 1865. Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlott…

State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828)

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John Quincy Adams


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

Europe in Renaissance and Reformation 1453-1660

Read by Pamela Nagami


Mary A. Hollings


In a small space the Oxford-educated historian, Mary Hollings, provides a panoramic view of a tumultuous age. We meet Cesare Borgia and Savo…

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