History

David Crockett, Scout

by Charles Fletcher Allen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
Davy Crockett is one of the legendary heroes of the North American frontier, celebrated in song and story. This is a very accessible account…

Great Epochs in American History

by Francis Whiting Halsey Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
This is the second volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the buil…

The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt

by David Miller DeWitt Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.2
April, 1865 -- The war ended and throughout the Northern States joy and relief reigned. Then, less than a week later, a thunderbolt: the p…

News From No Man's Land

by James Green Read by David Wales 5
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Forc…

In the Wake of the Buccaneers

by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill Read by Steven Seitel 4.3
Ah, the Buccaneers... “We hear much of the bold, wild ways of these adventurers; Perchance it is the fact that we all appreciate bravery—and…

From Pole to Pole

by Sven Hedin Read by Steven Seitel 4.8
This book was first published in 1912. It is a simplified English translation of the author's Från pol till pol: genom Asien och Europ…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

Royal Romances of Today

by Kellogg Durland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
"In the year 1907, the Woman’s Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marri…

The Story of Old France

by H. A. Guerber Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additi…

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This collection of 37 brief stories introduces young listeners to notable people and episodes from history. Each piece focuses on a single i…

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by Celine Major 4.8
Part five of Francis Parkman's multi-volume series France and England in North America is but one of the masterful narratives that have earn…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In this pivotal chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay's comprehensive work, The History of England, from the Accession of James II, the narra…

The World's Story

by Eva March Tappan Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is the tenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

Radio Commercials Shows

4.6
Discover a collection of 260 old time radio commercials that capture the essence of advertising from a bygone era. These commercials provide…

A Social History of the American Negro

by Benjamin Griffith Brawley Read by Jim Locke 4.8
A comprehensive history of what experiences and influences created the Negro American citizen as we find him at the beginning of the twentie…

Unknown London

by Walter George Bell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since chil…

The Lives of the Queens of England

by Agnes Strickland Read by Ann Boulais 4.3
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by he…

A Student's History of American Literature

by William Simonds Read by Bellona Times 4.1
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …

Historical Tales

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by Kalynda 4.2
Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …

Essay on the Trial by Jury

by Lysander Spooner Read by BethAnne 4.9
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutiona…

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