History

The Crimes of England

by G. K. Chesterton Read by Ray Clare 4.2
"Second, when telling such lies as may seem necessary to your international standing, do not tell the lies to the people who know the t…

Stories of North Pole Adventure

by Frank Mundell Read by Steve C 4.3
This volume does not pretend to be a history of Artic exploration. My aim has been to narrate some of the most thrilling incidents of Polar …

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…

The Child's Book of American Biography

by Mary Stoyell Stimpson Read by Laura Victoria 4.5
The Child's Book of American Biography introduces young listeners to the remarkable lives of influential figures in American history. Throug…

Historical Tales

by Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews Read by Kalynda 4.5
Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplem…

The Medici

by G. F. Young Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This work relates the history of the Medici family through three centuries and eleven generations, from its rise from obscurity, to its zeni…

The Idea of Progress

by John Bagnell Bury Read by Barry Ganong 5
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he…

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…

1943 Radio News

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Experience the news from 1943 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes various news segments and V-Discs from tha…

Captain William Kidd And Others Of The Buccaneers

by John Stevens Cabot Abbott Read by David Wales 4.3
Pirate stories galore! Pirate life was not always what it seemed from the outside. - Summary by david wales

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

The Romance of the Romanoffs

by Joseph Martin Mccabe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were periods of stark contrast between the opulent lifestyle of the rich and the ex…

A Brief History of Carthage

by Joshua Jared Scott Read by Joshua Jared Scott 4.4
A short history of the ancient city of Carthage, from the time of its founding through its destruction at the conclusion of the Third Punic …

Hannibal

by Jacob Abbott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Hannibal by Jacob Abbott offers a captivating exploration of one of history's most renowned military leaders. This biography delves into the…

Historical Newspaper Articles

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…

Hero Tales from American History

by Theodore Roosevelt Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
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…

History of the United States

by Charles Austin Beard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…

A Short History of Wales

by Owen M. Edwards Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Short History of Wales is a book published in 1906 by Owen Edwards. It aimed to provide an introduction to Welsh history, to those who may…

The Jesuits in North America

by Francis Parkman, Jr. Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread t…

The Great Events by Famous Historians

by Charles F. Horne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

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