History

This Country of Ours

by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023) 4.2
This Country of Ours by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall offers a captivating journey through the early history of the United States, tailored f…

The Antiquities of the Jews

by Flavius Josephus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. It is a history of …

Geronimo’s Story of His Life

by Geronimo Read by Sue Anderson 4.5
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.…

Indian Heroes and Great Chieftans

by Charles Alexander Eastman Read by Laura Caldwell 4.6
EVERY age, every race, has its leaders and heroes. There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted…

Historical Mysteries

by Andrew Lang Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Edited by Andrew Lang, Historical Mysteries is a collection of infamous unsolved mysteries from various points in history.

Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie

by Andrew Carnegie Read by William Tomcho 4.6
This autobiography of Andrew Carnegie is a very well written and interesting history of one of the most wealthy men in the United states. He…

The Life of Kit Carson

by Edward S. Ellis Read by Laura Victoria 4.6
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…

The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

by Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca Read by Sue Anderson 4.7
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore …

History of the Conquest of Mexico

by William H. Prescott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold,And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;Round many western islands have I beenWhich bards in fe…

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 Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

by M. M. Pattison Muir Read by Peter Yearsley 4.6
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry invites listeners on an enlightening exploration of the evolution of chemistry, tracing…

The Story of Mankind

by Hendrik Van Loon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the p…

Fort Laramie

4.7
Fort Laramie opened with "Specially transcribed tales of the dark and tragic ground of the wild frontier. The saga of fighting men who …

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
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 History of Standard Oil

by Ida M. Tarbell Read by Tom Weiss 4.7
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Com…

The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of …

by David Hume Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

Crime Classics

Read by Thomas Hyland 4.6
Crime Classics came to CBS on September 30, 1953, and was a captivating series of true crime stories. The show introduced itself succinctly:…

History of the United States

by Charles Austin Beard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks a…

A Thousand Miles up the Nile

by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Read by Sibella Denton 4.8
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in …

Historic Adventures

by Rupert S. Holland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a collection of early American stories, interesting read. (Summary by sidhu177)

< 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 >