History

The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

by Olive Gilbert Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The Narrative of Sojourner Truth is the gripping autobiographical account of Sojourner Truths life as a slave in pre-Civil War New York Stat…

The Westminster Alice

by Saki Read by Ruth Golding 4.5
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…

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…

Indian Frontier Policy

by General Sir John Miller Adye Read by David Barnes 4.8
"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our East…

The Quaker Colonies

by Sydney Fisher Read by Jim Locke 4.5
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involveme…

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

by Thomas Babington Macaulay Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is chapter 1 of volume 1 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the h…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot Read by Cate Barratt 4.9
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a do…

Great Pirate Stories

by Joseph Lewis French Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as …

A School History of the Great War

by Albert E. Mckinley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A brief history of The Great War (World War I) designed for students in grades seven and eight. Special emphasis on European history leading…

Auguste Comte and Positivism

by John Stuart Mill Read by Bill Boerst 4.9
Part 1 lays out the framework for Positivism as originated in France by Auguste Comte in his Cours de Philosophie Positive. Mill examines th…

1950-1959 Radio News

4.8
Explore the news from the 1950s with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation includes not only news segments but also talk sho…

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times

by François Pierre Guillaume Guizot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior…

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…

Church History

by Tom Nelson 4.4
"Someone once noted that history was 'simply one thing after another.' However, for the Christian history represents an amazing story o…

The Life of Abraham Lincoln

by Ida M. Tarbell Read by Ciufi Galeazzi 4.6
Volume 1 of Ida Tarbell's biography of Lincoln covers his life from his boyhood to his election to the presidency in 1860. Tarbell, in addit…

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth

by Lucy Aikin Read by Cate Barratt 4.2
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth offers a fascinating glimpse into the life and reign of one of England's most iconic monarchs. Compi…

London Labour and the London Poor

by Henry Mayhew Read by Gillian Hendrie 4.7
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

The Bomb

by Various Read by David Wales 4.7
These two publications put out by the U.S. government are about the Trinity site in New Mexico where in 1945 the first atomic bomb was teste…

The Pilgrimage Of Etheria

by Etheria Read by David Wales 4.5
This (probably) late fourth century common era (A.D.) narrative of a Christian pilgrimage is the earliest such text which survives to us. It…

1940 Radio News

4.7
Experience the news from 1940 with this collection of radio broadcasts. This compilation offers a glimpse into the events and stories that s…

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