Memoirs

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

by George Washington Plunkitt Read by John W. Michaels 4.9
In this insightful memoir, George Washington Plunkitt, a prominent figure in New York City's Tammany Hall, offers a firsthand account of the…

Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel

by Margaret Herschel Read by Kevin Green 5
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scen…

My Story of the Civil War

by Marvin Benjamin Butler Read by J Denning 5
Story of the Civil War as told by a private soldier's perspective of daily routines, challenges, anxieties, skirmishes, battle. (summary by …

Among Typhoons And Pirate Craft

by Lindsay Anderson Read by David Wales 4.5
Anderson served as third officer aboard the Eamont. Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan …

Memories of the Civil War

by Henry B. James Read by Ciufi Galeazzi 4.5
Henry B James enlisted in the Union Army at the age of 20, and fought in many of the key battles of the Civil War. Thirty years later, he wr…

Confessions of a Tradesman

by Frank Thomas Bullen Read by Wayne Cooke 4.6
Frank T. Bullen is best known for his books based on his adventures at sea. However, he had a life on shore as well. He first went to sea as…

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

by Ellen Craft Read by Newgatenovelist 4.4
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…

The Autobiography of a Newspaper Girl

by Elizabeth L. Banks Read by TriciaG 4.4
Elizabeth Banks was an American journalist and author. She grew up in Wisconsin, then lived in England the last forty years of her life. She…

Autobiography of Father John Gerard

by Father John Gerard Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Fr. John Gerard (1564 – 1637) was an English Jesuit priest who operated covertly in England during the Elizabethan era, during which the Cat…

Korea and Her Neighbors

by Isabella L. Bird Read by Availle 4.4
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels th…

The Wound Dresser

by Walt Whitman Read by R. S. Steinberg 4.6
The Wound Dresser offers a poignant glimpse into the heart of the American Civil War through the eyes of Walt Whitman. This collection of le…

Kept for the Master's Use

by Frances Ridley Havergal Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Kept for the Master's Use offers a glimpse into the life of Frances Ridley Havergal, a dedicated missionary and celebrated hymn writer. Thro…

From Slave Cabin To Pulpit

by Peter Randolph Read by David Wales 4.4
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying…

Across Mongolian Plains

by Roy Chapman Andrews Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
An account of a 1918 journey to Northern China by famed adventurer/paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Andrews, who was the inspiration for …

Kidnapped in London

by Sun Yat-sen and Sun Yat-Sen Read by Matthew McNaughton 4.9
Sun Yat-Sen was the first president of the Republic of China after the brutal Qing government collapsed in 1911. Over a decade earlier, he h…

The Autobiography of George Dewey

by George Dewey Read by Delmar H Dolbier 4.7
Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the S…

Station Life in New Zealand

by Mary Anne Barker Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan 4.4
Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) tha…

Recollections of Abraham Lincoln

by Ward Hill Lamon Read by John Greenman 4.7
Abraham Lincoln came to the presidency under a heavy shroud of uncertainty, not only about his threatened life but, of course, the very exis…

Germany Before the War

by Napoleon-Eugène Beyens Read by Ted Lienhart 5
Baron Beyens was a senior member of the Belgian diplomatic service who was posted to Berlin in 1912. His book, published in early 1916, is i…

Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

by Annie L. Burton Read by Michele Fry 4.1
This is a short and simple, yet poignant autobiography of Annie Burton, who recounts her early carefree childhood as a slave on a southern p…

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