Modern (20th C)
In Ship and Prison
Read by Barry Eads
William P. Chipman
The incidents of this book are taken largely from the log-book of Captain Tucker, and are intended to picture the stirring times in which he…
Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology
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Various
Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin.In the…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Mrs. Philip Snowden
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…
The Crisis
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The Crisis is the official publication of the NAACP first published in 1910 with W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the founders, as editor. He exerc…
Germany Before the War
Read by Ted Lienhart
Napoleon-Eugène Beyens
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…
Woman and Labour
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Olive Schreiner
I should like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us—“You will look back at us with astonishment! You will …
Slave Narratives
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interview…
Read by Donald Warren
United States Work Projects Administration
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Final Report of the Select Committee to Investigate the January Sixth Attack on…
Read by Aaron Bennett
United States House of Representatives and United States House Of Representatives
This report will provide greater detail about the multi-step effort devised and driven by Donald Trump to overturn the 2020 election and blo…
Sinking of the Titanic
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Jay Henry Mowbray
The Titanic was thought to be the safest ship to set sail as it embarked on its maiden voyage. Unfortunately, history tells us differently. …
Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary
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Arthur Henry Patterson
Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on…
Through Broadland in a Breydon Punt
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Arthur Henry Patterson
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and …
Gallipoli
Read by Ted Lienhart
John Masefield
John Masefield was an English novelist and poet who would later be named England's Poet Laureate. In early 1916, immediately after the termi…
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
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National Advisory Commission On Civil Disorders
The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst ca…
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
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Various
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
My War Experiences
Read by Ted Lienhart
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
Sarah Macnaughtan was a Scottish novelist who took part in the women's suffrage movement, worked for the Red Cross in the Second Boer War (1…
Sea-Power in the Pacific
Read by Alister
Hector Charles Bywater
During the three decades preceding the Pacific War, the United States placed no small amount of effort in gaming out what a such a conflict …
A Textbook of European History
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Lionel Cecil Jane
This short work opens in 1815, at the close of a period of twenty-five years of almost continuous war. The Congress of Vienna assembled to c…
Tragedy in Dedham
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Francis Russell
The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…
Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled
Read by Barry Eads
Hudson Stuck
This volume deals with a series of journeys taken with a dog team over the winter trails in the interior of Alaska. The title might have cla…