Early Modern
Reflections on the Revolution in France
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Edmund Burke
Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…
Bradford's History of the Plymouth Settlement, 1608-1650
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William Bradford
The journal of William Bradford, who served five terms as governor of the Plymouth colony, is an indispensable document of the events of ear…
History of the United States, Vol. V: Sectional Conflict & Reconstruction
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Charles Austin Beard
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 the United States
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Edward Channing
Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American histor…
A Treatise Of Human Nature, Volume 2
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David Hume
This book, published in two volumes called "books" by the author, is a treatment of everything from the origin of our ideas to how…
History of the United States, Vol. IV: The West and Jacksonian Democracy
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Charles Austin Beard
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…
The Silence Dogood Letters
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Benjamin Franklin
As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin apprenticed with his brother James at the shop where The New-England Courant was printed. Since James would…
Summa Theologica - 04 Pars Prima, On Man
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's fi…
The Journey of Coronado
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Pedro De Castañeda
In 1540, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led an army from Mexico is search of the fabled golden cities of Cíbola. The Spaniards …
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
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Allan Fea
“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
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John Relly Beard
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revol…
Home Life in Colonial Days
Read by Susan Morin
Alice Morse Earle
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have se…
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1
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Friedrich Schiller
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…
Areopagitica
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John Milton
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter o…
Essays book 2
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …
Summa Theologica - 05 Pars Prima, On the Divine Government
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–127…
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Raffald
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …
Francisco Pizarro and the Conquest of Peru
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Frederick A. Ober
Francisco Pizarro (1471 - 1541) was born into poverty, the illegitimate son of a Spanish soldier. After a brief career as a swineherd, he vo…
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…