Modern (19th C)
Campaigning With Grant
Read by David Wales
Horace Porter
In the last year of the American Civil War, Horace Porter served as aide-de-camp to General Ulysses S. Grant, then commander of all the armi…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of…
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William Wood
"International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of…
The Future of the American Negro
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Booker T. Washington
The history of African American enslavement, freedom from slavery, and the need for education as a prerequisite for success. - Summary by ki…
The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1
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Charles E. Flandrau
"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…
Old Rail Fence Corners
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Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers i…
Louis Pasteur
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Albert Keim
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) famously said, "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." Pasteur brought to t…
On the Trail of The Immigrant
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Edward A. Steiner
How did the immigrants come to America? Who were they? What Where did they come from? In this book, Edward Steiner tells of the experiences…
Cent récits d'histoire contemporaine
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Gustave Ducoudray
En 100 petites vignettes, l'historien Gustave Ducoudray (1838-1906) nous raconte l'histoire mouvementée de la France du 19e siè…
Trial of Susan B. Anthony
Read by Maria Kasper
William James Mcglothlin
In 1872, after the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, the women’s suffrage movement in the United States adopted a n…
Loss of the Sultana
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Chester D. Berry
April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been releas…
A History of California: The American Period
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Robert Glass Cleland
The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New Englan…
Chronicles of Canada Volume 17 - Tecumseh: A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader…
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Ethel T. Raymond
Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk …
The Exiles of Florida
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Joshua Giddings
“The Author of the following work has endeavored to give a faithful record of … the Exiles of Florida. Torn from their native land, their fr…
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, Vol…
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W. E. B. Du Bois
The question of the suppression of the slave-trade is so intimately connected with the questions as to its rise, the system of American slav…
Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush
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Susanna Moodie
As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Bellev…
Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn
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Robert Marshall Utley
It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Ind…
Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr…
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Sir Grafton Elliot Smith
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …
Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of …
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Agnes C. Laut
This, volume 22 of the Chronicles of Canada series, describes the exploration of the Canadian Pacific coast, British Columbia, and Alaska. I…
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth
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George Alfred Townsend
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background a…
Six Years with the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881
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James B. Gillett
James Gillet recounts his adventures with the Texas Rangers 1856-1937. In a very entertaining style he recounts personal stories of wars, …