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The Indians in Wisconsin's History

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John M. Douglass


Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, huntin…

The Strange Voyage and Adventures of Domingo Gonsales to the World in the Moon

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Francis Godwin


Among the earliest sci-fi books known in English, this account of a trip to the moon was originally published in 1638. The version recorded …

Catalogs to Sleep By

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Various


Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…

Dark Princess

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W. E. B. Du Bois


This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

Insomnia Collection Vol. 006

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Various


Drift off to dreamland with excerpts from this vintage collection of books about mechanical and engineering topics. You’ll be sure to snooze…

Sketch of the Great Fires in Wisconsin

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Frank Tilton


The Peshtigo fire in Northeastern Wisconsin is the deadliest wildfire in recorded history, claiming somewhere between 1200 and 2500 lives. E…

Introduction

In The Female Detective

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Andrew Forrester


This 1864 collection of stories is one of the first books featuring a female detective character. Andrew Forrester (pseudonym of James Reddi…

Exceptions to the Rule of Legibility

In The Booklover and His Books

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Henry Lyman Koopman


This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…

The Gas Engine by Dugald Clerk, Part 1

In Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885

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Various


The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…

Ch 7: Catastrophe and Social Surplus

In Catastrophe and Social Change, Based Upon a Sociological Study of the Halifax D…

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Samuel Henry Prince


The Halifax Disaster in 1917 was the greatest man-made explosion prior to the atomic bomb."The following pages [are] the result of an o…

The Duke’s Mystery

In Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective

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Andrew Forrester


This book of fiction from 1864, as you can guess from the title, presents a series of accounts of different cases that the “City Detective” …

Adulteration and Detection

In Tea: Its History and Mystery

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Joseph M. Walsh


Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his e…

Christmas in the Heart - Read by VV

In Christmas in the Heart

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Christmas in the Heart by Paul Laurence Dunbar.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for De…