History
300 books
History
478
Charles F. Horne - Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 2 of...
18 hours 55 minutes
History
453
History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 5, January 1910
«The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geography and Economics. It aims to bring to the teacher of these topics the latest...
2 hours 49 minutes
History
477
Maud Wilder Goodwin - Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson
Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred and fifty miles from the mountains to the sea through the heart of a fertile...
5 hours 5 minutes
History
514
Charles F. Horne - Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 1
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 1 of...
17 hours 53 minutes
History
520
Carl Parcher Russell - One Hundred Years In Yosemite: The Story Of A Great Park And Its Friends
This recording of the 1931 (1947 second edition) book about Yosemite National Park comprises the narrative text about the Park from its discovery by non-natives in the Indian War of 1851 to the mid-twentieth century....
5 hours 54 minutes
History
590
Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 1
In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for his present. As the title mentions, the...
5 hours 57 minutes
History
504
Charles Morris - Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same times as those in the southern. The opening passage explains: «The Pilgrims...
4 hours 22 minutes
History
595
Constance Campbell Petrie - Tom Petrie's reminiscences of early Queensland (dating from 1837). Recorded by his daughter.
Tom Petrie (1831-1910), explorer and grazier, arrived in the then convict settlement of Moreton Bay in 1837. His reminiscences of what was to become the colony of Queensland were recorded by his daughter, Constance,...
12 hours 53 minutes
