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John Lord - Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12: American Leaders
A continuation of United States history, Volume 12 discusses key US leaders in the time up to and including the Civil War. In this volume are presented Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun,...
7 hours 10 minutes
Short Stories
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Henry Inman - Tales Of The Trail; Short Stories Of Western Life
This 1898 collection of thirteen previously published articles exhibits the acute perception of one of the most popular writers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries. “These «Tales of the Trail» are based upon actual...
6 hours 6 minutes
War & Military
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Samuel Greene - Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of...
1 hour 10 minutes
Early Modern
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Thomas Cleland Dawson - South American Republics, Part I
The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: «Why do they have so many revolutions there?» Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to answer...
12 hours 20 minutes
Modern (19th C)
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Robert Glass Cleland - History of California: The American Period
The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New England merchants traffic again along the sunlit, poorly guarded coast; the shadow...
17 hours 24 minutes
War & Military
612
Justin McCarthy - History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise of Young Ireland. Next we join the crowds in 1851 at the opening of the Great...
11 hours 29 minutes
Modern (19th C)
524
Arthur Henry Patterson - Man and Nature on the Broads
From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosystem, providing habitat for a diverse range of flora and fauna (some of which...
6 hours 31 minutes
Modern (19th C)
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Sir Grafton Elliot Smith - Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr. Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. It...
2 hours 17 minutes
