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Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
17 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIn the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russ...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
24 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoIt was published in 1893–1894 by Century Magazine in seven installments, and is a detective story with some racial themes. The plot of this novel is a detective story, in which a series of identiti...
Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett
20 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoThe Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains ...
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death by Patrick Henry
1 episode - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis speech was given March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having singlehandedly convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution deliverin...
U.S. Historical Documents by Various
4 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsThe Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, though not yet ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Ra...
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One by W. M. Flinders Petrie
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBrief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt.
King Richard II by William Shakespeare
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 1 ratingThe Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The Life of King Henry V. At the beginning of ...
Red Shadows by Robert Ervin Howard
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoRed Shadows is the first of a series of stories featuring Howard’s puritan avenger, Solomon Kane. Kane tracks his prey over land and sea, enters the jungles of Africa, and even faces dark Gods and ...
Bill of Rights & Amendments to the US Constitution by Founding Fathers of the United States
5 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThe Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately.
China and the Chinese by Herbert Allen Giles
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHerbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language a...
Chronicles of Canada -- Dawn of Canadian History: Aboriginal Canada by Stephen Leacock
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 9 ratingsMost readers of Stephen Leacock's works are familiar with his witty and humorous writings, but few may be aware that he was also a gifted teacher, political ideologue, economist and fiction writer....
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsOne of the earliest polished examples of existential literature, Notes from the Underground follows the life of a recluse and depicts his antagonistic attitude toward society. Written in two parts ...
The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years agoBrooks Adams (1848- 1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together...
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
6 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsThough it's titled The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, the man himself appears only in five scenes in the entire play! However, such is his impact on the events that surrounded him that he still remains ...
Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
9 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsOrthodoxy is a book that has become a classic of Christian apologetics. In the book's preface Chesterton states the purpose is to "attempt an explanation, not of whether the Christian faith can be ...
Where Angels Fear to Tread by Edward M. Forster
10 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 2 ratingsOn a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy and a handsome Italian much younger than herself, and dec...
Diary of a U-boat Commander by Sir Stephen King-Hall
12 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe infamous U boats deployed by Germany in the two World Wars have spawned several works of fiction and non-fiction. These deadly vessels were not just efficient and lethal killing machines, but t...
History of the United States: The Colonial Period Onwards by Charles Austin Beard
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsVol. I: The Colonial Period. Charles Austin Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in ...
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa
14 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingFourteen Old Indian Legends by Native American ( Dakota ) Author Zitkala-Sa. These Legends feature the exploits of Iktomi the Native American Trickster god.
What's Wrong With the World by G. K. Chesterton
15 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, prover...
Comic History of England by Bill Nye
19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 5 ratingsIf you thought history was dull, dry and boring, you haven't read Bill Nye's books! He brings wit, humor, satire, irony and sheer nonsensical fun into the subject, making it both entertaining and m...
Adrift in New York by Horatio Alger, Jr.
19 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 1 ratingSet in 19th century New York, this is the story of a wealthy old man who adopts his orphaned nephew and niece after his own four year old son mysteriously disappears. However, under a smooth exteri...
Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty by Sir John Barrow
23 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsOn December 31 1787, the HMS Bounty, a small sailing vessel embarked from Spithead Harbor, England bound for Tahiti. Her mission was sponsored by the Royal Society in London and aimed at picking up...
Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden
24 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRobin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known...
Gallipoli Diary by John Graham Gillam
24 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingWorld War I was one of the most savage and brutal wars in human history. There were millions of deaths and the tragedy was compounded by the fact that these were all young men in the flower of yout...
Blackfeet Indian Stories by George B. Grinnell
26 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThe Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only ...
Herodotus' Histories by Herodotus of Halicarnassus
26 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire a...
From October to Brest-Litovsk by Leon Trotsky
27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsThis account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out ...
Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
27 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an “epic poem in prose”,...
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
90 episodes - Latest episode: over 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFirst serialized from January to August, 1845, Twenty Years After is the second book in The D’Artagnan Romances, and follows the gallant adventures of the musketeers, as they are once again summone...
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