Category Archives: Modern

Audiobook: Chronicles of Canada Volume 15 – The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War

This is the history of Pontiac’s Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and

Audiobook: Popular History of Ireland, Book 08

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His

Audiobook: Chronicles of Canada Volume 16 – The War Chief of the Six Nations: A Chronicle of Joseph Brant

‘Thayendanegea!’ The name was taken from the great book of nature. It was a birth-name

Audiobook: Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

Cellini’s autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account

Audiobook: Popular History of Ireland, Book 09

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His

Audiobook: Pioneers of France in the New World

Parkman has been hailed as one of America’s first great historians and as a master

Audiobook: Popular History of Ireland, Book 10

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His

Audiobook: Popular History of Ireland, Book 11

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His

Audiobook: History of England, from the Accession of James II – (Volume 3, Chapter 14)

This is volume 3 chapter 14 of a series of books written by the Baron

Audiobook: History of England, from the Accession of James II – (Volume 3, Chapter 15)

This is volume 3 chapter 15 of a series of books written by the Baron

Audiobook: Popular History of Ireland, Book 12

Thomas D’Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His

Audiobook: Chronicles of Canada Volume 18 – The ‘Adventurers of England’ on Hudson Bay

The fur hunters were explorers who had blazed a trail across a continent and penetrated

Audiobook: History of Farming in Ontario

This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader

Audiobook: Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 – Pathfinders of the Great Plains

This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of

Audiobook: History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1F

David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical

Audiobook: Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción

Audiobook: Half Century of Conflict

Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with

Audiobook: Storm

The Storm (1704) holds a special place in the writings of Daniel Defoe. Widely considered

Audiobook: Old Régime in Canada

Francis Parkman is an nineteenth century American historian. He devoted most of his life to

Audiobook: Story of the Barbary Corsairs

A history of the pirating activities along and around the “Barbary coast” between the 15th

Audiobook: Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada

“The Conspiracy of Pontiac” was Parkman’s first history book and first published in 1851. It

Audiobook: History of the Four Georges in Four Volumes, Volume 1

Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), liberal member of Parliament and historian. He brings the great 18th Century

Audiobook: History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 3

In Volume III of this series on the Hanoverian Kings, Justin McCarthy is joined by

Audiobook: Catherine De’ Medici

The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works

Audiobook: Natural History of Chocolate

The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its

Audiobook: Chronicles of America Volume 01 – The Red Man’s Continent

Characteristics of the peoples and environment of the earliest stages of America. – Summary by

Audiobook: Pianoforte Sonata

John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata,

Audiobook: Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders

The eleventh volume of the Beacon Lights of History series, this volume is the first

Audiobook: South American Republics, Part I

The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has

Audiobook: South American Republics, Part II

This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the