A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsEuropean Background of American History by Edward Potts Cheyney, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.Volume 1 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery d...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsSaarbrück to Paris, 1870: A Strategical Sketch by Lieut.-Colonel Sisson C. PrattNarrated by Joseph TablerSpecial Campaign Series No. 1 published by Swan Sonnenschein 1904. (Franco-Prussian War 1870–1871)Publisher’s Preface to the Series: The “Special Campaign” Series deals with the history of the war in its technical aspect, and the text of each volume is interspersed with strategical and tactical com...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in four volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1889.Volume One—From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769–1776Narrated by Joseph TablerNote—This book is “read as written.” It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, so...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume 5 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US History Series in six volumes. “The Author’s Last Revision” 1891 by D. Appleton and Company. Volume 5 comprises the American Revolution.Bancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomat...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume 6 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A Major U.S. History Series in 6 Volumes. “The Author’s Last Revision” 1891 by D. Appleton and Company.Bancroft was U.S. Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germa...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA GENERATION OF AMERICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY by William A. Dunning. Professor of History at Columbia University. Published in the Annual Report of the American Historical Association THE YEAR 1917.A nice overview of book trends and the histories/historians in the decades (a generation) prior to 1900, when most historians were male and white, of course … but not all.Note: This book is “read as written.” It was publi...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsScience Fiction Stories of the Future from the PastNarrated by Joseph Tabler“The Automatic Maid of All Work” by M. L. Campbell originally published in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature for July, 1893.“Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” by Elizabeth W. Bellamy originally published in The Black Cat, December, 1899.“Mr. Meek—Musketeer” by Clifford D....

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMary Wollstonecraft Godwin by Elizabeth Robins Pennell. Eminent Women Series (Famous Women Series in the US) Edited by John H. Ingram. W. H. Allen & Co. 1885.Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1884. It is in the public domain.Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. She has been c...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Slave in Canada by The Honorable William Renwick Riddell LL.D, F. R. Hist. Soc; F. R. Soc. Can.; &c, &c. JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF ONTARIO from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. V, No. 3, July, 1920, Carter G. Woodson, Editor.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote—This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1920. It is in the public domain. Read on the Internet Archive at Archive.org. Lengthy footnotes not r...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsTHE HISTORY OF HISTORICAL WRITING IN AMERICA by J. Franklin Jameson, PhD, Professor of History at Brown University. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1891.Note: This book is “read as written.” It was published in 1891. It is in the public domain.Jameson helped found the American Historical Association (1884), and was the first managing editor of the American Historical Review. He also wrote The American Revolutio...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Victory at Sea. By William Sowden Sims, Rear-Admiral of the US Navy. Commander of the American naval forces operating in European waters during the Great War. (World War One)In Cooperation with Burton J. Hendrick. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize: 1921 in History for The Victory at Sea and in 1929 in Biography or Autobiography for The Training of An American: The Earlier Life and Letters of...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsA Major US Historian SeriesCustoms and Fashions of Old New England by Alice Morse Earle first published by Charles Scribner’s Sons 1893.Note: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1893. It is in the public domain.Narrator’s comment: This book is quite wonderful, a slice of life from another time, at once fun, interesting, and real history. Alice Morse Earle is great! (And not easy to read at tim...