A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsVolume one 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. “Author’s Last Revision” 1888 by D. Appleton and Company.Bancroft as US 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 Germany. H...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsHistory of the Great American Fortunes Volume One of Three Volumes by Gustavus Myers. Charles H. Kerr 1909.Note - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1909. It is in the public domain.Contents:PrefacePart I: Conditions in Colonial and Settlement TimesChapter:I. The Great Proprietary EstatesII. The Sway of the LandgravesIII. The Rise of the Trading ClassIV. The Shipping FortunesV. The Sh...

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 RealmsThe Russo-Turkish War of 1877 by Major F. MauriceSpecial Campaign Series No. 2 published by Swan Sonnenschein 1905.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 strategic and tactical comments … subsequent volumes will deal with those campaigns of the nineteenth century that p...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsMeetings With Poe from Recollections, Personal and Literary by Richard Henry StoddardNarrated by Joseph TablerA. S. Barnes and Company 1903.Editor’s Note: Living as he did through several distinct periods of American literary history, Mr. Stoddard’s recollections inevitably represented a range and a richness that made their preservation essential.From the Introduction by Edmund Clarence Stedman...

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...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsJacksonian Democracy 1829–1837 by William MacDonald, LLD. Professor of History in Brown University. Published in 1906 by Harper and Brothers.Narrated by Joseph Tabler. This book is in the public domain. It is read ‘as written.'Volume 15 of 27 in The American Nation: A History From Original Sources by Associated Scholars published by Harper Brothers (1904*–*1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Har...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Waterloo Campaign - A Study by Lieut.-Colonel Sisson C. Pratt.Special Campaign Series No. 5 published by Swan Sonnenschein 1907.Publisher’s Preface to the Series: The “Special Campaign” Series deals with the history of war in its technical aspect, and the text of each volume is interspersed with strategic and tactical comments … subsequent volumes will deal with those campaigns of the nineteenth century th...

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 RealmsThe Federalist System, 1789–1801 by John Spencer Bassett, PhD, Professor of History, Trinity College, NCNarrated by Joseph TablerVolume 11 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918) Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard UniversityFrom the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is need...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Confederation and the Constitution, 1783–1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LLB, Professor of American History at the University of Michigan. 1936 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book A Constitutional History of the United States.Narrated by Joseph TablerVolume 10 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918) Edited by Albert...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West, Vol. 3: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths 1784–1790 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in four volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1894.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote—This book is “read as written.” It was published in 1894. It is in the public domain.We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politicia...