Modern (19th C) - a genre of audiobooks on the website knigi-audio.com/en/. Page - 1
'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show - Sam R. Watkins
'Co. Aytch,' Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show - Sam R. Watkins
- Author: Sam R. Watkins
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Samuel “Sam” Rush Watkins (June 26, 1839 – July 20, 1901) was a noted Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He is known today for his memoir Company Aytch: Or, a Side Show of the Big Show, often heralded as one of the best primary...
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism - Fanny Stenhouse
''Tell It All'': The Story of a Life's Experience in Mormonism - Fanny Stenhouse
- Author: Fanny Stenhouse
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Modern (19th C)
Fanny relates the experiences of a 19th century missionary as she and her young husband proselytize throughout Europe in search of converts to the new Mormon faith. Her religious zeal is sorely tested upon receipt of news from America revealing that...
Drugging a Nation - Samuel Merwin
Drugging a Nation - Samuel Merwin
- Author: Samuel Merwin
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addiction to opium of the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. So weak did it make China, that is...
This Country of Ours, Part 3 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 3 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Reference / Modern (19th C)
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 3: Stories...
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
Reminiscences of Captain Gronow - Rees Howell Gronow
- Author: Rees Howell Gronow
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful parliamentarian, and dandy. Gronow displays some...
A History of California: The American Period - Robert Glass Cleland
A History of California: The American Period - Robert Glass Cleland
- Author: Robert Glass Cleland
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
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 of Russia hangs for a moment...
The Splendid Wayfaring - John Neihardt
The Splendid Wayfaring - John Neihardt
- Author: John Neihardt
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Modern (19th C)
Quote:"In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central figure of my story, for of all...
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Leander Stillwell
The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 - Leander Stillwell
- Author: Leander Stillwell
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Leander Stillwell was an 18-year-old Illinois farm boy, living with his family in a log cabin, when the U.S. Civil War broke out. Stillwell felt a duty "to help save the Nation;" but, as with many other young men, his Patriotism was tinged with...
East by West, Vol. 2 - Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West, Vol. 2 - Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Author: Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (19th C)
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East in 1883, within two or three decades of the American Civil War, the Indian Mutiny and the end of Japan's isolation...
A Century of Negro Migration - Carter Woodson
A Century of Negro Migration - Carter Woodson
- Author: Carter Woodson
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Modern (20th C)
Dr. Woodson describes the internal migration of African Americans within the United States, including the Northern Migration and the draw of California. Cultural and sociological observations are made as well as a study of principal economic factors...
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850 - John Woodhouse Audubon
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850 - John Woodhouse Audubon
- Author: John Woodhouse Audubon
- Genre: Nature / Modern (19th C) / Life Sciences
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's California Company expedition in 1849. From New Orleans the expedition sailed to the Rio Grande; it headed west...
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria - William Westgarth
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria - William Westgarth
- Author: William Westgarth
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then entered the office of G. Young...
Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question - Undefined
Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published in 1887, this work contains articles in favour of the measure. (Irish home rule was finally approved in 1914...
Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion - Various
Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Modern (19th C)
The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion westward, the assasination of Garfield, The Spanish American War, and World War I. Poets in this volume...
The Underground Railroad, Part 2 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 2 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstances which seldom attend the birth of a book. Before emancipation, and while the bane of slavery was on the country,...
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate - Eliza P. Donner Houghton
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate - Eliza P. Donner Houghton
- Author: Eliza P. Donner Houghton
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although...
Stories of the Royal Humane Society - Frank Mundell
Stories of the Royal Humane Society - Frank Mundell
- Author: Frank Mundell
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Established in 1774, the ‘Society for the Recovery of Persons Apparently Drowned’ published information on how to save people from drowning, promoted the concept of using methods of artificial resuscitation to attempt to revive victims who had...
Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn - Robert Marshall Utley
Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn - Robert Marshall Utley
- Author: Robert Marshall Utley
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Indian warfare in the American West reached its climax with the defeat of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and...
East by West, Vol. 1 - Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West, Vol. 1 - Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Author: Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (19th C)
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parliamentary recess in 1883. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as "Toby...
The Emancipation of South America - Bartolomé Mitre
The Emancipation of South America - Bartolomé Mitre
- Author: Bartolomé Mitre
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
THREE great names stand forth conspicuous in the annals of America, those of Washington, Bolívar, San Martin. Of Washington, the great leader of the Democracy of the North; of Bolívar and of San Martin, who were the emancipators of the southern half...
Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or: Germany in 1848 - Friedrich Engels
Revolution and Counter-Revolution, or: Germany in 1848 - Friedrich Engels
- Author: Friedrich Engels
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Revolution and Counter-Revolution is an account of what happened in Prussia, Austria and other German states during 1848, describing the impact on both middle-class and working-class aspirations and on the idea of German unification. Events in...
Old Rail Fence Corners - Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
Old Rail Fence Corners - Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
- Author: Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now state of Minnesota (United States of America). This book has direct accounts of mid-19th century...
Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk - Harry Brittain
Notes on The Broads and Rivers of Norfolk and Suffolk - Harry Brittain
- Author: Harry Brittain
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterway system - a system that evolved gradually by natural flooding as a consequence of extensive peat digging...
My Hunt After 'The Captain' - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
My Hunt After 'The Captain' - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, poet, professor,...
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire - Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin
Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire - Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin
- Author: Henriette Lucie Dillon marquise de La Tour du Pin
- Genre: Memoirs / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of the Revolution, of her life in exile (partly in Upstate New York) and of the court of Napoleon Bonaparte. This...
The Underground Railroad, Part 3 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 3 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various methods adopted for circumventing the enemies of freedom, and told, as it is, with great simplicity and natural...
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Nature / Modern (19th C)
Life on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain detailing his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail - Ezra Meeker
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail - Ezra Meeker
- Author: Ezra Meeker
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
This is a memoir by an early 19th Century American settler in the Pacific Northwest. (Description by BellonaTimes)...
Clergymen Of The Church Of England - Anthony Trollope
Clergymen Of The Church Of England - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Religion / Modern (19th C)
This 1866 book was published in a time of great change in the Church of England. Trollope began as a High Church adherent and then worked his way to a Broad Church stance, a theological liberalism (toleration of belief and interpretation, regard for...
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Author: Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by the unwillingness of local, state and federal governments to prosecute those who were responsible, Ida Bell...
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies - H. A. GUERBER
The Story of the Thirteen Colonies - H. A. GUERBER
- Author: H. A. GUERBER
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run from the pre-Columbian era through the end of the American War of Independence. Some of the expressions and...
The Mounties in the News - The NEW YORK TIMES
The Mounties in the News - The NEW YORK TIMES
- Author: The NEW YORK TIMES
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
A newspaper account of the activities in the Western Canada during the Riel Rebellion and some of the aftermath , articles dating from August 1880 to January 1895. (Summary by David Lawrence)Readers for this project are David Lawrence and Esther....
Lord Kitchener - G. K. Chesterton
Lord Kitchener - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exceptionally a friend of Mahomedans.” (Summary quoted from Gilbert Keith Chesterton)...
Afloat on the Ohio - Reuben Gold THWAITES
Afloat on the Ohio - Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Author: Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (19th C)
Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo. There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife, our Boy of ten and a half years, the Doctor, and I. My object in going—the others went for the outing—was...
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike - William Henry Pope JARVIS
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike - William Henry Pope JARVIS
- Author: William Henry Pope JARVIS
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Modern (19th C)
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in Canada's Yukon. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters - Agnes C. LAUT
Chronicles of Canada Volume 22 - Pioneers of the Pacific Coast: A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
This, volume 22 of the Chronicles of Canada series, describes the exploration of the Canadian Pacific coast, British Columbia, and Alaska. It includes accounts of Bering, Cook, Vancouver, Mackenzie, Fraser, and Thompson. - Summary by TriciaG...
Garibaldi and the Making of Italy - George Macaulay TREVELYAN
Garibaldi and the Making of Italy - George Macaulay TREVELYAN
- Author: George Macaulay TREVELYAN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) was an Italian general and politician who played a large role in making of what Italy is today. He is known as one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland". Garibaldi was a central figure in the Italian Risorgimento...
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles - Francis Key HOWARD
Fourteen Months in American Bastiles - Francis Key HOWARD
- Author: Francis Key HOWARD
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at the same location where his grandfather was inspired to write the national anthem about the "land of the free,"...
The Underground Railroad, Part 1 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 1 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
”It was my good fortune to lend a helping hand to the weary travelers flying from the land of bondage.” William Still. "Dear Sir:—For most of the years I have lived, the escape of fugitives from slavery, and their efforts to baffle the human and...
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign - John ASHTON
Gossip In The First Decade Of Victoria's Reign - John ASHTON
- Author: John ASHTON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
"I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria's reign, to whom the remembrance of things, almost...
