The Loyalists in the American Revolution is the detailed story of the formation of the Tory or Loyalist party in the American Revolution ; its persecution by the Whigs during a long and fratricidal war, and the banishment or death of over one hundred thousand of these most conservative and respectable Americans is a tragedy but rarely paralleled in the history of the world.This book includes matters necessary for an understanding of the Revolution, but hitherto, for the most part, ...

This is an essay from Peck's book Studies in Several Literatures from 1909. His talks about Voltaire, Poe, Gaboriau, and Doyle are quite good and very intelligently spoken of.Peck was an American classical scholar, author, editor, historian and critic. (Wikipedia)In 1906 he published a nearly 800-page monument of progressive historiography, Twenty Years of the Republic 1885-1905, expansive, dense with detail and reference, penetrating, scathing in its revelations o...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West, Vol. 4: Louisiana and the Northwest 1791–1807 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in four volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1889.This is the final volume of the series. It was later reprinted in six volumes. My apologies for any misunderstanding. Aloha.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1889. It is in the public domain.

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 RealmsFrederick Jackson Turner by Carl Becker. John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University. Extracted from American Masters of Social Science edited by Howard W. Odum. Henry Holt and Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1827. It is in the public domain.Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian during the early twentieth century, based at th...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsOfficial Guidebook of the San Diego Zoo by Zoological Society of San Diego, 1927.It is in the public domain.This is a lovely piece of history of the renowned zoo. Easily noted are the magnificent donations of Ellen B. Scripps and the great time and energy of Dr. Harry Wegeforth among others.Narrated by Joseph TablerDusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from history. If today...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Winning of the West, Volume 2: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777–1783 by Theodore Roosevelt. A Major US History Series in Four Volumes. G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1889.Narrated 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, s...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsThe Rise of American Civilization by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. In two volumes. Volume One: The Agricultural Era. The MacMillan Company 1927.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote: This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1927. It is in the public domain.Narrator’s note: Published as a very large book … perhaps to show how special it is, and it is that!! I was tempted to split it into two b...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsColonial Self-Government, 1652–1689 by Charles McLean Andrews, Ph.D., Professor of History in Bryn Mawr CollegeNarrated by Joseph TablerVolume 5 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, extend...

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken RealmsIndian Legends of the Cuyamaca Mountains by Mary Elizabeth Johnson. Published in 1914 by Mary Elizabeth Johnson.Narrated by Joseph Tabler. This book is in the public domain. It is read ‘as written.'Audio copyright 2024Contents of the booklet:ForewordHilsh Ki’e—Pine TreeHuts-tah’ Ta-mil ‘tah—Hanging HeadAh-ha’ Wi Ah-ha’—Water Colder WaterAh Kwer-rup’—Disease CureHul-ya-oo’ Nimoo-lu ‘kah—Phantom BasketNa...

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 RealmsLincoln in the Black Hawk War by Alfred Augustus Jackson. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Volume XIV edited and annotated by Reuben Gold Thwaites.Narrated by Joseph TablerNote - This book is ‘read as written'. It was published in 1898. It is in the public domain.Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain writings retrieved from the ravages of time; Available as never before, as audio bo...