Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color" in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks after the Civil War; W.E.B.Du Bois on the American Negro Academy, and a biography of Harriet Tubman; Irish patriot Robert Everet's execution appeal; Swendenborg and spiritism; the optics of the kaleidoscope; the daily life of sailors and housewives; the relation of meteor showers to a massive earthquake in 1755; John Ruskin; Friedrich Schelling; Bramah's Kai Lung stories; and articles on the bottlenose whale and botrytis mold. (Summary by Sue Anderson)
Audiolibros
19 capítulos
5 h 56 min
- 1 The Absolute Equality of All Men Before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction42:29
- 2 Bottlenose Whale2:02
- 3 Botrytis2:01
- 4 The Conservation of Races28:17
- 5 The Earthquake of 175516:50
- 6 Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her People24:04
- 7 Immanuel Kant's Letter on Swedenborg to Charlotte von Knobloch14:10
- 8 It Is Not So Difficult To Live The Life That Leads To Heaven As Is Believed26:04
- 9 John Ruskin Obituary9:52
- 10 A Letter from Joanna Southcott to a Gentleman from London7:39
- 11 Local Guardian Spirits7:05
- 12 Moreheart Murder and Suicide, November 1, 19163:11
- 13 On the Kaleidoscope7:56
- 14 People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 137:12
- 15 People of Color in Louisiana, Pt 254:25
- 16 Preface to Ernest Bramah's Kai Lung's Golden Hours9:34
- 17 Robert Emmet's Appeal Before His Execution in The Irish Rebellion Of 180319:49
- 18 Twenty-four Hours of a Sailor's Life at Sea16:17
- 19 A Womanly Chat on Practical Housewifery27:11
