Richard I by Jacob Abbott

Richard the I in Palestine by Philip James Loutherbourg
Richard the I in Palestine by Philip James Loutherbourg

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Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine

01 – King Richard’s Mother

02 – Richard’s Early Life

03 – Fair Rosamond

Fair Rosamund in her bower
Fair Rosamund in her bower

04 – Richard’s Accession to the throne

05 – The Coronation

06 – Preparations for the Crusade

07 – The Embarkation

08 – King Richard at Messina

Richard the Lionheart meeting Philippe August

09 – Berengaria

Richard I's wife, Berengaria of Navarre
Richard I's wife, Berengaria of Navarre

10 – The Campaign in Cyprus

11 – Voyage to Acre

12-Arrival at Acre

Richard the Lionheart, having the Saracens beheaded in Acre

13 – Difficulties

14 – The Fall of Acre

15 – Progress of the Crusade

16 – Reverses

17 – Old Man of the Mountains

Saladin's attack on Jaffa

18 – The Battle of Jaffa

Richard and Saladin

19 – The Truce

20 – The Departure from Palestine

Trifels castle, Germany, prison of Richard the Lionheart
Trifels castle, Germany, prison of Richard the Lionheart

21 – Richard Made Captive

22 – The Return to England

Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw

Christopher Columbus First landing on the shores of the new

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Santa Maria, maquette of Christopher Columbus' ship at the Mercatormuseum in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, photo by Donderwolk, licensed under GNU Free Documentation license

00 – Preface

01 – Beliefs as to the World Four Hundred Years Ago

02 – Marco Polo

03 – Columbus

04 – Vasco Da Gama

Sébastien Cabot
Sébastien Cabot

05 – John and Sebastian Cabot’s Voyages

06 – Amerigo Vespucci

07 – Ponce De Leon

08 – Balboa

09 – Magellan

Arrival of Cortes in Veracruz and the reception by Moctezuma's Ambassadors
Arrival of Cortes in Veracruz and the reception by Moctezuma's Ambassadors

10 – Hernando Cortes

11 – Francisco Pizarro

12 – Ferdinand De Soto

Origin of the Amazon River at Nevado Mismi, marked only by a wooden cross.
Origin of the Amazon River at Nevado Mismi, marked only by a wooden cross.

13 – The Great River Amazon and El Dorado

14 – Verrazzano (often spelled Verrazano)

15 – The Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake

16 – Henry Hudson

Famous Men of Modern Times

Washington painting by John Trumbull

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Preface

Lorenzo the Magnificent

Christopher Columbus

Ferdinand of Aragon

Vasco da Gama by Miguel Lupi

Vasco de Gama

Chevalier Bayard

Cardinal Wolsey

Charles V of Germany

Solyman the Sublime

Sir Francis Drake

The Armada in Sight depicting how Charles Howard met Francis Drake nearly before battle with Spain

Sir Walter Raleigh

Henry of Navarre

Wallenstein

Gustavus Adolphus

Cardinal Richelieu

Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti

Galileo

Oliver Cromwell

Louis XIV

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Sir Isaac Newton

William III, King of England

Sobieski

Czar Peter en route to the newly built frigate 'Peter and Paul'

Peter the Great

Charles XII of Sweden

Frederick the Great

William Pitt

Washington's Inauguration by Ramon de Elorriaga

George Washington

Robespierre

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

Horatio Nelson

Thaddeus Kosciusko

Abraham Lincoln 1846

Abraham Lincoln

Garibaldi

William Ewart Gladstone

Count Von Bismarck

William the Conqueror by Jacob Abbott

William the Conqueror landing in England
William the Conqueror landing in England

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William I (The Conqueror)

01 – Preface, Normandy

02 – Birth of William

03 – The Accession

04 – William’s Reign in Normandy

05 – The Marriage

06 – The Lady Emma

Duke William of Normandy, the Conqueror, stabs King Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings as they fight on horseback.
Duke William of Normandy, the Conqueror, stabs King Harold of England at the Battle of Hastings as they fight on horseback.

07 – King Harold

08 – Preparations for the Invasion


09 – Crossing the Channel

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 by Francois Hippolyte Debon
The Battle of Hastings in 1066 by Francois Hippolyte Debon

10 – The battle of Hastings

11 – Prince Robert’s Rebellion

12 – The Conclusion

Queen Elizabeth by Jacob Abbott

Queen Elizabeth I (The Ditchley portrait) by Marcus Gheeraerts
Queen Elizabeth I (The Ditchley portrait) by Marcus Gheeraerts

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Queen Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn
Queen Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn

01 – Preface; Elizabeth’s Mother

Called (inaccurately)Princess Elizabeth of England, the later Queen Elizabeth of England I., at the age of three (right), at the age of five (left) and at the age of six (middle), daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn, 16th century.  The fashions are of the 17th century long after Elizabeth died.
Called (inaccurately)Princess Elizabeth of England, the later Queen Elizabeth of England I., at the age of three (right), at the age of five (left) and at the age of six (middle), daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn, 16th century. The fashions are of the 17th century long after Elizabeth died.

Note: The author mistakenly introduces this chapter as “chapter 3”, but she reads Chapter 2, Childhood of a Princess.

02 – The Childhood of a Princess

The Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk praying Lady Jane Grey accept the crown
The Dukes of Northumberland and Suffolk praying Lady Jane Grey accept the crown

03 – Lady Jane Grey

04 – The Spanish Match

05 – Queen Elizabeth in the Tower

Queen Elizabeth I in coronation robes
Queen Elizabeth I in coronation robes

06 – Accession to the Throne

07 – The War in Scotland

08 – Elizabeth’s Lovers

09 – Personal Character

The Spanish Armada off the English coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen
The Spanish Armada off the English coast by Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen

10 – The Invincible Armada
11 – The Earl of Essex
12 – The Conclusion

Cleopatra by Jacob Abbott

Cleopatra by John William Waterhouse

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The Landing of Cleopatra in Tarsus by Claude Lorraine


01 – Preface, The Valley of the Nile

02 – The Ptolemies

03 – Alexandria

04 – Cleopatra’s Father

05 – Accession to the Throne

Cleopatra Jean Thomassen, left side of an Egyptian triptych
Cleopatra Jean Thomassen, left side of an Egyptian triptych

06 – Cleopatra and Caesar

07 – The Alexandrine War

08 – Cleopatra a Queen

09 – The Battle of Philippi

10 – Cleopatra and Antony

Anthony and Cleopatra by Lawrence Alma Tadema

11 – The Battle of Actium

12 – The End of Cleopatra

Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott

Alexander and Bucephalus at Battle of Issus

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The Taming of Bucephalus

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01 – Alexander’s Childhood and Youth

02 – Beginning of His Reign

Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot by Jean-Simon Berthelemy

03 – The Reaction

04 – Crossing the Hellespont

05 – Campaign in Asia Minor

Battle of Gaugamela by Jan Brueghel the Elder


06 – Defeat of Darius

07 – The Siege of Tyre

08 – Alexander in Egypt
09 – The Great Victory

Alexander the Great in the Temple of Jerusalem, by Sebastiano Conca

10 – The Death of Darius

11 – Deterioration of Character

12 – Alexander’s End

Hero Tales from American History by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge

HT Theodore Roosevelt in military uniform, 1898

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George Washington, 1772

01 – Washington

02 – Daniel Boone and the Founding of Kentucky

03 – George Rogers Clark and the Conquest of the Northwest

Lewis and Clark expedition by Charles Marion Russell
Lewis and Clark expedition by Charles Marion Russell

04 – The Battle of Trenton

05 – Bennington

06 – King’s Mountain

07 – The Storming of Stony Point

08 – Gouverneur Morris

09 – The Burning of the ‘Philadelphia’

"Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli, February 16, 1804" by Edward Moran, 1897
"Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli, February 16, 1804" by Edward Moran, 1897

10 – The Cruise of the ‘Wasp’

11 – The ‘General Armstrong’ Privateer

12 – The Battle of New Orleans

13 – John Quincy Adams and the Right of Petition

14 – Francis Parkman

15 – ‘Remember the Alamo’

HT Davy Crockett, 1834

16 – Hampton Roads

17 – The Flag-Bearer

18 – The Death of Stonewall Jackson

Stonewall Jackson

19 – The Charge at Gettysburg

20 – General Grant and the Vicksburg Campaign

Ulysses Simpson Grant

21 – Robert Gould Shaw

22 – Charles Russell Lowell

23 – Sheridan at Cedar Creek

Sheridan at Cedar Creek

24 – Lieutenant Cushing and the Ram ‘Albemarle’

25 – Farragut at Mobile Bay

26 – Lincoln

Four Great Americans by James Baldwin

George Washington Battle of Princeton

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George Washington 1

01 – Washington, Ch. 1

02 – Washington, Ch. 2

03 – Washington, Ch. 3

04 – Washington, Ch. 4

05 – Washington, Ch. 5

06 – Washington, Ch. 6

Washington

07 – Washington, Ch. 7

08 – Washington, Ch. 8

09 – Washington, Ch. 9

10 – Washington, Ch. 10

11 – Washington, Ch. 11

12 – Washington, Ch. 12

13 – Washington, Ch. 13

14 – Washington, Ch. 14

15 – Washington, Ch. 15

Benjamin Franklin
Chamberlin_-_Benjamin_Franklin_(1762)

16 – Franklin, Ch. 1

17 – Franklin, Ch. 2

18 – Franklin, Ch. 3

19 – Franklin, Ch. 4

20 – Franklin, Ch. 5

21 – Franklin, Ch. 6

22 – Franklin, Ch. 7

Benjamin_Franklin_by_Jean-Baptiste_Greuze

23 – Franklin, Ch. 8

24 – Franklin, Ch. 9

25 – Franklin, Ch. 10

26 – Franklin, Ch. 11

27 – Franklin, Ch. 12

28 – Franklin, Ch. 13

29 – Franklin, Ch. 14

30 – Franklin, Ch. 15

Daniel Webster
Webster

31 – Webster, Ch. 1

32 – Webster, Ch. 2

33 – Webster, Ch. 3

34 – Webster, Ch. 4

35 – Webster, Ch. 5

36 – Webster, Ch. 6

Daniel_Webster

37 – Webster, Ch. 7

38 – Webster, Ch. 8

39 – Webster, Ch. 9

40 – Webster, Ch. 10

41 – Webster, Ch. 11

42 – Webster, Ch. 12

43 – Webster, Ch. 13

44 – Webster, Ch. 14

45 – Webster, Ch. 15

Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln

46 – Lincoln, Ch. 1

47 – Lincoln, Ch. 2

48 – Lincoln, Ch. 3

49 – Lincoln, Ch. 4

50 – Lincoln, Ch. 5

51 – Lincoln, Ch. 6

52 – Lincoln, Ch. 7

Abraham Lincoln

53 – Lincoln, Ch. 8

54 – Lincoln, Ch. 9

55 – Lincoln, Ch. 10

56 – Lincoln, Ch. 11

57 – Lincoln, Ch. 12

58 – Lincoln, Ch. 13

59 – Lincoln, Ch. 14

60 – Lincoln, Ch. 15

Great artists volume 1

Plato and Aristotle in the School of Athens by Rafael

Biographies of Raphael Santi, Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens, and Albrecht Durer. This is a wonderful tool for art study as there are references for further study, as well as ideas for language arts to incorporate into the study. (Summary by Laura Caldwell for Librivox).

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Lady with a Unicorn by Rafael Santi

0 – A Word to the Teacher


1 – Raphael Santi – The Perfect Artist, the Perfect Man

The Little Fruit Seller by Bartolome Esteban Murillo

2 – Murillo and Spanish Art

3 – Peter Paul Rubens

Pope Peter by Rubens


4 – Albrecht Durer and his City
Durer self portrait at 28

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Ben Franklin by Duplessis

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Benjamin Franklin by Greuze

00-Introduction

01-Ancestry and Early Youth in Boston

02-Beginning Life as a Printer

03-Arrival in Philadelphia

04-First Visit to Boston

05-Early Friends in Philadelphia

06-First Visit to London

07-Beginning Business in Philadelphia

08-Business Success and First Public Service

09-Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection

Poor Richard's Almanac 1739

10-Poor Richard’s Almanac and Other Activities

11-Interest in Public Affairs

12-Defense of the Province

13-Public Services and Duties

Treaty of Paris by Benjamin West, unfinished

14-Albany Plan of Union

15-Quarrels with the Proprietary

16-Braddock’s Expedition

17-Franklin’s Defense of the Frontier

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, by Benjamin West

18-Scientific Experiments

19-Agent of Pennsylvania in London

20-Appendix

The Story of the Middle Ages by Samuel Harding

Charlemagne et Louis le Pieux

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Ancient German Family

Introduction

Chapter 1, The Ancient Germans

Chapter 2, Breaking the Frontier

Chapter 3, The Wanderings of the West-Goths

Chapter 4, End of the Western Empire

St. Kevin's Church, image released to public domain by copyright holder Warrenfisch

Chapter 5, Growth of the Christian Church

chapter 6, Rise of the Franks

chapter 7, Franks and Mohammedans

chapter 8, Charlemagne

chapter 9, Growth of Feudalism

chapter 10,The Deeds of the Northmen

Baldin of Boulogne entering Edessa

Chapter 11, The First Crusade

chapter 12, Later Crusades

Somosko Hungary, image by Uzo 19, licensed under GNU Free Documentation license

chapter 13, Life of the Castle

chapter 14, Life of the Village and Town

chapter 15, Life of the Monastery

chapter 16, Papacy and Town

Battle of Crecy Hundred Years War

chapter 17, The Hundred Years’ War

chapter 18, End of the Middle Ages

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Frederick Douglass

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Christopher Columbus

Columbus Puerto de Palos by Evaristo Dominguez

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Columbus from the book Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw

You Are There! Columbus Discovers America

Christopher Columbus radio drama on Cavalcade of America.   Orson Welles is the star of this Old Time Radio show titled Admiral Of The Ocean Sea with Orson Welles.

Columbus: a poem by Joaquin Miller

Christopher Columbus from M.B. Synge’s book   The Discovery of New Worlds

Christopher Columbus from the book American History Stories by Mara Pratt

Christopher Columbus is shown landing in the West Indies, on an island that the natives called Guanahani and he named San Salvador, on October 12, 1492. He raises the royal banner, claiming the land for his Spanish patrons, and stands bareheaded, with his hat at his feet, in honor of the sacredness of the event. The captains of the Niña and Pinta follow, carrying the banner of Ferdinand and Isabella. The crew displays a range of emotions, some searching for gold in the sand. Natives watch from behind a tree. John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) had studied with Gilbert Stuart and was the first American painter to be trained in Paris, where he worked on this canvas for ten years with the help of assistants.
Christopher Columbus is shown landing in the West Indies, on an island that the natives called Guanahani and he named San Salvador, on October 12, 1492. He raises the royal banner, claiming the land for his Spanish patrons, and stands bareheaded, with his hat at his feet, in honor of the sacredness of the event. The captains of the Nina and Pinta follow, carrying the banner of Ferdinand and Isabella. The crew displays a range of emotions, some searching for gold in the sand. Natives watch from behind a tree. John Vanderlyn (1775-1852) had studied with Gilbert Stuart and was the first American painter to be trained in Paris, where he worked on this canvas for ten years with the help of assistants.