Renaissance – Page 2 – My Audio School

June 22, 2010May 31, 2011

Historical Tales Volume II, American II by Charles Morris

Summary Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplements the first with additional stories of the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the United States of America, describing history for children and young adults in an exciting and novel manner.
(Summary by Kalynda for Librivox)

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Total running time: 8 hours, 23 minutes

01 – Ponce de Leon and the Fountain of Youth

02 – De Soto and the Father of the Waters

03 – The Lost Colony of Roanoke

04 – The Thrilling Adventures of Captain John

05 – The Indian Massacre in Virginia

06 – The Great Rebellion in the Old Dominion

07 – La Salle the Explorer of the Mississippi

08 – The French of Louisiana and the Natchez Indians

09 – The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe

10 – How Oglethorpe Saved Georgia from Spain

11 – A Boy’s Working Holiday in the Wildwood

12 – Patrick Henry, the Herald of the Revolution

13 – Governor Tryon and the Carolina Regulators

14 – Lord Dunmore and the Gunpowder

15 – The Fatal Expedition of Colonel Rogers

16 – How Colonel Clark Won the Northwest

17 – King’s Mountain and the Patriots of Tennessee

18 – General Greene’s Famous Retreat

19 – Eli Whitney, the Inventor of the Cotton Gin

20 – How Old Hickory Fought the Creeks

21 – The Pirates of Barataria Bay

22 – The Heroes of the Alamo

23 – How Houston Won Freedom for

24 – Captain Robert E. Lee and the Lava-Beds

25 – A Christmas Day on the Plantation

26 – Captain Gordon and the Raccoon Roughs

27 – Stuart’s Famous Chambersburg

28 – Forrest’s Chase of the Raiders

29 – Exploits of a Blockade-Runner

30 – Fontain, the Scout, and the Besiegers of Vicksburg

31 – Gordon and the Bayonet Chart at Antietam

32 – The Last Triumph of Stonewall Jackson

33 – John Morgan’s Famous Raid

34 – Home-Coming of General Lee and His Veterans

June 10, 2010July 1, 2011

King Lear by William Shakespeare

Summary: King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare’s tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion to their professed love of him. His plan misfires when Cordelia, his youngest and favourite daughter, refuses to flatter her father; she is disinherited and banished. (Summary by David Barnes for Librivox)

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Total running time: 3 hours, 23 minutes

January 4, 2010May 31, 2011

Historical Tales volume 1 by Charles Morris

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Total running time: 8 hours, 37 minutes
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Summary from Librivox: Volume I of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This first volume comprises the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the United States of America, describing history for children and young adults in an exiting and novel manner. (Summary by Kalynda)

00 – Preface – 00:02:38

01 – Vineland and the Vikings – 00:29:43

02 – Frobisher and the Northwest Passage – 00:12:58

03 – Champlain and the Iroquois – 00:29:19

04 – Sir William Phips and the Silver-ship – 00:24:42

05 – Story of the Regicides – 00:16:39

06 – How the Charter Was Saved – 00:15:51

07 – How Franklin Came to Philadelphia – 00:13:24

08 – Perils of the Wilderness – 00:21:45

09 – Some Adventures of Major Putnam – 00:25:38

10 – Gallant Defense – 00:15:10

11 – Daniel Boone, the Pioneer of Kentucky – 00:28:16

12 – Paul Revere’s Ride – 00:20:09

13 – Green Mountain Boys – 00:11:39

14 – British at New York – 00:13:20

15 – Quakeress Patriot – 00:08:37

16 – Siege of Fort Schuyler – 00:24:00

17 – On the Track of a Traitor – 00:17:24

18 – Marion, the Swamp Fox – 00:19:19

19 – Fate of the Philadelphia – 00:18:10

20 – Victim of a Traitor – 00:14:56

21 – How the Electric Telegraph was Invented – 00:22:04

22 – Monitor and the Merrimac – 00:14:11

23 – Stealing a Locomotive – 00:18:43

24 – Escape from Libby Prison – 00:22:20

25 – Sinking of the Albemarle – 00:19:11

26 – Alaska-Gold, Furs, and Fishes – 00:15:41

27 – How Hawaii Lost Its Queen – 00:20:37

January 3, 2010July 5, 2016

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

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Summary from Librivox: Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then appears and charges Claudius with ‘murder most foul.’ Hamlet is called to revenge his father’s death: but will he be able to act before it is too late?

Dramatis Personae – 00:02:42

November 25, 2009November 21, 2016

Thanksgiving Resources

Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick for Thanksgiving study. This link will take you away from My Audio School.

These Thanksgiving resources are already on My Audio School individually, but they are gathered here for your convenience:

To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part one, click here.

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The Path of Praise was a special Thanksgiving broadcast on Cavalcade of America in 1951. Full of excellent Thanksgiving music, this inspiring history of the American Thanksgiving holiday traces the Thanksgiving celebration from the days of the Pilgrims through George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation and Abraham Lincoln’s declaration which made Thanksgiving a national holiday.

Path of Praise

To listen to these Thanksgiving songs, go to Kiddie Records Weekly 2009. Page down to February, week 8 and click on the link for Little Johnny Pilgrim. Below the record album covers (there are 4) you’ll see a prompt to Download the audio files or launch the audio stream.

There is no way to download just the Johnny Pilgrim and Guffy Gobbler tracks, but you can launch the stream in Windows Media Player and then select the track you want to listen to (in this case track 2).

Little Johnny Pilgrim is a song about the history of Thanksgiving. Guffy the Goofy Gobbler is a silly song about a turkey. Both songs are performed by Gene Autry.

November 21, 2009May 31, 2011

The Path of Praise: Thanksgiving Broadcast

Path of Praise

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October 2, 2009November 29, 2012

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book One, by John Calvin

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Running Time: 11 hours, 13 minutes

September 14, 2009July 16, 2014

The Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon

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Summary: Relates the story of western civilization from earliest times through the beginning of the twentieth century, with special emphasis on the people and events that changed the course of history. Portrays in vivid prose the achievements of mankind in the areas of art and discovery, as well as the political forces leading to the modern nation-states. Richly illustrated with drawings by the author. Winner of the first Newbery Award in 1922, The Story of Mankind has introduced generations of children to the pageant of world history. (Summary from mainlesson.com)

Running time: 13 hours

Note to parent: I am including this book on My Audio School, as it is used by Ambleside Online curriculum. They recommend it for older children (middle school through high school).

My Audio School is being used by so many children whose families hold varying perspectives on creation and evolution. I have not provided links for the first 3 chapters of this book, (30 minutes of material), which are full of evolutionary content. Should you need to refer to these chapters, you can use the links provided above for reading or downloading this book at its Internet Archive page in its entirety. I have not pre-read the majority of this book, but found evolutionary references in the two additional chapters that I listened to (The Age of Science and The New World). Please be aware there may be evolutionary content in other chapters, as well. Should you have further questions about the suitability of this book please read this review from Cathy Duffy.

04 Hieroglyphics

05 The Nile Valley

06 The Story of Egypt

11 The Indo-Europeans

12 The Aegean Sea

13 The Greeks

14 The Greek Cities

15 Greek Self-Government

16 Greek Life

17 The Greek Theatre

18 The Persian Wars

19 Athens vs. Sparta

20 Alexander the Great

21 A Summary

22 Rome and Carthage

23 The Rise of Rome

24 The Roman Empire

25 Joshua of Nazareth

26 The Fall of Rome

27 Rise of the Church

33 Pope vs. Emperor

34 The Crusades

35 The Medieval City

36 Medieval Self-Government

37 The Medieval World

38 Medieval Trade

39 The Renaissance

40 The Age of Expression

41 The Great Discoveries

42 Buddha and Confucius

43 The Reformation

44 Religious Warfare

45 The English Revolution

46 The Balance of Power

47 The Rise of Russia

48 Russia vs Sweden

49 The Rise of Prussia

50 The Mercantile System

51 The American Revolution

52 The French Revolution

53 Napoleon

54 The Holy Alliance

55 The Great Reaction

56 National Independence

57 The Age of the Engine

58 The Social Revolution

59 Emancipation

60 The Age of Science

61 Art

62 Colonial Expansion and War

63 A New World

64 As It Shall Ever Be

September 9, 2009August 7, 2012

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Summary: The Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain’s first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court, London, and Prince Edward son of Henry VIII of England. Due to a series of circumstances, the boys accidentally replace each other, and much of the humor in the book originates in the two boys’ inability to function in the world that is so familiar to the other (although Tom soon displays considerable wisdom in his decisions). In many ways, the book is a social satire, particularly compelling in its condemnation of the inequality that existed between the classes in Tudor England. In that sense, Twain abandoned the wry Midwestern style for which he was best known and adopts a style reminiscent of Charles Dickens. (Summary from Wikipedia.org)

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Total running time: 6 hours, 56 minutes

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01 – The birth of the Prince and the Pauper / 02 – Tom’s early life / 03 – Tom’s meeting with the Prince

04 – The Prince / 05 – Tom as a Patrician

06 – Tom receives instructions

07 – Tom’s first royal dinner / 08 – The question of the Seal

09 – The river pageant / 10 – The Prince in the toils

11 – At Guildhall

12 – The Prince and his deliverer

13 – The disappearance of the Prince

14 – ‘Le Roi est mort—vive le Roi’

15 – Tom as King

16 – The state dinner / 17 – Foo-foo the First

18 – The Prince with the tramps / 19 – The Prince with the peasants

20 – The Prince and the hermit / 21 – Hendon to the rescue

22 – A victim of treachery / 23 – The Prince a prisoner

24 – The escape / 25 – Hendon Hall

26 – Disowned / 27 – In prison

28 – The sacrifice / 29 – To London / 30 – Tom’s progress

31 – The Recognition procession

32 – Coronation Day

33 – Edward as King / Conclusion – Justice and Retribution

July 11, 2009August 18, 2012

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare for Children by Edith Nesbit

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Preface and a Brief Life of Shakespeare

Chapter 1 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Chapter 2 The Tempest

Chapter 3 As you Like it

Chapter 4 The Winter’s Tale

Chapter 5 King Lear

Chapter 6 Twelfth Night

Chapter 7 Much Ado about Nothing

Chapter 8 Romeo and Juliet

Chapter 13 Comedy of Errors

Chapter 14 Merchant of Venice

Chapter 15 Timon of Athens

Chapter 16 Othello

Chapter 17 The Taming of the Shrew

Chapter 18 Measure for Measure

Chapter 19 Two Gentlemen of Verona

Chapter 20 All’s Well that Ends Well

July 10, 2009July 1, 2011

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare

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July 10, 2009August 7, 2012

The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge

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Total running time: 5 hours, 22 minutes

01 – The Roman World

02 – A Great World Power

03 – Voyage and Shipwreck

04 – The Tragedy of Nero

05 – The Great Fire in Rome

06 – The Destruction of Pompeii

07 – Marcus Aurelius

08 – Decline of the Roman Empire

09 – Christians to the Lions

10 – A New Rome

11 – The Armies of the North

12 – The Dark Ages

13 – King Arthur and His Knights

14 – The Hero of Two Nations

15 – The Hardy Northmen

16 – How the Northmen Conquered England

17 – A Spanish Hero

18 – The First Crusade

19 – Frederick Barbarossa

20 – The Third Crusade

21 – The Days of Chivalry

22 – Queen of the Adratic

23 – The Story of Marco Polo

24 – Dante’s Great Poem

25 – The Maid of Orleans

26 – The Sea of Darkness

27 – Prince Henry, the Sailor

28 – A Famous Voyage

29 – The Invention of Printing

30 – The Stormy Cape

31 – Vasco Da Gama’s Great Voyage

32 – India at Last

33 – The New Trade-Route

34 – Golden Goa

35 – Christopher Columbus

36 – The Last of the Moors

37 – Discovery of the New World

38 – The West Indies

39 – Columbus in Chains

40 – A Great Mistake

41 – Follow the Leader

42 – Discovery of the Pacific

43 – Magellan’s Great Plan

44 – Magellan’s Straits

45 – Round the World

46 – The Finding of Mexico

47 – Montezuma

48 – Siege and Fall of Mexico

49 – Conquest of Peru

50 – A Great Awakening

July 10, 2009September 21, 2009

Ancient and Medieval Church History

Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, has made several classes available for free online through their Worldwide Classroom.

Although Ancient and Medieval Church History is a college-level course, I believe it would be appropriate for a high school student studying this topic.

In order to listen to these free classes, you’ll need to register with Worldwide Classroom. After registering, you’ll be able to listen to all of these sessions on Mp3, as well as download written transcripts and study guides for each lecture.

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Click here to access the Free Registration page, a necessary step to listening to all that Worldwide Classroom has to offer.

Here is a course description and a list of the topics covered in this course.
Course Description (taken from the Worldwide Classroom site):
A study of Christianity from the Early Church to the dawn of the Reformation, with source material readings. This course places an emphasis on the application of church history to life and ministry and helps the student to understand the development of Christian thought and the formulation of doctrine as part of God’s overall pattern of history. This course is taught by David Calhoun.

Lesson 1: The Study of Church History

Lesson 2: The Growth of the Christian Church

Lesson 3: The Persecutions

Lesson 4: The Apologists

Lesson 5: Orthodoxy and Heresy

Lesson 6: Canon, Creed, and Bishops

Lesson 7: The Early Church Fathers

Lesson 8: The People of the Early Church

Lesson 9: The Church in the Fourth Century

Lesson 10: The Beginnings of Monasticism

Lesson 11: Donatism

Lesson 12: The Council of Nicea

Lesson 13: Cappadocians and Constantinople

Lesson 14: Ambrose, Jerome, and Chrysostom

Lesson 15: Augustine’s Confessions

Lesson 16: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy

Lesson 17: Augustine’s Theology of History

Lesson 18: The Council of Chalcedon

Lesson 19: The Early Middle Ages

Lesson 20: Medieval Missions

Lesson 21: The Christianization of Great Britain

Lesson 22: Learning and Theology

Lesson 23: Eastern Orthodoxy

Lesson 24: The Late Middle Ages

Lesson 25: Medieval Monasticism

Lesson 26: Crusades or Missions?

Lesson 27: The Waldensians

Lesson 28: Scholastic Theology

Lesson 29: Thomas Aquinas

Lesson 30: The Sacramental System

Lesson 31: Church and State

Lesson 32: Wycliffe and Hus

Lesson 33: Reform in Italy

Lesson 34: Mysticism and the Modern Devotion

Lesson 35: The Waning of the Middle Ages

Appendix A: Catholic World Missions

Appendix B: The Spread of the Western Church

Appendix C: The Spread of the Eastern Church

Appendix D: The 100 Most Important Dates in Church History

July 8, 2009December 30, 2010

The Book of Art for Young People by Conway

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Running time: 4 hours, 12 minutes

01 Introduction

02 The Thirteenth Century in Europe

07 The Renaissance in Venice

08 The Renaissance in the North

09 Rembrandt

10 Peter de Hoogh and Cuyp

11 Van Dyck

12 Velasquez

13 Reynolds and the Eighteenth Century

14 Turner

15 The Nineteenth Century

July 6, 2009December 23, 2010

In God’s Garden by Amy Steedman

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Total running time: 3 hours, 41 minutes

About this book

Chapter 1 Saint Ursula

Chapter 2 Saint Benedict

Chapter 3 SaintChristopher

Chapter 4 Saint Catherine of Sienna

Chapter 5 Saint Augustine of Hippo

Chapter 6 Saint Augustine of Canterbury

Chapter 7 Saint Cecilia

Chapter 8 Saint Giles

Chapter 9 Saint Nicholas

Chapter 10 Saint Faith

Chapter 11 Saint Cosmo and Saint Damian

Chaper 12 Saint Martin

13 – Saint George

Saint Francis of Assisi by Jose de Ribera

14 – Saint Francis of Assisi

July 6, 2009June 29, 2019

Martin Luther

Martin Luther, a monk, came to realize that salvation was through grace alone by faith alone, and not by works. He posted his 95 theses on the Wittenburg Door and was tried as a heretic at the Diet of Worms, where he refused to recant his writings. It was there he said those famous words, “I cannot–I WILL NOT recant….Here I stand: I can do no other.”

Click the link below to hear an audio recording of what Martin Luther said at the Diet of Worms.

Before the Diet of Worms by Martin Luther

An Account of the Life and Persecutions of Martin Luther, excerpt from Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (chapter 9)

Listen to The Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther

Scene from Martin Luther movie when Luther goes before the Diet of Worms

July 5, 2009September 15, 2014

This Country of Ours, part 3:Stories of New England, by H. E. Marshall

This is Part 3: Stories of New England, from chapter 22 (The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers) to chapter 34 (The Witches of Salem).

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The Story of the Pilgrim Fathers

The Founding of Massachusetts

The Story of Harry Vane

The Story of Anne Hutchinson and the Founding of Rhode Island

The Founding of Harvard

How the Quakers First Came to New England

How Maine and New Hampshire were Founded

The Founding of Connecticut and War with the Indians

The Founding of New Haven

The Hunt for the Regicides

King Phillip’s War

How the Charter of Connecticut was Saved

The Witches of Salem

There are four other parts of this book currently available.

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To listen to part 2 (Stories of Virginia from Chapter 13–Captain John Smith–to chapter 21–The Knights of the Golden Horseshoe) click here.

To listen to part 4 (Stories of the Middle and Southern Colonies) click here.

To listen to part 5, click here.

This Country of Ours, part 6, chapters 51-63

July 3, 2009November 21, 2016

The Legend of Squanto: Focus on the Family Radio Theater broadcast

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To listen to the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: The Legend of Squanto, part one, click here.

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July 3, 2009December 28, 2010