Jim Locke

The State of Society in France Before the Revolution of 1789

by Alexis de Tocqueville and Alexis De Tocqueville Read by Jim Locke 5
A thorough analysis of the social, religious, and political dynamics of French society which led to the French Revolution.

St. Elmo

by Augusta Jane Evans Read by Jim Locke 3.5
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…

Benjamin Franklin: Self-Revealed, Volume 2

by William Cabell Bruce Read by Jim Locke
His life was like a full five-act play—prophetic prologue and stately epilogue, and swelling scene imposed upon swelling scene, until the ta…

The Life of Washington, Volume 4

by John James Marshall Read by Jim Locke 4
This fourth volume covers the final battles and the peace conditions of the war, Washington at home, Washington as first President, and the …

Historical Romance of the American Negro

by Charles H. Fowler Read by Jim Locke
It was not long before the fame of the colored soldiers of America was wafted over the whole world and everywhere received by all lovers of …

Scarlet Sister Mary

by Julia Peterkin Read by Jim Locke 3.7
How did 1929 Pulitzer winner and white plantation mistress Julia Peterkin become a favorite of the Harlem Renaissance? According to W.E.B. D…

The Mob Violence and the American Negro: My Experience in the Sunny South

by Velley Lester Read by Jim Locke 5
According to the author of the Preface, "Mr. Lester is also zealous to bring about a better relation and a better understanding between…

Sree Krishna, The Lord of Love

by Baba Premanand Bharati Read by Jim Locke 3.3
I beg to present this my humble work to the English reader. It is the history of the Universe from its birth to its dissolution. I have expl…

Epochs of American History: Division and Reunion 1829-1889

by Thomas Woodrow Wilson and Woodrow Wilson Read by Jim Locke 3.9
This third volume of Epochs of American History covers a tumultuous sixty years between the presidencies of Andrew Jackson and Grover Clevel…

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

by Alice Dunbar Nelson Read by Jim Locke 3.5
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

The Passing of the Great Race

by Madison Grant Read by Jim Locke 3.6
The rapidly growing appreciation of the importance of race during the last few years, the study of the influence of race on nationality as s…

The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France

by George Wrong Read by Jim Locke 4
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The st…

The Chronicles of America Volume 13 - The Fathers of the Constitution

by Max Farrand Read by Jim Locke 3.8
In this next installment of the Chronicles of America, Farrand takes American history from peace treaty, to trade, to confederation, to furt…

Walker's Appeal

by David Walker Read by Jim Locke
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …

The Frozen North

by Richard Mayde Read by Jim Locke 3.4
It is in this world that Mayde has created his fascinating The Frozen North: "Great as are the barren grounds, or tundri, as they are c…

Special Report on Negro Domestic Service in the Seventh Ward Philadelphia

by Isabel Eaton Read by Jim Locke
This paper is an attempt to give the most accurate facts obtainable bearing upon the question of colored domestic service in Philadelphia. (…

Charles Sumner, The Scholar in Politics

by Archibald Grimké Read by Jim Locke 4
In the two volumes assigned to him in the American Reformer Series, viz., the "Life of William Lloyd Garrison, the Abolitionist," …

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

by William Bennett Munro Read by Jim Locke 0.5
The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

Transition

by Emma Francis Brooke Read by Jim Locke
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…

Minnie's Sacrifice

by Frances E. W. Harper Read by Jim Locke 3.8
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

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