Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education by Horace MANN (1796 - 1859) Genre(s): Education Read by: Maria Kasper in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 41 - Tenth Annual Report, 1846, part 2 00:33:09 - 42 - Eleventh Annual Report, 1847, part 1 01:29:34 - 43 - Eleventh Annual Report, 1847, part 2 02:17:27 - 44 - Eleventh Annual Report, 1847, part 3 03:07:40 - 45 - Eleventh Annual Report, 1847, part 4 04:07:09 - 46 - Twelfth Annual Report, 1848, part 1 05:01:11 - 47 - Twelfth Annual Report, 1848, part 2 05:59:45 - 48 - Twelfth Annual Report, 1848, part 3 06:56:39 - 49 - Twelfth Annual Report, 1848, part 4 Horace Mann is called The Father of the Common School and was one of the first progressive thinkers on education in the United States. His Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education, written between 1837 and 1848, are wide-ranging essays on topics, including philosophical arguments on the role of education in a democracy, curricular matters such as textbook choice and methods of reading instruction, and nitty-gritty details of classroom furnishings and buildings. Even in the much-changed society of the 21st century, much of Mann's writing still speaks to us, recalling us to the roots of our faith in education for all. - Summary by Maria Kasper More information: https://librivox.org/annual-reports-to-the-massachusetts-board-of-education-by-horace-mann/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)

Three Soldiers by John Dos PASSOS (1896 - 1970) Genre(s): Historical Fiction, War & Military Fiction Read by: mb in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - Section 1 00:47:41 - 02 - Section 2 01:27:01 - 03 - Section 3 02:01:05 - 04 - Section 4 03:01:58 - 05 - Section 5 03:54:33 - 06 - Section 6 04:41:47 - 07 - Section 7 05:27:06 - 08 - Section 8 06:13:09 - 09 - Section 9 Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practicing primarily as an American literary critic, praised the book in the pages of the Smart Set. 'Until Three Soldiers is forgotten and fancy achieves its inevitable victory over fact, no war story can be written in the United States without challenging comparison with it--and no story that is less meticulously true will stand up to it. At one blast it disposed of oceans of romance and blather. It changed the whole tone of American opinion about the war; it even changed the recollections of actual veterans of the war. They saw, no doubt, substantially what Dos Passos saw, but it took his bold realism to disentangle their recollections from the prevailing buncombe and sentimentality.' (Summary from Wikipedia) More information: http://librivox.org/three-soldiers-by-john-dos-passos/

The Small House at Allington by Anthony TROLLOPE (1815 - 1882) Genre(s): Romance, Satire Read by: Nicholas Clifford, Simon Evers, doublemirrors, Thelma Meyer, Alexandra Huckabay, Lee Ann Howlett, Kirsten Wever, Brendan Stallard, Shirleyroses, Felicity C, Piper Hayes, Phineas Redux, Sharon Omi, alwpoe in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 35 - 35 - Væ Victis 00:32:35 - 36 - 36 - 'See, the Conquering Hero Comes' 01:04:01 - 37 - 37 - An Old Man's Complaint 01:22:51 - 38 - 38 - Doctor Crofts Is Called In 01:52:29 - 39 - 39 - Doctor Crofts Is Turned Out 02:21:52 - 40 - 40 - Preparations for the Wedding 02:57:53 - 41 - 41 - Domestic Troubles 03:18:14 - 42 - 42 - Lily's Bedside 03:38:45 - 43 - 43 - Fie, Fie! 04:06:40 - 44 - 44 - Valentine's Day at Allington 04:26:23 - 45 - 45 - Valentine's Day in London 04:55:32 - 46 - 46 - John Eames at his Office 05:24:58 - 47 - 47 - The New Private Secretary 05:43:28 - 48 - 48 - Nemesis 06:09:33 - 49 - 49 - Preparations for Going 06:34:36 - 50 - 50 - Mrs Dale Is Thankful for a Good Thing 06:52:49 - 51 - 51 - John Eames Does Things Which He Ought Not to Have Done Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale, his friend Adolphus Crosbie, and the local boy, Johnny Eames, whose career in London is to mark him as far more than the 'hobbledehoy' that he has earlier been considered. Crosbie is a social climber, and his connection with the dysfunctional de Courcys of Barsetshire give the author a chance for a splendid portrayal of an aristocratic family in decline. As with many of AT's novels, there are subplots as well, and many pictures of rural life standing in contrast to that of London. Some critics have seen in the portrayal of Johnny Eames something of an autobiographical exercise on Trollope's part.(Summary by Nicholas Clifford) Novels in the series are 1-The Warden1-The Warden(version 2)2-Barchester Towers3-Doctor Thorne4-Framley Parsonage5-The Small House at Allington6-The Last Chronicle of Barset More information: http://librivox.org/the-small-house-at-allington-by-anthony-trollope/

LibriVox Sixteenth Anniversary Collection by Various Genre(s): Poetry, Short Stories, Essays & Short Works Read by: Michele Fry, Maria Kasper, William Allan Jones, Ezwa, Alan Mapstone, Harley James, Chad Jackson, mleigh, Kazbek, EzwaMagda Wilde, Sue Anderson, KevinS, TriciaG, Sonia, Hanna Ponomarenko, Peter Thomlinson, David Starner, Rapunzelina, Lynne T, Cavaet, lorda, Carmen Fullmer, Devorah Allen, Andrea Atwood in English Chapters: 00:00:00 - 01 - 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - Income Taxes (Annotated) 00:26:19 - 02 - Sixteen Years Without a Birthday 00:37:35 - 03 - Apollo 16 01:08:20 - 04 - Le Crime du seize octobre ou Les Fantômes de Marly 01:17:04 - 05 - Easter 1916 01:21:16 - 06 - Flying the Atlantic in Sixteen Hours, Chapter 7 01:32:49 - 07 - Inaugural Address by the 16th President of the United States 01:56:33 - 08 - The Last Will of Louis XVI 02:07:52 - 09 - Louis XVI aux Français (English translation) 02:10:49 - 10 - Louis XVI aux Français 02:17:41 - 11 - Survey of Occupations Open to the Girl of Fourteen to Sixteen Years 02:33:05 - 12 - On Reaching Sixteen 02:34:33 - 13 - Revival of Preaching in the Sixteenth Century 02:41:10 - 14 - Seize Ans 02:43:09 - 15 - Шестнадцати лет 02:44:40 - 16 - Sixteen Dead Men 02:46:04 - 17 - Sixteen Dont's for Poets 03:00:10 - 18 - Sixteen Months 03:01:14 - 19 - 'Sixteen-String Jack' from A Book of Scoundrels 03:17:09 - 20 - Sixteen Weeks of Fighting 03:36:22 - 21 - Sonnet 16 03:37:40 - 22 - Astrophil and Stella - Sonnet 16 03:39:22 - 23 - Am sechzehnten Sonntage nach Pfingsten 03:43:33 - 24 - The Art of Tying the Cravat ... in Sixteen Lessons. (Ch. 16) 03:49:47 - 25 - When She Was About Sixteen 04:02:40 - 26 - The History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women More information: https://librivox.org/librivox-sixteenth-anniversary-collection-by-various/ LibriVox - free public domain audiobooks (https://librivox.org/)