Sometimes it's nice just to hear a story. Like the "golden age of radio," Awesome Stories features dramatizations of classics, narrated chapters of our own stories, radio interviews and radio plays. This collection benefits ESL, adult literacy and those who just want to close their eyes and listen to a good story!
In his first inaugural address, which remains one of the most famous in American history, President Franklin D.
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - who married the poet Percy Shelley later that year - was visiting Lord Byron at his rented villa i...
Three years have passed since Victor Frankenstein created his monster.
After Victor Frankenstein refuses to create a female companion for his creature, the scientist learns just how murderously violent his monster can be.
Secretary of the Interior, at the outbreak of war with Germany in 1917, Franklin Lane was outspoken in his support of the fight.
During the Great Depression, Americans were starving.
When she wasn't reading, Helen loved to be outside.
Still preparing for college, Helen attended the Cambridge School for Young Ladies.
For two years, as Helen continued her college-prep work, she studied at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York.
Until Helen was 13, Annie Sullivan worked with her student on the basics: How to finger-spell, how to read (in Braille and raised type) and how to spe...
Although her father had been married before, and Helen had two step-brothers, she was the first girl in the family and her mother's first child.
Even though she'd made great progress, Helen was frustrated because she could not speak.