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!
See pictures of baseball and its players from the second half of the 19th century.
Thomas Jefferson begins practicing law at age 24.
Earthquakes typically occur along a fault line and Port Royal is located on top of one.
Edward Bushell holds firm on his verdict, in favor of William Penn, and his own case (based on a Writ of Habeas Corpus) changes the law for future jur...
The eldest of Edward III's children, Edward, the Black Prince, was the most famous medieval warrior of the day.
Lawmakers begin to protect working children in the early 1900s with age limits.
Mother spiders lay their eggs inside a silken egg sac which resembles a cocoon; they may carry it with them or attach it somewhere else.
In 1939, Einstein writes a letter to FDR about his theory of creating power from splitting atoms and his concerns that Germany can develop nuclear bom...
Though the President issues the proclamation, it is not a law and slaveholders in the South, who have left the Union, can (and do) ignore it.
Dwellings are destroyed to ensure that the homeless of Ireland have no place to go.
Due to his conviction of treason, Louis XVI loses his head at the guillotine in 1793.
King Richard II tricks Wat Tyler and the King's men kill him.
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