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!
A rival, Rufus Griswold, changes Poe's work and private letters; then he publishes the fakes.
The San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906 destroys most of the city.
In 1940, Seabiscuit wins his last race, the Santa Anita Handicap, which makes him the biggest money-winning horse of his day.
Who is Jacob Marley? Is it possible that he can visit his old partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, although Marley's been dead for seven years?
Although his grandfather (Man O'War) is one of the best racing horses of all time, Seabiscuit is an unlikely champion.
Before the rule of Henry VIII, Ireland is independent of the British, but Protestants want to "colonize" Ireland.
It isn't easy to uncover the truth about contaminated groundwater. No one from the polluting company is going to hand over documents containing proof ...
James Goodsell provides an eyewitness account of the perilous human situation.
Slaves who are brought to America to work the southern plantations have little "comfort and happiness."
Although Jefferson is a product of a slave-owning culture, he believes that equal rights apply to all men.
President Lincoln in his fight to uphold the Union agrees to ban slave trade and admits that the practice is wrong.
Slaves, who are forced to do hard work in the fields growing cotton and other crops, are often abused.
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