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!
When his main contact in America defects in Paris, Rudolf Abel is "found out." The FBI tracks him down, to his Brooklyn neighborhood, and arrests him ...
With the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Plessy v. Ferguson, the South continues to legally practice racial inequality as a way of life.
The jurors selected in the William Penn case side with the defendant, surprising the judges.
A mere six weeks into his second term, Lincoln becomes the first President assassinated.
The jurors stand by their verdict, in favor of William Penn, are willing to starve for it.
Jesse is born inClay County,Missouri, on September 5, 1847, and loses his father at a young age.
Within hours of each other, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams die on July 4, 1826, - fifty years to the day that the Declaration of Independence is sign...
Mabalo Lokela, a teacher living in a remote part of Zaire (today's Republic of Congo), is the "index patient" for a new disease which will be called E...
Barely sixteen, Jesse participates with William Quantrill and his men in killing citizens of Lawrence Kansas.
Jesse takes part in theCentralia Massacre, in which his group kills or wounds 22 unarmed Union troops.
Key watches the flag fly from the British ship as the battle continues, then wonders why the shelling stops.
Perfect for advertising, Allen & Ginter is the first company to use baseball cards as cigarette package-inserts.
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