In its written form telegraphese, or "Morse," as it is called in the vernacular, is rarely seen. Yet as a vehicle of expression it is, to the initiated, as harmonious, subtle, and fascinating as the language of music itself.

Disbanding the Union Army, part 2

Nov 15th, 2019 20m 39s

As soon as the order to disband the volunteers had gone forth, the North had begun to ask itself what they were going to do with the million men about to inundate them.

Disbanding the Union Army, part 1

Nov 1st, 2019 19m 13s

Great numbers of them had gone into the army boys and had been made men by danger and suffering.

Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 2

Oct 18th, 2019 17m 25s

The disbanded army faced their hard situation like the brave men they were, and joined patiently in one of the gravest tasks in the history of the world—the Reconstruction of the South.

Disbanding the Confederate Army, part 1

Oct 4th, 2019 22m 22s

The worst of the ordeal of these men, who had begun to disband in this haphazard way, was not getting home, it was what they found when they got there.

My Life in the Underworld, part 3

Sep 20th, 2019 30m 25s

Here was I, under sentence, after a farce of a trial wherein I was denied not only my right of trial by jury, but my right to plead guilty or not guilty.

My Life in the Underworld, Part 2

Dec 21st, 2018 34m 3s

I am now in a precarious position, riding the ends of the down-curving roofs of two cars at the same time. With a quick, tense movement I transfer both legs to the curve of one roof and both hands to the curve of the other roof

My Life in the Underworld, part 1

Dec 7th, 2018 25m 49s

I have often thought that to this training of my tramp days is due much of my success as a story-writer. In order to get the food whereby I lived, I was compelled to tell tales that rang true.

The Author of Cyrano

Nov 23rd, 2018 25m 49s

I said that whatever he would write for me, on what ever subject, at what ever time, I would accept without question or reservation, and put on the stage at my own theater: rather a remarkable pledge, seeing that our acquaintance dated from abo

Under Fire

Nov 2nd, 2018 24m 20s

In times of war you constantly see men, and women, too, who, sooner than suffer discomfort or even inconvenience, risk death.

Paris at Bay

Oct 26th, 2018 16m 48s

As the little speck drew straight overhead, these human specks suddenly realized that they were in the line of fire, and scattered just as people run from a sudden shower.

The Germans Are Coming!

Oct 13th, 2018 24m 25s

Into the fog of war that covered the Continent an army of Englishmen had vanished, none knew where.

The Capture, Death and Burial of John Wilkes Booth

Sep 28th, 2018 38m 21s

Even in his deep distress Booth had not forgotten to be theatrical. If he must die he wished to die at the climax of a highly dramatic situation.

David Crockett

Sep 14th, 2018 31m 23s

Nowhere but in America would such a career as Crockett's have been possible.

Stories from the Royal Humane Society

May 4th, 2018 24m 21s

It it not so surprising that there is heroism in the world, as that there is so much of it.

Kit Carson's Duel

Apr 20th, 2018 22m 11s

"Gervais," he said, "go to yonder bully, and say to him that unless his threats and boasts cease, I shall be forced to kill him."

The Real King Solomon's Mines

Apr 10th, 2018 21m 57s

On the hill above, amidst the granite boulders, frowns the fortress, and all around stretch the foundation blocks of a dead city

The Caliph and His Court

Mar 23rd, 2018 22m 14s

Now and again in the regular round of delinquencies there comes the unmasking of a tragedy.

The Tammany Commandment

Mar 9th, 2018 30m 5s

A crook has got to look out for himself, and  I didn’t trust any gang to take care of me.

Kebeth the Aleut

Feb 23rd, 2018 35m 7s

Alaskan Indians paddling in their baidarkas or clustered at camp fires in their cedar forests are telling with awe the strange tale of Kebeth, the Aleut.