Awesome Radio - Narrated Stories Documents

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!

The First Worcester Edition of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly i...

The growth of baseball in the years following the Civil War was given added impetus by the rise of cheap, mass-produced books. Publishers helped stand...

Sol White published an account of his experiences in his book, History of Colored Base Ball. Portions of that significant work are available online, ...

Bookcover image of Jackie Robinson comic book. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Publications, July 1951. Vol. 1, no. 5. From, By Popular Demand: Jackie Robinson...

Image of a draft copy of President McKinley's speech on March 4, 1901.  Maintained by the U.S. Library of Congress. Click on the image for a bet...

Before the onset of professional baseball, there existed a myriad of teams and players going back to the 1840s. This book, written by Marshall D. Wrig...

Before he became famous in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Pima County in the Arizona Territory.  This image depicts the do...

Image of Damon Runyon's column from the Los Angeles Examiner that ran for nine years.  Column depicted, circa 1938. Click on the image for a bet...

Wyatt Earp resigned his position as Sheriff of Pima County (Arizona Territory) on the 9th of November, 1880.  The original document had been stor...

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