Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious thinkers--Martin Luther, Cotton Mather; political leaders--Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy; important documents--the Constitution of Japan (1946), the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom; moments in history--the Battle of the Crater, the Dred Scott Decision; historical figures--the Pseudo Dionysius and Xenophon; and, lastly, shopper's tips for watermelons and cantaloupes.

Latest episodes of the podcast Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039 by Various

• Address of Senator John F. Kennedy to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960
• The Anti-intellectualism of Kierkegaard
• Battle of the Crater and Experiences of Prison Life
• The Constitution of Japan, 1946
• Darwinism Verified
• The Dred Scott Decision, A History
• John Faust or Fust
• Letter to C. E. Norton, Esq., Downing Street, June 23, 1858
• Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Chapter 18, on Apparitions
• Miss Alice Mangold's Soiree Musicale
• Mystic Theology
• On Horsemanship - Xenophon
• Philosophy of Religion
• The Problem
• Shopper's Tips for Watermelons and Cantaloupes
• To a Stranger
• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Wonders of the Invisible World, IV and V