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Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated Life of Ulysses S. Grant

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: David Zarbock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-22-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In Charles River Editors History for Kids series, your children can learn about historys most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kids attention all the way to the end.

In the 19th century, one of the surest ways to rise to prominence in American society was to be a war hero, like Andrew Jackson and William Henry Harrison. But few would have predicted such a destiny for Hiram Ulysses Grant, who had been a career soldier with little experience in combat and a failed businessman when the Civil War broke out in 1861. However, while all eyes were fixed on the Eastern Theater at places like Manassas, Richmond, the Shenandoah Valley, and Antietam, Grant went about a steady rise up the ranks through a series of successes in the West. His victory at Fort Donelson, in which his terms to the doomed Confederate garrison earned him the nickname Unconditional Surrender Grant, could be considered the first major Union victory of the war, and Grants fame and rank only grew after that at battlefields like Shiloh and Vicksburg.

Along the way, Grant nearly fell prey to military politics and the belief that he was at fault for the near defeat at Shiloh, but President Lincoln famously defended him, remarking, I cant spare this man. He fights. Lincolns steadfastness ensured that Grants victories out West continued to pile up, and after Vicksburg and Chattanooga, Grant had effectively ensured Union control of the states of Kentucky and Tennessee as well as the entire Mississippi River.

Members Reviews:

Informative, Enjoyable, Needs Thorough Editing!

History for Kids is a very useful series. It brings to kids history in a highly readable form with plenty of illustrations. In other words it is history made simple and alive.

The authors have succeeded in their aim and I enjoyed reading the book. At the same time, a thorough editing would make this good book a much better one.

I recommend the book with the above reservations!

Lots of great info!

This needs a good editing to correct the typos and some of the strange sentences but all in all a great biography for kids. Would like to see it edited and put out again in the corrected version.

Awesome book

This book was so epic and awesome and inspiring. I really liked this book it is entertaining and historic .

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Title: Adventures in Colonial America, Volume VII: Virginia: From First Colony to the First U.S. President

Author: Mary A. Baewer

Narrator: Deren Hansen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-23-17

Publisher: Baewer Enterprises

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In 1607, three small ships - the Discovery, Godspeed, and Susan Constant - arrived on the shores of the eastern North American coast and established the first successful British settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. For two centuries, colonists faced the challenges of life in a new world - weather, Native Indian attacks, starvation, and disease - to establish the strongest economy in the American colonies.

Volume VII of the Adventures in Colonial America series discusses the contributions of these colonists in creating probably the most powerful colonial economy in 17th and 18th Century British North America, including politicians, clergy, plantation owners, and artisans. The book also discusses the establishment of the Anglican Church as the official state religion - and how that policy impacted the writing of the US Constitution and the separation of church and state.

Virginia's role in the American Revolution, from the fall of Norfolk to the victory at Yorktown is also discussed. Virginia's native sons, including Jefferson, Washington, Madison, and Monroe, were among many of our founding fathers who not only fought during the American Revolution but fought a political battle on the floor of Virginia's legislature and the Continental Congress. Following the Revolution they were instrumental in creating the US Constitution and Bill of Rights which provide all Americans with legal protections that we benefit from centuries later.

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Title: The Young Napoleon: The Life and Legacy of George B. McClellan

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Kenneth Ray

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"McClellan is to me one of the mysteries of the war." (Ulysses S. Grant)

Over the last 150 years, historians and Americans have endlessly debated over the Civil War, including its causes and the best and worst generals. Nowhere has there been a sharper debate than over the career and legacy of George McClellan, with a majority viewing him as the North's biggest goat and a small but vocal minority insisting that McClellan was a very good general who was made a scapegoat by the Lincoln Administration and its supporters. Many members of the "McClellan Society" continue to assert that McClellan would have ended the war in 1862 without the Administration's interference.

In 1861, McClellan was looked upon as a hero and even possibly a savior. Dubbed "The Young Napoleon", the 35 year old had been a prodigy at West Point, finishing in second place in the Academy's most famous class, the Class of 1846. After earning praise for his service in the Mexican-American War, McClellan had a short but successful career in the railroad industry and had been a foreign observer at the siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War. At the outbreak of the Civil War, there was no question that McClellan was one of the brightest and most experienced of the North's generals.

Ultimately, of course, McClellan went from hero to goat, at least in the eyes of President Lincoln, who famously wrote that McClellan "has the slows". It was a sharp critique of McClellan's cautious movements, but McClellan was also faulted for conservative battlefield leadership in the Peninsula Campaign and at Antietam. McClellan also constantly overestimated his opponent's manpower, at times thinking the Confederates had double his Army of the Potomac when the exact opposite was the case. It was after Antietam and his bickering with the War Department over why he wasn't chasing Lee's battered Army of Northern Virginia that Lincoln finally sacked him, effectively ending his Civil War career.

McClellan is best remembered for 1862, but he was also a Governor of New Jersey, Lincoln's opponent in the 1864 presidential election, and a writer seeking to reestablish his reputation before his untimely death. The Young Napoleon addresses the controversies and battles McClellan fought both on and off the field, but it also humanizes a man who was almost universally loved by the veterans of the Army of the Potomac and who wrote his most candid remarks to his wife. You will learn about The Young Napoleon like you never have before, in no time at all.

Members Reviews:

Better to read Wikipedia than encouraging works like this

This is a no better than a very superficial glossing over of the highlights of the first year of the civil war with a wikipedia-lite review of McClelland tossed in. Rather than encouraging more works like this, donate the money to Wikipedia instead.

Rare book on this elusive general

McClellan finished the Civil War in shame so there is little information about him. While this book is a bit perfunctory it fills out the story more than somewhat. It is a useful book for those interested in the Union side of the War.

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Title: Cops and Bobbies

Subtitle: Police Authority in New York and London, 1830-1870

Author: Wilbur R. Miller

Narrator: Greg Nelson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-06-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

First printed in 1977, Cops and Bobbies has become "one of the two or three consensus classics in the history of police", according to Roger Lane, author of Murder in America. In this second edition, Wilbur R. Miller provides a new preface in which he discusses how police historiography changed in the 20 years after the book's initial publication.

The book is published by The Ohio State University Press.

Critic Reviews:

"Miller has done his job lucidly and with great skill." (Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science)

Members Reviews:

Unreadable.

I'm from an academic background. I'm used to reading dry works. I've slogged through thousands of pages of poorly-written books and journal articles (many in hard science, where researchers, who aren't trained in writing, are barely able to string together a few coherent words at a time) by sheer willpower for various classes and papers. So when I say that this book is just painfully poorly written, trust me that it isn't because I didn't have the background for it, that it was over my head or too complex or written for an academic rather than a lay audience. I had to put it down after a few pages because life is too short. (Technically, I suppose I can only say that the first few pages are unreadably bad. Perhaps it gets better.)

Additionally, the set-up of the book, examining New York and London police development, feels forced. I started the book open to the idea, but attempt to make the case to link them is clumsy at best. It remains the story of two disparate elements.

I sincerely hope the author never reads this--I hate to be this mean--but if you have only a passing interest in this subject, if this isn't integral to your thesis or dissertation, don't read this book.

A helpful book on the history of U.S. and British policing

I feel as though the only other review here is a rather unfair representation of the book, as the previous reviewer claims to only have read the first few pages. While certainly not the most riveting book in the world (it is a history book), it does a fair job of achieving what it sets out to do: giving the historical backgrounds, similarities, and differences between the roots of the NYPD and the London Metropolitan Police. The previous reviewer said that this comparison seems forced; the comparison is actually a fitting one because the U.S. policing model, particularly starting with the NYPD, borrowed much from Sir Robert Peel's reformed London Metro Police. This is a good comparative study of the two and how different factors led to divergences in their development, in spite of the U.S. and U.K. being very similar societies.

While I don't mean to discredit the other reviewer, I feel that this book deserves a review with an alternative viewpoint. I read this book as part of my PhD studies in criminal justice (policing focus) and found it to be informative and quite helpful in understanding the development of two closely related national policing models.

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Title: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

Subtitle: A History

Author: Al M. Rocca

Narrator: Al Rocca

Format: Unabridged

Length: 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-14-17

Publisher: Al Rocca

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

This brief history covers the Whiskeytown area in northern California from the Gold Rush period, through the building of Whiskeytown Dam and the dedication by John F. Kennedy, to the present.

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Title: History for Kids: The Illustrated History of the Boston Tea Party

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Tracey Norman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-13-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In Charles River Editors' History for Kids series, your children can learn about history's most important people and events in an easy, entertaining, and educational way. The concise but comprehensive book will keep your kid's attention all the way to the end.

In the years before the American Revolution, the disputes between the colonies and Great Britain produced no shortage of legendary events, all of which can be recited by schoolchildren from an early age, but none has been mythologized or misunderstood quite like the Boston Tea Party, colonial Boston's most unique act of (relatively) nonviolent protest. The formation of a group of Americans calling themselves the Tea Party in 2009, more than 235 years after the Boston Tea Party, is testament to the enduring legacy of that iconic moment in American history.

On the night of December 16, 1773, a group of 30-130 men boarded the tea ship Dartmouth and two other ships and dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor over the span of three hours in protest of the Tea Act of 1773. Agreement over what exactly happened ends there, but a number of legends have since popped up and become part of the common narrative. The urban legend that the people who boarded the ship dressed as Mohawks is not entirely true. The Tea Partiers were not protesting higher taxes on tea. The Tea Party was not coordinated by Samuel Adams. And nobody in Boston called it the Tea Party until nearly a century after it took place.

Members Reviews:

Typos abound.

I've liked some in this series, but this was a Disappointment. Lots of typos. I found a sentence repeated twice and similar mistakes. Towards the beginning the book explains that the colonists were upset because they were being taxed with their consent. Oops. That should be "without". It also relies too much on crusty quotes and a dry recitation instead of adding anything of interest. Really has the feel of a book report hastily thrown together at the last minute. I'm pretty sure I could find something better on the internet with a quick google search.

Don't put the word 'Editors' in your name if you're going to screw up text.

Overall, this piece is more informative than others being marketed to this age group (7-9 year old's). But, a few little things make it completely impossible for anyone who cares about information to take this source (or its authors - who are conveniently anonymous) seriously.

"A tea ship called the Dartmouth sailed to Boston Harbor in late November of 1973."

1973?!?!? Just in time for the Bicentennial Celebrations!

They only name one tea ship; rely on George RT Hewes narrative for a large portion of their storytelling, only to call his memory into question; and seem to call 'myths' into question purely for the sake of questioning. Constructing a argument in this way - by telling a story and then saying that's not how it happened, but not saying for sure how it did - is completely irresponsible in a book meant for the education of young people.

For kids

Fine for report. Good read for a class or single person. Easy reading to get through quick enough. Three stars.

Great book

We got this book on the kindle for our home schooler it was just what we were looking for.

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Title: Texas Bigger and Brighter

Subtitle: 50 Iconic Lone Star People, Places, and Things

Author: Donna Ingham

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-01-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

From blue bells to armadillos, and the San Antonio River Walk to Cadillac Ranch, here's the inside story about the very things that give the state its character. Did you know that Texas has more bird species than any other state? That Texas is the largest producer of oil and gas in the United States and the nation's leader in pickup sales? That Texas has museums and larger-than-life statues that honor native sons and daughters such as Lyndon B. Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Buddy Holly, and J. Frank Dobie?

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Title: The Parker Sisters

Subtitle: A Border Kidnapping

Author: Lucy Maddox

Narrator: Lia Frederick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-26-17

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people.

In The Parker Sisters, Lucy Maddox gives an eloquent, urgent account of the tragic kidnapping of these young women. Using archival news and courtroom reports, Maddox tells the larger story of the disastrous effect of the Fugitive Slave Act on the small farming communities of Chester County and the significant, widening consequences for the state and the nation.

The Parker Sisters is also a story about families whose lives and fates were deeply embedded in both the daily rounds of their community and the madness and violence consuming all of antebellum America. Maddox's account of this horrific and startling crime reveals the strength and vulnerability of the Parker sisters and the African American population.

The book is published by Temple University Press.

Critic Reviews:

"In this compact and engrossing story, Maddox...expertly contextualizes the Parker kidnappings, keeping her eye on the larger legal and political issues." (Publishers Weekly)

"This book should be read by all who have an interest in freedom and civil rights." (Library Journal)

Members Reviews:

This is history, up close and personal. It ...

This is history, up close and personal. It demonstrates the kindness and morality of the neighborhood, regardless of color or social status, vs the callous indifference of outsiders using greed as their only compass.

Five Stars

Terrific story & beautifully told

A Revealing and Informative Narrative

The Parker Sisters: A Border Kidnapping by Lucy Maddox is a nonfiction exploration of the 1851 kidnapping of two free black sisters from Chester County, PA, which is just above the Pennsylvania-Maryland line. Quakers had settled the area before William Penn. Quakers as a group were not active abolitionists, and those who were had to work under cover. Slavery was illegal in Pennsylvania but residents obeyed the law concerning the Fugitive Slave Act which made it mandatory to return escaped 'property' to their Southern owners. Abolitionists were detested as lawbreakers. Pennsylvanians also were incensed by the kidnapping of freemen to be sold as slaves in the South, another breaking of the law.

The life of a free person of color in rural Pennsylvania was one of isolation, working for European descent farmers for little pay.

Elizabeth Parker was kidnapped and sold to a New Orleans woman. She was sent on the streets to sell flowers and candy, slept on a feather bed, and was surrounded by others of her color. She was not unhappy in spite of her loss of freedom. When she was arrested for breaking the 8 pm curfew she played her trump card and confessed she was a free woman kidnapped into slavery. Her sister Rachel Parker was also kidnapped and her employer and other Chester County farmers followed to bring her back; the farmer she worked for was later found dead. After several exhumations it was determined that he was murdered.

Their kidnapper claimed they were the Crocus sisters who had escaped from their owners.

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Title: Border Bandits, Border Raids

Author: W. C. Jameson

Narrator: Luis Moreno

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-01-17

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Border Bandits is an account of the many, many stories of back-and-forth skirmishes between the Mexicans and Texans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There practically wasn't a border, which caused a lot of problems and thievery between the two countries. These 17 tales in this book re-create border raids that originated from both sides of the fluid and much contested line and tells the stories of colorful characters - Mexican and American - that have since secured their place in history.

Members Reviews:

An Insightful Read

An insightful read, especially for anyone interested in Texas history or the ongoing dilemma of the U.S.-Mexico international border, including immigration problems. Well organized, well researched and nicely written, the stories in this collection illustrate how the historical episodes related to banditry, revenge, theft of goods and horses, struggles for survival and racial tension set an uneasy foundation for current day difficulties along the Rio Grande. The biggest impression left on me is the fact that cultural bias and heritage-laden philosophies engender age-old disagreements, in particular the very definition of what a border is, what a border means, and how different factions see the very concept of a border in entirely different ways. Recommended for its easy-to-read, but delightfully descriptive, prose and for the evocative illustrations of the real-life personages depicted.

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Title: Fascinating Women in California History

Author: Alton Pryor

Narrator: Kristien Lerfald

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-17

Publisher: Stagecoach Publishing

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Here are women who were first in their accomplishments, often conquering odds far and above the conditions that men had to meet. Take Donaldina Cameron, who braved hazardous opposition to rescue more than 3000 Asian slave girls that had been sold to become prostitutes in cities such as San Francisco. Listeners will also learn about several other women that helped make California what it is today.

Members Reviews:

Fun and educational

Chock-full of interesting stories about dynamic women! Short chapters make it easy to listen to. I listened with my teenage daughter and we both enjoyed the entertaining tales and were inspired by the courage of the women Pryor writes about.