Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in History, The Americas

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Title: [Portuguese] - A viagem do descobrimento

Author: Eduardo Bueno

Narrator: Eduardo Bueno

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 27 minutes

Release date: June 21, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Embarque nas naus e caravelas da vasta frota comandada por Pedro Álvares Cabral. Circule por entre marujos lusitanos, pilotos árabes, astrólogos judeus e nobres ibéricos. Viaje com eles por mares tempestuosos, em meio a perigos desconhecidos ou calmarias enervantes. Saiba quais forças políticas moviam a esquadra que chegou ao Brasil, mergulhando no mundo da Escola de Sagres e do misterioso infante D. Henrique, um herdeiro dos Cavaleiros Templários. 'A viagem do descobrimento', primeiro volume da coleção Brasilis, revisita os momentos inaugurais da história do nosso país descrevendo-os como a grande aventura que de fato foram. A partir de cartas, documentos e crônicas da época, assim como estudos de historiadores consagrados, o jornalista e escritor Eduardo Bueno conta com riqueza de detalhes a trajetória de homens que venceram seus limites em busca de um novo mundo. Agora lançado em formato de audiolivro com o selo Pop Stories, 'A viagem do descobrimento' é uma edição especial narrada com a inconfundível voz do próprio Eduardo, cuja popularidade cresce a cada dia por meio de seu canal Buenas Ideias. Sobre o autor EDUARDO BUENO, o Peninha, é escritor, com mais de 30 livros publicados, jornalista, editor e tradutor. Com a coleção Brasilis, que reúne 'A viagem do descobrimento', 'Náufragos, traficantes e degredados', 'Capitães do Brasil' e 'A coroa, a cruz e a espada', tornou-se o primeiro autor brasileiro a emplacar simultaneamente quatro títulos entre os cinco primeiros nas listas de mais vendidos dos principais jornais e revistas do País. Além de ser colunista do ZH, Peninha também é apresentador do canal Buenas Ideias no Youtube.

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Title: The Warrior and the Prophet

Author: Peter Cozzens

Narrator: Jeff Harding

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 53 minutes

Release date: June 17, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky shooting star. Charismatic, intelligent, handsome, he was both a fierce warrior and a savvy politician. In the first biography of Tecumseh in more than twenty years, Peter Cozzens thoroughly revises our understanding of this great leader and his movement, arguing that his overlooked younger brother Tenskwatwa, the 'Shawnee Prophet', was a crucial partner in Tecumseh's success. Until Tecumseh's death in 1813, he was, alongside Tenskwatawa, the co-architect of the greatest pan-Indian confederation in history. Over time, Tenskwatawa has been relegated to the shadows, described as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. But Cozzens argues that while Tecumseh was the forward-facing diplomat, appealing even to the white settlers attempting to steal Shawnee land, behind the scenes, Tenskwatwa unified their people with his deep understanding of Shawnee religion and culture. No other Native American leaders enjoyed such popularity, and none would ever pose a graver threat to colonial expansion than Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa. Bringing to life an often-overlooked episode in America's past, Cozzens paints in vivid detail the violent, lawless world of the Old Northwest, when settlers spilled over the Appalachians to bloody effect in their haste to exploit lands won from the War of Independence. The Warrior and the Prophet tells the untold story of the Shawnee brothers who retaliated against this threat - becoming allies with the British army in the process - and reveals how they were the last hope for Native Americans to preserve ways of life they had known for centuries. “Cozzens is a master storyteller; his books weave a wealth of intricate detail into gripping historical narrative.” THE TIMES “Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.” S.C. GWYNNE, bestselling author of Empire of the Summer Moon

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Title: Ellis Island: A People's History

Author: Małgorzata Szejnert

Narrator: Carlotta Brentan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 13 minutes

Release date: June 15, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

From Annie Moore, the Irishwoman who was the first to be processed there, to Arne Peterssen, the Norwegian who was the last to be taken away from the island in 1954, Ellis Island weaves together the personal experiences of forgotten individuals with those who live on in history: Fiorello La Guardia, Lee Iacocca, and other American leaders whose paths led them to the Island for various reasons. Award-winning journalist Małgorzata Szejnert draws on unpublished testimonies, memoirs, archival photographs, and correspondence from many internees and immigrants. But also brought to life are the Ellis Island employees: the doctors, nurses, commissioners, interpreters, social care workers, and even chaperones, who controlled the fates of these émigrés—often basing their decisions on pseudo-scientific ideas about race, gender, and disability. Sometimes families were broken up, and new arrivals were detained and quarantined for days, weeks, or even months. All told, the island compound spent longer as an internment camp than as a migration way-point—in addition to filling other roles through the years, including that of rescue station in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Now brought back to life by a master storyteller, this is a story of a place and its people, steeped in politics and history, that reshaped the United States.

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Title: When Evil Lived in Laurel: The 'White Knights' and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer

Author: Curtis Wilkie

Narrator: Stephen Graybill

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 38 minutes

Release date: June 15, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A finalist of the for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers founded a youth NAACP chapter in Hattiesburg, and for years after Evers’s assassination Dahmer was the chief advocate for voting rights in a county where Black registration was shamelessly suppressed. This put Dahmer in the crosshairs of the White Knights, with headquarters in nearby Laurel. Already known as one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South, the group carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home and store. A year before, Tom Landrum, a young, unassuming member of a family with deep Mississippi roots, joined the Klan to become an FBI informant. He penetrated the White Knights’ secret circles, recording almost daily journal entries. He risked his life, and the safety of his young family, to chronicle extensively the clandestine activities of the Klan. Veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie draws on his exclusive access to Landrum’s journals to re-create these events—the conversations, the incendiary nighttime meetings, the plans leading up to Dahmer’s murder and its erratic execution—culminating in the conviction and imprisonment of many of those responsible for Dahmer’s death. In riveting detail, When Evil Lived in Laurel plumbs the nature and harrowing consequences of institutional racism, and brings fresh light to this chapter in the history of civil rights in the South—one with urgent implications for today.

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Title: Black Masters a Side Light on Slavery

Author: Calvin Dill Wilson

Narrator: Warren Keyes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 41 minutes

Release date: June 12, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Rev. Calvin Dill Wilson (1857–1946) was a Presbyterian minister and author. His book ‘Black Masters,’ first published in 1904, explore the history of wealthy free African-Americans who became slave-owners. According to Wilson’s research, there were around 6,200 black slave-holders in the years before the Civil War, who owned some 18,000 slaves. By owning their families, free colored men and women could protect them against oppressive local laws. The earliest documentary evidence of such a transaction dates from 1724, in Boston, Massachusetts while most of the cases discussed here concern the states of Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and South Carolina.

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Title: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, Second Edition with a New Preface

Author: Eric Klinenberg

Narrator: Michael Butler Murray

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 44 minutes

Release date: June 8, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished—more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871—in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history. Heat waves in the United States kill more people during a typical year than all other natural disasters combined. Until now, no one could explain either the overwhelming number or the heartbreaking manner of the deaths resulting from the 1995 Chicago heat wave. Meteorologists and medical scientists have been unable to account for the scale of the trauma, and political officials have puzzled over the sources of the city's vulnerability. In Heat Wave, Eric Klinenberg takes us inside the anatomy of the metropolis to conduct what he calls a 'social autopsy,' examining the social, political, and institutional organs of the city that made this urban disaster so much worse than it ought to have been.

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Title: Lawmen of the Wild West

Author: Terry C. Treadwell

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 16 minutes

Release date: June 6, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

There were Marshals, City Marshals, and Constables who were employed by the local townspeople and whose authority was restricted to within the town or city limits. Then there were the County Sheriffs, who were elected by the citizens of the county, to keep the peace within the county. The United States Marshals were appointed by the President of the United States and had the authority to operate anywhere in the USA and deal with federal crime. Each of these law enforcement officers employed their own deputies, all of whom had the same powers of enforcement. Some believed that former criminals would make the most effective lawmen. Consequently, in some cases notorious gunfighters were employed as town marshals to help bring law and order to some of the most lawless of towns. These lawmen dealt with the likes of the Dalton Gang and the James Brothers, who thought nothing of raping and murdering innocent people. The requirements needed to be a peace officer in the Wild West were often determined only by the individual's skill with a gun, and their courage. At times judgment was needed with only seconds to determine it, and that also meant that there was the odd occasion where justice and law never quite meant the same thing. The expression 'justice without law' was never truer than in the formative years of the West.

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Title: Death in a Promised Land

Author: Scott Ellsworth

Narrator: Pat Grimes

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Release date: June 3, 2021

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Widely believed to be the most extreme incidence of white racial violence against African Americans in modern United States history, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the destruction of over one thousand black-owned businesses and homes as well as the murder of between fifty and three hundred black residents. Exhaustively researched and critically acclaimed, Death in a Promised Land is the definitive account of the Tulsa race riot and its aftermath, in which much of the history of the destruction and violence was covered up. It is the compelling story of racial ideologies, southwestern politics, incendiary journalism, and an embattled black community’s struggle to hold onto its land and freedom. More than just the chronicle of one of the nation’s most devastating racial pogroms, this critically acclaimed study of American race relations is, above all, a gripping story of terror and lawlessness and of courage, heroism, and human perseverance.

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Title: The Story of Wellesley

Author: Florence Converse

Narrator: Karina Ithier, Aisling Gray, Jennifer Fournier

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In 1875, Wellesley college opened its doors to women. The Story of Wellesley, written over a hundred years ago, by Florence Converse, a Wellesley professor and graduate herself, tells of the first 40 years of this remarkable school. Henry Fowle Durant founded it with a very specific philosophy which grew and changed as the decades passed. The first six presidents each approached their duty with different talents and goals. Students flourished and became supporting alumnae. Although the individuals mentioned in the Story of Wellesley have all passed into history, their legacy and influence lives on in the alumni and students of today. Narrated by three Wellesley alumnae.

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Title: The Beats: A Very Short Introduction

Author: David Sterritt

Narrator: James Conlan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 41 minutes

Release date: June 1, 2021

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time—particularly those involving sex, race, and class—in such provocative works as Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' (1956), and William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959). In this Very Short Introduction, David Sterritt offers a concise overview of the social, cultural, and aesthetic sensibilities of the Beats, bringing out the similarities that connected them and also the many differences that made them a loosely knit collective rather than an organized movement. Figures in the saga include Neal Cassady, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Clellon Holmes, Carolyn Cassady, and Gary Snyder. As Sterritt ranges from Greenwich Village and San Francisco to Mexico, western Europe, and North Africa, he sheds much light on how the Beats approached literature, drugs, sexuality, art, music, and religion.