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Title: The Battle of Fort Donelson

Subtitle: The History of General Ulysses S. Grant's First Major Victory in the Civil War

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-27-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

While the Lincoln Administration and most Northerners were preoccupied with trying to capture Richmond in the summer of 1861, it would be the little known Ulysses S. Grant who delivered the Union's first major victories, over a thousand miles away from Washington. Grant's new commission led to his command of the District of Southeast Missouri, headquartered at Cairo, after he was appointed by "The Pathfinder", John C. Fremont, a national celebrity who had run for President in 1856. Fremont was one of many political generals that Lincoln was saddled with, and his political prominence ensured he was given a prominent command as commander of the Department of the West early in the war before running so afoul of the Lincoln Administration that he was court-martialed. In January of 1862, Grant persuaded General Henry "Old Brains" Halleck to allow his men to launch a campaign on the Tennessee River. As soon as Halleck acquiesced, Grant moved against Fort Henry, in close coordination with the naval command of Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote. The combination of infantry and naval bombardment helped force the capitulation of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862, and the surrender of Fort Henry was followed immediately by an attack on Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, which earned Grant his famous nickname "Unconditional Surrender". Grant's forces enveloped the Confederate garrison at Fort Donelson, which included Confederate generals Simon Buckner, John Floyd, and Gideon Pillow.

Members Reviews:

Ft Donelson.

I liked this book. Of all battles in the war of northern aggression Henry & Donelson I find to be of the most interest.i have stood in the confederate batteries at Donelson. My great great grand uncle died at Ft. Henry. I recommend this book to anyone with similar interest.

EXCELLENT

Another CHARLES RIVER EDITORS e-book with a battle of the Civil War. As usual, this book is loaded with illustrations, making it more readable and enjoyable.

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Title: The United States-Mexico Border

Subtitle: The Controversial History and Legacy of the Boundary Between America and Mexico

Author: Gustavo Vazquez Lozano, Charles River Editors

Narrator: Scott Clem

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-10-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The history of the border between Mexico and the United States extends alongside 200 years and 2,000 miles - the tortuous epic of a man-made line that has not only hardened and become more solid over time, but has changed meanings too. In the beginning, it was an idea - the approximate and inhospitable edge of the vast Spanish Empire and the beginning of no man's land. Then, it was a line on paper - a porous boundary with no physical barriers. In times of peace, it was a place of trade and cooperation; in times of conflict, it was the point where two different peoples clashed, as well as the meeting of the North and South of international geopolitics.

Two centuries ago, the border was formed by vast deserts and dangerous regions in which nobody wanted to live - a vaguely defined and surveyed boundary. Today, in the second decade of the 21st century, despite being located in one of the most inclement habitats in the world, it is also the world's busiest. It functions like a country in itself considering the volume of economic operations carried out across the line, not to mention being one of the most monitored regions of the planet. Some experts have even called it a low-warfare zone. Consider, for comparison's sake, the border between Belgium and the Netherlands, where crossing means going from one pub to another, and it is hardly realized when one leaves one nation or the other. Or consider the open limits of Poland and Ukraine, which consists of beautiful green pastures decorated with all kinds of art.

How did the border of Mexico and the United States transition from a wilderness to an overpopulated, violent, dynamic, buoyant, culturally dynamic land in such a relatively short time, where a plethora of legal and illegal goods cross in both directions? Curiously, there was a time when the two countries were not even neighbors. France was between them, possessing the vast land of the Louisiana territory, where Napoleon wanted to establish a French empire in the Americas. At that time, Mexico had the official but artificial name of "New Spain" - misleading, since atlases from the 16th century had already named it "America Mexicana" - and the United States was approximately the size of the present-day United Kingdom and Ireland combined. The disturbances in Europe soon put the two most conspicuous countries of the continent side by side, and these two North American nations garnered the world's attention in the 19th century.

Certainly not everything has been bad in the relationship between the two nations. In fact, the border has developed its own traditions, history, and personality into one not entirely Mexican or entirely American. Timothy Brown, a scholar of the frontier and globalization, correctly points out that "to most Mexicans, their northern states, with half their nation's land but only one-fifth its people, seem too American, a bit alien, vaguely un-Mexican," and likewise, "to many Americans, their own Southwest sometimes seems similarly alien and terribly Hispanic." Thus, on numerous occasions, both countries have found along the line a way of helping each other for mutual benefit.

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Title: Frank and Jesse James in the Civil War

Subtitle: The History of the Bushwhackers Who Became Outlaws of the Wild West

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Colin Fluxman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 01-16-17

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The Civil War is best remembered for the big battles and the legendary generals who fought on both sides, like Robert E. Lee facing off against Ulysses S. Grant in 1864. In kind, the Eastern theater has always drawn more interest and attention than the West. However, while massive armies marched around the country fighting each other, there were other small guerrilla groups that engaged in irregular warfare on the margins.

Among these partisan bushwhackers, none are as infamous as William Quantrill and Quantrill's Raiders. Quantrill's Raiders operated along the border between Missouri and Kansas, which had been the scene of partisan fighting over a decade earlier during the debate over whether Kansas and Nebraska would enter the Union as free states or slave states. In "Bleeding Kansas", zealous pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fought each other, most notably John Brown, and the region became a breeding ground for Unionists and pro-slavery factions who shifted right back into similar fighting once the Civil War started. Rather than target military infrastructure or enemy soldiers, the bushwhackers rode in smaller numbers and targeted civilians on the other side of the conflict, making legends out of men like Bloody Bill Anderson and John Mosby.

Though Quantrill's Raiders were named after their famous leader William Clark Quantrill, the most notorious of the Raiders was none other than Jesse James. Frank and Jesse James have become American legends for their daring robberies and narrow escapes from the law, and many people, especially in the South, see them as folk heroes, unreconstructed rebels fighting for the Lost Cause against rich Northern bankers and capitalists. While that last bit is a matter for debate, the James brothers did indeed consider themselves Southern rebels at heart.

The Wild West has made legends out of many men after their deaths, but like Wild Bill Hickok, Jesse James was a celebrity during his life. However, while Hickok was (mostly) a lawman, Jesse James was and remains the most famous outlaw of the Wild West, with both his life of crime and his death remaining pop culture fixtures. James and his notorious older brother Frank were Confederate bushwhackers in the lawless region of Missouri during the Civil War. Despite being a teenager, Jesse James was severely wounded twice during the war, including being shot in the chest, but that would hardly slow him down after the war ended.

Eventually, Quantrill's Raiders headed south, and they eventually split off into several groups. Quantrill himself was killed while fighting in June 1865, nearly two months after Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, but his name was kept alive by the notorious deeds of his Raiders during the war and the criminal exploits of former Raiders like Jesse and Frank James, as well as the Younger brothers. These men became some of America's most famous outlaws, and they used guerrilla tactics to rob banks and trains while eluding capture.

While their robberies were conducted more to enrich themselves than to strike back against the North, their rebel credentials were impeccable. The brothers came from a secessionist, slaveholding family and both fought for the Confederacy in the bitterest guerrilla war the nation has ever seen.

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Title: Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front

Author: Daniel E. Sutherland

Narrator: Kevin Moriarty

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-21-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Until recently, this localized violence was largely ignored, scholars focusing instead on large-scale operations of the war - the decisions and actions of generals and presidents. But as Daniel Sutherland reminds us, the impact of battles and elections cannot be properly understood without an examination of the struggle for survival on the home front, of lives lived in the atmosphere created by war. Sutherland gathers 11 essays by such noted Civil War scholars as Michael Fellman, Donald Frazier, Noel Fisher, and B. F. Cooling, each one exploring the Confederacy's internal war in a different state. All help to broaden our view of the complexity of war and to provide us with a clear picture of war's consequences, its impact on communities, homes, and families.

This strong collection of essays delves deeply into what Daniel Sutherland calls "the desperate side of war", enriching our understanding of a turbulent and divisive period in American history.

The book is published by The University of Arkansas Press.

Members Reviews:

Fascinating look American Guerilla warfare.

This book examines how and why, violence and guerrilla warfare divided local communities in the American Civil War era.

Fascinating history very well read!

What made the experience of listening to Guerrillas, Unionists, and Violence on the Confederate Home Front the most enjoyable?

Fascinating part of history of which I knew very little.

What about Kevin Moriartys performance did you like?

Moriarty's even tone and clear pronunciation.

Any additional comments?

Highly recommend this audiobook.

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Title: Football

Subtitle: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession

Author: Mark F. Bernstein

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-24-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

From the day Princeton played the first intercollegiate game in 1869, these major schools of the northeast - Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale - shaped football as we now know it. Almost every facet of the game still bears their imprint: they created the All-America team, produced the first coaches, devised the basic rules, invented many of the strategies, developed much of the equipment, and even named the positions.

In this rich history, Bernstein shows that much of the culture that surrounds American football, both good and bad, has its roots in the Ivy League.

The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.

Members Reviews:

Excellent performance, incredibly well-written

Thoroughly researched history of the Ivy League, with an outstanding narrator in Kyle Tait. Will definitely look for more books he's narrated.

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Title: Rutherford B. Hayes

Author: Michael A. Ross

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

President Rutherford B. Hayes, the first Gilded Age president, began his career as an antislavery Union soldier. Yet the Compromise of 1877, which led to his prevailing in the wake of the hotly contested Hayes-Tilden election, caused Hayes to abandon Reconstruction and turn his attention to economic priorities such as using federal troops to subdue railroad strikes. By the end of his single term, Hayesdubbed His Fraudulencyhad largely permitted the dismantling of civil rights advances achieved during Reconstruction. He thus paved the way, albeit unintentionally, for an era of white supremacy and Jim Crow laws in the South.

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Title: Benjamin Harrison

Author: Allan B. Spetter

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Format: Unabridged

Length: 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-19-16

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Benjamin Harrison, the Centennial President, failed to achieve many of his goals (for instance, he was unable to secure passage of federal legislation to ensure public school education and voting rights for African Americans in the South). Yet he successfully pressed Congress to pass the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to deal with the growing threat posed by corporate trusts and monopolies. Using his presidential power to protect a Supreme Court justice who had received threats of physical harm, Harrison also expanded the presidents power under the Constitutions Take Care Clause and began a practice that continues today. Ironically, the Supreme Court that Harrison helped shape subsequently thwarted many of his principal initiatives during his single term.

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Title: Surviving the Oregon Trail, 1852

Author: Weldon Willis Rau

Narrator: Todd Curless

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-18-16

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The 1852 overland migration was the largest on record, with numbers swelled by Oregon-bound settlers as well as hordes of gold-seekers destined for California. It also was a year in which cholera took a terrible toll in lives. Presented here are firsthand accounts of this fateful year, including the words and thoughts of a young married couple, Mary Ann and Willis Boatman.

The book is published by Washington State University Press.

Members Reviews:

Long Journey.

I have enjoyed this story, but a bit disappointed by the lack of detail. I found the stories of the families involved to be to be very general and not having details. There was little mention of the interaction with other travellers or the Indian people who's land they were taking. I thought it would be a better story than it was.

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Title: Gunpowder Girls

Subtitle: The True Stories of Three Civil War Tragedies

Author: Tanya Anderson

Narrator: Carrie Olsen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-16

Publisher: Quindaro Press

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

With thousands of men off fighting in the Civil War, the government hired women and girls - some as young as 10 - to make millions of rounds of ammunition. Poor immigrant girls and widows paid the price for carelessness at three major arsenals. Many of these workers were killed, blown up and burned beyond recognition.

As Steve Sheinkin did with The Port Chicago 50, Tanya Anderson in Gunpowder Girls tells an amazing war story that finally gives its subjects their due. Hidden history comes alive through primary-source research and engaging narrative.

Gunpowder Girls is a story of child labor and immigrant hopes and the cruel, endless demands of an all-consuming war.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic Look at Women & Work

Would you consider the audio edition of Gunpowder Girls to be better than the print version?

I didn't read the print version but the audio edition is fantastic. The narrator's voice is crisp, clear and engaging. There are slight intonations to connote different sections, presumably sidebar material.

Who was your favorite character and why?

This is nonfiction but there are several characters mentioned throughout, some are the foremen or boys who deliver gunpowder but it's really a book about the women and the work they did during the civil war. There are several personal stories and anecdotes throughout. This is not boring history.

Which scene was your favorite?

The descriptions of two of the arsenal explosions are affecting. You can really imagine that you were at the scene. The descriptions are vivid and the author has done a great job of providing not just the facts but the story and context.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

I listened to this in a few long sessions.

Any additional comments?

The quality of the writing and the narration are superb. As a disclaimer, I received a free review copy but it was a book I requested and very much enjoyed.

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Title: NPR American Chronicles: The Military History Collection

Author: National Public Radio, Inc.

Narrator: Rachel Martin, Audie Cornish, Neal Conan

Format: Original Recording

Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-16

Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Includes four complete critically acclaimed and award-winning audio documentaries:

The Civil War: NPR captures the battlefield action, the personal struggles, and the moral dilemmas of the war that pitted brother against brother (and sometimes sister) and friend against friend. This revealing collection of Civil War stories features gripping history and expert commentary from the likes of Shelby Foote, E. L. Doctorow, James McPherson, and many others.

World War I: Famously referred to by US president Woodrow Wilson as "the war to end all wars", the First World War eclipsed all previous wars with its scale of destruction. With over 27 nations involved, the battlefield horrors and political outcomes of the first truly global military conflict had repercussions that are still felt today. NPR presents a vivid portrait of what most experts consider the first modern war, including profiles of America's flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker, unlikely savior of war-torn Belgium Herbert Hoover, and the last surviving doughboy, Frank Buckles.

World War II: NPR reveals remarkable stories of valor, bravery, and survival from the deadliest conflict in history with this vast panorama of interviews, memories, and first-person accounts from fronts in Europe, in the Pacific, and at home. Harrowing, heartbreaking, and deeply personal, this collection offers an intimate, engaging way to learn more about the war that changed the world.

The Vietnam War: NPR reported firsthand on the Vietnam War and for the very first time presents exclusive stories from the origins of the conflict to its major battles, from the fall of Saigon to the repercussions of the war still felt today. Featuring perspectives of ordinary people affected by the conflict as well as high-ranking policy makers and military members who were there.

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