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Title: Confederate Daughters

Subtitle: Coming of Age During the Civil War

Author: Victoria E. Ott

Narrator: Lillian Rathbun

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-22-15

Publisher: University Press Audiobooks

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War explores gender, age, and Confederate identity by examining the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding, secessionist families. These young women clung tenaciously to the gender ideals that upheld marriage and motherhood as the fulfillment of female duty and to the racial order of the slaveholding South, an institution that defined their status and afforded them material privileges. When differences between the North and South proved irreconcilable, Southern daughters demonstrated extraordinary agency in seeking to protect their futures as wives, mothers, and slaveholders.

From a position of young womanhood and privilege, they threw their support behind the movement to create a Confederate identity, which was in turn shaped by their participation in the secession movement and the war effort. Their political engagement is evident from their knowledge of military battles, and was expressed through their clothing, social activities, relationships with peers, and interactions with Union soldiers.

Confederate Daughters reveals how these young women, in an effort to sustain their families throughout the war, adjusted to new domestic duties, confronting the loss of slaves and other financial hardships by seeking paid work outside their homes.

Critic Reviews:

"Confederate Daughters is an engaging and thoughtful study of the role that young women played in creating, sustaining, and remembering the Confederacy." (Amy Murrell Taylor, author of The Divided Family in Civil War America)

"Confederate Daughters adds a fascinating and important twist to questions about the war's impact on southern white women." (Jane Turner Censer, author of The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 18651895)

Members Reviews:

very insightful and interesting book,

Great book. interesting topic. makes me wonder how teens today would fare in such circumstances as these.

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Título: Historia de los Estados Unidos [US History]

Autor: Online Studio Productions

Narrador: uncredited

Formato: Unabridged

Duración: 4 hrs and 21 mins

Idioma: Español

Fecha de publicación: 12-03-15

Editor: Online Studio Productions

Calificaciones: 2 de 5 de 3 votos

Categorías: History, American

Resumen del editor:

La entrega inicial de la fascinante historia de la nación más poderosa de la Tierra. Enfocada en los inicios de la población en su actual territorio, este audiolibro relata la historia de aquellas tribus primigenias antes de la llegada de los europeos, que vivían en sociedades bajo un régimen patriarcal, se regían por leyes, construían viviendas, practicaban la agricultura, explotaban algunos metales y poseían rudimentarias industrias. Asimismo se narrará el largo período histórico, de aproximadamente dos siglos y medio, donde españoles, franceses, holandeses, ingleses y suecos, intentaron conquistar el difícil e inhóspito país del llamado "Tío Sam". La conversión de una nación próspera y desarrollada, a una superpotencia, es el tema central de este gran audiolibro.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

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Title: Great Speeches by the Presidents of the United States, Vol. 3

Subtitle: 1989-2015

Author: SpeechWorks - compilation

Narrator: William Jefferson Clinton, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama

Format: Original Recording

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-02-15

Publisher: SoundWorks

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

A day that will live in infamy.... Nothing to fear but fear itself.... Ask not what your country can do for you.... Ich bin ein Berliner.... Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

George H. W. Bush: Inauguration Speech (1989), Panama (1989), Kuwait (1990), State of the Union (1991), End of Gulf War (1991), Gulf War (1991)

William Jefferson Clinton: First Inauguration (1993), Health Care (1993), Normandy (1994), Oklahoma Bombing (1995), Bosnia (1995), State of the Union (1996), Balanced Budget (1997), Farewell to the Nation (2001)

George W. Bush: Inauguration Address (2001), 9/11 (2001), Ground Zero (2001), Joint Session (2001), Iraqi Freedom Operation (2003), Second Inauguration Address (2005)

Barack Obama: Inauguration (2009), Health Care (2009), Obamacare (2010), Bin Laden (2011), Reelection Victory Speech (2012), State of the Union Address (2014), Iran (2015)

These are actual historic recordings. The sound quality represents the available audio technology of the era and varies by recording.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

history for real

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Title: Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of Arkansas

Author: W. C. Jameson

Narrator: Bob Rundell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-18-15

Publisher: Progreso Publishing Group, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

Arkansas has long been a land rich in history and lore, and few of the events associated with The Natural State are more compelling and provocative than those associated with lost mines and buried treasures. Within this audiobook, award-winning author W.C. Jameson has captured and interpreted the most complete collection of these rich and varied stories of lost treasure.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

very imformative

Great book

Very informative book. I love the old lore of lost tresures

good book

it was a good book,but some of the storys were just to short..could have done a little more research.got to love treasures

Five Stars

Simple easy to read

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Title: First-Person America

Author: Ann Banks

Narrator: Tony Kahn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-15

Publisher: Pickett Press

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

In the late 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project set out to create a first-person portrait of America by sending young writers around the country to interview people from diverse ethnic groups, occupations, and backgrounds. When the Writers Project closed its doors, some 10,000 of these oral histories were left gathering dust in a remote storeroom at the Library of Congress. In First Person America, Ann Banks has collected dozens of these oral histories, including a North Carolina patent-medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, a Key West smuggler, a Pullman Porter, and Chicago jazz musicians. There are men and women who remember meeting Billy the Kid, survived the Chicago Fire, and fled the Czar to America. They hawked lucky charms and patent medicine. They knew Bix Beiderbecke personally and tried to copy his style in Chicago jazz clubs. They peddled cake flavoring, auctioned tobacco, and fished and smuggled rum, and sometimes aliens, from Cuba to Key West. They worked in coal and granite and cotton and iron. The women quilted and pressed laundry and took in boarders and delivered babies. And when their men ran out on them they swallowed their pride and threw rent parties. Lloyd Green, a Pullman Porter in Harlem, lamented his move north to the big city, telling Federal Writer Ralph Ellison, "I'm in New York, but New York ain't in me." First Person America is narrated by Tony Kahn, a public radio veteran writer, host, and producer.

Critic Reviews:

"The kaleidoscope of the American experience is recounted in the warm, grandfatherly voice of Tony Kahn, who tackles Polish and Jewish accents, among others.... Kahn gives a tone of bright optimism to each person profiled, illuminating the theme that hard work and a good attitude can get you far even if you start with practically nothing." (AudioFile)

Members Reviews:

The Voices of Our People

This was one of the excellent products of the Depression-era writers's project -- vices of "ameerage" Americans, and never to be recaptured in any ther way.

Fresh in today's economic climate

This book was originally published in 1980, but two things make it very meaningful in 2009. First, there is an obvious similarity between the stories of these persons who lived through the Great Depression and families caught up in today's chaos. When allowances are made for differences in technology, many of these persons displaced in the '30's could be people in similar situations speaking today. The second thing that is thought provoking is the continuity between what happened 75 years ago and what is happening today.

The book is a very good read--excellent stories and quite well edited.

A True Blast from the 1930s Past

This is a fantastic collection of true vignettes dating from the 1930s. As someone who grew up in the '70s, I am intrigued and fascinated by descriptions from the days of the Great Depression. What makes this book so great is that these are actual descriptions from the '30s...not rehashed remembrances from the distant past. Thanks to the WPA program, and the meticulous detailing of Ann Banks, these stories are not lost to the ages. A must for any history buff.

Nice Book

Gives a nice history of America with a different slant. Good to read in bed as you don't have to finish a chapter; each letter stands on its own.

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Title: American Legends: The Life of Paul Revere

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Chris Brinkley

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-17-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"Out started six officers, seized my bridle, put their pistols to my breast, ordered me to dismount, which I did. One of them, who appeared to have the command there, and much of a gentleman, asked me where I came from; I told him. He asked what time I left. I told him, he seemed surprised, said 'Sir, may I crave your name?' I answered 'My name is Revere.'" (Paul Revere)

A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get caught up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known.

Over the course of 83 years, Paul Revere was one of the most prominent citizens in Boston, heralded for his silversmith work, his participation in the Sons of Liberty, and his service in the Massachusetts militia. Fathering 16 children by two wives, 11 of whom survived to adulthood, Revere supported his large family by doing everything from dentistry to casting church bells and engraving the most popular image of the Boston Massacre. His ability to roll copper into sheets made his work even more valuable to the dry docks and naval construction in Charlestown and around Boston.

Given everything he did for Boston and his community, it would have no doubt greatly surprised Revere if he had known he would become an American legend for his midnight ride on the night of April 18, 1775.

Members Reviews:

The Facts about the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Usually I find a few surprises in these short stories, and I certainly did in this. Paul Revere was a courier and did make the trip warning the British were coming. However, the story that Longfellow glamorized in his poem distorted the facts, so what we know isn't what really happened. Paul Revere had made similar rides before, but rather than riding a fast horse and calling out the warning, he went from house to house and meeting place to meeting place to keep his mission secret. There were three riders delivering the message and Revere didn't complete the ride; he was captured before he finished, but the other riders had more success. Revere did much more in the Revolution that the ride he's famous for: he produced a lot of revolutionary literature in his business as a silversmith and coppersmith.

Five Stars

Great book for my sons book report

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Title: The Burning of Atlanta in 1864: The History of One of the Civil War's Most Controversial Events

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Michael Piotrasch

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"We rode out of Atlanta by the Decatur road, filled by the marching troops and wagons of the Fourteenth Corps; and reaching the hill, just outside of the old rebel works, we naturally paused to look back upon the scenes of our past battles. We stood upon the very ground whereon was fought the bloody battle of July 22d, and could see the copse of wood where McPherson fell. Behind us lay Atlanta, smouldering and in ruins, the black smoke rising high in air, and hanging like a pall over the ruined city." (William Tecumseh Sherman)

William Tecumseh Sherman has earned fame and infamy for being the one to bring total war to the South, and it started at Atlanta. Once his men entered the city, Sherman ordered the 1,600 citizens remaining in Atlanta to evacuate as he, in Grant's words, set out to "destroy [Atlanta] so far as to render it worthless for military purposes," with Sherman himself remaining a day longer to supervise the destruction himself "and see that it was well done." Then, on November 14, 1864, Sherman abandoned the ravaged city, taking with him 13,000 mules and horses and all the supplies the animals could carry.

One of the most famous movies of all time, Gone with the Wind, depicts the burning of Atlanta after Sherman occupied it in 1864. Over time history came to view Sherman as a harbinger of total war, and in the South Sherman is still viewed as a brutal warmonger. Considerable parts of Atlanta and Columbia did burn when Sherman occupied them in 1864 and 1865, respectively, but how responsible was Sherman for the initial fires?

To this day, there is no definitive answer.

Members Reviews:

Total war

Who burned Atlanta? The book indicates that both the retreating rebels and the Union forces were probably equally involved in the burning. The rebels burned anything they didn't want the Union soldiers to obtain; whereas, the Union troops attacking Atlanta accidentally burn part of it and leaving other parts of Atlanta were burned has the Union troops began the march to the sea. This book in a brief concise manner explains the concept of total war. Total war means that the civilian population has a well as the soldiers are given the opportunity to be severely inconvenienced and in some cases killed. I recommend this book to anyone interested in total war and the Civil War.

Five Stars

It was very good reading.

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Title: The West Point Class of 1846

Subtitle: The Cadets and History of the Academy's Most Famous Class

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: T. David Rutherford

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 29 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

"Toiling uphill is not what it is cracked up to be!" (Cadet George B. McClellan)

West Point has long been America's most famous military academy, but in the early 19th century it was a highly unimpressive school consisting of a few ugly buildings facing a desolate, barren parade ground. Established with just five officers and 10 cadets of the Corps of Engineers on March 16, 1802, the academy was built on a spot just 50 miles north of New York City, which had been a key Hudson River military fortress during the Revolutionary War. Cadets attending during the Point's first several decades were obliged to maintain their daily regimen knowing the school might shut down at any moment, as the US government frequently questioned why it should provide free education.

As it turned out, West Point would become the foremost military academy in the nation, and it would churn out the cadets who became the most important generals in the Civil War.

The future generals' years at West Point became a source of both camaraderie and colorful stories. A clerical error by West Point administrators ensured that Hiram Ulysses Grant forever became known as Ulysses S. Grant; and years after Robert E. Lee met Albert Sidney Johnston and Jefferson Davis at West Point, George H. Thomas and William Tecumseh Sherman met each other - and Richard S. Ewell. During the 1850s classes included men like John Bell Hood, Union general Phil Sheridan, and James Birdseye McPherson, who would become the only commanding general of a Union army to die in a Civil War battle.

Members Reviews:

Informative, provocative

Never read any books by the Charles River Editors.

It was interesting,and whet my appetite to gather more information on

the Civil War and the classmates who fought each other.

The pictures were very interesting especially the women who were all plus

sized (no size 7's in that group!)

This publication is several levels above Wikipedia. A good jumping point

for a term paper or research. Not the type of work for leisure reading.

This ia a good subject, but the editing and plagurism is terrible

This ia a good subject, but the editing and plagurism is terrible. I guess if the editors are all the same, plagurism is acceptable. However, for one who bought the book, I EXPECT each book to stand on its own, not with paragrapsh or chapters from a different book.

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Title: The Washington Monument

Subtitle: The History of the World's Tallest Obelisk

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Craig Stephens

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-29-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

People have always loved symbols and monuments. Even before there was any sort of written language, there were places and things considered sacred, whether it was the Mesopotamians' ziggurats or the Egyptians' pyramids. Thus, it had long been a practice to make some sort of memorial to those who had died as a way to remember and honor them and, given the importance of George Washington to the young United States of America, it's no surprise that plans to build monuments to him began within months of his death.

There are countless ways that Washington, remembered as, "[F]irst in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen," has been commemorated across America, but the most famous is the Washington Monument. Congress had actually called for establishing a monument to Washington as far back as 1783, but it wasn't until the 1830s that work on the world's tallest obelisk began in earnest. In fact, while the Washington Monument is taken as a given today, and it was designed to be, "[U]nparalleled in the world, and commensurate with the gratitude, liberality, and patriotism of the people by whom it is to be erected," there were several issues that nearly prevented it from being a reality, including political arguments, costs, and lack of progress. Though it may be hard to believe, the Washington Monument was not dedicated until the 1880s, nearly half a century after an obelisk was first envisioned.

By the time it was finished, however, it was clear that the wait was worth it.

Members Reviews:

Accurate Historical Accounting

Relying on actual documents and newspaper accounts, the reader gets a feel for how things were back then. While the prose used by these Americans is slightly different than what we use today, the quotes are not difficult to understand and place the narrative in better context than if the author's used current vernacular. This story shows just how difficult is was to get on of the three icons of American monuments designed, funded, and actually built. All Americans should read this story.

Our thanks to a great man.

This was a great read! The dedication of the men and women that worked so hard to see this to completion amazes me. What does confuse me is the length of time that it took to get it done. I know that we were going through some hard times but yet it seems that that should have not affected this the way that it did. Of course, raising that kind of money during that time was a miracle in itself. It's an honor to be a citizen of these United States and to be a part of that kind of history.

EXCELLENT

Very interesting ebook about the Washington Monument, from the planning and construction; to the maintenance and use today.

Buy and learn.

... through a project and still end up with something wonderful.

Every American should read this book - it is proof that our government can bumble and stumble through a project and still end up with something wonderful.

Nice history

Nice, concise history of the monument and how it came about. It gives enough detail about the people and events leading to the monument but not too much.

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Title: The California Gold Rush and the Klondike Gold Rush: The History of America's Most Famous Gold Rushes

Author: Charles River Editors

Narrator: Dennis E. Morris

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 40 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-21-15

Publisher: Charles River Editors

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

One of the most important and memorable events of the United States' westward push across the frontier came with the discovery of gold in the lands that became California in January 1848. Located thousands of miles away from the country's power centers on the east coast at the time, the announcement came a month before the Mexican-American War had ended, and among the very few Americans that were near the region at the time, many of them were Army soldiers who were participating in the war and garrisoned there. San Francisco was still best known for being a Spanish military and missionary outpost during the colonial era, and only a few hundred called it home. Mexico's independence, and its possession of those lands, had come only a generation earlier.

Everything changed almost literally overnight. While the Mexican-American War technically concluded with a treaty in February 1848, the announcement brought an influx of an estimated 90,000 "Forty-Niners" to the region in 1849, hailing from other parts of America and even as far away as Asia. All told, an estimated 300,000 people would come to California over the next few years, as men dangerously trekked thousands of miles in hopes of making a fortune, and in a span of months, San Francisco's population exploded, making it one of the first mining boomtowns to truly spring up in the West. This was a pattern that would repeat itself across the West anytime a mineral discovery was made, from the Southwest and Tombstone to the Dakotas and Deadwood. Of course, that was made possible by the collective memory of the original California gold rush.

Members Reviews:

Gold Rushes

This book covers the gold rush in California and Alaska. The sad fact about these gold rushes were that the people,selling supplies to prospectors made more money than the prospectors themselves.

Informative.

Pretty typical for Charles River. Content isn't bad but these "editors" definitely need to hire some editors to fix spelling and grammar errors.

Enjoyed the brief history of both gold discoveries

Enjoyed the brief history of both gold discoveries. The author wrote about the basic information without a lot of detail and fillers.

VERY GOOD

This ebook is about different gold rushes,each of which have an ebook in the CHARLES RIVER EDITORS.

Three Stars

Not a bad book could have been longer