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Title: [Spanish] - El juicio de la historia: Maximiliano

Author: José Manuel Villalpando

Narrator: Victor Manuel Espinoza

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 49 minutes

Release date: March 31, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Este libro se suma a la conmemoración del 150 aniversario de la muerte de Maximiliano y reflexiona sobre el momento histórico que México vivió en aquella época con un eco frente a nuestro presente. En este penetrante y documentado ensayo histórico se exploran los últimos momentos de Maximiliano como emperador de México, rastreando paso a paso el proceso que lo llevó al paredón de fusilamiento. Bajo la mirada crítica de José Manuel Villalpando, el reconocido historiador mexicano, esta obra profundiza y analiza el juicio que definió el futuro de México. Apoyado en un importante número de fuentes primarias, se examinan las leyes, los recursos y el contexto bajo el cual Maximiliano, al lado de Miguel Miramón y Tomás Mejía, preparó su defensa y fue juzgado y sentenciado con la máxima pena por el gobierno republicano de Benito Juárez. Más allá de la simple condena a Maximiliano por traidor e intervencionista, este estudio llena el vacío que prevaleció durante años acerca del total desconocimiento del juicio, incluso para los tiempos rebeldes y confusos en que sucedió. Entre las fuentes del libro también se comparten los argumentos esgrimidos por algunos personajes que intentaron apoyar al archiduque y persuadir a Juárez de su decisión de ejecutarlo, entre los que destacan el embajador de Estados Unidos, el conde Wydenbruck, y el escritor romántico Víctor Hugo.

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Title: The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America

Author: Colin G. Calloway

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Release date: March 29, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

During the years of the Early Republic, prominent Native leaders regularly traveled to American cities primarily on diplomatic or trade business, but also from curiosity and adventurousness. They were frequently referred to as 'the Chiefs now in this city' during their visits. Colin Calloway, National Book Award finalist and one of the foremost chroniclers of Native American history, has gathered together the accounts of these visits and from them created a new narrative of the country's formative years, redefining what has been understood as the 'frontier.' Calloway captures what Native peoples observed as they walked the streets, sat in pews, attended plays, drank in taverns, and slept in hotels and lodging houses. In the Eastern cities they experienced an urban frontier, one in which the Indigenous world met the Atlantic world. Calloway reveals not just what Indians saw but how they were seen. Their experience enriches and redefines standard narratives of contact between the First Americans and inhabitants of the American Republic, reminding us that Indian people dealt with non-Indians in multiple ways and places. The story of the country's beginnings was not only one of violent confrontation and betrayal, but one in which the nation's identity was being forged by interaction between and among cultures and traditions.

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Title: The Black Man's President: Abraham Lincoln, African Americans, & the Pursuit of Racial Equality

Author: Michael Burlingame

Narrator: Tony Isabella

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 45 minutes

Release date: March 29, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In a little-noted eulogy delivered after Lincoln's assassination, Frederick Douglass called the president 'emphatically the black man's president,' the 'first to show any respect for their rights as men.' Douglass pointed not just to Lincoln's official acts and utterances, like the Emancipation Proclamation or the Second Inaugural Address, but also to the president's own personal experiences with Black people. But Lincoln's description as 'emphatically the black man's president' rests on more than his relationship with Douglass or on his official words and deeds. Lincoln interacted with many other African Americans during his presidency. His unfailing cordiality to them, his willingness to meet with them in the White House, to honor their requests, to invite them to consult on public policy, to treat them with respect whether they were kitchen servants or leaders of the Black community, to invite them to attend receptions, to sing and pray with them in their neighborhoods—all those manifestations of an egalitarian spirit justified the tributes paid to him by Frederick Douglass and other African Americans. Historian David S. Reynolds observed that only by examining Lincoln's 'personal interchange with Black people do we see the complete falsity of the charges of innate racism that some have leveled against him over the years.'

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Title: Common Enemies: Georgetown Basketball, Miami Football, and the Racial Transformation of College Sports

Author: Thomas F. Schaller

Narrator: Kyle Tait

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Release date: March 29, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

During the 1980s, Black athletes and other athletes of color broadened the popularity and profitability of major-college televised sports by infusing games with a 'Black style' of play. At a moment ripe for a revolution in men's college basketball and football, clashes between 'good guy' white protagonists and bombastic 'bad boy' Black antagonists attracted new fans and spectators. And no two teams in the 1980s welcomed the enemy's role more than Georgetown Hoya basketball and Miami Hurricane football. Georgetown and Miami taunted opponents. Athletes of color at both schools made sports apparel fashionable for younger fans, particularly young African American men. The Hoyas and the 'Canes were a sensation because they made the bad-boy image look good. Popular culture took notice. In the US, sports and race have always been tightly, if sometimes uncomfortably, entwined. Black athletes who dare to challenge the sporting status quo are often initially vilified but later accepted. The 1980s generation of barrier-busting college athletes took this process a step further. Georgetown and Miami's aggressive style of play angered many fans and commentators. But in time their style was not only accepted but imitated by others, both Black and white. Love them or hate them, there was simply no way you could deny the Hoyas and the Hurricanes.

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Title: The Legendary Toad's Place: Stories from New Haven's Famed Music Venue

Author: Randall Beach, Brian Phelps

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 56 minutes

Release date: March 29, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Anyone who has lived near New Haven, Connecticut, in the past forty-plus years has surely heard of Toad's Place. With a capacity of 750, Toad's has served as the perfect spot for musicians who prefer smaller venues. U2 played one of their first US concerts there, on their Boy tour. In 1978, Bruce Springsteen was in New Haven and arrived at Toad's unannounced, and got up and played. The surprises kept coming and the club was attracting big names, as well as up-and-comers. In 1989, the Rolling Stones played a surprise show on a Saturday night, giving 700 fans the night of their dreams. Nothing could have been better—the Rolling Stones in downtown New Haven was unimaginable! That is only a taste of the stories that are uncovered in this book. Randall Beach and Toad's owner Brian Phelps recall the legendary shows and behind-the-scenes stories.

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Title: What is in A Name? The History of Alberta Federal Riding Names

Series: #18 of Alberta Politics

Author: Ernest Mardon, Dr. Austin Mardon

Narrator: Dane Bjornson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 40 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

What's in a Name? explores the nominal backgrounds of many prominent towns, cities and regions in Alberta. It also provides a glimpse into the lives of the many men and women who have participated in Alberta history and molded the political landscape of the places investigated. Members of Parliament, Senators and Judges are catalogued with details about their riding, the party they align themselves with, their occupation and more. This work spans the history of Alberta from its induction into Canada as a province in 1905 to the end of the Social Credit era in 1972.

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Title: What in the World is L'Anse aux Meadows?

Series: #33 of What in the World?

Author: And Zarish Jawad, Hanna Redda Jessica Jutras, Gloria Wang, Lydia Sochan, Alex Hauser, Rayna K. Naik, Christina Nguyen, Ayah Nour Nehdi, Dr. Austin Mardon

Narrator: Hana Hubley

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 24 minutes

Release date: March 25, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Today, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, an archaeological site known as "L'Anse aux Meadows" occupies the northernmost tip of the Great Northern Peninsula. It has been dated as far back as 4000 CE and has origin ties to The Vinland Sagas, such as The Saga of Erik the Red. Now, it has been deemed a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and has artifacts, remains, and reconstructions available for those who want to tour the archaeological site. This anthology of nine bright students' research on L'Anse aux Meadows dives into its speculated history and literary significance, its contemporary discovery and modern-day significance, and similarities and differences between Norse people and Vikings, among many other fascinating topics.

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Title: [Spanish] - Caracas: La ciudad herida

Author: Martín Caparrós

Narrator: Matías Néspolo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

'La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en ciudades, pero no son ciudades como las que uno imagina cuando piensa en Barcelona o en París. Para saber cómo son -cómo es Latinoamérica- decidí volver a hacer eso que siempre me ha gustado hacer: ir, mirar, escuchar, pensar, contarlo.'—Martín Caparrós

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Title: [Spanish] - Buenos Aires: La ciudad abrumada

Author: Martín Caparrós

Narrator: Matías Néspolo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

'La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en ciudades, pero no son ciudades como las que uno imagina cuando piensa en Barcelona o en París. Para saber cómo son -cómo es Latinoamérica- decidí volver a hacer eso que siempre me ha gustado hacer: ir, mirar, escuchar, pensar, contarlo.'—Martín Caparrós

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Title: [Spanish] - México: La ciudad desbocada

Author: Martín Caparrós

Narrator: Matías Néspolo

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 24 minutes

Release date: March 23, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

'La idea de salir a recorrer -y a contar- las grandes ciudades sudacas se me ocurrió cuando pensé que quería tratar de entender qué es hoy América Latina. Hace mucho que no lo intentamos y, en general, solemos conservar esa imagen rural, ecololó de una región que es, ahora mismo, la más urbana del mundo. Cuatro de cada cinco latinoamericanos viven en ciudades, pero no son ciudades como las que uno imagina cuando piensa en Barcelona o en París. Para saber cómo son -cómo es Latinoamérica- decidí volver a hacer eso que siempre me ha gustado hacer: ir, mirar, escuchar, pensar, contarlo.'—Martín Caparrós