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Title: The American Nation: A History, Vol. 9: The American Revolution, 1776–1783

Series: #9 of The American Nation Series

Author: Claude Halstead Van Tyne, Albert Bushnell Hart

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 13 minutes

Release date: October 4, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The American Revolution, 1776–1783 by Claude Halstead Van Tyne, PhD, Assistance Professor of American History, University of Michigan Narrated by Joseph Tabler Volume 9 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904–1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University From the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader. From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Nine: No more difficult task can be found in the twenty-six volumes of The American Nation than to write a fresh and original account of the Revolution…The fundamental thought of this volume is that the Revolution was a close struggle, in which the Americans suffered from inexperience and from the difficulty of securing common action, and the British from ineptitude; that to a large degree it was also a civil war, in which the Tories in actual numbers were not far inferior to the patriots; that it was further a remarkable school of political science from which emerged trained statesmen, vigorous state governments, and a weak and ineffectual national government. The point of view of the author as to the relative origins of the states and the nation is his own; it is no part of the scheme of the series to adjust the conclusions of the individual writers to the editor’s frame of mind. From the Author’s Preface: At the present time there exists more literature devoted to the American Revolution than to any other period in our history, and its very extent increases the difficulty of writing about the subject. While the military side of the struggle has been almost exhaustively treated, there yet remains, notwithstanding much good work, many political, social, and constitutional questions which have been only superficially studied. The problems of writing this volume have been therefore those of condensation, giving proper proportions to the several phases of the Revolution, and of getting a fuller understanding of those questions which have been neglected. Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. Fundamental and Immediate Causes (1763–1775)II. Outbreak of War (1775)III. Organization of an Army (1775–1776)IV. Spirit of Independence (1775–1776)V. The Campaign for Independence (1775–1776)VI. New York Accepts the Revolution (1776)VII. Contest for New York City (1776)VIII. From the Hudson to the Delaware (1776)IX. Framing New State Governments (1776–1780)X. Campaigns of Burgoyne and Howe (1777)XI. State Sovereignty and Confederation (1775–1777)XII. French Aid and French Alliance (1775–1778)XIII. The Turn in the Tide in England and America (1778)XIV. Civil War between Whigs and Tories (1777–1780)XV. The New West (1763–1780)XVI. French Aid and American Reverses (1778–1780)XVII. European Complications and the End of the War (1779–1781) Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available for the first time in this format for your pleasure and consideration.

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Title: History of the United States of America, Volume I: From the Discovery of the Continent

Author: George Bancroft

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 25 hours 10 minutes

Release date: October 4, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Volume one of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A major US History series in six volumes. “Author’s Last Revision” 1888 by D. Appleton and Company. Bancroft as US Secretary of the Navy established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. His comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the “Father of American history.” Narrated by Joseph Tabler From the Author’s Preface: … greater precision has been sought for; the fitter word that offered itself accepted; and, without the surrender of the right of history to pronounce its opinion, care has been taken never unduly to forestall the judgment of the reader, but to leave events as they sweep onward to speak their own condemnation or praise. From the Author’s Introduction: It is the object of the present work to explain how the change in the conditions of our land has been brought about; and, as the fortunes of a nation are not under the control of blind destiny, to follow the steps by which a favoring Providence, calling our institutions into being, has conducted the country to its present happiness and glory. 1834. The foregoing words, written nearly a half-century ago, are suffered to remain, because the intervening years have justified their expression of confidence in the progress of our republic. The seed of disunion has perished; and universal freedom, reciprocal benefits, and cherished traditions bind its many states in the closes union. 1882. Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceContents of the First Volume:The United States of America as ColoniesPart I.The English People Found a Nation in AmericaChapter I. Early Voyages. French Settlements in AmericaChapter II. The Spaniards in Florida and on the Pacific CoastChapter III. The Spaniards in the Mississippi ValleyChapter IV. The Spaniards Hold FloridaChapter V. The English Attempt ColonizationChapter VI. England Plants a New Nation in VirginiaChapter VII. Virginia Obtains Civil LibertyChapter VIII. Slavery. Dissolution of the London CompanyChapter IX. Restrictions on Colonial CommerceChapter X. Colonization of MarylandChapter XI. Prelates and PuritansChapter XII. The PilgrimsChapter XIII. New England’s PlantationChapter XIV. Self-Government of MassachusettsChapter XV. The Providence PlantationsChapter XVI. Colonization of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and ConnecticutChapter XVII. The Prelates and MassachusettsChapter XVIII. The United Colonies of New EnglandChapter XIX. The Place of Puritanism in HistoryPart II.The Colonies Obtain Geographical UnityChapter I. The Fall and Restoration of the StuartsChapter II. The Navigation ActsChapter III. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Charles IIChapter IV. Massachusetts and Charles IIChapter V. New England and Its Red MenChapter VI. The Overthrow of the Charter of MassachusettsChapter VII. Shaftesbury and Locke Legislate for CarolinaChapter VIII. Settlements in South CarolinaChapter IX. Maryland after the RestorationChapter X. How the Stuarts Rewarded the Loyalty of VirginiaChapter XI. The Great Rebellion in VirginiaChapter XII. New NetherlandChapter XIII. New England and New SwedenChapter XIV. New Netherland, New Jersey, and New YorkChapter XV. The People Called Quakers in the United StatesChapter XVI. PennsylvaniaChapter XVII. Despotism of James II. In the Northern ColoniesChapter XVIII. The Revolution of 1688Chapter XIX. The Result Thus Far Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as an audio book, for your pleasure and consideration.

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Title: [French] - Moi, je suis de Bouctouche: Les racines bien ancrées

Author: Donald J. Savoie

Narrator: Nicolas Van Burek

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

Release date: September 30, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Donald Savoie a grandi dans un petit village acadien et est devenu un auteur et un universitaire accompli. Ses livres ont eu un effet profond sur les politiques publiques du Canada et sur l'administration du pays. Moi, je suis de Bouctouche n'est pas seulement l'histoire de Savoie lui-même, mais aussi une histoire qui porte sur le Canada, le peuple acadien et l'évolution du Canada français.

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Title: Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman

Author: Allison Gilbert, Julia Scheeres

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 34 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The first biography of Elsie Robinson, the most influential newspaper columnist you’ve never heard of At thirty-five, Elsie Robinson feared she’d lost it all. Reeling from a scandalous divorce in 1917, she had no means to support herself and her chronically ill son. She dreamed of becoming a writer and was willing to sacrifice everything for this goal, even swinging a pickax in a gold mine to pay the bills. When the mine shut down, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Armed with moxie and samples of her work, she barged into the offices of the Oakland Tribune and was hired on the spot. She went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and household name whose column ran for over thirty years and garnered fifty million readers. Told in cinematic detail by bestselling author Julia Scheeres and award-winning journalist Allison Gilbert, Listen, World! is the inspiring story of a timeless maverick, capturing what it means to take a gamble on self-fulfillment and find freedom along the way.

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Title: Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

Author: Mary Sarah Bilder

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 55 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In this provocative biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the Age of the Constitution to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius. Bilder finds the perfect exemplar of this phenomenon in Eliza Harriot Barons O'Connor. This pathbreaking female educator delivered a University of Pennsylvania lecture attended by George Washington as he and other Constitutional Convention delegates gathered in Philadelphia. As the first such public female lecturer, her courageous performance likely inspired the gender-neutral language of the Constitution. Female Genius reconstructs Eliza Harriot's transatlantic life, paying particular attention to her lectures and the academies she founded, inspiring countless young American women to consider a college education and a role in the political forum. Promoting the ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, Eliza Harriot brought the concept of female genius to the United States. Its advocates argued that women had equal capacity and deserved an equal education and political representation. Its detractors, who feared it undermined male political power, felt deeply threatened. By 1792 Eliza Harriot experienced struggles that reflected the larger backlash faced by women and people of color as new written constitutions provided the political and legal tools for exclusion based on sex, gender, and race.

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Title: Southern Beauty: Race, Ritual, and Memory in the Modern South

Author: Elizabeth Bronwyn Boyd

Narrator: Elisabeth Ashby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In a trio of popular gender rituals—sorority rush, beauty pageants, and the Confederate Pageant of the Natchez (Mississippi) Pilgrimage—young white southern women have readily ditched contemporary modes of dress and comportment for performances of purity, gentility, and deference. Clearly, the ability to 'do' white southern womanhood, convincingly and on cue, has remained a valued performance. Based on ethnographic research and more than sixty taped interviews, Southern Beauty goes behind the scenes of the three rituals to explore the motivations and rewards associated with participation. The picture that Boyd paints is not pretty: it is one of southern beauties securing status and sustaining segregation by making nostalgic gestures to the southern past. Boyd also maintains that the audiences for these rituals and pageants have been complicit, unwilling to acknowledge the beauties' racial work or their investment in it. Southern Beauty moves beyond representations to show how femininity in motion—stylized and predictable but ephemeral—has succeeded as an enduring emblem, where other symbols faltered, by failing to draw scrutiny. Continuing to make the moves of region and race even as many Confederate symbols have been retired, the southern beauty has persisted, maintaining power and privilege through consistent performance.

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Title: Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Author: Kathryn Olivarius

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 51 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

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Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America's slave and cotton kingdoms. It was also where yellow fever epidemics killed as many as 150,000 people during the nineteenth century. With little understanding of mosquito-borne viruses, a person's only protection against the scourge was to 'get acclimated' by surviving the disease. About half of those who contracted yellow fever died. Repeated epidemics bolstered New Orleans's strict racial hierarchy by introducing another hierarchy, what Kathryn Olivarius terms 'immunocapital.' As this original analysis shows, white survivors could leverage their immunity as evidence that they had paid their biological dues and could then pursue economic and political advancement. For enslaved Blacks, the story was different. Immunity protected them from yellow fever, but as embodied capital, they saw the social and monetary value of their acclimation accrue to their white owners. Whereas immunity conferred opportunity and privilege on whites, it relegated enslaved people to the most grueling labor. The question of good health is always in part political. Necropolis shows how powerful nineteenth-century white Orleanians pushed this politics to the extreme. They constructed a society that capitalized mortal risk and equated perceived immunity with creditworthiness and reliability.

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Title: A Long Reconstruction: Racial Caste and Reconciliation in the Methodist Episcopal Church

Author: Paul William Harris

Narrator: Langston Darby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 54 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions? A schism over slavery split Methodism into northern and southern branches, but Union victory in the Civil War provided the northern Methodists with the opportunity to send missionaries into the territory that had been occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. To a remarkable degree, the M. E. Church succeeded in appealing to freed slaves and white Unionists and thereby built up a biracial membership far surpassing that of any other Protestant denomination. A Long Reconstruction details the denomination's journey with unification and justice. African Americans who joined did so in a spirit of hope that through religious fellowship and cooperation they could gain respect, acceptance, and ultimately equality and brotherhood with whites. However, as segregation gradually took hold in the South, many northern Methodists evinced the same skepticism as white southerners about the fitness of African Americans for positions of authority and responsibility in an interracial setting. The African American membership was never without strong white allies who helped to sustain the Church's official stance against racial caste but the M. E. Church placed a growing priority on putting their broken union back together.

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Title: America's Forgotten Terrorists: The Rise and Fall of the Galleanists

Author: Jeffrey D. Simon

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 17 minutes

Release date: September 27, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Though largely forgotten today, one of the most destructive terrorist groups in the United States was the Galleanists, a fiery band of Italian anarchists active during the early 1900s. In America's Forgotten Terrorists, Jeffrey D. Simon shows how alienation and frustration among segments of a community were transformed into a militant extremist movement. Luigi Galleani, a gifted writer and speaker, tapped into widespread disappointment among Italian immigrants concerning their lives in America. Unemployment, low wages, long working hours, discrimination, and a poor quality of life made many Italian immigrants receptive to his words. The Galleanists introduced terrorist tactics and strategies that are still used today: they were the first group to send package bombs across the country and to exploit the media for their own advantage. The story of the Galleanists is a chilling journey through a volatile period in American history, including labor-management conflicts, World War I, and the Red Scare. An expert in terrorism, Simon offers striking insights into the Galleanist era and some of its eerie connections to modern America, calling us to recognize the risks of repeating our history. How the Galleanists operated and how the U.S. government responded hold lessons for today as we continue to deal with the threat of terrorism.

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Title: [Spanish] - Tolteca: El último Avatar de la Serpiente Emplumada

Author: Frank Díaz

Narrator: Antonio Monroi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 35 minutes

Release date: September 22, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

historia de america;libro de historia;mas escuchados;para adultos;para dummies;periodo precolombino;voz humana;historia de Mexico;Mexico prehispanico;Mexico contemporaneo;como aprender de Mexico;mitologia Mexicana;mitologia Azteca;señor de Tlatelolco;quince de septiembre;audiolibro;voz humana;libros de voz humana;escuchando libros;audiopenguin «Ce Acatl Topiltzin, llamado Quetzalcoatl, fue un ser humano extraordinario, cuyo papel para los toltecas y mayas fue similar al de Jesucristo para los cristianos, Buda para los budistas o Mohammed para los musulmanes. El trabajo de Frank Díaz nos ayuda a descubrir las verdaderas raíces de una de las tradiciones espirituales más profundas de la humanidad: la Toltequidad.» -VÍCTOR SÁNCHEZ «Faltaba en nuestros tiempos una obra que nos permitiese conocer “desde dentro” la vida y el pensamiento de este ser extraordinario que dejó una huella indeleble en la historia de México, una obra que, partiendo de las fuentes originales, fuese realizando la narración de la biografía de Quetzalcoatl, al mismo tiempo que la exposición de su pensamiento... Por ello, la obra de Frank Díaz reviste una especial importancia y destaca entre cuanto se ha escrito sobre el rey-sacerdote tolteca.» -ANTONIO VELASCO PIÑA «Ante el colapso que estamos viviendo del sistema mundo, el estudio y la investigación descolonizada de nuestras raíces ancestrales resulta un imperativo. Quetzalcoatl y los toltecas representan un camino a la recuperación de la conciencia y la restauración de la plenitud armónica de la vida. La obra de Frank Díaz es un referente en este sentido; celebramos la presente edición. No podemos salir del calabozo de la colonización con las ideas de los carceleros.» -GUILLERMO MARÍN