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Title: Keeping Family Secrets: Shame and Silence in Memoirs from the 1950s

Author: Margaret K. Nelson

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 28 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

All families have secrets but the facts requiring secrecy change with time. Nowadays a lesbian partnership, a 'bastard' son, or a criminal grandfather might be of little or no consequence but could have unraveled a family at an earlier moment in history. Margaret K. Nelson is interested in how families keep secrets from each other and from outsiders when to do otherwise would risk eliciting not only embarrassment or discomfort, but profound shame and, in some cases, danger. Drawing on over 150 memoirs describing childhoods in the period between the aftermath of World War II and the 1960s, Nelson highlights the importance of history in creating family secrets and demonstrates the use of personal stories to understand how people make sense of themselves and their social worlds. Keeping Family Secrets uncovers hidden stories of same-sex attraction among boys, unwed pregnancies among teenage girls, the institutionalization of children with mental and physical disabilities, participation in left-wing political activities, adoption, and Jewish ancestry. The members of ordinary families kept these issues secret to hide the disconnect between the reality of their own family and the prevailing ideals of what a family should be. Keeping Family Secrets sheds light not only on decades-old secrets but pushes us to confront what secrets our families keep today.

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Title: Muscle Shoals Sound Studio: How the Swampers Changed American Music

Author: Carla Jean Whitley

Narrator: Amanda Ronconi

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

An estimated four hundred gold records have been recorded in the Muscle Shoals area. Many of those are thanks to Muscle Shoals Sound Studio and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, dubbed 'the Swampers.' Some of the greatest names in rock, R&B and blues laid tracks in the original, iconic concrete-block building—the likes of Cher, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rolling Stones, and the Black Keys. The National Register of Historic Places now recognizes that building, where Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded the original version of 'Free Bird' and the Rolling Stones wrote 'Brown Sugar' and 'Wild Horses.' By combing through decades of articles and music reviews related to Muscle Shoals Sound, music writer Carla Jean Whitley reconstructs the fascinating history of how the Alabama studio created a sound that reverberates across generations.

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Title: Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Interracial Solidarity in 1960s-70s New Left Organizing

Author: James Tracy, Amy Sonnie

Narrator: Mike Chamberlain

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have often been painted as spectators, reactionaries, and, even, racists. But authors James Tracy and Amy Sonnie disprove that narrative. Through over ten years of research, interviewing activists along with unprecedented access to their personal archives, Tracy and Sonnie tell a crucial, untold story of the New Left. Their deeply sourced narrative history shows how poor and working-class individuals from diverse ethnic, rural and urban backgrounds cooperated and drew strength from one another. The groups they founded redefined community organizing, and transformed the lives and communities they touched.

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Title: History of the American Frontier 1763–1893

Author: Frederic L. Paxson

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 24 hours 54 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms History of the American Frontier 1763–1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize winner in History, 1925. The prize-winning History of the American Frontier, 1763–1893 covers a very wide sweep of topics, with unusual strength in handling violent relations between the frontiersman and the Indians. Paxson emphasized the impact on people of the process of moving to the west, downplaying the static aspects of specific localities. From the Author’s Preface:When I began my studies in the history of the West some twenty years ago, the State of Colorado, where I worked, still bore the imprint of the struggle of the preceding decade. The frontier was gone; and the frontiersmen there as elsewhere in the United States were adapting themselves to the life of a new century. Turner had already pointed out the significance of the frontier in our history, but the occasional historical pioneer who followed his lead must make his own tools, find his sources, and assemble his bibliographies. The time is ripe for … synthesis, in which an attempt is made to show the proportions of the whole story. Author’s PrefaceI. The American Frontier of 1763II. The Forks of the OhioIII. The Shenandoah Country and the TennesseeIV. The Rear of the RevolutionV. The Land ProblemVI. Creation of the Public DomainVII. The National Land SystemVIII. The Old NorthwestIX. The Western BoundariesX. The First New StatesXI. Political Theories of the FrontierXII. Jeffersonian DemocracyXIII. The Frontier of 1800XIV. Ohio: The Clash of PrinciplesXV. The Purchase of LouisianaXVI. Problems of the Southwest BorderXVII. The Bonds of UnityXVIII. The Wabash Frontier: Tecumseh, 1811XIX. The Western War of 1812XX. Stabilizing the FrontierXXI. The Great MigrationXXII. Statehood on the Ohio: Indiana and IllinoisXXIII. The Cotton Kingdom: Mississippi and AlabamaXXIV. Missouri: The New SectionalismXXV. Public Land ReformXXVI. Frontier FinanceXXVII. The American SystemXXVIII. Jacksonian DemocracyXXIX. The East, and the Western MarketsXXX. The Western Internal ImprovementsXXXI. The Permanent Indian Frontier, 1825–1841XXXII. The Mississippi Valley BoomXXXIII. The Border States: Michigan and ArkansasXXXIV. The Independent State of TexasXXXV. 1837: The Prostrate WestXXXVI. The Trail to Santa FeXXXVII. The Settlement of OregonXXXVIII. The “State” of DeseretXXXIX. The War with MexicoXL. The Conquest of CaliforniaXLI. Far West and PoliticsXLII. PreemptionXLIII. The Frontier of the FortiesXLIV. The Railroad AgeXLV. Land Grants and the Western RoadsXLVI. Kansas-Nebraska and the Indian CountryXLVII. “Pike’s Peak or Bust!”XLVIII. The Frontier of the Mineral EmpireXLIX. The Overland RouteL. The Public Lands: Wide OpenLI. The Plains in the Civil WarLII. The Union Pacific RailroadLIII. The Disruption of the TribesLIV. The Panic of 1873LV. Frontier PanaceasLVI. The Cow CountryLVII. The Closed FrontierLVIII. The Admission of the “Omnibus” StatesLIX. The Disappearance of the Frontier Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as audiobooks, for your pleasure and consideration.

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Title: The Marauders: Standing Up to Vigilantes in the American Borderlands

Author: Patrick Strickland

Narrator: Kent Klineman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 50 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

This real-life Western tells the story of how citizens in a small Arizona border town stood up to anti-immigrant militias and vigilantes. The Marauders uncovers the riveting nonfiction saga of far-right militias terrorizing the border towns of southern Arizona. In one of the towns profiled, Arivaca, rogue militia members killed a man and his nine-year-old daughter in 2009. In response, the residents organized and spent two years trying to push the new militias out through boycotts and by urging local businesses to ban them. The militias and vigilante groups again raised the stakes, spreading Pizzagate-style conspiracy theories alleging that town residents were complicit in child sex trafficking, prompting fears of vigilante violence. The Marauders flips the standard formula most often applied to stories about immigration and the far right. Too often those stories are told from the perspective of the ones committing the violence. While Strickland doesn't shy away from exploring those dark themes, the far right are not the protagonists of the book. Rather, the people targeted by hate groups, and the individuals who rose up to stop them in their tracks, are the heroes of this dramatic story.

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Title: Nineteen Reservoirs: On Their Creation and the Promise of Water for New York City

Author: Lucy Sante

Narrator: Lucy Sante

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 2 hours 47 minutes

Release date: November 8, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Without the nineteen upstate reservoirs that supply its water, New York City as we know it would not exist today. From 1907 to 1967, a network of reservoirs and aqueducts was built across more than one million acres in upstate New York, including Greene, Delaware, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties. This feat of engineering served to meet New York City's ever-increasing need for water, sustaining its inhabitants and cementing it as a center of industry. West of the Hudson, it meant that twenty-six villages, with their farms, forest lands, orchards, and quarries, were bought for a fraction of their value, demolished, and submerged, profoundly altering ecosystems in ways we will never fully appreciate. This paradox of victory and loss is at the heart of Nineteen Reservoirs, Lucy Sante's meticulous account of how New York City secured its seemingly limitless fresh water supply, and why it cannot be taken for granted. In inimitable form, Sante plumbs the historical record to surface forgotten archives and images, bringing lost places back to life on the page. Her immaculately calibrated sensitivity honors both perspectives on New York City's reservoir system and helps us understand the full import of its creation.

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Title: The Curse of the Somers: The Secret History behind the U.S. Navy's Most Infamous Mutiny

Author: James P. Delgado

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 0 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The greatest controversy in the history of the US Navy of the early American Republic was the revelation that the son of the Secretary of War had seemingly plotted a bloody mutiny that would have turned the US brig Somers into a pirate ship. The plot discovered, he and his coconspirators were hastily condemned and hanged at sea. The repercussions of those acts brought headlines, scandal, a fistfight at a cabinet meeting, a court martial, ruined lives, lost reputations, and tales of a haunted ship 'bound for the devil' and lost tragically at sea with many of its crew. The 'Somers affair' led to the founding of the US Naval Academy and it remains the Navy's only acknowledged mutiny in its history. The story also inspired Herman Melville's White-Jacket and Billy Budd. Others connected to the Somers included Commodore Perry, a relation and defender of the Somers's captain Mackenzie; James Fenimore Cooper, whose feud with the captain, dating back to the War of 1812, resurfaced in his reportage of the affair; and Raphael Semmes, the Somers's last captain, who later served in the Confederate Navy. The Curse of the Somers is a thorough recreation of this classic tale, told with the help of recently uncovered evidence.

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Title: From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge: Canada and the Civil War

Author: Brian Martin

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 3 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War Despite all we know about the Civil War, its causes, battles, characters, issues, impacts, and legacy, few books have explored Canada's role in the bloody conflict that claimed more than 600,000 lives. A surprising 20,000 Canadians went south to take up arms on both sides of the conflict, while thousands of enslaved people, draft dodgers, deserters, recruiters, plotters, and spies fled northward to take shelter in the attic that is Canada. Though many escaped slavery and found safety through the Underground Railroad, they were later joined by KKK members wanted for murder. Confederate President Jefferson Davis along with several of his emissaries and generals found refuge on Canadian soil, and many plantation owners moved north of the border. Award-winning journalist Brian Martin will open eyes in both Canada and the United States to how the two countries and their citizens interacted during the Civil War and the troubled times that surrounded it.

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Title: 43: Inside the George W. Bush Presidency

Author: Barbara A. Perry, Russell L. Riley, Michael Nelson

Narrator: Tom Parks

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The presidency of George W. Bush has been the subject of extensive commentary but limited scholarly analysis in the years since he left office. 43 draws extensively, but not solely, from the recently released interviews of the Miller Center's Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia. This volume consists of ten chapters, written by some of today's most eminent presidency scholars, examining key topics and themes, including 9/11, the unitary executive, Supreme Court appointments, compassionate conservatism, Cheney's vice presidency, the Iraq War, and the financial crisis of 2008. The essays in this volume take seriously the complexities of a White House trying to respond to the most devastating attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor, examining both the successes and failures of this administration in the first systemic effort to mine the confidential, candid oral history interviews recorded with senior officials from the Bush presidency. The essays are critical, yet balanced, in providing assessments of Bush's controversial victory in 2000; 'endless wars' precipitated by the 9/11 terrorist attacks; and legislative battles over taxes, education reform, Medicare, and attempts to address the Great Recession. These landmark events are illuminated by conversations with the decision-makers who made history.

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Title: Darkest Christmas: December 1942 and a World at War

Author: Peter Harmsen

Narrator: Walter Dixon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

December 1942 saw the bloodiest Christmas in the history of mankind. Men were killing each other in greater numbers than ever before. The Holocaust continued, and innocent civilians were murdered by the thousands throughout the evil Nazi empire, even as the perpetrators celebrated the birth of Christ. Millions stationed in far-off lands amid the greatest conflict in human history feared this was their last Christmas in freedom, or their last Christmas alive. At the same time as the slaughter continued unabated, throughout the world there were random acts of kindness. These gestures also straddled religious barriers and sometimes included those of non-Christian faiths. At the same time, Christmas 1942 saw the injunction of 'good will to man' distorted in ugly and callous ways. In Berlin, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels spent time with his family while still buried in feverish fantasies about the Jewish world conspiracy. Christmas 1942 saw the entire range of man's conduct towards his fellow man, reflecting the extremes of behavior, good and bad, that World War II gave rise to. The way the holiday was marked around the world tells a deeper, more universal story of the human condition.