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Title: And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes

Author: Angie Debo

Narrator: Kate Harper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A classic book now available on audio With narration by Kate Harper, who recounts the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlers And Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes. At the turn of the twentieth century, the tribes owned the eastern half of what is now Oklahoma, a territory immensely wealthy in farmland, forests, coal, and oil. Their political and economic status was guaranteed by the federal government—until American settlers arrived. Congress abrogated treaties that it had promised would last 'as long as the waters run,' and within a generation, the tribes were systematically stripped of their holdings, and were rescued from starvation only through public charity. Called a 'work of art' by writer Oliver La Farge, And Still the Waters Run was so controversial when it was first published that Angie Debo was banned from teaching in Oklahoma for many years. Now with an incisive foreword by Amanda Cobb-Greetham, here is the acclaimed book that first documented the scandalous founding of Oklahoma on native land.

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Title: Stone by Stone: The Magnificent History in New England's Stone Walls

Author: Robert M. Thorson

Narrator: Robert M. Thorson

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Release date: October 25, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story. Stone walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was formed, and in Robert Thorson's hands they live and breathe. Millions of years ago, New England's stones belonged to ancient mountains thrust up by prehistoric collisions between continents. Buried again over centuries by forest and soil buildup, the stones gradually worked their way back to the surface, only to become impediments to the farmers cultivating the land in the eighteenth century, who piled them into 'linear landfills,' a place to hold the stones. Usually the biggest investment on a farm, often exceeding that of the land and buildings combined, stone walls became a defining element of the Northeast's landscape, and a symbol of the shift to an agricultural economy. Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.

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Title: Voices from the Confederacy: True Civil War Stories from the Men and Women of the Old South

Author: Samuel W. Mitcham Jr.

Narrator: J. Rodney Turner

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 56 minutes

Release date: October 18, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Hear about the Civil War from those who were there. They say history is written by the victors. In the case of the Civil War, that's largely true. But historian Samuel Mitcham brings the Southern point of view to life in Voices from the Confederacy. In it, you will learn about the heroic, the scoundrels, the clever, the vanquished, and the hungry. Rich or poor, black or white, Voices from the Confederacy shares hundreds of poignant and revealing moments during the war between the states.

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Title: Scars on the Land: An Environmental History of Slavery in the American South

Author: David Silkenat

Narrator: Lyle Blaker

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 40 minutes

Release date: October 18, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape. Over two centuries, from the establishment of slavery in the Chesapeake to the Civil War, one simple calculation had profound consequences: rather than measuring productivity based on outputs per acre, Southern planters sought to maximize how much labor they could extract from their enslaved workforce. They saw the landscape as disposable, relocating to more fertile prospects once they had leached the soils and cut down the forests. On the leading edge of the frontier, slavery laid waste to fragile ecosystems, draining swamps, clearing forests to plant crops and fuel steamships, and introducing devastating invasive species. On its trailing edge, slavery left eroded hillsides, rivers clogged with sterile soil, and the extinction of native species. While environmental destruction fueled slavery's expansion, no environment could long survive intensive slave labor. The scars manifested themselves in different ways, but the land too fell victim to the slave owner's lash.

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Title: A National Crime: The Canadian Government and the Residential School System

Author: John S. Milloy

Narrator: Wesley French

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Release date: October 15, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

“I am going to tell you how we are treated. I am always hungry.” — Edward B., a student at Onion Lake School (1923) “[I]f I were appointed by the Dominion Government for the express purpose of spreading tuberculosis, there is nothing finer in existance that the average Indian residential school.” — N. Walker, Indian Affairs Superintendent (1948) For over 100 years, thousands of Aboriginal children passed through the Canadian residential school system. Begun in the 1870s, it was intended, in the words of government officials, to bring these children into the “circle of civilization,” the results, however, were far different. More often, the schools provided an inferior education in an atmosphere of neglect, disease, and often abuse. Using previously unreleased government documents, historian John S. Milloy provides a full picture of the history and reality of the residential school system. He begins by tracing the ideological roots of the system, and follows the paper trail of internal memoranda, reports from field inspectors, and letters of complaint. In the early decades, the system grew without planning or restraint. Despite numerous critical commissions and reports, it persisted into the 1970s, when it transformed itself into a social welfare system without improving conditions for its thousands of wards. A National Crime shows that the residential system was chronically underfunded and often mismanaged, and documents in detail and how this affected the health, education, and well-being of entire generations of Aboriginal children.

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Title: First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity

Author: Maurizio Valsania

Narrator: Christopher Douyard

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 20 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

George Washington—hero of the French and Indian War, commander in chief of the Continental Army, and first president of the United States—died on December 14, 1799. But what do we really know about Washington as an upper-class man? Washington is frequently portrayed by his biographers as America at its unflinching best: tall, shrewd, determined, resilient, stalwart, and tremendously effective in action. But this aggressive and muscular version of Washington is largely a creation of the nineteenth century. Eighteenth-century ideals of upper-class masculinity would have preferred a man with refined aesthetic tastes, graceful and elegant movements, and the ability and willingness to clearly articulate his emotions. In First Among Men, Valsania considers Washington's complexity and apparent contradictions in three main areas: his physical life (often bloody, cold, injured, muddy, or otherwise unpleasant), his emotional world (sentimental, loving, and affectionate), and his social persona (carefully constructed and maintained). Aided by new research, documents, and objects that have only recently come to light, First Among Men tells the fascinating story of a living and breathing person who loved, suffered, moved, gestured, dressed, ate, drank, and had sex in ways that may be surprising to many Americans.

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Title: Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and the Black Working Class

Author: Robin Dg Kelley

Narrator: L. Malaika Cooper

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 29 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Many black strategies of daily resistance have been obscured—until now. Race rebels, argues Kelley, have created strategies of resistance, movements, and entire subcultures. Here, for the first time, everyday race rebels are given the historiographical attention they deserve, from the Jim Crow era to the present.

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Title: Wicked Detroit

Author: Mickey Lyons

Narrator: Kate Zane

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 24 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Motor City boasts a long and sordid history of scoundrels, cheats, and ne'er-do-wells. The wheeling and dealing prowess of founding father Antoine Cadillac is the stuff of legend. Fur trader and charlatan Joseph Campau grew so corrupt and rambunctious that he was eventually excommunicated by Detroit's beloved Father Gabriel Richard. The slovenly and eccentric Augustus Brevoort Woodward, well known as a judge but better known as a drunkard, renamed himself, reshaped the city streets and then named them after himself, creating a legion of enemies along the way. Local historian and creator of the Prohibition Detroit blog Mickey Lyons presents the stories of the colorful characters who shaped the city we know today.

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Title: Wicked Pittsburgh

Author: Richard Gazarik

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Release date: October 11, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Join author Richard Gazarik as he reveals the wicked history of the Steel City. Muckraking journalist Walter Liggett dubbed Pittsburgh the 'Metropolis of Corruption' in 1930 when he reported the city had more vice per square foot than New York, Detroit, Cleveland, or Boston. Decades earlier, the Magee-Flinn political machine ruled public officials, and crooked police helped racketeers protect brothels and gambling dens. Mayor (later Governor) David Lawrence was indicted several times for graft but acquitted each time. Even Pittsburgh Steelers founder Art Rooney Sr. colluded with gangsters, according to FBI reports.

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Title: [Spanish] - Masacre en el comedor: La bomba de Montoneros en la Policía Federal. El atentado más sangriento de los 70

Author: Ceferino Reato

Narrator: Ezequiel Romero

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 18 minutes

Release date: October 10, 2022

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

La primera historia documentada sobre el mayor atentado contra una dependencia policial en el mundo: la voladura del comedor de la Superintendencia de Seguridad de la Policía Federal en plena dictadura y el papel de Pepe Salgado, autor material del atentado, y Rodolfo Walsh, hombre clave de la Inteligencia montonera. La bomba de Montoneros que explotó en el comedor de la Superintendencia de Seguridad Federal el 2 de julio de 1976, a cien días de instalada la dictadura militar, dejó veintitrés muertos y ciento diez heridos. Fue el atentado terrorista más sangriento de la historia argentina hasta la voladura de la AMIA y sigue siendo el mayor contra una dependencia policial en todo el mundo. Sin embargo, no ha despertado el interés de periodistas ni de historiadores; tampoco el de la Justicia, que cuarenta y cinco años después sigue sin haberlo investigado. Obra cumbre de la guerrilla, parece tratarse de una realidad incómoda para todos: contemporáneamente comportó una humillación poco digerible para la Policía y el gobierno de Videla; en perspectiva, constituye un hecho difícil de justificar para el relato hegemónico sobre los 70. Más aún a la hora de hacer nombres: si bien la bomba es colocada por un joven de clase media alta infiltrado en la institución, José María Salgado, el atentado lleva la firma del servicio de Inteligencia e Informaciones de Montoneros, cuyo hombre clave era Rodolfo Walsh. Este libro parte de la explosión y reconstruye el minuto a minuto de aquellos días, acudiendo a sus fuentes y protagonistas, desde deudos de las víctimas hasta familiares de Pepe Salgado. En ese gesto repone un capítulo interesadamente olvidado de nuestro pasado y tácitamente postula su argumento: la verdadera historia de los 70 es la historia de todas sus víctimas.