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

Author: George Bancroft

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 9 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Volume 3 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” 1883 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.” CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN FIVE EPOCHSII. BRITAIN ESTRANGES AMERICACHAPTER I. ENGLAND AS IT WAS IN 1768CHAPTER II. ENGLAND AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. IRELANDCHAPTER III. CHARLES TOWNSHEND PLEDGES THE MINISTRY OF BUTE TO TAX AMERICA BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, AND RESIGNSCHAPTER IV. PONTIAC’S WAR. TRIUMVIRATE MINISTRYCHAPTER V. THE MINUTE FOR AN AMERICAN STAMP-TAX. MINISTRY OF GRENVILLECHAPTER VI. ENFORCEMENT OF THE ACTS OF NAVIGATION. GRENVILLE’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUEDCHAPTER VII. HOW AMERICA RECEIVED THE PLAN OF A STAMP-TAX. GRENVILLE’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUEDCHAPTER VIII. THE TWELFTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN PASSES THE AMERICAN STAMP-TAX. GRENVILLE’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUEDCHAPTER IX. THE DAY-STAR OF THE AMERICAN UNIONCHAPTER X. THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE KING AND THE DUKE OF BEDFORDCHAPTER XI. AMERICA REPELS THE STAMP-TAX. ADMINISTRATION OF ROCKINGHAMCHAPTER XII. THE STAMP ACT LEADS AMERICA TO UNION. ADMINISTRATION OF ROCKHIMHAMCHAPTER XIII. HAS PARLIAMENT THE RIGHT TO TAX AMERICA? ADMINISTRATION OF ROCKINGHAMCHAPTER XIV. WILLIAM PITT INTERVENES. ROCKINGHAM’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUESCHAPTER XV. PARLIAMENT AFFIRMS ITS RIGHT TO TAX AMERICA. ROCKINGHAM’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUEDCHAPTER XVI. THE REPEAL OF THE STAMP ACT. ADMNISTRATION OF ROCKINGHAMCHAPTER XVII. THE CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTS IN PERIL. THE FALL OF THE ROCKINGHAM WHIGS. THE EARL OF CHATHAMCHAPTER XVIII. CHARLES TOWNSHEND USURPS THE LEAD IN GOVERNMENT. ADMINSTRATION OF CHATHAMCHAPTER XIX. PARLIAMENT WILL HAVE AN AMERICAN ARMY AND AN AMERICAN REVENUE. ADMINISTRATION OF GRAFTONCHAPTER XX. COALITION OF THE KING AND THE ARISTOCRACYCHAPTER XXI. MASSACHUSETTS CONSULTS HER SISTER COLONIES. ADMINISTRATION OF GRAFTON. HILLSBOROUGH SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIESCHAPTER XXII. WILL MASSACHUSETTS RESCIND? ADMINISTRATION OF GRAFTON. HILLSBOROUGH SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIESCHAPTER XXIII. UNION OF BEDFORD AND THE KING. THE REGULATIONS OF NORTH CAROLINA. HILLSBOROUGH SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIESCHAPTER XXIV. THE TOWNS OF MASSACHUSETTS MEET IN CONVENTION. A COMMONWEALTH IN LOUISIANA. HILLSBOROUGH SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIESCHAPTER XXV. THE KING AND PARLIAMENT AGAINST THE TOWN OF BOSTON. HILLSBOROUGH SECRETARY FOR THE COLONIESCHAPTER XXVI. VIRGINIA COMES TO THE AID OF MASSACHUSETTS. GRAFTON’S ADMINISTRATION. HILLSBOROUGH COLONIAL MINISTERCHAPTER XXVII. GROWTH OF REPUBLICANISM IN LOUISIANA, KENTUCKY, AND MASSACHUSETTS. LORD NORTH FORMS AN ADMINISTRATIONCHAPTER XXVIII. THE BOSTON “MASSACRE.” LORD NORTH’S ADMINISTRATIONCHAPTER XXIX. THE KING VIOLATES THE CHARTER OF MASSACHUSETTSCHAPTER XXX. THE ORIGIN OF TENNESSEECHAPTER XXXI. GREAT BRITAIN CENTRES IN ITSELF POWER OVER ITS COLONIES. HILLSBOROUGH’S RETIREMENTCHAPTER XXXII. THE TOWNS OF MASSACHUSETTS HOLD CORRESPONDENCECHAPTER XXXIII VIRGINIA CONSOLIDATES UNIONCHAPTER XXXIV. THE BOSTON TEA-PARTYCHAPTER XXXV. THE KING IN COUNCIL INSULTS MASSACHUSETTS AND ITS AGENTCHAPTER XXXVI. THE CRISIS Dusty Tomes Audio Books are public domain books retrieved from the ravages of time. Available as never before, as an audiobook, for your pleasure and consideration.

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Title: Jailing the Johnstown Judge: Joe O'Kicki, the Mob and Corrupt Justice

Author: Bruce Siwy

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 36 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In 1988, Judge Joe O'Kicki was regarded by his peers as one of the most brilliant legal minds in the United States. He was newly remarried, sworn in as the president judge of a Pennsylvania county and on the fast track to a federal bench . . . Silently, however, a state police vice unit was in the midst of covert operation into O'Kicki's personal affairs. The judge would be accused of soliciting bribes, frequenting brothels, and running the county as if he were a 'battleship commander.' Later he'd concoct a plan to flee the country and exact revenge on his enemies. Set in the aftermath of the 1977 Johnstown flood and including courtroom testimony, the memos of whistleblowers, contemporary interviews, and excerpts from O'Kicki's unfinished tell-all memoir, Jailing the Johnstown Judge is a fresh examination of the extraordinary western Pennsylvania case that attained international infamy.

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Title: The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Author: Robert P. Crease

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility. In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was—and is—a world-class, Nobel Prize–winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world's finest research facilities. But its discovery triggered a media and political firestorm that resulted in the reactor's shutdown, and even attempts to close the entire laboratory. A quarter century later, the episode reveals the dynamics of today's controversies in which fears and the dismissal of science disrupt serious discussion and research of vital issues. Key players include congressmen and scientists; journalists and university presidents; actors, supermodels, and anti-nuclear activists, all interacting and teaming up in surprising ways. The authors, each with insider knowledge of and access to confidential documents and the key players, reveal how a fact of no health significance could be portrayed as a Chernobyl-like disaster. This compelling exposé reveals the gaps between scientists, politicians, media, and the public that have only gotten more dangerous since 1997.

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Title: Bleeding Green: A History of the Hartford Whalers

Author: Christopher Price

Narrator: Christopher Price

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 18 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Hartford Whalers were a beloved hockey team from their founding in 1972 as the New England Whalers. Playing in the National Hockey League's smallest market and arena after the World Hockey Association merger in 1979, they struggled in a division that included both the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens—but their fans were among the NHL's most loyal. In 1995 new owners demanded a new arena and, when it fell through, moved the team to North Carolina, rebranding as the Hurricanes. Even though more than two decades have come and gone since Connecticut's only professional sports team moved, nobody has truly forgotten the Whalers, their history, and their unique—and still highly profitable—logo. And while the NHL continues to thrive without them, their impact stretches far beyond the ice and into an entirely different cultural arena. Christopher Price grew up in Connecticut as a diehard Whalers fan, experiencing firsthand the team's bond with the community. Drawing from all aspects of the team's past, he tells the uncensored history of Connecticut's favorite professional sports franchise. Part sports history and part civic history, Bleeding Green shows vividly why the Whalers remain firmly embedded in the American milieu and have had a lasting impact on not only the NHL but the sports landscape as a whole.

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Title: A Promise Kept: The Muscogee (Creek) Nation and McGirt v. Oklahoma

Author: Robert J. Miller, Robbie Ethridge

Narrator: Janet Metzger

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 53 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

'At the end of the Trail of Tears there was a promise,' United States Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the decision issued in the case of McGirt v. Oklahoma. And that promise, made in treaties between the United States and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation more than 150 years earlier, would finally be kept. With the Court's ruling, the full extent of the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation was reaffirmed—meaning that 3.25 million acres of land in Oklahoma were recognized as 'Indian Country.' A Promise Kept explores the circumstances and implications of McGirt v. Oklahoma, likely the most significant Indian law case in well over a hundred years. Combining legal analysis and historical context, this book gives an in-depth, accessible account of how the case unfolded and what it might mean for Oklahomans, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and other tribes throughout the United States. Robbie Ethridge traces the history of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation from its inception to its resurgence in Oklahoma in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Robert J. Miller considers McGirt v. Oklahoma, examining important related cases, precedents that informed the Court's decision, and future ramifications. Their work clarifies the stakes of a decision that, while long overdue, raises numerous complex issues profoundly affecting federal, state, and tribal relations and law.

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Title: Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen

Author: Julie Hines Mabus

Narrator: Elisabeth Ashby

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 53 minutes

Release date: February 28, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In the late 1960s, Patsy Channing, a stunningly beautiful young woman, was suspended from the venerable Mississippi State College for Women for breach of conduct. The resulting scandal reached all the way to the Columbus courthouse, and the press ate it up. But Patsy's story starts long before that, living with a preoccupied and troubled mother in Memphis, Tennessee. Music becomes her ticket out and a vehicle for the one thing she covets most—a chance to be crowned Miss America. In Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen, Julie Hines Mabus provides a peek into that world—a world struggling through the civil rights movement, reeling from the death of JFK, and cutting loose with the musical innovations from Memphis and Detroit. Patsy develops a close friendship with a guitarist at Stax Recording Studio, giving her firsthand exposure to the early Memphis Soul Sound. Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen opens and closes with the end of Patsy's time at Mississippi State College for Women on that fateful spring morning in 1968 when she entered the Columbus courthouse. Patsy's story, marked with tragedy and triumph, mirrors that of a growing and evolving South, where change never comes easy.

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Title: Murder on the Inside: The True Story of the Deadly Riot at Kingston Penitentiary

Author: Catherine Fogarty

Narrator: Catherine Fogarty

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 27 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award • Shortlisted for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book “You have taken our civil rights—we want our human rights.” On April 14, 1971, a handful of prisoners attacked the guards at Kingston Penitentiary and seized control, making headlines around the world. For four intense days, the prisoners held the guards hostage while their leaders negotiated with a citizens’ committee of journalists and lawyers, drawing attention to the dehumanizing realities of their incarceration, including overcrowding, harsh punishment and extreme isolation. But when another group of convicts turned their pent-up rage towards some of the weakest prisoners, tensions inside the old stone walls erupted, with tragic consequences. As heavily armed soldiers prepared to regain control of the prison through a full military assault, the inmates were finally forced to surrender. Murder on the Inside tells the harrowing story of a prison in crisis against the backdrop of a pivotal moment in the history of human rights. Occurring just months before the uprising at Attica Prison, the Kingston riot has remained largely undocumented, and few have known the details—yet the tense drama chronicled here is more relevant today than ever. A gripping account of the standoff and the efforts for justice and reform it inspired, Murder on the Inside is essential reading for our times.

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Title: African American History: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Jonathan Scott Holloway

Narrator: Diontae Black

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 10 minutes

Release date: February 21, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. This book illuminates the US's core paradoxes, inviting profound questions about what it means to be an American, a citizen, and a human being. This book considers how, for centuries, African Americans have fought for what the black feminist intellectual Anna Julia Cooper called 'the cause of freedom.' It begins in Jamestown in 1619, when the first shipment of enslaved Africans arrived in that settlement. It narrates the creation of a system of racialized chattel slavery, the eventual dismantling of that system in the national bloodletting of the Civil War, and the ways that civil rights disputes have continued to erupt in the more than 150 years since Emancipation. This Very Short Introduction carries forward to the Black Lives Matter movement, a grass-roots activist convulsion that declared that African Americans' present and past have value and meaning. At a moment when political debates grapple with the nation's obligation to acknowledge and perhaps even repair its original sin of racialized slavery, author Jonathan Scott Holloway tells a story about American citizens' capacity and willingness to realize the ideal articulated in America's founding document, namely, that all people were created equal.

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Title: When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical that Changed the World

Author: Caseen Gaines

Narrator: Caseen Gaines

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 12 hours 4 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

If Hamilton, Rent, or West Side Story captured your heart, you’ll love this in-depth look into the rise of the 1921 Broadway hit Shuffle Along, the first all-Black musical to succeed on Broadway. No one was sure if America was ready for a show featuring nuanced, thoughtful portrayals of Black characters―and the potential fallout was terrifying. But from the first jazzy, syncopated beats of composers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, New York audiences fell head over heels. When Broadway Was Black is the story of how Sissle and Blake, along with comedians Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles, overcame poverty, racism, and violence to harness the energy of the Harlem Renaissance and produce a runaway Broadway hit that launched the careers of many of the twentieth century’s most beloved Black performers. Born in the shadow of slavery and establishing their careers at a time of increasing demands for racial justice and representation for people of color, they broke down innumerable barriers between Black and white communities at a crucial point in our history. Author and pop culture expert Caseen Gaines leads readers through the glitz and glamour of New York City during the roaring twenties to reveal the revolutionary impact one show had on generations of Americans and how its legacy continues to resonate today.

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Title: The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War

Author: Alexander J. Field Phd

Narrator: Steve Marvel

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 17 hours 26 minutes

Release date: February 14, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A reminder that war is not always, or even generally, good for long-term growth Many believe that despite its destructive character, war ultimately boosts long-term economic growth. For the United States this view is often supported by appeal to the experience of the Second World War, understood as a triumph of both production and productivity. Alexander Field shows that between 1941 and 1945 manufacturing productivity actually declined, depressed by changes in the output mix and resource shocks from enemy action, including curtailed access to natural rubber and, on the Eastern Seaboard, petroleum. The war forced a shift away from producing goods in which the country had a great deal of experience toward those in which it had little. Learning by doing was only a partial counterbalance to the intermittent idleness and input hoarding that characterized a shortage economy and dragged down productivity. The conflict distorted human and physical capital accumulation and once it ended, America stopped producing most of the new goods. The war temporarily shut down basic scientific research and the ongoing development of civilian goods. U.S. world economic dominance in 1948, Field shows, was due less to the experience of making war goods and more to the country's productive potential in 1941.