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Title: Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West

Author: Jerry Enzler

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he 'discovered' the Great Salt Lake. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the 'King of the Mountain Men.'

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Title: The January 6 Report

Author: The January 6th Committee

Narrator: Ari Melber, Joe Knezevich

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 19 hours 28 minutes

Release date: January 31, 2023

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 18

Ratings of Narrator: 2.75 of Total 4

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller The official report and findings of the bipartisan Congressional investigation into the January 6 attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump’s related coup conspiracies to overthrow the election, with an original foreword by attorney and Emmy-winning MSNBC anchor Ari Melber. This edition includes an exclusive breakdown of the coup conspiracy, based on Melber’s reporting and real-time coverage, highlighting the multi-pronged plot against democracy. Only the authoritative House committee report can capture the full range of plots that have been exposed over time, from the violent attack on January 6 to related efforts revealed months after the insurrection.  This definitive edition features:  • New independent analysis of the coup conspiracy by MSNBC Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber • The historic, official text of the House Committee report on the insurrection, including the full Executive Summary with endnotes and all chapter endnotes.  • The definitive accounting of Donald Trump’s efforts to end American democracy   This is the only edition of the report featuring an additional, original analysis of the coup by a journalist and lawyer at the center of the action -- Melber has interviewed top members of this Committee, Jan. 6 rally planners and other cooperating witnesses, and Trump White House veterans ranging from Steve Bannon to Peter Navarro (now indicted for defying this probe). His report documents how Trump’s plots comprise a continuous coup conspiracy -- not a “riot” that exploded in a “single day” -- and why that factual prism is vital for accountability, justice, and preventing the next coup attempt. In chilling detail, he shows how that process might have engineered a technical effort to “override” the election on the floor of Congress—an essential map, and warning, for those who wish to protect democracy. If warnings are ignored and there is no accountability for the plotters at the top, a failed coup may become a training exercise. This report is not only a vital document in modern American history, it can also inform efforts to protect the future of American democracy. As a matter of justice, bipartisanship, and even patriotism, this report will become essential reading for any American determined to defend our democracy.

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Title: Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory

Author: Brittany Luby

Narrator: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

Release date: January 30, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Dammed: The Politics of Loss and Survival in Anishinaabe Territory explores Canada’s hydroelectric boom in the Lake of the Woods area. It complicates narratives of increasing affluence in postwar Canada, revealing that the inverse was true for Indigenous communities along the Winnipeg River. Dammed makes clear that hydroelectric generating stations were designed to serve settler populations. Governments and developers excluded the Anishinabeg from planning and operations and failed to consider how power production might influence the health and economy of their communities. By so doing, Canada and Ontario thwarted a future that aligned with the terms of treaty, a future in which both settlers and the Anishinabeg might thrive in shared territories. The same hydroelectric development that powered settler communities flooded manomin fields, washed away roads, and compromised fish populations. Anishinaabe families responded creatively to manage the government-sanctioned environmental change and survive the resulting economic loss. Luby reveals these responses to dam development, inviting readers to consider how resistance might be expressed by individuals and families, and across gendered and generational lines. Luby weaves text, testimony, and experience together, grounding this historical work in the territory of her paternal ancestors, lands she calls home. With evidence drawn from archival material, oral history, and environmental observation, Dammed invites readers to confront Canadian colonialism in the twentieth century.

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

Author: George Bancroft

Narrator: Joseph Tabler

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 55 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Volume 2 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.” From the Author’s Preface regarding the Last Revision to the series:… 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 a 2008 Review by Stephen W. Sawyer:For Bancroft, then, the historian brought the Revolution to life in the present in order that it might circulate within the country and throughout humanity. Bancroft was convinced that a poet-historian could uncover the democratic ideal that was unfolding in the American project.Dawes and Nichols argued that Bancroft was a sound historian in that he grounded his work in archival material. “George Bancroft was the first American historian who conscientiously endeavored to make no important statement without reference to an original document.” “The author exercises powers of narration which enable the reader to watch the drama of man’s experience proceed like a splendid and inspiring pageant.” (Dawes and Nichols 280) These remarks still capture an essential element of Bancroft’s project. He saw his writing, literary or poetical as it may have been, as part of the “realization” of man’s experience with democracy. This was the Bancroft that was celebrated in the first half of the nineteenth century, pushed aside in the nationalist consensus of American historical professionalism in the 1890s, and then rediscovered in the inter-war period. He was not describing a democracy that already existed in flowery prose, but employing the poet’s pen to give life to a democratic project which he thought was in the making. Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceCONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUMEHISTORY OF THE COLONIZATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PART IIICOLONIZATION OF THE WEST AND OF GEORGIACHAPTER I. THE SOUTHERN STATES AFTER THE REVOLUTIONCHAPTER II. THE MIDDLE STATES AFTER THE REVOLUTIONCHAPTER III. NEW ENGLAND AFTER THE REVOLUTIONCHAPTER IV. PARLIAMENT AND THE COLONIESCHAPTER V. THE RED MEN EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPICHAPTER VI. THE LANGUAGES AND MANNERS OF THE RED MENCHAPTER VII. POLITY AND RELIGION OF THE RED MENCHAPTER VIII. THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF THE RED MENCHAPTER IX. PROGRESS OF FRANCE IN NORTH AMERICACHAPTER X. FRANCE AND THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPICHAPTER XI. THE RIVALRY OF FRANCE AND GREAT BRITAIN IN AMERICACHAPTER XII. THE WAR OF THE SPANISH SUCCESSIONCHAPTER XIII. OF THE BOUNDARIES OF BRITISH, FRENCH, AND SPANISH COLONIESCHAPTER XIV. PROGRESS OF LOUISIANACHAPTER XV. COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE HOUSE OF HANOVERCHAPTER XVI. THE BRITISH SLAVE-TRADE. COLONIZATION OF GEORGIACHAPTER XVII. WAR BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND SPAIN, 1739–1748 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN FIVE EPOCHSI. BRITAIN OVERTHROWS THE EUROPEAN COLONIAL SYSTEMCHAPTER I. AMERICA CLAIMS LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE OF ENGLAND. HENRY PELHAM’S ADMINISTRATION, 1748CHAPTER II. THE ROYAL GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK APPEALS TO THE PARAMOUNT POWER OF BRITAIN. HENRY PELHAM’S ADMINISTRATION, 1748–1749CHAPTER III. THE EXPLORATION OF OHIO. PELHAM’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUEDCHAPTER IV. AMERICA REFUSES TO BE RULED BY ARBITRARY INSTRUCTIONS. PELHAM’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1751–1753CHAPTER V. FRANKLIN PLANS UNION FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. PELHAM’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1758–1754CHAPTER VI. THE OLD THIRTEEN COLONIES. NEWCASTLE’S ADMINISTRATIONCHAPTER VII. THE MINISTERS ARE ADVISED TO TAX AMERICA BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT NEWCASTLE’S ADMINISTRATION, 1754–1755CHAPTER VIII. ENGLAND AND FRANCE CONTEND FOR THE OHIO VALLEY AND FOR ACADIA. NEWCASTLE’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1755CHAPTER IX. GREAT BRITAIN UNITES AMERICA UNDER MILITARY RULE. NEWCASTLE’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1755–1756CHAPTER X. THE ARISTOCRACY WITHOUT THE PEOPLE CANNOT GOVERN ENGLAND. NEWCASTLE’S ADMINISTRATION CONTINUED, 1756–1757CHAPTER XI. THE WHIG ARISTOCRACY CANNOT CONQUER CANADA. ANARCHY IN THE ADMINISTRATION, 1757CHAPTER XII. THE NEW PROTESTANT POWERS AGAINST THE CATHOLIC POWERS OF THE MIDDLE AGE. WILLIAM PITT’S MINISTRYCHAPTER XIII. CONQUEST OF THE VALLEY OF THE WEST. PITT’S MINISTRY, 1757–1758CHAPTER XIV. THE CONQUEST OF CANADA. PITT’S MINISTRY CONTINUED, 1759CHAPTER XV. INVASION OF THE VALLEY OF THE TENNESSEE. PITT’S MINISTRY, 1759–1760CHAPTER XVI. POSSESSION TAKEN OF THE COUNTRY ON THE LAKES. PITT’S MINISTRY, 1760CHAPTER XVII. THE KING AND THE ARISTOCRACY AGAINST THE GREAT COMMONER. GEORGE III DRIVES OUT PITT, 1760–1761CHAPTER XVIII. THE ACTS OF TRADE PROVOKE REVOLUTION. THE REMODELING OF THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENTS, 1761–1762CHAPTER XIX. THE KING DRIVES OUT THE NEWCASTLE WHIGS. THE DAWN OF THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1762–1768 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: The Southern Way of Life: Meanings of Culture and Civilization in the American South

Author: Charles Reagan Wilson

Narrator: Chris Abernathy

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 24 hours 2 minutes

Release date: January 24, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes listeners on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of 'southern civilization' rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural 'southern living.' As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.

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Title: Lethbridge

Author: Terry Mcconnell

Narrator: Charles Robert Fox

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 59 minutes

Release date: January 23, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A love story set against the backdrop of the First World War, the events in Lethbridge unfold in disparate locales, from London to Boston, from Maine to Niagara Falls, from the trenches of wartime France to the military hospitals of England. Yet the lives of its three protagonists come together in one place: the frontier western Canadian city of Lethbridge, Alberta. Inspired by a true story, Lethbridge author Terry McConnell tells the tale of an English lad abandoned by his family, and a young American escaping the tyranny of his own father. Both come to Lethbridge in search of a future and find themselves drawn to a pretty Scottish immigrant who struggles with her own sense of destiny. What follows charts the future for all three in ways none of them could have foreseen. This is their story.

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Title: The Hartford Circus Fire: Tragedy Under the Big Top

Author: Michael Skidgell

Narrator: P.J. Ochlan

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Release date: January 17, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Through firsthand accounts and interviews with survivors, author Michael Skidgell attempts to make sense of one of Hartford's worst tragedies. Almost 7,000 fans eagerly packed into the Ringling Brothers big top on July 6, 1944. With a single careless act, an afternoon at the 'Greatest Show on Earth' quickly became one of terror and tragedy as the paraffin-coated circus tent caught fire. Panicked crowds rushed for the few exits, but in minutes, the tent collapsed on those still struggling to escape below. A total of 168 lives were lost, many of them children, with many more injured and forever scarred by the events. Hartford and the surrounding communities reeled in the aftermath as investigators searched for the source of the fire and the responsible parties.

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Title: Hidden History of Florida

Author: James C. Clark

Narrator: Kent Klineman

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 51 minutes

Release date: January 17, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

A Florida historian uncovers strange but true tales of The Sunshine State from the sixteenth century arrival of Spanish ships to the antics of modern politics. From Key West to the Redneck Riviera, Florida has a history as colorful as its landscape and as diverse as its residents. But beneath the famous legends of Florida's storied past are intriguing tales that don't appear in the popular guides or history books. In Hidden History of Florida, author James Clark shines a light on some of the most fascinating untold stories of this unique Southern State. Here you will learn about then heartbroken senator who entered a mental institution over unrequited love for an heiress; the thousands of British pilots who trained in flight schools across the state; and the dark, true story of Pocahontas—and how it is linked with America's 'first barbecue.'

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Title: [Arabic] - رحلة إلى منغوليا الداخلية

Author: موه جيو يو

Narrator: مارلين شكيب

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 5 hours 58 minutes

Release date: January 11, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

في أربعمئة وعشرين تدوينة صغيرة، يرسم الكاتب الصيني «مو جيو يو» صورة حية ومتحركة وناضحة بالتفاصيل لمنغوليا الداخلية على المستوى الحضاري والثقافي والاقتصادي، في كتابه «رحلة إلى منغوليا الداخلية». تقع منغوليا في الجزء الشمالي من الصين، وتُشكِّل قوة جذب للسياح ورجال الأعمال من داخل الصين وخارجها. وتعد واحدة من منابع الحضارة الصينية؛ فقد سكنها الإنسان القديم قبل قرابة خمسمائة إلى ستمائة ألف عام. كانت منغوليا حلقة وصل مهمة بين المناطق الداخلية في الصين وبين المناطق الحدودية، مما ساهم في تطور المنطقة، والربط بين المراعي الواسعة والغابات المترامية وبين المناطق الأساسية في البلاد بشكل وثيق، وأصبحت جزءًا لا يتجزَّأ من التاريخ الصيني. كما تضم البقايا الأكثر عددًا واكتمالًا من سور الصين العظيم، وغيرها من الآثار والمعالم المتفردة. الأمر الذي يجعلها وجهة هامة للمفتونين بالتاريخ. وينقل لنا هذا الكتاب صورة واسعة عن طبيعة وتاريخ منغوليا الداخلية وعن الأطعمة المميزة فيها وسكانها وثقافتهم وعاداتهم. تبدأ رحلتنا في هذه المنطقة من عصور ما قبل التاريخ وتنتهي في المستقبل. استمع الآن.

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Title: This Land Is Our Land: Myths, Facts, and Mysteries

Author: John Rayburn

Narrator: John Rayburn

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Release date: January 10, 2023

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Throughout the stories here is information on how places, cities, and states got their names. However, questions arise because Native American tribes of the day didn’t yet have a written alphabet, and none of those came along until Sequoyah invented one in 1821, one that was actually more of a syllabary with symbols that stood for consonant/vowel sequences and could make words, basically just a writing system. One such word example is Tsa-La-Gi in Oklahoma, a recreated Cherokee settlement showing what one was like before European contact. The name means “Cherokee,” and if you say it out phonetically as “Say-la-ghee,” it’s understandable how that was understood as the word Cherokee. It wasn’t written out because there wasn’t yet a means of doing so. Many such words were heard by early frontiersmen, most of whom had little or no formal education. As a result, they pronounced and spelled anyway they heard various words, and because that was all that was available, their decisions held up more often not. It brings to mind an old phrase aimed at accepting something while having at least a degree of skepticism about the actual truth or meaning, and that is to “take it with a grain of salt.” This all means if you come across something here with either skepticism or at least no specific literal interpretation, don’t fret. The information is interesting, whether or not always logical or with an occasional small degree of accuracy. Don’t let any word choices by those early, often under-educated frontiersmen cause you to be “anti-semantic.” We repeat the suggestion to just go along with whatever is mentioned, but remember to have that “grain of salt” handy.