Listen to New Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas

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Title: The Maya: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Matthew Restall, Amara Solari

Narrator: Tim Campbell

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 3 hours 20 minutes

Release date: November 17, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call 'Maya' never thought of themselves as such; yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating—what we call Maya culture—has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be 'invented?' With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them 'the Maya' is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with including invasion by outsiders.

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Title: The Adventures Of A Revolutionary Soldier

Author: Joseph Plumb Martin

Narrator: Brandon Wright

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

Release date: November 13, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Plumb Martin (1760 – 1850) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Martin participated in the Battles of Brooklyn, the White Plains and Monmouth, and the siege of Fort Mifflin and the Battle of Monmouth. ‘The Adventures of a Revolutionary Soldier” relates the adventures of a young private serving his country under terrible conditions. There are engaging accounts of army life, adventures, dangers and suffering during the years 1776-1783. Martin’s book opens a window on the founding era of modern America, and provides one of the most intimate portrayals of life as a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

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Title: The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880

Author: Benjamin T. Arrington

Narrator: Paul Heitsch

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

Release date: November 10, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The story of the presidential election of 1880, fully explored for the first time in The Last Lincoln Republican, is a political drama of lasting consequence and dashed possibilities. A fierce opponent of slavery before the war, Garfield had fought for civil rights for African Americans for years in Congress. Holding true to the original values of the Republican Party, Garfield wanted to promote equal opportunity for all; meanwhile, Democrats, led by Winfield Scott Hancock, sought to return the South to white supremacy and an inferior status for African Americans. With its in-depth account of the personalities and issues at play in 1880, Arrington's book provides a unique perspective on how this critical election continues to resonate through our national politics and culture to this day. A close look at the contest of 1880 reveals that Garfield's victory could have been the start of a period of greater civil rights legislation, a continuation of Lincoln's vision. This was the choice made by the American people—and, as The Last Lincoln Republican makes poignantly clear, the great opportunity forever lost when Garfield was assassinated just a few months into his term.

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Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the American Century

Author: Jeff Webb

Narrator: Jeff Webb

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

Release date: November 9, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.26 of Total 23

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 6

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Revered as a consummate statesman who cemented America's place on the global stage, Franklin Delano Roosevelt affected tremendous change in the United States in course of his career. To understand his life is to understand how the nation claimed world leadership in what many call the American Century.   In this fascinating course, award-winning American history professor Jeffrey Webb introduces you to the man behind the legendary life. You'll begin by learning about FDR's privileged upbringing and early career in public service, explore his unconventional marriage to Eleanor Roosevelt, and recount his life-long struggle with paraplegia beginning at age thirty-nine.   You'll also cover FDR's progressive policies as governor of New York during the Great Depression and the historic New Deal, which set the nation on a new path of social and political development.   Prof. Webb provides enlightening context for FDR's confrontation of the Third Reich and Imperial Japan and his celebrated leadership of the Allies. You'll explore his wartime "home front" policies-including the internment of Japanese Americans-that dramatically expanded the power of the federal government.   In this remarkable series, you'll learn how FDR's mind and career were shaped by the titanic events of his era, and how his leadership in this era of bewildering change defined America's, and the world's future. This course is part of the Learn25 collection.

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Title: The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America

Author: Winston Groom

Narrator: George Guidall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 22 minutes

Release date: November 3, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.6 of Total 20

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to theremarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Groom tells the unique story of how three brilliant men—John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton—emerged from a population of just five million to build the very foundation of the United States. With skill and subtlety, Groom shines an unparalleled light on the differing personalities, life circumstances, and political policies that caused frequent animosity among each of these three founders: Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Jefferson, the aristocratic southern renaissance man; and Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. While all served in George Washington’s first cabinet—and all shared the ultimate goal of liberty and freedom—their excitement was often strained by deep antagonisms, many of which bear a striking resemblance to the intense political polarization of today. The drama of the American Revolution is the greatest stage yet for Groom’s signature storytelling panache. Offering rare insight into these larger-than-life characters, he draws on extensive correspondence, epic tales of war, and the rich histories of theirday-to-day interactions to tell the astonishing story of how three men—patriots, rivals, and ultimately friends—put aside their differences to create a great nation.

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Title: [Spanish] - Rebelión

Author: Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales

Narrator: Sebastián Fernández Robles

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 1 hour 39 minutes

Release date: November 1, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Libro sobre la contingencia en formato especial, escritor por el autor best seller nacional. Desde el comienzo de la llamada 'primavera chilena', el escritor Jorge Baradit le tomó el pulso a una revolución sin precedentes, que devino tanto en marchas y protestas como en asambleas espontáneas, organizadas por los ciudadanos comunes y corrientes en plazas, juntas de vecinos, clubes deportivos. Baradit también participó de esos encuentros y mucho de lo que en ellos se reflexionó está aquí, en este libro urgente y necesario, un manifiesto que recoge el clamor ciudadano y la rabia contenida.

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Title: American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West

Author: Betsy Gaines Quammen

Narrator: Emily Durante

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 23 minutes

Release date: October 27, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 1 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and democracy. Today their cowboy confrontations threaten public lands, wild species, and American heritage.

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Title: The First Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Narrator: D.S. Harvey

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 0 hours 35 minutes

Release date: October 23, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

When Franklin Roosevelt was elected in 1932, the country was still reeling in the aftermath of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and ensuing Great Depression. The American people were looking for help and direction. In his inaugural address delivered on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt spelled out a clear plan that called for swift, decisive action that would mobilize the power of the federal government to put people back to work and reminded the public that America had a proud history of exceptional accomplishments and an inherent collective strength that could (and would) prevail. The speech is most famous for its declaration that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”, but is also notable for his bold statement that 'I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis -- broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.' The address continues to stand as a model of decisive, bold action fused with stirring, patriotic fervor. This is leadership at its best. This audiobook contains a new reading of the text of Roosevelt’s address as well as a recording of the original.

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Title: The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Author: Tamara Payne, Les Payne

Narrator: Dion Graham

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 18 hours 6 minutes

Release date: October 22, 2020

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER OF PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY** **WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD (Nonfiction)** Finalist, LA Times Book Prize A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X - including siblings, classmates, friends, cellmates, FBI moles and cops, and political leaders around the world. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become hundreds of hours of interviews into a portrait that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this magisterial work that conjures a never-before-seen world of its protagonist, whose title is inspired by a phrase Malcolm X used when he saw his followers stir with purpose to overcome the obstacles of racism. Setting his life not only within the political struggles of his day but also against the larger backdrop of American history, this remarkable masterpiece traces his path from street criminal to devoted moralist and revolutionary. An author who saw Malcolm X speak and could not stand the phrase 'we may never know', Payne writes cinematically from start to finish and delivers extraordinary revelations - from a hair-raising scene of Malcolm's clandestine meeting with the KKK, to a minute-by-minute account of his murder in Harlem in 1965, in which he makes the case for the complicity of the American government. Introduced by Payne's daughter and primary researcher, Tamara Payne, who, following her father's death, heroically completed the biography, The Dead Are Arising is a penetrating and riveting work that affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle and the story of the twentieth century. © Les Payne, Tamara Payne 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Title: An Authenticated History of the Famous Bell Witch

Author: Martin V. Ingram

Narrator: Amanda Stribling

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

Release date: October 21, 2020

Genres: The Americas

Publisher's Summary:

The Bell Witch: Robertson County, Tennessee, 1817-1828. The Bell family are terrorized by an invisible, talking poltergeist that has taken up residence in their home. While the children are beaten and harassed in their beds, their father is stricken by seizures, and visiting skeptics are confounded by a hateful, disembodied voice that ridicules their attempts at investigation. Centered around the person of young Betsy Bell, the Bell Witch haunting has been called the 19th century's answer to 'The Exorcist,'and has been the inspiration for such popular films as 'The Blair Witch Project' and 'An American Haunting.' Nicknamed the 'Red Book,' 'An Authenticated History of the Bell Witch' was the first published book on the legend. It contains the full text of'Our Family Troubles,' the purported diary of Richard Williams Bell, as well interviews with the descendants of some of the characters who figure in the story. Written in 1894, it stands alone the single most important source for historians of the Bell Witch haunting.