14 Best North America, History Books
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Land of Hope
- By: Wilfred M. McClay
- Narrator: Pete Cross
- Length: 20 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: April 21, 2020
- Language: English
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4.59(431 ratings)
4.59(431 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their ownWe have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land’s roots, and share in its memories, equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society. It will provide them with an enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and consequential story of their own country.
The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. They are more likely to reflect the skeptical or partial outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that leads to a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society and fails to convey the greater arc of history.
A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative as an expression of its own self-understanding, and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account of the American past and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both.
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Champlain’s Dream
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrator: Edward Herrmann
- Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2008
- Language: English
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4.26(1186 ratings)
4.26(1186 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military WritingIn this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, masterWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing
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In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master mariner, explorer, cartographer, artist, and Father of New France.
Born on France’s Atlantic coast, Champlain grew to manhood in a country riven by religious warfare. The historical record is unclear on whether Champlain was baptized Protestant or Catholic, but he fought in France’s religious wars for the man who would become Henri IV, one of France’s greatest kings, and like Henri, he was religiously tolerant in an age of murderous sectarianism. Champlain was also a brilliant navigator. He went to sea as a boy and over time acquired the skills that allowed him to make twenty-seven Atlantic crossings without losing a ship.
But we remember Champlain mainly as a great explorer. On foot and by ship and canoe, he traveled through what are now six Canadian provinces and five American states. Over more than thirty years he founded, colonized, and administered French settlements in North America. Sailing frequently between France and Canada, he maneuvered through court intrigue in Paris and negotiated among more than a dozen Indian nations in North America to establish New France. Champlain had early support from Henri IV and later Louis XIII, but the Queen Regent Marie de Medici and Cardinal Richelieu opposed his efforts. Despite much resistance and many defeats, Champlain, by his astonishing dedication and stamina, finally established France’s New World colony. He tried constantly to maintain peace among Indian nations that were sometimes at war with one another, but when he had to, he took up arms and forcefully imposed a new balance of power, proving himself a formidable strategist and warrior.
Throughout his three decades in North America, Champlain remained committed to a remarkable vision, a Grand Design for France’s colony. He encouraged intermarriage among the French colonists and the natives, and he insisted on tolerance for Protestants. He was a visionary leader, especially when compared to his English and Spanish contemporaries‚Äîa man who dreamed of humanity and peace in a world of cruelty and violence.
This superb biography, the first in decades, is as dramatic and exciting as the life it portrays. Deeply researched, it is illustrated throughout with many contemporary images and maps, including several drawn by Champlain himself. -
In Whose Ruins
- By: Alicia Puglionesi
- Narrator: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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3.96(53 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fiction–with profoundIn this “first-rate work of historical research and storytelling” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), four sites of American history are revealed as places where truth was written over by oppressive fiction–with profound repercussions for politics past and present.
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Popular narratives of American history conceal as much as they reveal, presenting a national identity based on harvesting treasures that lay in wait for European colonization. In Whose Ruins tells another story: winding through the US landscape, from Native American earthworks in West Virginia to the Manhattan Project in New Mexico, this history is a tour of sites that were mined for an empire’s power. Showing the hidden costs of ruthless economic growth–particularly to Indigenous people–this book illuminates the myth-making intimately tied to place. From the ground up, the project of settlement, expansion, and extraction became entwined with the spiritual values of those who hoped to gain from it. Every nation tells some stories and suppresses others, and In Whose Ruins illustrates the way American myths have overwritten Indigenous histories, binding us into an unsustainable future.
Historian Alicia Puglionesi? “makes a perfect guide through the strange myths, characters, and environments that best reflect the insidious exploitation inseparable from American dominion” (Chicago Review of Books). She illuminates the story of the Grave Creek Stone, “discovered” in an ancient Indigenous burial mound; oil wells drilled in the corner of western Pennsylvania once known as Petrolia; ancient petroglyphs that once adorned rock faces on the Susquehanna River, dynamited into pieces to make way for a hydroelectric dam; and the effects of the US nuclear program in the Southwest, which contaminated vast regions in the name of eternal wealth and security through atomic power, a promise that rang hollow for the surrounding Native, Hispanic, and white communities. It also inspired nationwide resistance, uniting diverse groups behind a different vision of the future–one not driven by greed and haunted by ruin.
This deeply researched work traces the roots of American fantasies and fears in a national tradition of selective forgetting. Connecting the power of myths with the extraction of power from the land itself reveals the truths that have been left out and is “a stimulating look at the erasure and endurance of Native American culture” (Publishers Weekly). -
The First Salute
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrator: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Length: 13 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 11, 2011
- Language: English
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3.95(2158 ratings)
3.95(2158 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDThe prize-winning historian’s fresh look at the people and events that decided America’s struggle for independence. Its suspenseful climax is the 500-mile march undertaken by General Washington to surround Cornwallis at Yorktown. -
The Barbarous Years
- By: Bernard Bailyn
- Narrator: Bernard Bailyn
- Length: 26 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: May 10, 2013
- Language: English
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3.91(774 ratings)
3.91(774 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0034.99 USDThey were a mixed multitude– from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland. They moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures, andThey were a mixed multitude– from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland. They moved to the western hemisphere for different reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures, and under different auspices and circumstances. Even the majority that came from England fit no distinct socioeconomic or cultural pattern. They came from all over the realm, from commercialized London and the southeast; from isolated farmlands in the north still close to their medieval origins; from towns in the Midlands, the south, and the west; from dales, fens, grasslands, and wolds. They represented the entire spectrum of religious communions from Counter-Reformation Catholicism to Puritan Calvinism and Quakerism. They came hoping to re-create if not to improve these diverse lifeways in a remote and, to them, barbarous environment. But their stories are mostly of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize abnormal situations and recapture lost worlds. And in the process they tore apart the normalities of the people whose world they had invaded. Later generations, reading back into the past the outcomes they knew, often gentrified this passage in the peopling of British North America, but there was nothing genteel about it. Bailyn shows that it was a brutal encounter– brutal not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves. All, in their various ways, struggled for survival with outlandish aliens, rude people, uncultured people, and felt themselves threatened with descent into squalor and savagery. In these vivid stories of individual lives– some new, some familiar but rewritten with new details and contexts– Bailyn gives a fresh account of the history of the British North American population in its earliest, bitterly contested years.
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The Company
- By: Stephen R. Bown
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 16 hours 5 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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3.85(357 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.95 USDA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book forA thrilling new telling of the story of modern Canada’s origins
The story of the Hudson’s Bay Company, dramatic and adventurous and complex, is the story of modern Canada’s creation. And yet it hasn’t been told in a book for over thirty years and never in such depth and vivid detail as in Stephen R. Bown’s exciting new telling.
The company started out small in 1670, trading practical manufactured goods for furs with the indigenous inhabitants of inland subarctic Canada. Controlled by a handful of English aristocrats, it expanded into a powerful political force that ruled the lives of many thousands of people–from the Lowlands south and west of Hudson Bay, to the Tundra, the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific Northwest. It transformed the culture and economy of many indigenous groups and ended up as the most important political and economic force in northern and western North America.
When the company was faced with competition from French traders in the 1780s, the result was a bloody corporate battle, the coming of Governor George Simpson–one of the greatest villains in Canadian history–and the company assuming political control and ruthless dominance. By the time its monopoly was rescinded after two hundred years, the Hudson’s Bay Company had reworked the entire northern North American world.
Stephen R. Bown has a scholar’s profound knowledge and understanding of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s history but wears his learning lightly in a narrative as compelling and rich in well-drawn characters as a page-turning novel.
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The Clinton Tapes
- By: Taylor Branch
- Narrator: Taylor Branch
- Length: 10 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2009
- Language: English
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3.8(731 ratings)
3.8(731 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.95 USDTaylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say inTaylor Branch’s groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes, invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted, tormented, resilient president. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could not say in public.
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This book rests upon a secret project, initiated by Clinton, to preserve for future historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. During his eight years in office, between 1993 and 2001, Clinton answered questions and told stories in the White House, usually late at night. His friend Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch recorded seventy-nine of these dialogues to compile a trove of raw information about a presidency as it happened. Clinton drew upon the diary transcripts for his memoir in 2004.
Branch recorded his own detailed recollections immediately after each session, covering not only the subjects discussed but also the look and feel of each evening with the president. The text engages Clinton from many angles. Readers hear candid stories, feel buffeting pressures, and weigh vivid descriptions of the White House settings.
Branch’s firsthand narrative is confessional, unsparing, and personal. The author admits straying at times from his primary role — to collect raw material for future historians — because his discussions with Clinton were unpredictable and intense. What should an objective prompter say when the President of the United States seeks advice, argues facts, or lodges complaints against the press? The dynamic relationship that emerges from these interviews is both affectionate and charged, with flashes of anger and humor. President Clinton drives the history, but this story is also about friends.
The Clinton Tapes highlights major events of Clinton’s two terms, including wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, the failure of health care reform, peace initiatives on three continents, the anti-deficit crusade, and titanic political struggles from Whitewater to American history’s second presidential impeachment trial. Along the way, Clinton delivers colorful portraits of countless political figures and world leaders from Nelson Mandela to Pope John Paul II.
These unprecedented White House dialogues will become a staple of presidential scholarship. Branch’s masterly account opens a new window on a controversial era and Bill Clinton’s eventual place among our chief executives. -
Who Discovered America?
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 8 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: October 08, 2013
- Language: English
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3.23(358 ratings)
3.23(358 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDGreatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas–offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record inGreatly expanding on his blockbuster 1421, distinguished historian Gavin Menzies uncovers the complete untold history of how mankind came to the Americas–offering new revelations and a radical rethinking of the accepted historical record in Who Discovered America?
The iconoclastic historian’s magnum opus, Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known “discoveries” of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. In Who Discovered America? he combines meticulous research and an adventurer’s spirit to reveal astounding new evidence of an ancient Asian seagoing tradition–most notably the Chinese–that dates as far back as 130,000 years ago.
Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the “Beringia” theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing implications for the history of mankind.
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 3
- By: Edward Gaylord Bourne
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms Volume 3 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University. Editor’sA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Volume 3 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.
Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime, there is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.
From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Three: This volume begins with the detailed narrative of the founding and development of the communities now included within the United States of America, and the story necessarily goes back to the discovery of the American islands and continents. Professor Bourne in his earlier chapters summarizes and restates, with many original conclusions, the controverted points with regard to the discovery of America.
From the Author’s Preface: It has been my design in preparing this volume to accomplish two objects, so far as was practicable within the limits imposed by the conditions of the series to which it belongs. The first object was to provide an account, succinct and readable, and abreast of present scholarship, of the discovery and exploration of the New World. The second part of my plan is to present an outline sketch of the Spanish colonial system and of the first stage of the transmission of European culture to America.
Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. Preliminaries of Discovery (867-1487)II. Preparations of Columbus (1446-1492)III. Columbus’s Discovery and the Papal Demarcation Line (1492-1494)IV. Columbus at the Zenith of His Fortunes (1493-1500)V. Voyages of the Cabots and Corte-Reals (1496-1502)VI. Development of the Coast-Line (1499-1 506)VII. Amerigo Vespucci and the Naming of America (1499-1507)VIII. The Search for a Strait (1508-1514)IX. Magellan and the First Voyage around the World (1519-1522)X. Exploration of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts (1512-1541)XI. Exploration of the Interior of North America (1512-1541)XII. French and Spaniards in Florida (1558-1568)XIII. The Achievement of Three Generations (1492-1580)XIV. The Beginnings of Spanish Colonial Policy (1493-1518)XV. Spanish Colonial Government and Administration (1493-1821)XVI. Spanish Emigration to America (1500-1600)XVII. Race Element and Social Conditions in Spanish America (1500-1821)XVIII. Negro Slaves (1502-1821)XIX. Colonial Commerce and Industry (1495-1821)XX. The Transmission of European Culture (1493-1821)
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 13
- By: Kendric Charles Babcock, PhD
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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The Rise of American Nationality, 1811-1819 by Kendric Charles Babcock, PhD, President of the University of Arizona
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 13 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University
From the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.
Part of a review:”A rigid classification would demand these volumes be assigned to the class of historical writings designed for the general reader rather than for the special student. The books are not and do not pretend to be distinct contributions to the historical scholar’s knowledge of the period traversed; yet the sane and impartial judgement displayed and the admirable sense of proportion evinced, together with the clear grasp and scholarly exposition of the subjects treated, make each a work that the special student cannot afford to neglect.”–Marshall S. Brown in the American Historical Review, Oct. 1906.
From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Thirteen: The author does not shrink from laying bare the mistakes of our fathers in the War of 1812: the ineptitude of the military administration; the violence of party opposition; the disgraceful defeats in most of the conflicts on land; but the helplessness of the war period is strongly contrasted, first, with the brilliance of the naval operations; second, with the growth of national pride and national consciousness when the war was over; and, third, with the new point of view of European nations towards the great American republic.
From the Author’s Preface: [In] the pages of this volume I have striven to show how the United States achieved its real emancipation from European domination and became a nation…The injunction to rely chiefly upon original materials has been cordially observed, even when it has necessitated reference to rare and obscure books. On the other hand, certain secondary works, such as Henry Adams’s United States and Mahan’s War of 1812 have such peculiar elements of strength that it would be folly for a writer of more general work to neglect them.
Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. The Reign of Faction (1809-1811)II. Problems of the Southwest and Northwest (1810-1812)III. French Duplicity and English Stubbornness (1810-1812)IV. New Elements in Control (1811-1812)V. The Declaration of War (1812)VI. On to Canada (1812-1814)VII. The Naval War (1812-1814)VIII. The Southwest and the Centre (1813-1815)IX. New England and the War (1811-1815)X. Peace Negotiations (1813-1815)XI. The Results of the War (1815)XII. Party Divisions and Personalities (1815-1819)XIII. War Finance and the Second Bank (1816)XIV. The Tariff (1815-1818)XV. Westward Migration and Internal Improvements (1815-1819)XVI. Negotiations with England (1815-1818)XVII. Relations with Spain (1815-1821)XVIII. The Great Decisions of the Supreme Court (1816-1824)
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 12
- By: Edward Channing, PhD
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 6 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811 by Edward Channing, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard University Narrated by Joseph Tabler Volume 12 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published byA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Jeffersonian System, 1801-1811 by Edward Channing, PhD, Professor of History, Harvard University
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 12 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University
From the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.
“A rigid classification would demand these volumes be assigned to the class of historical writings designed for the general reader rather than for the special student. The books are not and do not pretend to be distinct contributions to the historical scholar’s knowledge of the period traversed; yet the sane and impartial judgement displayed and the admirable sense of proportion evinced, together with the clear grasp and scholarly exposition of the subjects treated, make each a work that the special student cannot afford to neglect.”–Marshall S. Brown in the American Historical Review, Oct. 1906
From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Twelve: The title of The Jeffersonian System, chosen for this volume, with the title of its predecessor, Bassett’s Federalist System, suggests two rival, and in some respects opposed, groups of political principles and methods of carrying on both the federal and the state governments. Nevertheless, however different in point of view, the problems of Jefferson and Madison were, with the one great exception of the Louisiana purchase, substantially the same as those of Washington and Adams. The personality of Thomas Jefferson is in many ways the dominant note in the period from 1801 to 1811.
From the Author’s Preface: Jefferson’s first administration has always had a great attraction for the writer of the present volume. At one time, indeed, he thought of making it the subject of a prolonged investigation. From that design, he was turned by the sight of some advanced sheets of Henry Adams’s work on the early Republican administrations. In no way can the admiration for that notable book be better shown than by making it the foundation of the following sketch. In this place, therefore, a general reference is made to Henry Adams’s masterpiece.
Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. ORGANIZATION OF JEFFERSON’S ADMINISTRATION (1801-1805)II. REPUBLICAN REFORMATIONS (1801-1802)III. THE TRIPOLITAN WAR (1801-1804)IV. LA LOUISIANE (1684-1800)V. THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE (1801-1803)VI. THE ADMINISTRATION OF LOUISIANA (1803-1812)VII. THE EXPLORATION OF THE WEST (1803-1806)VIII. SLAVERY AND THE SLAVE-TRADE (1801-1808)IX. THE CHASE IMPEACHMENT (1804-1805)X. JOHN RANDOLPH AND THE YAZOO MEN (1801-1813)XI. THE END OF THE HARVEST SEASON (1803-1805)XII THE BURR EXPEDITION (1805-1807)XIII. FOREIGN RELATIONS (1805)XIV. THE CHESAPEAKE-LEOPARD AFFAIR (1801-1807)XV. THE BELLIGERENTS AND NEUTRAL COMMERCE (1801-1807)XVI. THE EMBARGO (1807-1808)XVII. JEFFERSON’S FAILURE AND FLIGHT (1808-1809)XVIII. INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS (1809-1810)XIX. MADISON AND THE BELLIGERENTS (1810-1811)XX. APPROACH OF WAR (1809-1812)
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 11
- By: John Spencer Bassett
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Federalist System, 1789-1801 by John Spencer Bassett, PhD, Professor of History, Trinity College, NC Narrated by Joseph Tabler Volume 11 of 27 in The American Nation: A History publishedA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Federalist System, 1789-1801 by John Spencer Bassett, PhD, Professor of History, Trinity College, NC
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 11 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918) Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University
From the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs a statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in an untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Eleven: Although the separate history of the commonwealths is, for the most part, merged into that of the nation, the national history grows steadily more complex … The special function of this volume in the American Nation series is to describe the foundations of the present American party system and its application to the extremely difficult problems of that time … In a single sentence, the province of the book is to show how, from 1789 to 1801, the American people faced a new Constitution, a new party system, and a new set of problems, yet contrived to make their government effective and transmit it unimpaired.
From the Author’s Preface: On its political side this volume treats three principal facts: the successful establishment of the government under the Constitution, the organization of the Republican party on the basis of popular government, and the steady adherence of the government to a policy of neutrality at a time when we were threatened with serious foreign complications. The first achievement was chiefly due to Hamilton, the second to Jefferson, and the third to Washington, first, and, after his presidency, to John Adams. To these cardinal features of the history of the time I have added some chapters on social and economic conditions … American self-government was never better justified than during the first three national administrations.
Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. Launching the New Government (1789-1791)II. Hamilton’s Financial System (1789-1791)III. Founding the Republican Party (1790-1792)IV. England and the Northwest (1789-1794)V. Spain and the Southwest (1789-1795)VI. Neutrality and the Mission of Genet (1793)VII. The Whiskey Insurrection (1793-1795)VIII. The Perplexing Problem of British Trade (1793-1796)IX. Washington as a Party President (1795-1797)X. The Republican Court (1789-1800)XI. The State of Society (1789-1800)XII. The First Victories of Anti-Slavery (1777-1804)XIII. Economic Conditions (1789-1800)XIV. Political Affairs Early in Adams’s Administration (1797-1798)XV. The Quarrel with France (1796-1797)XVI. War or Peace (1797-1798)XVII. Alien and Sedition Acts (1797-1798)XVIII. Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (1798-1800)XIX. Downfall of the Federalists (1798-1801)
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 10
- By: Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 7 hours 47 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LLB, Professor of American History at the University of Michigan. 1936 winner of the Pulitzer Prize forA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
The Confederation and the Constitution, 1783-1789 by Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin, LLB, Professor of American History at the University of Michigan. 1936 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book A Constitutional History of the United States.
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
Volume 10 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918) Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University
From the Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime there, is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need of a complete work, written in untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.
From the Editor’s Introduction to Volume Ten: To the years from 1783 to 1789, Fiske has given the name “The Critical Period of American History”; yet it seems doubtful whether it was really a time of such danger of national dissolution as people then and since have supposed. Certainly, the trend of this volume is to show a more orderly, logical, and inevitable march of events than has commonly been described.
The special service of this volume is to bring out the relation of earlier experiences and forms of government to the final work of the convention. The Confederation is a preparatory stage, which, in the author’s judgment, was more creditable to the men of that time than posterity has been willing to allow. It had viability in itself, and from its mistakes, the framers of the Constitution learned wisdom. Throughout the book attention is paid to the capacity and accomplishment of the American people, and to their working out of tried and familiar principles into a new and more effective combination.
From the Author’s Preface: No history of the American nation would be satisfactory which left in dim obscurity the tale of how the people in the years after the war–when beset with difficulties and troubled by a political order which was unsuited to their needs–proceeded “deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise” to establish a national union and to adjust political powers in a complicated and elaborate system of government.
… I have taken seriously the wish of the editor that the volumes should be based on original materials. Though I have been helped by many secondary writers, almost nothing is taken from them without verification in the sources; and in many cases the secondary writers are referred to because they contain the original material desired.
Editor’s IntroductionAuthor’s PrefaceI. The End of the Revolution (1781-1782)II. The Treaty of Paris (1782-1784)III. The Problem of Imperial Organization (1775-1787)IV. Poverty and Peril (1781-1783)V. Commercial and Financial Conditions (1783-1786)VI. Diplomatic Relations (1783-1788)VII. Founding a Colonial System (1783-1787)VIII. Founding of New Commonwealths (1787-1788)IX. Paper Money (1781-1788)X. Shays’s Rebellion (1786-1787)XI. Proposals to Alter the Articles of Confederation (1781-1786)XII. Plan for a National Government (1787)XIII. Shall the Confederation Be Patched Up? (1787)XIV. The Great Compromise (1787)XV. The Law of the Land (1787)XVI. Further Compromises and the Conclusion of the Convention’s Work (1787)XVII. The Constitution before the People (1787-1788)XVIII. For Better or for Worse (1788)
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The American Nation: A History, Vol. 1
- By: Edward Potts Cheyney
- Narrator: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms European Background of American History by Edward Potts Cheyney, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by HarperA Dusty Tomes Audio BookIn Cooperation with Spoken Realms
European Background of American History by Edward Potts Cheyney, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Volume 1 of 27 in The American Nation: A History published by Harper Brothers (1904-1918). Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart, Professor of History at Harvard University.
Editor’s Introduction to the Series: That a new history of the United States is needed, extending from the discovery down to the present time hardly needs statement. No such comprehensive work by a competent writer is now in existence. Individual writers have treated only limited chronological fields. Meantime, there is a rapid increase of published sources and of serviceable monographs based on material hitherto unused. On the one side, there is a necessity for an intelligent summarizing of the present knowledge of American history by trained specialists; on the other hand, there is a need for a complete work, written in untechnical style, which shall serve for the instruction and the entertainment of the general reader.
Editor’s Introduction to Volume One: This first volume of the series supplies a needed link between the history of Europe and the history of early America; for whether it came through a Spanish, French, English, Dutch, or Swedish medium, or through the later immigrants from Germany, from Italy, and from the Slavic countries, the American conception of society and of government was originally derived from the European. Hence the importance at the outset of knowing what that civilization was at the time of colonization.
AUTHOR’S PREFACE: The history of America is a branch of that of Europe. The discovery, exploration, and settlement of the New World were results of European movements and sprang from economic and political needs, development of enterprise, and increase of knowledge, in the Old World. …The beginnings of American history are to be found in European conditions at the time of the foundation of the colonies. Similar forces continued to exercise an influence in later times. The power and policy of home governments, successive waves of emigration, and numberless events in Europe had effects that were deeply felt in America.
I. THE EAST AND THE WEST (1200-1500)II. ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL TRADE-ROUTES (1200-1500)III. ITALIAN CONTRIBUTIONS To EXPLORATION(1200-1500)IV. PIONEER WORK OF PORTUGAL(1400-1527)V. SPANISH MONARCHY IN THE AGE OF COLUMBUS (1474-1525)VI. POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF CENTRAL EUROPE (1400-1650)VII. THE SYSTEM OF CHARTERED COMMERCIAL COMPANIES (1550-1700)VIII. TYPICAL AMERICAN COLONIZING COMPANIES (1600-1628)IX. THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION ON THE CONTINENT (1500-1625)X. RELIGIOUS WARS IN THE NETHERLANDS AND GERMANY (1520-1648)XI. THE ENGLISH CHURCH AND THE CATHOLICS (1534-1660)XII. THE ENGLISH PURITANS AND THE SECTS (1550-1689)XIII. THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF ENGLAND (1500-1689)XIV. THE ENGLISH COUNTY AND ITS OFFICERS (1600-1650)XV. ENGLISH JUSTICES OP THE PEACE (1600-1650)XVI. ENGLISH PARISH OR TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT (1600-1650)
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