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History of the United States of America, Volume I
- From the Discovery of the Continent
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 25 hrs and 10 mins
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A Dusty Tomes Audio Book
In Cooperation with Spoken Realms
Volume one 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” 1888 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."
Narrated by Joseph Tabler
From the Author’s Preface:
… 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 the Author’s Introduction:
It is the object of the present work to explain how the change in the conditions of our land has been brought about; and, as the fortunes of a nation are not under the control of blind destiny, to follow the steps by which a favoring Providence, calling our institutions into being, has conducted the country to its present happiness and glory. 1834.
The foregoing words, written nearly a half-century ago, are suffered to remain, because the intervening years have justified their expression of confidence in the progress of our republic. The seed of disunion has perished; and universal freedom, reciprocal benefits, and cherished traditions bind its many states in the closes union. 1882.
Preface
Introduction
Contents of the First Volume:
The United States of America as Colonies
Part I.
The English People Found a Nation in America
Chapter I. Early Voyages. French Settlements in America
Chapter II. The Spaniards in Florida and on the Pacific Coast
Chapter III. The Spaniards in the Mississippi Valley
Chapter IV. The Spaniards Hold Florida
Chapter V. The English Attempt Colonization
Chapter VI. England Plants a New Nation in Virginia
Chapter VII. Virginia Obtains Civil Liberty
Chapter VIII. Slavery. Dissolution of the London Company
Chapter IX. Restrictions on Colonial Commerce
Chapter X. Colonization of Maryland
Chapter XI. Prelates and Puritans
Chapter XII. The Pilgrims
Chapter XIII. New England’s Plantation
Chapter XIV. Self-Government in Massachusetts
Chapter XV. The Providence Plantations
Chapter XVI. Colonization of New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
Chapter XVII. The Prelates and Massachusetts
Chapter XVIII. The United Colonies of New England
Chapter XIX. The Place of Puritanism in History
Part II.
British America Attains Geographical Unity
Chapter I. The Fall and Restoration of the Stuarts
Chapter II. The Navigation Acts
Chapter III. Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Charles II
Chapter IV. Massachusetts and Charles II
Chapter V. New England and Its Red Men
Chapter VI. The Overthrow of the Charter of Massachusetts
Chapter VII. Shaftesbury and Locke Legislate for Carolina
Chapter VIII. Settlements in South Carolina
Chapter IX. Maryland after the Restoration
Chapter X. How the Stuarts Rewarded the Loyalty of Virginia
Chapter XI. The Great Rebellion in Virginia
Chapter XII. New Netherland
Chapter XIII. New Netherland and New Sweden
Chapter XIV. New Netherland, New Jersey, and New York
Chapter XV. The People Called Quakers in the United States
Chapter XVI. Pennsylvania
Chapter XVII. James II Consolidates the Northern Colonies
Chapter XVIII. The Revolution of 1688
Chapter XIX. Result Thus Far
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This famous treatise began as a letter to a young French friend who asked Edmund Burke’s opinion on whether France’s new ruling class would succeed in creating a better order. Doubtless the friend expected a favorable reply, but Burke was suspicious of certain tendencies of the Revolution from the start and perceived that the revolutionaries were actually subverting the true "social order". Blending history with principle and graceful imagery with profound practical maxims, this book is one of the most influential political treatises in the history of the world.
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A good historical perspective
- By CMC on 08-30-14
By: Edmund Burke
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Democracy in America
- By: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
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In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.
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Most Listenable, if not the Best Translation
- By Michael Allen on 10-04-13
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Democracy in America (Excerpts)
- By: Alexis de Tocqueville
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 4 hrs and 46 mins
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Alexis de Tocqueville's renowned analysis of American democracy still has relevance today. In 1831 de Tocqueville was sent to America by the French government to study the U.S. penal system, but his real aim was to observe a democratic republic firsthand to see if such an entity could function with dignity and humanity. His travels, which took him to the cities of the Northeast, to the frontier and the Great Lakes, down the Mississippi and through the South, showed him a great deal about the United States. In 1834, he wrote Democracy in America, in which he examines the advantages and pitfalls of democracy, the conditions and conflicts among the races, and the movements that grip the country.
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Democracy in America
- By Michael on 02-18-10
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Constitution
- By: James Madison
- Narrated by: Deaver Brown
- Length: 37 mins
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In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original United States Constitution. To improve your understanding of the Constitution, we have included original readings and commentary related to this subject, such as the drafting and ratification of the Constitution, the historical influences on the Constitution, and the Anti-Federalists.
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🎆Adventurous Conversations Following this Topic☕️
- By F. F. F. on 07-12-15
By: James Madison
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God, War, and Providence
- The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
- By: James A. Warren
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
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A devout Puritan minister in 17th-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. James A. Warren tells the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams's Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment.
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The best book so far on Roger Williams
- By Andy from FL on 12-05-19
By: James A. Warren
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Thomas Paine
- Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
- By: Craig Nelson
- Narrated by: Paul Hecht
- Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
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John Adams told Thomas Jefferson that “history is to ascribe the American Revolution to Thomas Paine.” Thomas Edison called him “the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible.” He was a founder of both the United States and the French Revolution. He invented the phrase, “The United States of America.” He rose from abject poverty in working-class England to the highest levels of the era’s intellectual elite. And yet, by the end of his life, Thomas Paine was almost universally reviled.
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This man should be a household name!
- By Darlene Davis on 11-21-11
By: Craig Nelson
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Our Oriental Heritage
- The Story of Civilization, Volume 1
- By: Will Durant
- Narrated by: Robin Field
- Length: 50 hrs and 17 mins
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The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.
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Wonderful
- By Michael on 11-30-13
By: Will Durant
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Forged in Faith
- How Faith Shaped the Birth of the Nation 1607-1776
- By: Rod Gragg
- Narrated by: Maurice England
- Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
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The true drama of how faith motivated America's Founding Fathers, influenced the Declaration of Independence, and inspired the birth of the nation. Forged in Faith recounts how faith motivated Pilgrims, Puritans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, Catholics, and Anglicans alike in a unique and fascinating history of early America and the faith that forged a nation.
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Incredible must read.
- By Tim Patt on 07-29-21
By: Rod Gragg
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Thomas Paine and the Clarion Call for American Independence
- By: Harlow Giles Unger
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author and Founding Fathers' biographer Harlow Giles Unger comes the astonishing biography of the man whose pen set America ablaze, inspiring its revolution, and whose ideas about reason and religion continue to try men's souls.
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well written and researched
- By K D on 09-29-19
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Constantine and the Conversion of Europe
- By: Arnold Jones
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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By the end of Diocletian's reign in the opening years of the fourth century, the pagan world had collapsed into the arms of a multicultural religious movement which had spread from the eastern Mediterranean. These were the "mystery religions" which had been in competition with one another for a century. By the time of Constantine, they had spread everywhere within the empire. But one of these religions, Christianity, was chosen by the young emperor.
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A Lot of Potentially Boring Detail
- By Christopher on 07-08-10
By: Arnold Jones
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The Modern Scholar
- The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Professor H.W. Brands
- Narrated by: H.W. Brands
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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This course examines the life of Benjamin Franklin and his influence on both American and world history. He remains the model of the American thinker - a man who was interested in nearly everything, and who pursued those interests with an admirable and contagious passion. To study Franklin's life is to learn not only the history of a single man, but to understand some of the most monumental changes in all of human history.
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Love it
- By Holly on 02-20-16
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A History of the Roman Republic
- By: Cyril Edward Robinson
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
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The story of the Roman Republic is the greatest epic in human history. Seen in the long perspective of time, it seems too fantastic to be real. From her modest beginnings as a convenient fording place on the Tiber to her eventual destiny as the mistress of the Mediterranean, Rome offers a strange tale of fate, sacrifice, and indomitable willpower. The stern realities of war shaped Rome's policies from the very beginning.
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Excellent overview
- By jaime on 05-14-15