Grab the Essential Full Audiobooks in History, The Americas

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thebookvoice.com

Category

history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Jun 2017

Latest episode

17 Oct 2023

Latest episodes

190 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Oct 2023

   The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551335 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/551335) to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative Author: Gregg Hecimovich Narrator: Janina Edwards, Ron Butler Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 59 minutes Release date: October 17, 2023 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr. In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to great acclaim, but the author’s identity remained unknown. Over a decade later, Professor Gregg Hecimovich unraveled the mystery of the author’s name and, in The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts, he finally tells her story. In this remarkable biography, Hecimovich identifies the novelist as Hannah Bond “Crafts.” She was not only the first known Black woman to compose a novel but also an extraordinarily gifted artist who honed her literary skills in direct opposition to a system designed to deny her every measure of humanity. After escaping to New York, the author forged a new identity—as Hannah Crafts—to make sense of a life fractured by slavery. Hecimovich establishes the case for authorship of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by examining the lives of Hannah Crafts’s friends and contemporaries, including the five enslaved women whose experiences form part of her narrative. By drawing on the lives of those she knew in slavery, Crafts summoned into her fiction people otherwise stolen from history. At once a detective story, a literary chase, and a cultural history, The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts discovers a tale of love, friendship, betrayal, and violence set against the backdrop of America’s slide into Civil War.

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   27 Jun 2023

   American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549659 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/549659) to listen full audiobooks. Title: American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time Author: Wesley Lowery Narrator: Wesley Lowery Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 0 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Barack Obama's election in 2008 was a moment of true, unabashed hope. But after two terms shadowed by a growing white supremacist movement, Obama was replaced by an openly nativist administration. So what the hell happened? In Whitelash, Wesley Lowery places a decade of American carnage in historical context, uncovering the horror that racial violence has wrought in our era. As he looks to America's past to understand the rise of Donald Trump and the 'whitelash' following the election of Barack Obama, a frightening pattern emerges. Every period of perceived black advancement has triggered a violent reaction by white Americans, the old system's beneficiaries. But while America's historical racists were conservatives, fighting to maintain their dominance in the status quo, those Lowery meets today are revolutionaries, self-styled soldiers in a holy war to bring the white race back from what they see as the brink of extinction. Interweaving deep historical analysis with gripping first-hand reporting on both victims and perpetrators of violence, Lowery uncovers how this vicious cycle is entering ever more perilous territory, and how the United States still might find a route of escape. © Wesley Lowery 2023 (P) Penguin Audio 2023

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   27 Jun 2023

   Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan by Stefan Rinke

   Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566210 (https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/566210) to listen full audiobooks. Title: Conquistadors and Aztecs: A History of the Fall of Tenochtitlan Author: Stefan Rinke Narrator: Luis Moreno Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 43 minutes Release date: June 27, 2023 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Five hundred years ago, a flotilla landed on the coast of Yucatán under the command of the Spanish conquistador Hérnan Cortés. While the official goal of the expedition was to explore and to expand the Christian faith, everyone involved knew that it was primarily about gold and the hunt for slaves.That a few hundred Spaniards destroyed the Aztec empire—a highly developed culture—is an old chestnut, because the conquistadors, who had every means to make a profit, did not succeed alone. They encountered groups such as the Tlaxcaltecs, who suffered from the Aztec rule and were ready to enter into alliances with the foreigners to overthrow their old enemy. In addition, the conquerors benefited from the diseases brought from Europe, which killed hundreds of thousands of locals. Drawing on both Spanish and indigenous sources, this account of the conquest of Mexico from 1519 to 1521 not only offers a dramatic narrative of these events—including the fall of Tenochtitlan and the flight of the conquerors—but also represents the individual protagonists on both sides, their backgrounds, their diplomacy, and their struggles. It vividly portrays the tens of thousands of local warriors who faced off against each other during the fighting as they attempted to free themselves from tribute payments to the Aztecs.Written by a leading historian of Latin America, Conquistadors and Aztecs offers a timely portrayal of the fall of Tenochtitlan and the founding of an empire that would last for centuries.