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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818857 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in TennesseeAuthor: Katherine J. BallantyneNarrator: Elizabeth WileyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 32 minutesRelease date: December 24, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activismâand one of the few examinations of southern student activismâit broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and on the West Coast. By incorporating accounts of students from both historically Black and predominantly white colleges and universities across Tennessee, Radical Volunteers places events that might otherwise appear random and intermittent into conversation with one another. This methodological approach reveals that students joined organizations and became activists in an effort to assert their autonomy and, as a result, student power became a rallying cry across the state. Importantly, Ballantyne does not confine her analysis to just campuses. Indeed, Radical Volunteers also situates campus activism within their broader communities. While outnumbered, Tennessee student activists secured significant campus reforms, pursued ambitious community initiatives, and articulated a powerful countervision for the South and the United States.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/795897 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny RollinsAuthor: Aidan LevyNarrator: William Andrew QuinnFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 31 hours 21 minutesRelease date: December 17, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the 'Saxophone Colossus,' he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz improvisers of all time. His seven-decade career has been well documented, but the backstage life of the man once called 'the only jazz recluse' has gone largely untoldâuntil now. Based on more than 200 interviews with Rollins himself, family members, friends, and collaborators, as well as Rollins' extensive personal archive, Saxophone Colossus is the comprehensive portrait of this legendary saxophonist and composer, civil rights activist and environmentalist. Yet his meteoric rise to fame was not without its challenges. He served two sentences on Rikers Island and won his battle with heroin addiction. In 1959, Rollins took a two-year sabbatical from recording and performing. In 1968, he left again to study at an ashram in India. He returned to performing from 1971 until his retirement in 2012. The story of Sonny Rollins is the story of jazz itself, and Sonny's own narrative is as timeless and timely as the art form he represents. Part jazz oral history told in the musicians' own words, part chronicle of one man's quest for social justice and spiritual enlightenment, this is the definitive biography of one of the most enduring and influential artists in jazz and American history.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/829459 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Belle StarrâThe Bandit QueenAuthor: William Yancey ShacklefordNarrator: Lee Ann HowlettFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 1 hour 28 minutesRelease date: December 10, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Legendary outlaw Belle Starr has been written about and portrayed in various media for well over one hundred years. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri in 1848, Belle lived most of her life in Texas. She became notorious after living and hanging out with members of the James and Younger gangs. Belle was a crack shot who rode side saddle while engaging in horse thievery, cattle rustling, and holdups. In between these activities, Belle bore two children and was involved with (though not necessarily married to) several men, including Sam Starr. Belle was murdered in 1889 just 2 days before her 41st birthday. The case is officially considered unsolved. This book was the first of many about Belle and was originally published the same year she died.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818855 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection: The Legal Culture and Trials, 1794-1795Author: Linda MyrsiadesNarrator: Wendy Tremont KingFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 14 hours 35 minutesRelease date: December 10, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Backcountry Democracy and the Whiskey Insurrection treats the legal culture that informed the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 and its trials. Linda Myrsiades examines conflicts between state and federal courts and the judicial philosophy of Federalist judges, as well as grand jury charges, law reports, judges' bench notes, and defense notes for the trials, to develop a portrait of the hegemony of official interpretations of the law. At the same time, the book illuminates popular attitudes about the courts and the law and explores the nature of extralegal courts operated by the people. Myrsiades captures the agitation-propaganda efforts mounted by rebel communities and groups together with petitions and speeches in the rebel assemblies in demonstrating that popular culture offered a clear politico-legal justification within the rebel movement on the unofficial side of legal culture. Myrsiades thus presents a holistic picture of the legal culture of the rebellion. Her examination denies the common perception that the rebel movement was incoherent and chaotic and presents an alternative view that its perceptions are a necessary correlative to understanding how treason law functioned and what its critical elements were in the late-eighteenth century, serving as a lesson for democracy in the present era.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/809529 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The OrderAuthor: Kevin FlynnNarrator: Gibson FrazierFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 20 hours 25 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Soon to be a major motion picture! Originally published as The Silent Brotherhood, uncover the chilling depths of Americaâs racist underground with this investigative true crime masterpiece exposing the inner workings of white supremacist militias and domestic terror groups. Two courageous investigative journalists deliver an insiderâs account of the âsilent brotherhoodââthe most dangerous radical-right hate group to surface since the Ku Klux Klan. They claim to be patriots, as American as apple pie, but they are this nationâs deadly brotherhoodâhate groups that package their alienation against the federal government under such names as the Aryan Nation, the Order, and other white supremacist militias. The group attracts seemingly average citizens with their call for pride in race, family, and religion and their mission to save white Christian America. They spout anti-Black, antisemitic, neo-Nazi rhetoric, and their grievances have festered into full-blown paranoia and a call for an all-out race war. The Order reveals in terrifying detail how the group became criminals and assassins in their effort to establish an Aryan homeland.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769522 to listen full audiobooks.Title: When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the AmazonAuthor: Alex CuadrosNarrator: Alex CuadrosFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 19 minutesRelease date: December 3, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: In this "remarkable" true story, an Amazonian tribe is forced to reconcile with Westerners entering their territory and running an illegal diamond mine (Douglas Preston). Growing up in a remote corner of the worldâs largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita witnessed the first highway pierced through the century-old trees, and they lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to figure out their new capitalist reality, discovering its wonders as well as its horrors. They forged an uneasy symbiosis with their white antagonistsâuntil decades of suppressed trauma erupted into a massacre; an act of retribution that made headlines across the globe. Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye is a story of survival against all odds; of the temptations of wealth and the dream of prosperity; of a vital ecosystem threatened by the hunger for natural resources; of genocide and revenge. Most of all, itâs about a few startlingly clever individuals and their power to adapt and even thrive in the most unlikely circumstances.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773680 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Dark Sun: The Making Of The Hydrogen BombAuthor: Richard RhodesNarrator: Jacques RoyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 28 hours 40 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War. Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and why the United States decided to create the bomb that would dominate world politics for more than forty years.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759905 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to AmericaAuthor: Stephanie GortonNarrator: Janina EdwardsFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 41 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A riveting history about the little-known rivalry between Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett that profoundly shaped reproductive rights in America In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett. While Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, Dennettâs name has largely faded from public knowledge. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America. Few are aware of the fierce personal and political rivalry that played out between Sanger and Dennett over decadesâa battle that had a profound impact on the lives of American women. Meticulously researched and vividly drawn, The Icon and the Idealist reveals how and why these two women came to activism, the origins of the clash between them, and the ways in which their missteps and breakthroughs have reverberated across American society for generations. With deep archival scope and rigorous execution, Stephanie Gorton weaves together a personal narrative of two fascinating women and the political history of a country rocked by changing social norms, the Depression, and a fervor for eugenics. Refusing to shy away from the enmeshed struggles of race, class, and gender, Gorton has made a sweeping examination of every force that has come in the way of womenâs reproductive freedom. Brimming with insight and compelling portraits of womenâs struggles throughout the twentieth century, The Icon and the Idealist is a comprehensive history of a radical cultural movement.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818399 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970sAuthor: Timothy SilverNarrator: Andre BellidoFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 7 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina. The impromptu campout was a pit stop for the group on their way to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte. Early that evening, they drank beer, smoked marijuana, and listened to rock music as they anticipated the good times that lay ahead. Near midnight, the county sheriff showed up with six deputies, allegedly responding to a noise complaint. They were armed with pistols and five sawed-off 12-gauge shotguns, one of which discharged, killing a young man named Stanley Altland. To this day, no one has been held responsible for the tragic incident, though it happened in front of over a dozen eyewitnesses. Timothy Silver writes the true story of Altland's death and its aftermath, using archival research, interviews with surviving Clearwater campers, and newly unearthed FBI files. A mix of true crime, southern history, and personal storytelling, this book shows how, in the dark of night at a remote mountain campsite, the killing of an innocent man epitomized the suspicion of young people and violence toward the counterculture that gripped the nation in the early 1970s.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818322 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Seven Virginians: The Men Who Shaped Our RepublicAuthor: John B. BolesNarrator: Brandon PollockFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 38 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Seven Virginians, the culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, reveals the integral role played by seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall. Most accounts of the founding generation focus only on the activities of the 'big three'âWashington, Jefferson, and Madisonâbut Boles incorporates the key contributions of these other four important figures to the political and legal structures that govern the United States to this day. At the same time, Boles is clear-eyed about the Revolutionary generation's problems and their fading from the scene, inaugurating the beginnings of Virginia's political decline in the early nineteenth century. In so doing, Boles provides the crucial Virginian piece to the ongoing reevaluation of the United States's founding moment
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818324 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Four Against the West: The True Saga of a Frontier Family That Reshaped the Nation - and Created a LegendAuthor: Joe PappalardoNarrator: Jim SeybertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 11 hours 44 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Roy Bean was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Texas, who called himself 'The Only Law West of the Pecos'. He and his three brothers set out from Kentucky in the mid 1840s, heading into the American frontier to find their fortunes. Their lifetimes of triumphs, tragedies, laurels, and scandals will play out on the battlefields of Mexico, in shady dealings in California city halls, inside eccentric saloon courtrooms of Texas, and along the blood-soaked Santa Fe Trail from Missouri to New Mexico. They will kill men, and murder will likewise stalk them. The Beans chase their American dreams as the nation reinvents itself as a coast-to-coast powerhouse, only to be tested by the Civil War. During their saga, the brothers become soldiers, judges, husbands, guerillas, lawmen, entrepreneurs, refugees, fathers, politicians, pioneers, andâin Judge Roy Bean's caseâone of the Old West's best known but least understood scoundrels. Using new information gleaned from exhaustive research, Joe Pappalardo's Four Against the West is an unprecedented and vivid telling of the intertwined stories of all four Bean brothers, exploring for the first time how their relentless ambitions helped create a new America.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/814621 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil WarAuthor: Jeff ForretNarrator: TBDFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 12 hours 8 minutesRelease date: November 26, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in Americaâironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves. âA spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just how far the American government went to secure reparations.â âRobert Elderâ author of Calhoun: American Heretic In 1831, the American ship Comet, carrying 165 enslaved men, women, and children, crashed onto a coral reef near the shore of the Bahamas, then part of the British Empire. Shortly afterward, the Vice Admiralty Court in Nassau, over the outraged objections of the shipâs owners, set the rescued captives free. American slave owners and the companies who insured the liberated human cargo would spend years lobbying for reparations from Great Britain, not for the emancipated slaves, of course, but for the masters deprived of their human property. In a work of profoundly relevant research and storytelling, historian and Frederick Douglass Prizeâwinner Jeff Forret uncovers how the Comet incidentâas well as similar episodes that unfolded over the next decadeâresulted in the British Crown making reparations payments to a U.S. government that strenuously represented slaveholder interests. Through a story that has never been fully explored, The Price They Paid shows how, unlike their former owners and insurers, neither the survivors of the Comet and other vessels, nor their descendants, have ever received reparations for the price they paid in their lives, labor, and suffering during slavery. Any accounting of reparations today requires a fuller understanding of how the debts of slavery have been paid, and to whom. The Price They Paid represents a major step forward in that effort.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/773062 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an InvasionAuthor: Mark Harmon, Leon CarrollNarrator: Mark HarmonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 59 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The next-true life NCIS story from New York Times bestselling authors Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll, Jr. Read by the author. Panama, 1989. The once warm relationship between United States and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded dangerously. Newly elected President George Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality for U.S. personnel and their families. The nation is a powder keg. Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent Rick Yell has worked the job in Panama since 1986, and lives there with his wife Annya and infant child. Like most NIS agents, heâs a civilian with no military rank with a specialty in working criminal cases. The dynamic changes suddenly when Yell inadvertently develops an intelligence source with unparalleled access to the Noriega regime. Now the agent is thrust into a world of spy-versus-spy, of secret meetings and hidden documents. Yellâs source â known as âThe Old Manâ â warns when Cuban military personnel arrive and identifies anti-American officers within the Panamanian Defense Forces, provides information about an imprisoned CIA asset and helps track Noriegaâs movements, agitating for the dictatorâs kidnapping. The reports created by Yell and his NIS colleagues shape the decisions made in Washington D.C., CIA headquarters in Langley and the innermost sanctums of Pentagon. The powder keg is lit on December 16, 1989, when a young U.S. Marine is gunned down at a checkpoint in Panama City. Yell and his cadre of trusted agents deploy immediately to investigate the killing, and what they determine will decide the fate of two nations. When President Bush hears the details they uncover, he orders an invasion that puts Yellâs family, informants and fellow agents directly in harmâs way. Using a blend of research and interviews with the NIS agents who were directly involved, Ghosts of Panama reveals the untold, clandestine story of counterintelligence professionals placed in a pressure cooker assignment of historic proportions.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/769161 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Citizen: My Life After the White HouseAuthor: Bill ClintonNarrator: Steven Weber, Bill ClintonFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 15 hours 40 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER âą A powerful, candid, and richly detailed memoir from an American icon, revealing what life looks like after the presidency: triumphs, tribulations, and all. On January 20, 2001, after nearly thirty years in politicsâeight of them as president of the United StatesâBill Clinton was suddenly a private citizen. Only fifty-four years old, full of energy and ideas, he wanted to make meaningful use of his skills, his relationships with world leaders, and all heâd learned in a lifetime of politics, but how? Just days after leaving the White House, the call came to aid victims of a devastating earthquake in India, and Clinton hit the ground running. Over the next two decades, he would create an enduring legacy of public service and advocacy work, from Indonesia to Louisiana, Northern Ireland to South Africa, and in the process reimagine philanthropy and redefine the impact a former president could have on the world. Citizen is Clintonâs front-row, first-person chronicle of his postpresidential years and the most significant events of the twenty-first century, including 9/11 and the runup to the Iraq War, the Haiti earthquake, the Great Recession, the January 6 insurrection, and the enduring culture wars of our times. With clarity and compassion, he also weighs in on the unprecedented challenges brought on by a global pandemic, ongoing income inequality, a steadily warming planet, and authoritarian forces dedicated to weakening democracy. Yet Citizen is more than a political memoir. These pages capture Clinton in a rare and unforgettable light: not only as a celebrated former president and a foundation leader, but as a father, grandfather, and husband. He recounts his support for Hillary Clinton during her time as senator, secretary of state, and presidential candidate, and shares the frustration and pain of the 2016 election. In this landmark publication, the highly anticipated follow-up to the best-selling My Life, Clinton pens an illuminating account of American democracy on a global stage, offering a frank reflection on the past and, with it, a fearless embrace of our future. Citizen is a self-portrait of equal parts eloquence, insight, and candor, a testament to one manâs unwavering commitment to family and nation.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/835436 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Last One Walking: The Life of Cherokee Community Leader Charlie SoapAuthor: Greg ShawNarrator: Kaipo SchwabFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 7 hours 53 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: You probably know the story of the late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. You might not recognize the name of her husband, Charlie Soap, yet his role as a Native community organizer is no less significant. Last One Walking charts for the first time the life and work of this influential Cherokee. Author and former journalist Greg Shaw gives voice to his sources. He draws on his many travels and interviews with Soap and on previously unpublished writings. Shaw offers a rich profile of Soap's singular careerâparticularly as a champion of water rights. In managing public infrastructure projects, housing assistance, and water development in the Cherokee Nation, Soap has exemplified ga-du-gi, the Cherokee word for community members working together for the collective good. Charlie Soap's name in Cherokee, Ohni ai, translates as 'the last one walking.' In the Cherokee wolf clan, this is the member who trails the rest of the pack to watch for danger and opportunity. The Native American fight for land has been well chronicled, but the fight for water has not. Last One Walking helps to fill that void with a narrative that is also deeply moving.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818785 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil WarâEra Gulf SouthAuthor: Maria Angela DiazNarrator: Angela JuarezFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 9 hours 35 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: From 1845 to 1865 the Gulf of Mexico was at the center of American expansion and southern imperialism. A Continuous State of War tells the story of several communities as well as countries such as Mexico and Cuba, to uncover the way that wars within the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico facilitated American and southern attempts to conquer Latin American nations. In the push for westward expansion that preceded the Civil War, white southerners along with other Americans engaged in violent conquest in Latin America and the American West. Through the wars that are chronicled here, white southern concepts of race became more rigidly fixed. Maria Angela Diaz covers several conflicts leading up to the Civil War with Mexicans, Cubans, and Native Americans. She places the Civil War within this framework and follows the trajectory of relations with Latin America through the end of the Civil War and ex-Confederates' attempts to emigrate abroad. Gulf Coast communities facilitated both the physical efforts to seize territory and the construction of the highly racialized imperialist ideas that reimagined Latin America as a region that could secure the South's future. Yet the pursuit of that territory created a fluctuating and uncertain situation that shaped the choices of the diverse peoples who lived along the upper rim of the Gulf of Mexico in ways they did not expect.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/813420 to listen full audiobooks.Title: A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to StarsAuthor: Erin SharkeyNarrator: Carmen Jewel JonesFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 8 hours 45 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does it play in our lives? Does it need to be tamed? Are we ourselves natural? In A Darker Wilderness, a constellation of luminary writers reflect on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of these essays engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space and finding rich Blackness everywhere. Erin Sharkey considers Benjamin Banneker's 1795 almanac, as she follows the passing of seasons in an urban garden in Buffalo. Naima Penniman reflects on a statue of Haitian revolutionary François Makandal, within her own pursuit of environmental justice. Ama Codjoe meditates on rain, hair, protest, and freedom via a photo of a woman during a civil rights demonstration in Alabama. And so on with wide-ranging contributions unearthing evidence of the ways Black people's relationship to the natural world has persevered through colonialism, slavery, violence, and structurally racist policies. A scrapbook, a family chest, a quiltâa work of historical engagement and literary accomplishmentâA Darker Wilderness is a collection brimming with abundance and insight.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/812578 to listen full audiobooks.Title: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial EditionAuthor: Robert David Ward, William Warren Rogers, Leah Rawls Atkins, Wayne FlyntNarrator: Chris AbernathyFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 30 hours 50 minutesRelease date: November 19, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State, Bicentennial Edition is a comprehensive narrative account of the state from its earliest days to the present. This edition, updated to celebrate the state's bicentennial year, offers a detailed survey of the colorful, dramatic, and often controversial turns in Alabama's evolution. Once the home of aboriginal inhabitants, Alabama was claimed and occupied by a number of European nations prior to becoming a permanent part of the United States in 1819. A cotton and slave state for more than half of the nineteenth century, Alabama seceded in 1861 to join the Confederate States of America, and occupied an uneasy and uncertain place in America's post-Civil War landscape. General listeners as well as scholars will welcome this up-to-date and scrupulously researched history of Alabama, which examines such traditional subjects as politics, military history, economics, race, and class. It contains essential accounts devoted to Native Americans, women, and the environment, as well as detailed coverage of health, education, organized labor, civil rights, and the many cultural developments, from literature to sport, that have enriched Alabama's history. A key facet of this landmark historical narrative is the strong emphasis placed on the common everyday people of Alabama.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818688 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Tensaw River: Alabama's Hidden Heritage CorridorAuthor: Mike BunnNarrator: Jim SeybertFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 2 hours 37 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: The Tensaw River introduces one of the American South's richest and most fertile natural features. Author Mike Bunn is director of Historic Blakeley State Park, which is nestled in a prominent bend of the majestic Tensaw River. Forming the eastern boundary of the expansive Mobile-Tensaw Delta, the Tensaw has had little industrial development. Left largely undisturbed, the river flows free and bountiful into the grand estuary of Mobile Bay in ways that would be recognizable to Native Americans centuries ago and to pioneers who arrived before Alabama became a state. Bunn's unforgettable stories in The Tensaw River trace the construction and occupation of the Bottle Creek site, an important mound complex built by Southeastern Native Americans a millennia ago. Nearby Blakeley is an antebellum ghost town whose lost memories tease the imagination. During the Civil War, the boom of artillery fire in the battle that sealed the fate of the city of Mobile echoed along the bends in the Tensaw. Located near popular travel destinations, the Tensaw's 'Forgotten Cultural Heritage Corridor' is a gateway to the enchanting beauty ofâand humankind's relationship toâthe landscape of the American South.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/818689 to listen full audiobooks.Title: The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate HistoriesAuthor: Devon A. MihesuahNarrator: Charley FlyteFormat: Unabridged AudiobookLength: 6 hours 16 minutesRelease date: November 12, 2024Genres: The AmericasPublisher's Summary: Under the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. It is the Hattak fullih nipi foni, the bone picker, who comes to tear off rotting flesh with his fingernails. Only the Choctaws who adhere to the old ways will speak of him. The frightening bone picker is just one of many entities, scary and mysterious, who lurk behind every page of this spine-tingling collection of Native fiction, written by award-winning Choctaw author Devon A. Mihesuah. As a Choctaw citizen, with deep ties to Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Mihesuah grew up hearing the stories of her ancestors. In the tradition of Native storytelling, she spins tales that move back and forth fluidly across time. The ancient beings, we discover, followed the tribe from their original homelands in Mississippi and are now ever-present influences on tribal consciousness. While some of the horrors told here are 'real life' in nature, the art of fiction that Mihesuah employs reveals surprising outcomes or alternative histories. It turns out the things that scare us the most can lead to the answers we are seeking and even ensure our very survival.
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