Showing posts with label American history audiobooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American history audiobooks. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 11, 2025

A review of “World War I” (audiobook)

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I should preface this review by saying that I’ve examined a number of other histories of  World War One . For example, I watched  PBS’s 6-ho...
Friday, July 12, 2024

A review of Henry David Thoreau’s “On Civil Disobedience” (audiobook)

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“I heartily accept the motto,—‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and system...
Monday, July 1, 2024

A review of “The Spanish-American War” (audiobook)

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The Spanish-American War started out as one of the most popular wars in  American history . It was only long after the fact that it started ...
Saturday, July 29, 2023

A review of Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America” (audiobook)

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I had heard only a little about  Alexis de Tocqueville  before I listened to this audiobook. I knew that he was from France , and that he ha...
Sunday, April 9, 2023

A review of “The Civil War” (audiobook)

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“In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war . The Government will not assail you...
Saturday, December 10, 2022

A review of William Lloyd Garrison’s “The Liberator” (audiobook)

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“On this subject, I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

A review of “The Mexican-American War” (audiobook)

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Living in Arizona, one doesn’t have to ask why the  “Mexican-American War”  is important. I live in a part of Arizona that was once part of...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

A review of “The War of 1812” (audiobook)

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How did the War of 1812 begin? Why did we fight it? Was it worth fighting? These are questions that people have asked ever since the war hap...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

A review of “The Bill of Rights and Other Amendments” (audiobook)

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“The Congress, whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this constitution , or on the applica...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021

A review of “The Federalist Papers” (audiobook)

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“I propose, in a series of papers, to discuss the following interesting particulars : The utility of the Union to your political prosperity;...
Friday, September 17, 2021

A review of “The Constitutional Convention” (audiobook)

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“Resolved. that the right of suffrage in the first branch of the national Legislature ought not to be according to the rule established in t...

A review of “The United States Constitution” (audiobook)

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“[The Congress shall have the power] To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers,...
Sunday, July 4, 2021

A review of “The Declaration of Independence” (audiobook)

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“The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establi...

A review of “The American Revolution” (audiobook)

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“What do we mean by the American Revolution ? Do we mean the American war? The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolut...
Monday, June 21, 2021

A review of “The Ratification Debates” (audiobook)

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“And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alterat...