Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/497718 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture Author: Karen L. Cox Narrator: Pam Ward Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 50 minutes Release date: March 23, 2021 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Even without the right to vote, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy proved to have enormous social and political influence throughout the South—all in the name of preserving Confederate culture. Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure. The Daughters, as UDC members were popularly known, were daughters of the Confederate generation. While southern women had long been leaders in efforts to memorialize the Confederacy, UDC members made the Lost Cause a movement about vindication as well as memorialization. They erected monuments, monitored history for 'truthfulness,' and sought to educate coming generations of white southerners about an idyllic past and a just cause—states' rights. Soldiers' and widows' homes, perpetuation of the mythology of the antebellum South, and pro-southern textbooks in the region's white public schools were all integral to their mission of creating the New South in the image of the Old. UDC members aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, in which states' rights and white supremacy remained intact.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/457705 to listen full audiobooks. Title: City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 Author: Kelly Lytle Hernández Narrator: Lisa Reneé Pitts Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 13 minutes Release date: November 24, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.33 of Total 3 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: City of Inmates explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/454229 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Maya: A Very Short Introduction Author: Matthew Restall, Amara Solari Narrator: Tim Campbell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 3 hours 20 minutes Release date: November 17, 2020 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of human history. Long before contact with Europeans, Maya communities built spectacular cities with large, well-fed large populations. They mastered the visual arts, and developed a sophisticated writing system that recorded extraordinary knowledge in calendrics, mathematics, and astronomy. The Maya achieved all this without area-wide centralized control. There was never a single, unified Maya state or empire, but always numerous, evolving ethnic groups speaking dozens of distinct Mayan languages. The people we call 'Maya' never thought of themselves as such; yet something definable, unique, and endlessly fascinating—what we call Maya culture—has clearly existed for millennia. So what was their self-identity and how did Maya civilization come to be 'invented?' With the Maya historically subdivided and misunderstood in so many ways, the pursuit of what made them 'the Maya' is all the more important. In this Very Short Introduction, Restall and Solari explore the themes of Maya identity, city-state political culture, art and architecture, the Maya concept of the cosmos, and the Maya experience of contact with including invasion by outsiders.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/465999 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bible History of the Negro Author: R.A. Morrisey Narrator: Isaac Winslow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 2 hours 54 minutes Release date: October 14, 2020 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Richard Alburtus Morrisey was an Afro American biblical scholar, a Doctor of Divinity, and the pastor of a number of churches in Pennsylvania and in the South. In 1915, he published ‘Bible History of the Negro’, in the hope of promoting the study of the Bible. The book brings together all the references to black people in the scriptures, including Ham, son of Noah, Batsheba, Simon of Cyrene, Nimrod, Melchizedek, Hagar, Ishmael, Rahab, and Candace, queen of Ethiopia. It provides a detailed overview of all the relevant passages in scripture, and it caters to questions regarding race and the Bible.

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/481900 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Unsolved Mysteries of American History: An Eye-Opening Journey through 500 Years of Discoveries, Disappearances, and Baffling Events Author: Paul Aron Narrator: Kurt Elftmann Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 20, 2020 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: 'A lively tour through our past and an ingenious primer in the art of historical detection.' --Robert A. Gross, author of The Minutemen and Their World Did Leif Ericsson beat Columbus to America? What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? Did Pocahontas really save John Smith? Did Davy Crockett die at the Alamo? What really happened to Amelia Earhart, and was she a spy? Who killed JFK? Unsolved Mysteries of American History re-creates the most mystifying events of our past, following some of our greatest historians as they search for the elusive answers. Spanning more than five centuries--from Leif Ericsson and Columbus through Watergate and Iran-Contra--Aron makes sense of all the latest discoveries and speculations. Here is everything you could ever want from a detective story: dramatic twists and turns, intellectual challenges, frustrating dead-ends, murderous mayhem, and thrilling espionage. 'Stimulating and pleasurable, fair and objective . . . recommended for both the history buff and the fan of true-life mysteries.'--Kirkus Reviews 'Everyone loves a mystery and a history mystery best of all. Aron has assembled an impressive array of 'whodunits.'' --Ivor Noel Hume, former director, Department of Archaeology, Colonial Williamsburg author of The Virginia Adventure 'A welcome gateway for historical exploration.' --Booklist 'Aron performs something of a minor miracle: He zeroes in on the very core of historical mysteries and provides new insights for reconsidering mystifying events.' --Allan W. Eckert, author of Sorrow in Our Heart

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/464688 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Reminiscences of the Civil War Author: John Brown Gordon Narrator: Tim Getman Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 14 hours 39 minutes Release date: July 14, 2020 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Reminiscences of the Civil War is John Brown Gordon’s first-hand account of the war as seen through the eyes of the prominent officer. Gordon was trusted and admired by many, including Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. The work begins with him being elected as the commander of the “Raccoon Roughs” and his recollection of the Battle of Manassas. He also describes the South’s surrender at Appomattox, in which he participated. He recounts his role in individual battles such as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania, and Gettysburg. The author attempts to provide calculated assessments of Confederate military errors on the battlefield, but yet, is ready to praise the bravery and determination of the Union army. Bringing the Civil War into focus, this memoir reconciles the courage and horror that come with armed conflict.