Snow-Storm in August
The Passions That Sparked Washington City's First Race Riot in the Violent Summer of 1835
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Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington’s first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and “Star Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key, a defender of slavery who sought capital punishment for Bowen.
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From 1866 to 1876, more than 3,000 free African Americans and their white allies were killed in cold blood by terrorist organizations in the South. Over the years, this fact would not only be forgotten, but a series of exculpatory myths would arise to cover the tracks of this orchestrated campaign of atrocity and violence.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring
- De W. Max Hollmann en 09-16-08
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War of Two
- Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel That Stunned the Nation
- De: John Sedgwick
- Narrado por: P. J. Ochlan
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
- Versión completa
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A provocative and penetrating investigation into the rivalry between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, whose infamous duel left the founding father dead and turned a sitting vice president into a fugitive. In the summer of 1804, two of America's most eminent statesmen squared off, pistols raised, on a bluff along the Hudson River. That two such men would risk not only their lives but the stability of the young country they helped forge is almost beyond comprehension. Yet we know that it happened.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Provocative
- De Jean en 11-25-15
De: John Sedgwick
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Separate
- The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
- De: Steve Luxenberg
- Narrado por: Donald Corren
- Duración: 19 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court case synonymous with "separate but equal", created remarkably little stir when the justices announced their near-unanimous decision on May 18, 1896. Yet it is one of the most compelling and dramatic stories of the 19th century, whose outcome embraced and protected segregation, and whose reverberations are still felt into the 21st. Separate spans a striking range of characters and landscapes, bound together by the defining issue of their time and ours - race and equality.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Black and White in shades of grey
- De JKC en 03-15-19
De: Steve Luxenberg
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The Loyal Son
- The War in Ben Franklin's House
- De: Daniel Mark Epstein
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America's founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness - even his grandfatherly appearance - are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals that dogged him throughout his life. In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the more enigmatic aspects of Franklin's biography: his complex and confounding relationship with his illegitimate son, William.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gripping Narrative
- De Jean en 08-07-17
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New York Burning
- Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
- De: Jill Lepore
- Narrado por: Beth McDonald
- Duración: 7 h y 30 m
- Versión resumida
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Over a few weeks in 1741, 10 fires blazed across Manhattan. With each new fire, panicked whites saw more evidence of a slave uprising. Tried and convicted before the colony's Supreme Court, 13 black men were burned at the stake and 17 were hanged. Four whites, the alleged ringleaders of the plot, were also hanged, and seven more were pardoned on condition that they never set foot in New York again.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting
- De Phillip Goodson en 05-15-09
De: Jill Lepore
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Patriotic Treason
- John Brown and the Soul of America
- De: Evan Carton
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 15 h y 30 m
- Versión completa
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John Brown is a lightning rod of history. Yet he is poorly understood and most commonly described in stereotypes, as a madman, martyr, or enigma. Not until Patriotic Treason has a biography or history brought him so fully to life, in scintillating prose and moving detail, making his life and legacy - and the staggering sacrifices he made for his ideals - fascinatingly relevant to today's issues of social justice and to defining the line between activism and terrorism.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Jarring Reminder of Antebellum America
- De Ronald A. Nelson en 12-22-06
De: Evan Carton
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Arc of Justice
- A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
- De: Kevin Boyle
- Narrado por: Lizan Mitchell
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself, resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal giant Clarence Darrow and the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gripping narrative
- De Chris en 04-13-09
De: Kevin Boyle
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Midnight Rising
- John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: Dan Oreskes
- Duración: 11 h y 5 m
- Versión completa
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Plotted in secret, launched in the dark, John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry was a pivotal moment in U.S. history. But few Americans know the true story of the men and women who launched a desperate strike at the slaveholding South. Now, Midnight Rising portrays Brown's uprising in vivid color, revealing a country on the brink of explosive conflict. Brown, the descendant of New England Puritans, saw slavery as a sin against America's founding principles. Unlike most abolitionists, he was willing to take up arms, and in 1859 he prepared for battle at a hideout in Maryland....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Up from Obscurity
- De Lynn en 06-18-12
De: Tony Horwitz
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After Lincoln
- How the North Won the Civil War and Lost the Peace
- De: A. J. Langguth
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 13 h y 29 m
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With Abraham Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals" was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by Northern Congressmen, Radical Republicans led by Thaddeus Stephens and Charles Sumner, who wanted to punish the defeated South. When Johnson's policies placated the rebels at the expense of the freed black men, radicals in the House impeached him for trying to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mediocre
- De Rodney en 10-14-14
De: A. J. Langguth
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The Sewing Girl's Tale
- A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
- De: John Wood Sweet
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great for history buffs!
- De LibertyHillbilly en 02-09-23
De: John Wood Sweet
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Death in the Haymarket
- A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
- De: James Green
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country, leading to a sensational trial that culminated in four controversial executions and dealt a blow to the labor movement from which it would take decades to recover. Historian James Green recounts the rise of the first great labor movement in the wake of the Civil War and brings to life an epic 20-year struggle for the eight-hour workday.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must for anyone who enjoys labor history
- De Taurus en 01-10-22
De: James Green
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Alexander Hamilton
- De: Ron Chernow
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 35 h y 58 m
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Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Outstanding & Riveting Book!
- De Kevin en 03-04-05
De: Ron Chernow
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Frederick Douglass
- Prophet of Freedom
- De: David W. Blight
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 36 h y 57 m
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As a young man, Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time. He wrote three versions of his autobiography over the course of his lifetime and published his own newspaper. His very existence gave the lie to slave owners: with dignity and great intelligence, he bore witness to the brutality of slavery.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The sound of rollerskating in sand
- De Rico X Ludovici en 02-06-19
De: David W. Blight
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Redemption
- The Last Battle of the Civil War
- De: Nicholas Lemann
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 63
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A century after Appomattox, the civil rights movement won full citizenship for black Americans in the South. It should not have been necessary: by 1870 those rights were set in the Constitution. This is the story of the terrorist campaign that took them away.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good accouting of the post Civil War suffering
- De KMB Consumer en 08-10-07
De: Nicholas Lemann
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A Secret Life
- The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
- De: Charles Lachman
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 12 h y 24 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
The child was born on September 14, 1874, at the only hospital in Buffalo, New York, that offered maternity services for unwed mothers. It was a boy, and though he entered the world in a state of illegitimacy, a distinguished name was given to this newborn: Oscar Folsom Cleveland. The son of the future president of the United States - Grover Cleveland. The story of how the man who held the nation’s highest office eventually came to take responsibility for his son is a thrilling one that unfolds like a sordid romance novel....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Are the charges true?
- De Jean en 02-16-13
De: Charles Lachman
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Capital Dames
- The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868
- De: Cokie Roberts
- Narrado por: Cokie Roberts
- Duración: 14 h y 35 m
- Versión completa
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With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social, Southern town of Washington, DC, found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends - such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee - to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed into an immense Union army camp and later a hospital.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Jean en 05-07-15
De: Cokie Roberts
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Snow-Storm in August
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-20-22
Early American history
A must read for students of African American history. From start to finish, the author holds your attention.
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- Jo C.
- 09-24-23
History forgotten…
Needs to be remembered…
Having lived in the DC area for 50 years, I learned a great deal. It should be in all school libraries.
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- BDHumbert
- 08-27-18
An interesting
Book that covers a lot of ground but seems a bit unfocused. Enjoyable and learned a lot
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