Free Download Prof Guido Bonsaver, "America in Italian Culture: The Rise of a New Model of Modernity, 1861-1943"
English | ISBN: 019884946X | 2024 | 576 pages | EPUB, PDF | 28 MB + 6 MB
When America began to emerge as a world power at the end of the nineteenth century, Italy was a young nation, recently unified. The technological advances brought about by electricity and the combustion engine were vastly speeding up the capacity of news, ideas, and artefacts to travel internationally. Furthermore, improved literacy and social reforms had produced an Italian working class with increased time, money, and education. At the turn of the century, if Italy's ruling elite continued the tradition of viewing Paris as a model of sophistication and good taste, millions of lowly-educated Italians began to dream of America, and many bought a transatlantic ticket to migrate there.

Free Download Dr. Quintard Taylor, "America I AM Black Facts: The Timelines of African American History, 1601-2008"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1401924069 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 5.5 mb
This invaluable reference timeline charts African American history from 1601-2008 against the backdrop of American and world history. AIA Black Facts reveals the unexpected relationships between people and events, and the often unrecognized causes and effects that created African Americans' indelible imprint on our nation.

Free Download Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats by Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker
English | May 9, 2023 | ISBN: 030682910X | 368 pages | PDF | 3.36 Mb
An urgent look at how America's national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe-and what we can do to fix it.

Language: English
221.82 MB | 00:42:31 | 1821 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1280x720 | A_AAC-2, 48 Khz, 2 channels
Genre: Documentary, History

Language: English
321.81 MB | 00:42:31 | 4111 Kbps | V_MPEGH/ISO/HEVC | 1920x1080 | A_AAC-2, 48 Khz, 2 channels
Genre: Documentary, History

Free Download War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CT651T94 | 2024 | 5 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Norman Solomon
Narrator: Joe Barrett

Free Download Graeme Davis, Dan Calley (Narrator), "Vikings in America"
English | ASIN: B0CVJFR931 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~08:19:00 | 227 MB
When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492, and the Borgia Pope claimed it as a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a 500 hundred year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America. In this groundbreaking work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and Shetland, the true extent of the Viking discovery and colonization of the eastern seaboard of America is fully examined, taking into account the new archaeological, linguistic, and DNA evidence which supplements the historic account. For four centuries or more, from their first visits around AD 1000 to the eve of the Columbus voyages, the Vikings explored and settled thousands of miles of the coasts and rivers of North America.
From New York's Long Island to the Canadian High Arctic, the New World was a playground for Viking adventurers. And the name the Vikings gave to this New World-America.

Free Download Ned Blackhawk, Jason Grasl (Narrator), "The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History"
English | ASIN: B0CNH9CBBN | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~17:18:00 | 476 MB
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non-Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that: European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success; Native nations helped shape England's crisis of empire; the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior; California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War; the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West; and twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. Blackhawk's retelling of US history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.

Free Download Charles River Editors, Daniel Houle (Narrator), "The Panic of 1792: The History and Legacy of America's First Financial Crisis"
English | ASIN: B08TM2T5VJ | 2020 | MP3@64 kbps | ~01:32:00 | 44 MB
During the Revolution, relatively little consideration had been given to the role of the federal government in the new nation, and the precise role and authority of an overarching entity with responsibility for all states within the union was a major problem. Having fought against and defeated a distant government that imposed seemingly arbitrary rules on the colonies, many people were suspicious about the role of the federal government. The only federal institution during the war was the Continental Congress, which had little real power and was unable to levy taxes from individual states. When the Constitution was drafted in 1787 and George Washington became the first president six years after the end of the Revolutionary War, he immediately began the task of creating the new federal administration.
One of the most urgent tasks Washington faced was the establishment of a treasury to oversee the finances of America and regulate its currency. This was desperately needed, both because the banking sector barely existed and because America was completely and comprehensively out of money. Indeed, it faced the very real possibility of becoming bankrupt since the massive costs of the Revolution had required borrowing on a vast scale. Banks in Holland provided some of the money, but the bulk came from Britain's great European rival, France. France provided loan after loan to the Continental Congress, and by the time the war ended, the interest alone on these loans was crippling. Congress could not tax states directly, instead relying on financial requisitions, but few of them were actually paid. The balance of trade was heavily biased in favor of imports, with gold leaving the country at an alarming rate. To overcome this, Congress simply printed more and more paper money, which quickly lost its value. As Thomas MacGraw put it, "The War of Independence not only impoverished the country but also left it burdened with the highest public debt it has ever experienced, measured against the income of its government".

Free Download Robert Thompson, Patrick Lawlor (Narrator), "Nine Desperate Days: America's Rainbow Division in the Aisne-Marne Offensive"
English | ASIN: B0CT6W69TV | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~09:39:00 | 265 MB
American forces entered World War I combat in October 1917, but it was not until July 1918 that they went on the offensive for the first time. Among the units selected for this operation was the 42nd Division, or the "Rainbow Division" as it was known popularly. This division, which was composed of National Guard units from twenty-six states, including Joyce Kilmer's 69th New York Infantry, would spend 164 days in combat, a number exceeded by only two other American divisions. However, it was the nine days from July 25 to August 2, 1918, that were the most terrible and heroic in the division's history. Facing an enemy who was determined to hold its positions, these National Guardsmen fought with courage and determination to gain what was often only yards of ground, and did so at a deadly cost.
In Nine Desperate Days: America's Rainbow Division in the Aisne-Marne Offensive, historian Robert Thompson chronicles the hardships and tenacity of the men from the 42nd Division during this pivotal campaign. The Americans did not break despite heavy losses, and were able to drive the Germans back from territory they initially gained. The efforts of the Rainbow Division during Aisne-Marne were key to the ultimate Allied victory and are a symbol of American valor and sacrifice during the "war to end all wars."