Audibly Speaking: Listening to History

Audibly Speaking: Listening to History


Latest Episodes

NEW! Americans, Vote Kamala Harris and Come to the Aid of Your Country on November 3! Know Your History!
November 03, 2024

I am not a pundit but an historian. History has three things to say about the election of 2024 in two days, on November 3: Only one candidate in the race promises to uphold the Constitution and has th

NEW! My Experience Learning About Medicare
October 30, 2024

Medicare is confusing what an understatement. Two years out from retirement I decided to try to understand it, suspecting that it might take me that long. I was not wrong! Now that I am retired and

NEW! The JFK “Single Bullet Theory” Explained in Under Three Minutes
October 26, 2024

Listen to this audio version of my Youtube video explaining the Single Bullet Theory of the JFK assassination, and WHY IT IS TRUE. Many conspiracy theories about the JFK assassination discredit the

NEW! Opening Pages of Jack Smith’s New Justice Department Filing Rebutting Trump Immunity Claims
October 03, 2024

On October 2, 2024, Jack Smiths rebuttal to Donald Trump claims to immunity in all aspects of his resistance to surrender power in 2020 and 2021 was released by Judge Tanya Chutkin. This is an audi

NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History Textbook
September 24, 2024

In many ways, I regard this as my best recording of a chapter from The American Yawp yet. I have deleted nothing from the text edited by its editors, Joseph Locke and Ben Wright. I have added pass

NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”
September 17, 2024

Late in his authorial career, in the 1920s to be precise, Arthur Conan Doyle, who was then deeply immersed in beliefs of mysticism and seances, had occasion to pair his rational detective, Sherlock Ho

NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 13, “The Sectional Crisis,” from the Open Source History Textbook, “The American Yawp”
September 13, 2024

In the course that covers the first half of American History, the chapter on the Sectional Crisis of the Union, also sometimes called The Impending Crisis, leading to the American Civil War, is the

The Ultimate Chapter in “The American Yawp:” “The Civil War,” Narrated by Rick Reiman
September 07, 2024

No ordeal in American history changed America so much or so enduringly as the American Civil War. Listen as well as read of the odyssey and what it was all about, or just listen with this audio offer

One of the Great Essays in American History: Crevecoeur’s “What, Then, is this New Man, the American?
September 04, 2024

Hector St. John de Crevecouer, a French immigrant to American wrote this classic essay, What, Then, is this New Man, the American? in 1782, as American Independence from Britain loomed. Was he corr

NEW! My Narration of Chapter 3, “British North America,” from the Open Source Textbook, “The American Yawp”
August 31, 2024

Join me, Dr. Rick Reiman, for my reading of the chapter on British North America, Chapter 3 to be precise, from The American Yawp, the celebrated Open Source textbook on the history of the United Stat