Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
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NEW! Americans, Vote Kamala Harris and Come to the Aid of Your Country on November 3! Know Your History!
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
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
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
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
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”
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”
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
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?
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”
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