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

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

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

Here is my audio narration of Colliding Cultures, a history of European and English colonization of early colonial America, a clash of cultures indeed. This is from the Open Source textbook, The A

In this epic short story, Arthur Conan Doyle exceeds himself. The Naval Treaty is the longest of all of Doyles Sherlock Holmes short stories. It contains allusions to his other stories and many h

World War II was a change agent in history like no other. It can best be understood in pieces, barely grasped as a whole. In this audio narration of Chapter 24 of The American Yawp, a U.S. History T

History Speaks again! My audio narration of The Great Depression, chapter twenty-three from the blockbuster Open Resource textbook,The American Yawp, is now out. As an historian myself, I haveenh

Motive. It is the thing that all juries want but do not need, in our system of justice, to determine guilt or innocence, The Warren Commission did not hazard a hypothesis on the question of Oswalds

This chapter may be seen as the Big Enchilada of the Report. Did the Warren Commission provide a credible investigation of the possibility of conspiracy in the crime? The staff wracked its collectiv

Continuing our summary of The Warren Report investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, we come to Chapter Five. The whole tenor of the investigation changed with the subject o