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Tag Archives: United States
Should the United State of America attempt to purchase Cuba from Spain and make Cuba another southern Slave State? The year was 1834 and this shocking question was the subject of a secret meeting in an obscure Belgian town. The American Southern States were the northern tip of the wide practice of slavery, which stretched Continue Reading »
June 26, 2020, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1834, American Adventure Library, American southern states, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Cuba, John Slidell, Kansas, Listen2Read, Louisiana, Missouri Compromise, Northern States, Ostend Belgium, Ostend Manifesto, Pierre Soule, Richard Henry Dana, slave state, slavery, Spain, sugar plantation, United States, William L. Marcy, “To Cuba and Back – A Vacation Voyage”, “Two Years Before the Mast”
Building a border wall between Mexico and the United States is a hot subject these days. Some people regard the border as the beginning of the illegal immigrant trail into the U.S. But actually, the border is the end of a long trail for would-be illegal immigrants, I recently discovered. Most have traveled along the Continue Reading »
January 18, 2017, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: "Death Valley in '49", Andre Stojka, audiobook, audiobooks, Border wall, Central America, Coyotes, Darian Gap, illegal immigrants, immigration train, Listen to Read, Malaria, Mexico, Pan American Highway, Panama, Panama Canal, Turbo Colombia, United States, Ushuaia Argentina, Wall Street Journal, West Nile Virus, William Lewis Manly, Yaviza Panama, Yellow Fever, Zika Virus
151 years ago this month, a vicious, violent attack on the United Stated government took place: President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. But there was a second assassination attempt that dreadful evening, which fewer people know about. It was aimed at Secretary of State William H. Seward and it was witnessed by his terrified daughter. Continue Reading »
April 6, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Andre F Stojka, April 14 1865, Assassination, audiobook, Augustus Seward, Belgium, Bowie knife, Charles Augustus Leale, Confederate, Fanny Seward, Ford’s Theatre, France, Frederick Seward, George F. Robinson, John Wilkes Booth, Lewis Powell, Listen2Read, Mary Todd Lincoln, Pakistan, President, Publisher, Reconstruction, Secretary of State, South, Syracuse University Press, Trudy Krisher, United States, Violent attacks, Washington D.C., William H Seward, “Fanny Seward: A Life”, “Lincoln’s Last Hours”, “Our American Cousin”
Whenever I publish a historic adventure audiobook, I include an AFTERWARD, so that the listener can place the events in a historical perspective. For this reason, I was reviewing American history about the Louisiana Purchase for my new audiobook, “A Tour On The Prairies,” by Washington Irving, the first famous American author. “A Continue Reading »
February 3, 2016, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: 1832, Andre Stojka, Andrew Jackson, audiobook, Austria, beignets, Buffalo hunting, Café Du Monde, Canadian Border, Charles, Commissioner, Congress, Connecticut, Count Albert de Pourtales, European wars, Far West, France, French treasury, Gent”, Great Britain, Haiti, Indian Removal Act, J. LaTrobe, James Monroe, Judge Henry L. Ellsworth, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Louisiana Territory, Mississippi River, Morning Chronicle, Napoleon Bonaparte, Native American hunters, Native Americans, New Orleans, Oklahoma Territory, Prairie Indians, Prairie life, Prairie Squatters, Rocky Mountains, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Washington Irving, White Mountains, “A Tour On the Prairies”, “Great White Father”, “Indian Children” Listen to Read, “Rip Van Winkle”, “Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, “Trail of Tears”
James Norman Hall, co-author of “Mutiny on the Bounty,” experienced his first taste of mutiny at the end of World War One. North of where Hall was held captive in a German Prisoner of War Camp, the Dreadnaught “Prinzregent Luitpold” was tied up at a dock near the Kiel Canal. Continue Reading »
June 3, 2015, by Publisher | No Comments
Tags: Admiral Franz von Hipper, Allied Powers, Andre Devin, Andre Stojka, audiobook, Baltic, Bavaria, Dreadnaught, England, English Channel, English Royal Navy, France, German, Gustav Krupp, Hall of Mirrors, Hindenburg Line, James Norman Hall, Kiel Canal, Lafayette Espadrille, Landshut, Listen to Read, Listen2Read, Louis XIV, Munich, mutiny, North Sea, Otto Von Bismarck, Paris, Prison Camp, Prussia, Russia, stokers, Sun King, Tahiti, The Western Front, United States, US Aviation Headquarters, Versailles, World War One, “High Adventure”, “Mutiny On The Bounty”, “My Island Home”, “Prinzregent Luitpold”, “Treaty of Versailles”
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