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Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! New Version of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” the Newest Narration of Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook Close on the heels of the brilliant “Adventure of the Abbey Grange” was one of Conan Doyle’s masterworks, his short story, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Any writer who wishes to toss into the ring a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of his own, will likely think twice before doing so upon reading this story, which bids fair to be close to the pinnacle of Doyle’s work. While I recorded it some years ago during the early days of my acquaintance with the art of podcasting, I have refined that art to a degree.  Be however much that may...
2025-09-281h 00Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! New Version of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” the Newest Narration of Rick Reiman Close on the heels of the brilliant “Adventure of the Abbey Grange” was one of Conan Doyle’s masterworks, his short story, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Any writer who wishes to toss into the ring a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of his own, will likely think twice before doing so upon reading this story, which bids fair to be close to the pinnacle of Doyle’s work. While I recorded it some years ago during the early days of my acquaintance with the art of podcasting, I have refined that art to a degree.  Be however much that may be, this...
2025-09-281h 00Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! New Version of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” the Newest Narration of Rick Reiman Close on the heels of the brilliant “Adventure of the Abbey Grange” was one of Conan Doyle’s masterworks, his short story, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Any writer who wishes to toss into the ring a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of his own, will likely think twice before doing so upon reading this story, which bids fair to be close to the pinnacle of Doyle’s work. While I recorded it some years ago during the early days of my acquaintance with the art of podcasting, I have refined that art to a degree.  Be however much that may be, this...
2025-09-281h 00Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! New Version of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” the Newest Narration of Rick Reiman Close on the heels of the brilliant “Adventure of the Abbey Grange” was one of Conan Doyle’s masterworks, his short story, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Any writer who wishes to toss into the ring a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of his own, will likely think twice before doing so upon reading this story, which bids fair to be close to the pinnacle of Doyle’s work. While I recorded it some years ago during the early days of my acquaintance with the art of podcasting, I have refined that art to a degree.  Be however much that may be, this...
2025-09-281h 00Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! New Version of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” the Newest Narration of Rick Reiman Close on the heels of the brilliant “Adventure of the Abbey Grange” was one of Conan Doyle’s masterworks, his short story, “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder.” Any writer who wishes to toss into the ring a Sherlock Holmes pastiche of his own, will likely think twice before doing so upon reading this story, which bids fair to be close to the pinnacle of Doyle’s work. While I recorded it some years ago during the early days of my acquaintance with the art of podcasting, I have refined that art to a degree.  Be however much that may be, this...
2025-09-281h 00Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Perhaps the Most Popular of all Sherlock Holmes Stories, “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League!” What a whimsical tale Dr. Watson has to tell of Jabez Wilson and “The Red-Headed League!” Between the laughter and the mirth that Holmes teases out of the tale, there emerges a dastardly crime so cunning that only Holmes himself could solve it.  John Clay, the “fourth smartest man in London,” according to Holmes, and probably a man working for Moriarty, the second smartest man, is plotting to bankrupt a vital English bank. But the narrator should not reveal the plot.  He simply takes the part of the players, in this narration by your audio interpreter of all things Holmesian...
2025-02-151h 01Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Perhaps the Most Popular of all Sherlock Holmes Stories, “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League!” What a whimsical tale Dr. Watson has to tell of Jabez Wilson and “The Red-Headed League!” Between the laughter and the mirth that Holmes teases out of the tale, there emerges a dastardly crime so cunning that only Holmes himself could solve it.  John Clay, the “fourth smartest man in London,” according to Holmes, and probably a man working for Moriarty, the second smartest man, is plotting to bankrupt a vital English bank. But the narrator should not reveal the plot.  He simply takes the part of the players, in this narration by your audio interpreter of all things Holmesian...
2025-02-151h 01Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Perhaps the Most Popular of all Sherlock Holmes Stories, “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League!” What a whimsical tale Dr. Watson has to tell of Jabez Wilson and “The Red-Headed League!” Between the laughter and the mirth that Holmes teases out of the tale, there emerges a dastardly crime so cunning that only Holmes himself could solve it.  John Clay, the “fourth smartest man in London,” according to Holmes, and probably a man working for Moriarty, the second smartest man, is plotting to bankrupt a vital English bank. But the narrator should not reveal the plot.  He simply takes the part of the players, in this narration by your audio interpreter of all things Holmesian...
2025-02-151h 01Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Perhaps the Most Popular of all Sherlock Holmes Stories, “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League!” What a whimsical tale Dr. Watson has to tell of Jabez Wilson and “The Red-Headed League!” Between the laughter and the mirth that Holmes teases out of the tale, there emerges a dastardly crime so cunning that only Holmes himself could solve it.  John Clay, the “fourth smartest man in London,” according to Holmes, and probably a man working for Moriarty, the second smartest man, is plotting to bankrupt a vital English bank. But the narrator should not reveal the plot.  He simply takes the part of the players, in this narration by your audio interpreter of all things Holmesian...
2025-02-151h 01Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! Perhaps the Most Popular of all Sherlock Holmes Stories, “The Adventure of the Red-Headed League!” Twitter Facebook What a whimsical tale Dr. Watson has to tell of Jabez Wilson and “The Red-Headed League!” Between the laughter and the mirth that Holmes teases out of the tale, there emerges a dastardly crime so cunning that only Holmes himself could solve it.  John Clay, the “fourth smartest man in London,” according to Holmes, and probably a man working for Moriarty, the second smartest man, is plotting to bankrupt a vital English bank. But the narrator should not reveal the plot.  He simply takes the part of the players, in this narration by your audio interpreter of all things...
2025-02-151h 01Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! An Abridged Overview of Chapter 7 from “The American Yawp” Textbook: “The Early Republic” Twitter Facebook This is your narrator for this series, Dr. Rick Reiman. Americans know too little about the Early American Republic, the Republic of President Thomas Jefferson, leading to the War of 1812 and its aftermath, the Era of Good Feelings.  In this overview of Chapter 7 from The American Yawp, I summarize its major themes.  This will benefit my students, who must complete a Major Project in which they identify the major fractures in American life and politics from the 1780s through this major period in American history. Twitter Facebook
2025-02-0338 minUnited States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! An Abridged Overview of Chapter 7 from “The American Yawp” Textbook: “The Early Republic” This is your narrator for this series, Dr. Rick Reiman. Americans know too little about the Early American Republic, the Republic of President Thomas Jefferson, leading to the War of 1812 and its aftermath, the Era of Good Feelings.  In this overview of Chapter 7 from The American Yawp, I summarize its major themes.  This will benefit my students, who must complete a Major Project in which they identify the major fractures in American life and politics from the 1780s through this major period in American history.
2025-02-0338 minPolitics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! An Abridged Overview of Chapter 7 from “The American Yawp” Textbook: “The Early Republic” This is your narrator for this series, Dr. Rick Reiman. Americans know too little about the Early American Republic, the Republic of President Thomas Jefferson, leading to the War of 1812 and its aftermath, the Era of Good Feelings.  In this overview of Chapter 7 from The American Yawp, I summarize its major themes.  This will benefit my students, who must complete a Major Project in which they identify the major fractures in American life and politics from the 1780s through this major period in American history.
2025-02-0338 minAmerican HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! An Abridged Overview of Chapter 7 from “The American Yawp” Textbook: “The Early Republic” This is your narrator for this series, Dr. Rick Reiman. Americans know too little about the Early American Republic, the Republic of President Thomas Jefferson, leading to the War of 1812 and its aftermath, the Era of Good Feelings.  In this overview of Chapter 7 from The American Yawp, I summarize its major themes.  This will benefit my students, who must complete a Major Project in which they identify the major fractures in American life and politics from the 1780s through this major period in American history.
2025-02-0338 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! A New Recording of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” a Sherlock Holmes Classic Twitter Facebook Hello, everybody! Rick Reiman here, audio narrator for Audibly Speaking. On rare occasions, I re-record a short story in the Sherlock Holmes series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Not that I think I did a bad job in my reading the first time around. But I am quite certain that I am doing better in my reinterpretation of these stories as I go along, both sonically and artistically.  Therefore, I look back on those Sherlock Holmes stories that I think are Doyle’s very best and try to do them (and my audience) greater justice than I di...
2025-02-011h 02Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! A New Recording of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” a Sherlock Holmes Classic Hello, everybody! Rick Reiman here, audio narrator for Audibly Speaking. On rare occasions, I re-record a short story in the Sherlock Holmes series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Not that I think I did a bad job in my reading the first time around. But I am quite certain that I am doing better in my reinterpretation of these stories as I go along, both sonically and artistically.  Therefore, I look back on those Sherlock Holmes stories that I think are Doyle’s very best and try to do them (and my audience) greater justice than I did the...
2025-02-011h 02Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! A New Recording of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” a Sherlock Holmes Classic Hello, everybody! Rick Reiman here, audio narrator for Audibly Speaking. On rare occasions, I re-record a short story in the Sherlock Holmes series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Not that I think I did a bad job in my reading the first time around. But I am quite certain that I am doing better in my reinterpretation of these stories as I go along, both sonically and artistically.  Therefore, I look back on those Sherlock Holmes stories that I think are Doyle’s very best and try to do them (and my audience) greater justice than I did the...
2025-02-011h 02Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! A New Recording of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” a Sherlock Holmes Classic Hello, everybody! Rick Reiman here, audio narrator for Audibly Speaking. On rare occasions, I re-record a short story in the Sherlock Holmes series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Not that I think I did a bad job in my reading the first time around. But I am quite certain that I am doing better in my reinterpretation of these stories as I go along, both sonically and artistically.  Therefore, I look back on those Sherlock Holmes stories that I think are Doyle’s very best and try to do them (and my audience) greater justice than I did the...
2025-02-011h 02Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! A New Recording of “The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” a Sherlock Holmes Classic Hello, everybody! Rick Reiman here, audio narrator for Audibly Speaking. On rare occasions, I re-record a short story in the Sherlock Holmes series written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  Not that I think I did a bad job in my reading the first time around. But I am quite certain that I am doing better in my reinterpretation of these stories as I go along, both sonically and artistically.  Therefore, I look back on those Sherlock Holmes stories that I think are Doyle’s very best and try to do them (and my audience) greater justice than I did the...
2025-02-011h 02Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW: Audio Narration of Chapter One from “The American Yawp,” INDIGENOUS AMERICA, Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook The story of American history, the “American Yawp,” begins with this chapter, Indigenous America, spanning 10,000 years of history. There is nothing quite like it in history, as you will hear when you listen to it. Twitter Facebook
2025-01-131h 15American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW: Audio Narration of Chapter One from “The American Yawp,” INDIGENOUS AMERICA, Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman The story of American history, the “American Yawp,” begins with this chapter, Indigenous America, spanning 10,000 years of history. There is nothing quite like it in history, as you will hear when you listen to it.
2025-01-131h 15United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW: Audio Narration of Chapter One from “The American Yawp,” INDIGENOUS AMERICA, Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman The story of American history, the “American Yawp,” begins with this chapter, Indigenous America, spanning 10,000 years of history. There is nothing quite like it in history, as you will hear when you listen to it.
2025-01-131h 15Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Audio narration – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW: Audio Narration of Chapter One from “The American Yawp,” INDIGENOUS AMERICA, Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman The story of American history, the “American Yawp,” begins with this chapter, Indigenous America, spanning 10,000 years of history. There is nothing quite like it in history, as you will hear when you listen to it.
2025-01-131h 15Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History Textbook Twitter Facebook 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 passages of my own where I think additions were needed to clarify what the original authors were trying to say. Twitter Facebook
2024-09-241h 13Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History TextbookIn 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 passages of my own where I think additions were needed to clarify what the original authors were trying … Continue reading NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History Textbook →
2024-09-241h 13United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History TextbookIn 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 passages of my own where I think additions were needed to clarify what the original authors were trying … Continue reading NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History Textbook →
2024-09-241h 13American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History TextbookIn 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 passages of my own where I think additions were needed to clarify what the original authors were trying … Continue reading NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 6, “The New Nation,” from “The American Yawp,” a Free OER American History Textbook →
2024-09-241h 13Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 Holmes, with a case about vampires. Did Doyle change the hyper-rational Holmes to suit the author’s new beliefs? Listen and find out!
2024-09-1841 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” Twitter Facebook 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 Holmes, with a case about vampires. Did Doyle change the hyper-rational Holmes to suit the author’s new beliefs? Listen and find out! Twitter Facebook
2024-09-1841 minConan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 Holmes, with a case about vampires. Did Doyle change the hyper-rational Holmes to suit the author’s new beliefs? Listen and find out!
2024-09-1841 minSherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 Holmes, with a case about vampires. Did Doyle change the hyper-rational Holmes to suit the author’s new beliefs? Listen and find out!
2024-09-1841 minUnited States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 penultimate such chapter.  Next to the magisterial, Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the crisis written by the great historian David Potter, that one audio narrated by Eric Martin, this chapter from the Open Educational Source textbook, “The American Yawp,” narrated by me, Dr. Rick Reiman, surveys the crisis well in capturing succinctly its fateful highlights. Listen, learn and enjoy. An historian myself I have added a few sente...
2024-09-141h 09American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 penultimate such chapter.  Next to the magisterial, Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the crisis written by the great historian David Potter, that one audio narrated by Eric Martin, this chapter from the Open Educational Source textbook, “The American Yawp,” narrated by me, Dr. Rick Reiman, surveys the crisis well in capturing succinctly its fateful highlights. Listen, learn and enjoy. An historian myself I have added a few sente...
2024-09-141h 09Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 penultimate such chapter.  Next to the magisterial, Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the crisis written by the great historian David Potter, that one audio narrated by Eric Martin, this chapter from the Open Educational Source textbook, “The American Yawp,” narrated by me, Dr. Rick Reiman, surveys the crisis well in capturing succinctly its fateful highlights. Listen, learn and enjoy. An historian myself I have added a few sente...
2024-09-141h 09Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates Chapter 13, “The Sectional Crisis,” from the Open Source History Textbook, “The American Yawp” Twitter Facebook 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 penultimate such chapter.  Next to the magisterial, Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the crisis written by the great historian David Potter, that one audio narrated by Eric Martin, this chapter from the Open Educational Source textbook, “The American Yawp,” narrated by me, Dr. Rick Reiman, surveys the crisis well in capturing succinctly its fateful highlights. Listen, learn and enjoy. An historian myself I have added a f...
2024-09-141h 09American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryThe 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 offering.
2024-09-071h 06Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryThe Ultimate Chapter in “The American Yawp:” “The Civil War,” Narrated by Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook 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 offering. Twitter Facebook
2024-09-071h 06American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 States and the lands that would become the American Nation.
2024-09-011h 06United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! 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 States and the lands that would become the American Nation.
2024-09-011h 06Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! My Narration of Chapter 3, “British North America,” from the Open Source Textbook, “The American Yawp” Twitter Facebook 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 States and the lands that would become the American Nation. Twitter Facebook
2024-09-011h 06United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryAudio Narration of Chapter Two, “Colliding Cultures,” From “The American Yawp,” Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman 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 American Yawp,” free to anyone interested, as we all should be, in American history.
2024-08-231h 07American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryAudio Narration of Chapter Two, “Colliding Cultures,” From “The American Yawp,” Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman 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 American Yawp,” free to anyone interested, as we all should be, in American history.
2024-08-231h 07Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryAudio Narration of Chapter Two, “Colliding Cultures,” From “The American Yawp,” Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook 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 American Yawp,” free to anyone interested, as we all should be, in American history. Twitter Facebook
2024-08-231h 07Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick ReimanIn this epic short story, Arthur Conan Doyle exceeds himself.  “The Naval Treaty” is the longest of all of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories.  It contains allusions to his other stories and many humorous asides as well as quite larger-than-life characters, some almost Dickensian in their strangeness.  Holmes has to sift his clues and there … Continue reading NEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick Reiman →
2024-08-121h 22Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Conan Doyle – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick ReimanIn this epic short story, Arthur Conan Doyle exceeds himself.  “The Naval Treaty” is the longest of all of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories.  It contains allusions to his other stories and many humorous asides as well as quite larger-than-life characters, some almost Dickensian in their strangeness.  Holmes has to sift his clues and there … Continue reading NEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick Reiman →
2024-08-121h 22Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook In this epic short story, Arthur Conan Doyle exceeds himself.  “The Naval Treaty” is the longest of all of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories.  It contains allusions to his other stories and many humorous asides as well as quite larger-than-life characters, some almost Dickensian in their strangeness.  Holmes has to sift his clues and there are almost too many for him to select the relevant from the superfluous. “Almost,” but not too many–not for Sherlock Holmes. Twitter Facebook
2024-08-121h 22Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick ReimanIn this epic short story, Arthur Conan Doyle exceeds himself.  “The Naval Treaty” is the longest of all of Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories.  It contains allusions to his other stories and many humorous asides as well as quite larger-than-life characters, some almost Dickensian in their strangeness.  Holmes has to sift his clues and there … Continue reading NEW! “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of The Naval Treaty:” An Audio Narration by Rick Reiman →
2024-08-121h 22Lee Harvey Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Lee Harvey Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minOswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald Twitter Facebook 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host...
2024-05-2323 minJFK Assassination – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
JFK Assassination – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minMemory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Memory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minJohn F. Kennedy – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
John F. Kennedy – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minKennedy Assassination – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Kennedy Assassination – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minWarren Commission – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Warren Commission – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minZapruder – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Zapruder – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minAmerican HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
American HIstory – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! CHAPTER FIVE of “The Warren Report:” Detention and Death of Oswald 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 of this chapter.  It concerned the events that led to the federalization of the investigation itself, the violation of Oswald’s civil liberties in the Dallas jail climaxing in the assassination of Oswald himself by Jack Ruby during the transfer of Oswald from one jail to another.  The events of this chapter transformed the assassination from something seemingly weird to something seemingly unbelievable. In this summary, host Rick Reima...
2024-05-2323 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryAnnouncing a New Series on my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified” Twitter Facebook This is your host, historian Rick Reiman.  Go to my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified,” to view the first episode of a series of short videos called “On Background: Seeking the Hidden JFK Assassination.”  The series is on the evidence that is hiding in plain sight, namely the factors that block our view from the evidence that makes the assassination a simple thing to understand.  We look at the confusion regarding standards of evidence and proof, the con-men- conspiracy theories that lead people astray, the historical context that sends us back to the real world, and the accumulated evidence co...
2024-01-1622 minPolitics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryAnnouncing a New Series on my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified” This is your host, historian Rick Reiman.  Go to my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified,” to view the first episode of a series of short videos called “On Background: Seeking the Hidden JFK Assassination.”  The series is on the evidence that is hiding in plain sight, namely the factors that block our view from the evidence that makes the assassination a simple thing to understand.  We look at the confusion regarding standards of evidence and proof, the con-men- conspiracy theories that lead people astray, the historical context that sends us back to the real world, and the accumulated evidence confirmed again and a...
2024-01-1622 minUnited States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryAnnouncing a New Series on my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified” This is your host, historian Rick Reiman.  Go to my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified,” to view the first episode of a series of short videos called “On Background: Seeking the Hidden JFK Assassination.”  The series is on the evidence that is hiding in plain sight, namely the factors that block our view from the evidence that makes the assassination a simple thing to understand.  We look at the confusion regarding standards of evidence and proof, the con-men- conspiracy theories that lead people astray, the historical context that sends us back to the real world, and the accumulated evidence confirmed again and a...
2024-01-1622 minZapruder – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Zapruder – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryAnnouncing a New Series on my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified” This is your host, historian Rick Reiman.  Go to my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified,” to view the first episode of a series of short videos called “On Background: Seeking the Hidden JFK Assassination.”  The series is on the evidence that is hiding in plain sight, namely the factors that block our view from the evidence that makes the assassination a simple thing to understand.  We look at the confusion regarding standards of evidence and proof, the con-men- conspiracy theories that lead people astray, the historical context that sends us back to the real world, and the accumulated evidence confirmed again and a...
2024-01-1622 minOswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryAnnouncing a New Series on my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified” This is your host, historian Rick Reiman.  Go to my YouTube Channel, “JFK Demystified,” to view the first episode of a series of short videos called “On Background: Seeking the Hidden JFK Assassination.”  The series is on the evidence that is hiding in plain sight, namely the factors that block our view from the evidence that makes the assassination a simple thing to understand.  We look at the confusion regarding standards of evidence and proof, the con-men- conspiracy theories that lead people astray, the historical context that sends us back to the real world, and the accumulated evidence confirmed again and a...
2024-01-1622 minPolitics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963” Continuing the series of JFK assassination episodes in this, the 60th year since the assassination, we look not at the thinking of the CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, Mob, Cuba, Russia or any of the other institutions that have been falsely imagined as being behind it, but inside the mind of the man who actually did it, and did it alone: Lee Harvey Oswald.  It may not be the most popular theory, but facts don’t have to be popular. They only need to be true.  This is an essay by myself, Rick Reiman, and narrated by myself, in response to t...
2023-12-221h 06Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to History“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963” Twitter Facebook Continuing the series of JFK assassination episodes in this, the 60th year since the assassination, we look not at the thinking of the CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, Mob, Cuba, Russia or any of the other institutions that have been falsely imagined as being behind it, but inside the mind of the man who actually did it, and did it alone: Lee Harvey Oswald.  It may not be the most popular theory, but facts don’t have to be popular. They only need to be true.  This is an essay by myself, Rick Reiman, and narrated by myself, in r...
2023-12-221h 06Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963” Continuing the series of JFK assassination episodes in this, the 60th year since the assassination, we look not at the thinking of the CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, Mob, Cuba, Russia or any of the other institutions that have been falsely imagined as being behind it, but inside the mind of the man who actually did it, and did it alone: Lee Harvey Oswald.  It may not be the most popular theory, but facts don’t have to be popular. They only need to be true.  This is an essay by myself, Rick Reiman, and narrated by myself, in response to t...
2023-12-221h 06Zapruder – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Zapruder – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963” Continuing the series of JFK assassination episodes in this, the 60th year since the assassination, we look not at the thinking of the CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, Mob, Cuba, Russia or any of the other institutions that have been falsely imagined as being behind it, but inside the mind of the man who actually did it, and did it alone: Lee Harvey Oswald.  It may not be the most popular theory, but facts don’t have to be popular. They only need to be true.  This is an essay by myself, Rick Reiman, and narrated by myself, in response to t...
2023-12-221h 06United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
United States history – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“Into the Mind of the Assassin: Oswald’s Last Month, October-November 1963” Continuing the series of JFK assassination episodes in this, the 60th year since the assassination, we look not at the thinking of the CIA, FBI, Warren Commission, Mob, Cuba, Russia or any of the other institutions that have been falsely imagined as being behind it, but inside the mind of the man who actually did it, and did it alone: Lee Harvey Oswald.  It may not be the most popular theory, but facts don’t have to be popular. They only need to be true.  This is an essay by myself, Rick Reiman, and narrated by myself, in response to t...
2023-12-221h 06Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Oswald – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“Final Word: The Landis Claim,” by Rick Reiman Today, your host on Audiblyspeaking, Dr. Rick Reiman narrates his assessment of this year’s surprising news in the JFK assassination folklore: the claim by former secret service agent Paul Landis that he found a backseat bullet that allegedly refutes the famous “single bullet theory.”  The subtitle of today’s show might appropriately be, “Not so Fast.”
2023-12-1535 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to History“Final Word: The Landis Claim,” by Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook Today, your host on Audiblyspeaking, Dr. Rick Reiman narrates his assessment of this year’s surprising news in the JFK assassination folklore: the claim by former secret service agent Paul Landis that he found a backseat bullet that allegedly refutes the famous “single bullet theory.”  The subtitle of today’s show might appropriately be, “Not so Fast.” Twitter Facebook
2023-12-1535 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“The Great Gatsby,” Chapter One F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, was both a product of, and epitaph for, the Jazz Age of the Roaring ’20s.  Journey to West and East Egg again, as your host Rick Reiman narrates one of the great American novels of the twentieth (or any other) century.
2023-11-2938 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to History“The Great Gatsby,” Chapter One Twitter Facebook F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, was both a product of, and epitaph for, the Jazz Age of the Roaring ’20s.  Journey to West and East Egg again, as your host Rick Reiman narrates one of the great American novels of the twentieth (or any other) century. Twitter Facebook
2023-11-2938 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryThe Landis Claim: Paul Landis and the New “Magic Bullet” Myth in the JFK Assassination Twitter Facebook In advance of the publication of Paul Landis’s new book on his memory as a Secret Service agent in the JFK detail on November 22, 1963, Landis has made a claim that has roiled the class of people interested in the controversies involving the JFK assassination.  In response to those parts of the claim that have been published (since the book itself will not come out until October) your host for this podcast, Rick Reiman, looks at the logical problems of the Landis claim, and why it should be considered little more than a myth and a mistaken mem...
2023-09-1522 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryFor Constitution Day 2023: An Abridged Audio Narration of the National Archives’ Public Domain Document, “Putting the Bill of Rights to the Test” Twitter Facebook This is Dr. Rick Reiman, professor of History at South Georgia State College.  Here I narrate sections from the National Archives’ public domain publication, “Putting the Bill of Rights to the Test.”  I read sections on the application of the First and Fifth Amendments. Listeners are encouraged to download the complete publication on the National Archives web site. The complete publication contains questions and primary documents that will enhance your experience in listening to this podcast episode and learning more about the Constitution. Twitter Facebook
2023-09-1124 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryThe Georgia Indictment Against Donald Trump: An Abridged Audio Narration of the Indictment by D.A. Fani Willis, Fulton County, Georgia The Georgia Indictment against Donald J. Trump may be the first indictment against Trump to go to trial. It also may be the only trial of Trump to be televised, and televised live.  Unabridged audio narrations of the indictment are numerous online, but to my knowledge, this unabridged recording by your host, Rick Reiman, which still clocks in at nearly 75 minutes, is the only one that limits the attention to the charges against Trump and the narrative of the acts of which he is accused in the indictment.  For those with limited time, this may be the ideal narration to...
2023-09-011h 14Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Politics – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryThe Georgia Indictment Against Donald Trump: An Abridged Audio Narration of the Indictment by D.A. Fani Willis, Fulton County, Georgia The Georgia Indictment against Donald J. Trump may be the first indictment against Trump to go to trial. It also may be the only trial of Trump to be televised, and televised live.  Unabridged audio narrations of the indictment are numerous online, but to my knowledge, this unabridged recording by your host, Rick Reiman, which still clocks in at nearly 75 minutes, is the only one that limits the attention to the charges against Trump and the narrative of the acts of which he is accused in the indictment.  For those with limited time, this may be the ideal narration to...
2023-09-011h 14Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryFranklin D. Roosevelt and the Saving of the Democratic Way of Life: Fireside Chat of December 1940 Twitter Facebook In 1940, American democracy was gravely threatened as never before, and only the American people stood against it as a reliable line of defense.  Could we say the same today if American democracy were similarly threatened?  Here is an analysis of the famous “Arsenal of Democracy” speech, annotated by your host,  Rick Reiman Twitter Facebook
2023-08-2343 minSherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! An Audio Narration of Conan Doyle’s “The Stockbroker’s Clerk,” a Sherlock Holmes Short StoryYour audio narrator, Rick Reiman, takes you from London to the English Midlands, as we journey with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and “the stockbroker’s clerk,” in quest of the solution to a mystery and a hideous crime.  Sherlock Holmes solves it only at the very end, and only with the aid of one of the … Continue reading NEW! An Audio Narration of Conan Doyle’s “The Stockbroker’s Clerk,” a Sherlock Holmes Short Story →
2023-07-1044 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! An Audio Narration of Conan Doyle’s “The Stockbroker’s Clerk,” a Sherlock Holmes Short Story Twitter Facebook Your audio narrator, Rick Reiman, takes you from London to the English Midlands, as we journey with Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson and “the stockbroker’s clerk,” in quest of the solution to a mystery and a hideous crime.  Sherlock Holmes solves it only at the very end, and only with the aid of one of the criminals involved. See, or rather hear, if you can beat him to it. Twitter Facebook
2023-07-1044 minSherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Sherlock Holmes – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Story, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” by Arthur Conan DoyleThe odyssey is almost complete: Virtually the entire canon of Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle have now been recorded, available free to the public, by the work and from the voice of audio narrator Rick Reiman. You can also catch the classic Hound of the Baskervilles, either here on AudiblySpeaking (available at the podcast … Continue reading NEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Story, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” by Arthur Conan Doyle →
2023-06-0453 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! Rick Reiman Narrates the Sherlock Holmes Story, “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” by Arthur Conan Doyle Twitter Facebook The odyssey is almost complete: Virtually the entire canon of Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle have now been recorded, available free to the public, by the work and from the voice of audio narrator Rick Reiman. You can also catch the classic Hound of the Baskervilles, either here on AudiblySpeaking (available at the podcast by that name on Apple Podcasts) or at Librivox.org. This is an other-directed public service worthy of the spirit of the eighteenth century Enlightenment. Here is “The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax,” for your enjoyment. Twitter Facebook
2023-06-0453 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryAudio Narration of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes Short Story, “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb” Twitter Facebook Your host, Rick Reiman, narrates “The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb,” by Arthur Conan Doyle. This is rather one of the more graphic of the Sherlock Holmes tales, not for the faint of heart. But it contains several of Holmes’s most ingenious deductions along the way. My narrations of the Holmes stories must be nearing an end, since there are few of them that I have not yet read and released on Audibly Speaking thus far. I hope that you enjoy it. Twitter Facebook
2023-04-0454 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryPuzzle Pieces: How Historians Work, Episode 1: “Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Backyard Photographs in the JFK Assassination” Twitter Facebook This is your host on “Audibly Speaking,” Rick Reiman. Today, March 31, 2023, is the 60th anniversary of the taking of the famous backyard photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, holding the rifle he would later use to kill President Kennedy and the pistol he would use to murder Officer J.D. Tippit forty-five minutes after that awful act in American history. This is a classic case of how historians untangle facts from allegations, and how the facts in the JFK assassination are imagined away and replaced by the will-of-the-wisp of “What-Ifs.” Let this year, the 60th anniversary of that dark day...
2023-03-3129 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryPuzzle Pieces: How Historians Work, Episode 1: “Today is the 60th Anniversary of the Backyard Photographs in the JFK Assassination” This is your host on “Audibly Speaking,” Rick Reiman. Today, March 31, 2023, is the 60th anniversary of the taking of the famous backyard photographs of Lee Harvey Oswald, holding the rifle he would later use to kill President Kennedy and the pistol he would use to murder Officer J.D. Tippit forty-five minutes after that awful act in American history. This is a classic case of how historians untangle facts from allegations, and how the facts in the JFK assassination are imagined away and replaced by the will-of-the-wisp of “What-Ifs.” Let this year, the 60th anniversary of that dark day be the y...
2023-03-3129 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew! Audio Narration of “The Boscombe Valley Mystery,” A Sherlock Holmes Short Story Twitter Facebook Your host on this podcast, “Audibly Speaking,” Rick Reiman, narrates this classic by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. That master of all detectives in literature, Sherlock Holmes, has once again to deal with the imbecility of the Scotland Yard detective, Lastrade, and the amateur cluelessness of the otherwise-devoted John Watson. Holmes once again defends an accused suspect whose guilt everyone else assumes is obvious. Not so, as it turns out. The unraveling of this tangled web is accomplished by tea time, by the man who shows how “elementary” it all actually is. Twitter Facebook
2023-03-281h 05Audibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter 8: “The First Report of Dr. Watson” Twitter Facebook Read for you by Rick Reiman. The plot thickens. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-2716 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Seven: “The Stapletons of Merripit Hall” Twitter Facebook Read for you by your host, Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-2530 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Six: “Baskerville Hall” Twitter Facebook Read for you by Rick Reiman.  Subscribe and automatically receive the next episode in the series, Chapter 7, coming soon. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-2322 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Five: “Three Broken Threads” Twitter Facebook Read for you by your host, Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-2121 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Four: “Sir Henry Baskerville” Twitter Facebook Read for you by Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-1924 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNew Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, Chapter Three: “The Problem” Twitter Facebook Read for you by Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-1818 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to History“The Hound of the Baskervilles,” Continued, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Chapter Two, “The Curse of the Baskervilles” Twitter Facebook The story continues, read for you by Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-1724 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryA New Reading of “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Chapter One Twitter Facebook Read for you by Rick Reiman. Twitter Facebook
2022-08-1315 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! “The Adventure of the Second Stain,” a diplomatic Sherlock Holmes mystery story by Arthur Conan Doyle Read by Rick Reiman. In this story, one of Doyle’s favorites, Sherlock Holmes must avert a European war by solving a mystery absolutely befuddling to all but this greatest “consulting detective” of all time. At once full of high tension and broad comedy, the autistic Holmes must navigate through the tangling murky politics of sexual relations, diplomacy and, yes, international politics itself. Holmes uncovers the mystery
2022-07-0900 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNEW! “The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot,” a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle Read for you by Rick Reiman. This excellent addition to the Sherlock Holmes canon contains many of the aspects that delight his readers. It is set in a macabre and romantic setting, the moors of Cornwall; it has Holmes pitting himself against the common feeling that there must be something supernatural afoot. These traces of “The Hound of the Baskervilles” are not all that recommend it. People go from normal to mad in a matter of minutes. The villain of the story wastes Holmes’s time with an attempted diversion that the detective must dispose of through his amazing talent...
2022-07-0400 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory“The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton,” a Sherlock Holmes Story READ FOR YOU BY RICK REIMAN. In this story by Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes must represent a client being blackmailed by the notorious criminal, Charles Augustus Milverton. Once again, Holmes uses the practices of the criminal himself, something he seems all too eager to employ in more than one of the stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Watson joins in the effort and the result is an action story piled upon a mystery tale. Holmes and Watson confront Charles Augustus Milverton, the notorious blackmailer.
2022-06-1300 minUncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory
Uncategorized – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and MemoryNarrating a Sherlock Holmes Short Story: The Clues behind the Clues Here I share some insights into what I have learned about the hidden Sherlock Holmes, from reading and narrating the Conan Doyle stories. To do this I use one of his most popular stories by way of illustration, “The Adventure of the Speckled Band.” You can listen to my narration of this classic short story elsewhere on AudiblySpeaking.com. Reference Links Narrations by Rick Reiman on Audibly Speaking of: The Five Orange Pips The Adventure of the Speckled Band
2022-06-0300 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to HistoryNEW! Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder,” a Sherlock Holmes Short Story Twitter Facebook Read by Rick Reiman Read by Rick Reiman
2022-04-2400 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to History“A Scandal in Bohemia” by Arthur Conan Doyle Twitter Facebook Narrated by Dr. Rick Reiman In this classic short story in the Sherlock Holmes series, Holmes, with the help of Dr. Watson, matches wits with a woman, Irene Adler. Spoiler alert: The woman wins. It is one of the few Sherlock Holmes stories in which Holmes fails. And he never forgets it! The players: Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Rick Reiman Dr. Watson: Dr. Rick Reiman The King of Bohemia: Dr. Rick Reiman Irene Adler: Dr. Rick Reiman  Twitter Facebook
2020-10-2455 minaudiblyspeaking.com
audiblyspeaking.comArthur Conan Doyle’s “A Scandal in Bohemia”Listen now (55 min) | “A Scandal in Bohemia,” by Arthur Conan Doyle Read for you by Dr. Rick Reiman In this classic short story in the Sherlock Holmes series, Holmes, with the help of Dr. Watson, matches wits with a woman, Irene Adler. Spoiler alert: The woman wins. It is one of the few Sherlock Holmes stories in which Holmes fails. And he never forgets it! Subscribe at audiblyspeaking.substack.com
2020-10-2255 minAudibly Speaking: Listening to History
Audibly Speaking: Listening to History“For Want of a Comma: The Constitution and Birthright Citizenship” Twitter Facebook Host Dr. Rick Reiman, a professor of history, reprises his presentation for Constitution Day 2018, delivered on September 17, 2018. Dr. Reiman also interviews assistant professor of history Dr. Dana Caldemeyer, a specialist in nineteenth century US history about her thoughts about the 14th Amendment’s role in her own research. Twitter Facebook
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