Here Is Where: Discovering America’s Great Forgotten History Audiobook (Free)

The centerpiece of a major nationwide campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, HERE’S Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery where he travels to each of America’s fifty states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.

Sparking the idea for this audiobook was Carroll’s visit to the location where Abraham Lincoln’s son was once kept by the brother of Lincoln’s assassin.& about HERE’S Where: Discovering America’s Great Overlooked History nbsp; Carroll considered, How many other unmarked places are there where interesting occasions unfolded — or where amazing women and men made their tag? And then it came to him: the idea of spotlighting great hidden history by touring the length and breadth of america, searching for buried traditional treasure.

In HERE’S Where, Carroll drives, flies, boats, hikes, kayaks and trains in to the past, and by doing this, uncovers stories that inspire thoughtful contemplation, periodic hilarity and frequently, awe. Among the things we learn:

*Where the oldest sample of DNA in THE UNITED STATES was discovered

*Which obscure American scientist preserved 400 million lives

*Which famous FBI agent was the sibling of the notorious gangster

*Which cemetery contains one million graves – but only 1 marked

*How a 14 yr old boy invented television

Featured prominently in Here Is Where are an abundance of firsts (like the initial elevator, the first contemporary anesthesia, the initial cremation, and the initial murder conviction based on forensic evidence), outrages (from massacres, to required sterilizations, to kidnappings) and breakthroughs (in the invention from the M-1 carbine towards the recovery from the last existing sample of Spanish Flu towards the building of the rocket that permitted space travel).

A profound reminder that the bottom we walk is usually the top sedimentary level of amazing past events, Here Is Where represents simply the first rung on the ladder within an ongoing project that may recruit resident historians to conserve what should be remembered.