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Bestsellers
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Killing the Witches
- The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts....
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Disappointing and deceiving
- By M. Orton on 10-06-23
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....
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An outstanding biography
- By Davis on 07-10-06
By: David McCullough
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- By: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic....
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- By John on 10-06-11
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....
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Egregious omission of important passage.
- By Walking Man on 02-14-19
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard....
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It’s alright
- By B. Williams on 02-26-21
By: Angus Konstam
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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A worthwhile listen
- By Blake on 07-10-13
By: Andres Resendez
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Killing the Witches
- The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts....
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Disappointing and deceiving
- By M. Orton on 10-06-23
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....
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An outstanding biography
- By Davis on 07-10-06
By: David McCullough
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- By: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic....
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- By John on 10-06-11
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....
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Egregious omission of important passage.
- By Walking Man on 02-14-19
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard....
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It’s alright
- By B. Williams on 02-26-21
By: Angus Konstam
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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A worthwhile listen
- By Blake on 07-10-13
By: Andres Resendez
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Albion's Seed
- Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time....
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This is great, much more than title suggests
- By Kindle Customer on 07-26-14
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- By: Harriet Jacobs
- Narrated by: Audio Élan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children....
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Another impossible narration
- By JPALJ on 06-11-18
By: Harriet Jacobs
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The Island at the Center of the World
- The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
- By: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....
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Incomplete history, but fun. Performance is poor.
- By Matthew on 11-27-18
By: Russell Shorto
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Mayflower
- A Story of Courage, Community, and War
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth....
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Fascinating book about a little-understood time
- By John M on 02-04-07
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....
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Fascinating Mindbending History.
- By Betsy Powel on 12-19-11
By: Charles C. Mann
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American History, Volume 1
- 1492-1877
- By: Thomas S. Kidd
- Narrated by: Craig Hinkle
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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American History, Volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history....
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American history warts and all from a Christian perspective.
- By Charlesj on 06-13-23
By: Thomas S. Kidd
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Conceived in Liberty
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Floy Lilley
- Length: 80 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it all together in a single book....
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Learned more here than 4 yrs of college
- By Scott Archer on 05-02-16
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The Words That Made Us
- America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
- By: Akhil Reed Amar
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
- Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered....
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And the words that made Us
- By Anonymous User on 10-17-22
By: Akhil Reed Amar
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American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....
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Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- By Peter Stephens on 11-16-16
By: Alan Taylor
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....
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Too PC
- By Eric on 07-24-13
By: Scott Weidensaul
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Bunker Hill
- A City, a Siege, a Revolution
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the American Revolution....
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Another Fantastic Story by Philbrick
- By Rick on 09-30-13
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The History of Florida
- By: Michael Gannon - editor
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the heralded "definitive history" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine....
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The Once & Future Witch Hunt
- A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present
- By: Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister - foreword, Silvia Federici - afterword
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.
By: Alice Markham-Cantor, and others
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- By: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- By TeamDowager on 10-23-15
By: Emerson W. Baker
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Profiles in Freedom
- Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin
- By: Carl Higbie
- Narrated by: Eben Fowler
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and national news anchor of Carl Higbie Frontline on Newsmax TV, believes in REAL America and the need to remember the heroes who made this country great.
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lots to unpack
- By AZ Crazy on 05-08-24
By: Carl Higbie
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The Witches
- Salem, 1692
- By: Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the number one national best seller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse....
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Really annoying narration
- By MAG on 11-10-15
By: Stacy Schiff
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Young Washington
- How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
- By: Peter Stark
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
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By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation....
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Loved learning how a greater leader became one!
- By Will on 11-01-18
By: Peter Stark
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Alta California
- From San Diego to San Francisco, a Journey on Foot to Rediscover the Golden State
- By: Nick Neely
- Narrated by: Tristan Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Nick Neely chronicles his 650-mile trek on foot from San Diego to San Francisco, following the route of the first overland Spanish expedition into what was soon called Alta California....
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A good idea badly executed
- By Trebla on 04-24-20
By: Nick Neely
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African Founders
- How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
- Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States....
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faux vocalizations
- By Porter on 08-19-22
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jan Maxwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent...
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fantastic
- By Thomas on 07-06-06
By: David McCullough
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The American Revolution
- A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
- By: Eric Porterfield
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Relive the revolution that gave birth to the United States as it stands today....
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High points n so so narration
- By MN on 04-10-24
By: Eric Porterfield
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The Deerfield Massacre
- A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- By: James L. Swanson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded....
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repetitive and bloated
- By DLR on 04-01-24
By: James L. Swanson
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke and Jamestown
- The History and Legacy of England's First American Colonies
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Kadee Coppinger
- Length: 2 hrs and 52 mins
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Nearly 20 years before Jamestown, England established Roanoke. When the colony's founder returned to Roanoke, all traces of the settlement were gone, leading to an enduring mystery....
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Needs a better reader
- By Ken Bengson on 01-03-16
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A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?
- By: Virginia Bernhard
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
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In 1609, two years after its English founding, colonists struggled to stay alive in a tiny fort at Jamestown. John Smith fought to keep order. When he left, desperate colonists ate lizards, rats, and human flesh. Meanwhile, the Virginia-bound Sea Venture was shipwrecked on Bermuda....
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The Tory’s Wife
- A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
- By: Cynthia A. Kierner
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia.
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The Once & Future Witch Hunt
- A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present
- By: Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister - foreword, Silvia Federici - afterword
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt-related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction.
By: Alice Markham-Cantor, and others
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The Charter
- By: Thomas Medonis
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A quick history of Connecticut's Charter Oak.
By: Thomas Medonis
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The Puritan Experience
- Explaining the “Errand into the Wilderness”
- By: Ryan Webb
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Purpose: In "Errand into the Wilderness," one of Perry Miller’s goals was to explain the establishment and development of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony using the two meanings of the word errand, in order to gather insight into the genesis of the American experience. Key Questions: Miller first asked whether the Puritans were sent on a mission, like an errand boy, or whether they were acting alone, doing their own errand. He then asked whether the Puritans fell short of their goal by 1660, and, if so, in what sense had they failed. Finally, he examined whether there was a further ...
By: Ryan Webb
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Conquer the CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877 Exam
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare to conquer the CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877 Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Delve into essential topics such as political institutions, political developments, and public policy, gaining insights into the shaping of America's governance. Explore social developments that have influenced the nation's identity and fabric. Unravel the intricacies of economic developments, from early colonial trade to industrialization. Dive into cultural and intellectual developments that have defined American society. Additionally, examine the nation's ...
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American History from Christopher Columbus to Andrew Jackson in Easy Question and Answer Format
- By: Mark Phillips
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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If you’ve ever found American history boring or hard to understand, this book is for you. Inside, a bright, curious student poses questions about American history, and a kind, knowledgeable teacher answers them. Nothing escapes the student’s inquisitive mind, and the teacher is endlessly patient. Review (from Midwest Book Review): Five stars. There are better ways to present info than ten pound textbooks. [This book] is an exciting read on the history of America through an engrossing question and answer format that asks countless questions about America, its early days, colonial times, ...
By: Mark Phillips
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The Tory’s Wife
- A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America
- By: Cynthia A. Kierner
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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The Spurgin family of North Carolina experienced the cataclysm of the American Revolution in the most dramatic ways—and from different sides. This engrossing book tells the story of Jane Welborn Spurgin, a patriot who welcomed General Nathanael Greene to her home and aided Continental forces while her loyalist husband was fighting for the king as an officer in the Tory militia.
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The Once & Future Witch Hunt
- A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present
- By: Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister - foreword, Silvia Federici - afterword
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Extensively researched and told through alternating fiction and nonfiction chapters, this book illuminates a shocking truth: contrary to popular opinion, the witch hunts never ended. Alice shares research that suggests tens of thousands of witch hunt-related deaths have happened all over the world in the last thirty years. The Once & Future Witch Hunt also features tantalizing glimpses into Alice's ancestors' lives and reimagines the trials through fact-based fiction.
By: Alice Markham-Cantor, and others
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The Charter
- By: Thomas Medonis
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 37 mins
- Unabridged
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A quick history of Connecticut's Charter Oak.
By: Thomas Medonis
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The Puritan Experience
- Explaining the “Errand into the Wilderness”
- By: Ryan Webb
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Purpose: In "Errand into the Wilderness," one of Perry Miller’s goals was to explain the establishment and development of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony using the two meanings of the word errand, in order to gather insight into the genesis of the American experience. Key Questions: Miller first asked whether the Puritans were sent on a mission, like an errand boy, or whether they were acting alone, doing their own errand. He then asked whether the Puritans fell short of their goal by 1660, and, if so, in what sense had they failed. Finally, he examined whether there was a further ...
By: Ryan Webb
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Conquer the CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877 Exam
- By: Philip Martin McCaulay
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Prepare to conquer the CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877 Exam with this comprehensive study guide. Delve into essential topics such as political institutions, political developments, and public policy, gaining insights into the shaping of America's governance. Explore social developments that have influenced the nation's identity and fabric. Unravel the intricacies of economic developments, from early colonial trade to industrialization. Dive into cultural and intellectual developments that have defined American society. Additionally, examine the nation's ...
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American History from Christopher Columbus to Andrew Jackson in Easy Question and Answer Format
- By: Mark Phillips
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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If you’ve ever found American history boring or hard to understand, this book is for you. Inside, a bright, curious student poses questions about American history, and a kind, knowledgeable teacher answers them. Nothing escapes the student’s inquisitive mind, and the teacher is endlessly patient. Review (from Midwest Book Review): Five stars. There are better ways to present info than ten pound textbooks. [This book] is an exciting read on the history of America through an engrossing question and answer format that asks countless questions about America, its early days, colonial times, ...
By: Mark Phillips
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American History from 1492 to 1763 in Question and Answer Format
- By: Mark Phillips
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Originally published as a section of the author’s larger “Conversations in Early American History: 1492-1763,” this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, clearly explains, in easy-to-follow question-and-answer format, the key events of American history from Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World (1492) to the signing of the treaty that ended the French and Indian War (1763). CONTENTS 1. Christopher Columbus 2. Jamestown 3. The House of Burgesses 4. The Pilgrims 5. Bacon’s Rebellion 6. The Salem Witch Trials 7. The Thirteen ...
By: Mark Phillips
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A History of the United States Constitution
- A Guide to the United States Founding Documents
- By: Paul R. Wonning
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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The story of the United States Constitution begins with the Albany Plan of Union in 1754 and stretches into modern times with the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments. A Short History of the United States Constitution relates its history as well as many of the documents leading up to it.
By: Paul R. Wonning
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Abigail Adams Remember the Ladies
- History, Book 42
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Amanda Dunlap
- Length: 10 mins
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I am born on November 22, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. My name is Abigail Smith. Maybe my last name will change when I’m older. My family owns four slaves. Phoebe is a slave who takes care of me while I am a child. When I grow up, I want to teach our slaves to read and write, give them freedom, and pay them to work for me. I do not believe in slavery for men or ladies.
By: Rich Linville
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Profiles in Freedom
- Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin
- By: Carl Higbie
- Narrated by: Eben Fowler
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and national news anchor of Carl Higbie Frontline on Newsmax TV, believes in REAL America and the need to remember the heroes who made this country great. In Profiles in Freedom, he reintroduces some of the Americans who made this great country what it is today.
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lots to unpack
- By AZ Crazy on 05-08-24
By: Carl Higbie
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New Worlds for All
- Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment)
- By: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New Worlds for All, Colin G. Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America.
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The Patriot Wore Petticoats
- A True Story of Revolutionary War Heroism
- By: Marnie Pehrson Kuhns
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
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Revolutionary War Period Romance Based on a True Story Would you have the courage to traverse over five miles in the middle of the night crossing a rushing swollen river to save your friends from certain death? If villains held your family at gunpoint, what would you do? Would you step forward and save them? "Dicey" Langston, who lived during the Revolutionary War, was a patriot who carried messages from the Loyalists to the Patriots. By doing so, she saved many lives and helped to win the fight for freedom. During the Revolutionary War, fifteen-year-old Dicey Langston overheard that a band...