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    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends....

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    • The Mina Miller Edison Story
    • By: Alexandra Rimer
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison....

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    • A Short History of Barbecue in America
    • By: Jim Auchmutey
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia....

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    • Revised 2020 Edition (Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 1)
    • By: N.S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Lucinda Gainey
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Chicago in the 1890s is the fastest growing metropolis in America. An eccentric heiress and a cub reporter find themselves repeatedly drawn into the hidden world of intrigue and murder that lurks within the shadows of the White City....

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    • FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
    • By: Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril....

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    • A History
    • By: Jay P. Dolan
    • Narrated by: Jim McCabe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America’s most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history....

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    • The Hidden History of American Politics
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

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    • The Novel
    • By: Edward Rutherfurd
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • The best-selling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. Rutherfurd celebrates America's greatest city in a rich, engrossing saga....

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    • By: Edith Wharton
    • Narrated by: Zöe Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The Age of Innocence was first published in 1920 by American author Edith Wharton. It is set in the 1870s, in upper-class "Gilded Age" New York City....

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    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould. Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the stock market crash in 1869.

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    • Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
    • By: Maryjean Wall
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shively
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house: an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln....

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    • The Rapid Urbanization and Development in 19th Century USA
    • By: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Chris Newman
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Gilded Age was a period in American history that covered the late 19th century, from the 1870s till around 1900. The Gilded Age was a period of great financial development in the United States, specifically in the North and West....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • One of the first major American novels to satirize the political milieu of Washington, and the wild speculation schemes that exploded across the nation in the years that followed the Civil War, The Gilded Age gave this remarkable era its name....

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    • Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 2
    • By: N. S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Ann Russek
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For the two amateur sleuths, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary....

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    • Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
    • By: Claire Goldstene
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity....

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    • Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
    • By: William S. Cossen
    • Narrated by: Kyle Whisenant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing itself a place in the national community.

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    • Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, & Henry Clay Frick: The Story of America’s Oil and Steel Founding Fathers
    • By: Richard Milton
    • Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • You are one click away from discovering the biographies of America’s oil and steel founding fathers, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Henry Clay Frick, that led to the Gilded Age....

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