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    • An Enthralling Overview of Major Events that Shaped the United States of America
    • By: Billy Wellman
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Series: U.S. History, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • For those who are interested in learning about America, this is a great introductory audiobook. It should whet your appetite to learn more....

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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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    • 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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    • A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
    • By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....

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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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    • 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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    • Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
    • By: Susan Ware
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Ware’s deeply moving stories provide a fresh account of one of the most significant moments of political mobilization in American history. The dramatic, often joyous experiences of these women resonate powerfully today, as a new generation of young women demands to be heard....

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    • By: Upton Sinclair
    • Narrated by: Peter Lerman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-22
    • Language: English
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    • In 1925, the greatest muckraking journalist and advocate for the working man, Upton Sinclair, believed that the cause in which he believed needed to be clearly and concisely explained - in plain English - for the benefit of the American worker....

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    • A True Tale of Life, Murder, and Redemption in the Age of Yellow Journalism
    • By: James McGrath Morris
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Charles E. Chapin, the notorious editor-tyrant of the New York Evening World, made headlines himself after murdering his wife of 39 years....

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    • By: Ryan Webb
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the final decades of the 19th century, America experienced rapid industrial growth, corporate mergers, an influx of immigrants and a rise in ...

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    • The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
    • By: Bill Double
    • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Introduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires Root Beer - launched 10 years before Coca-Cola - blazed the trail for development of the American soft drink industry. Its inventor, Charles Elmer Hires....

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    • From a Spiritualist to the Carnegie Imposter (True Crime History)
    • By: Thomas Crowl
    • Narrated by: Chaz Allen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Queen of the Con tells the true story of Cassie Chadwick, a successful swindler and “one of the top 10 imposters of all time”, according to TIME magazine....

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    • History on the Half Shell
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster....

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    • Oscar Wilde in North America
    • By: Roy Morris Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age....

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    • From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time....

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    • Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
    • By: Julie Carr
    • Narrated by: Julie Carr
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-22-23
    • Language: English
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    • Mud, Blood, and Ghosts exposes one deep root in the soil of the American Great Plains. Julie Carr traces her own family’s history through archival documents to draw connections between US agrarian populism, spiritualism, and eugenics....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Elizabeth Gage
    • Narrated by: Kate Nulgrew
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 06-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Plunge into the glamour and fame, dark secrets and sordid lives of 3 high rollers living in Hollywood's gilded age....

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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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    • 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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