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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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    • William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
    • By: Margaret Leslie Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi....

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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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    • The Surprising Truth about the 'Real' America
    • By: Dante Chinni, James Gimpel
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In a climate of culture wars and tremendous economic uncertainty, America is often reduced to a simplistic schism between red states and blue states. But that is an oversimplification....

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    • A Concise History of America
    • By: Louis P. Masur
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In The Sum of Our Dreams, Louis P. Masur offers a sweeping yet compact history of America from its beginnings to the current moment....

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    • How a Train Station Transformed America
    • By: Sam Roberts, Pete Hamill - foreword
    • Narrated by: Sam Roberts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • A rich, illustrated - and entertaining - history of the iconic Grand Central Terminal, from one of New York City's favorite writers, just in time to celebrate the train station's 100th anniversary....

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    • The Darlingtons, Book 1
    • By: Naomi Finley
    • Narrated by: April Doty
    • Series: Darlingtons, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....

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    • An American History from Barnum to Madoff
    • By: Edward J. Balleisen
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • The United States has always proved an inviting home for boosters, sharp dealers, and outright swindlers....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Ethnic and Class Dynamics During the Era of American Industrialization
    • By: Robert F. Zeidel
    • Narrated by: Jim Woods
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces....

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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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    • 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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