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    • The Life and Legacy of One of Early America’s Most Important Explorers
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-23-22
    • Language: English
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    • Throughout his presidency at the beginning of the 19th century, Thomas Jefferson had worried about the future of the western US, seeing that settlements in the Ohio Valley and lower South relied upon the Mississippi River....

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    • The Louis Till File
    • By: John Edgar Wideman
    • Narrated by: Roger Guenveur Smith
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A major literary figure tells “a searching tale of loss, recovery, and déja vu that is part memoir and what-if speculation, part polemic and exposé” (The Washington Post) about two generations of one family - civil rights martyr Emmett Till and his father, Louis....

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    • The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care
    • By: John Dittmer
    • Narrated by: Justine Eyre
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Medical Committee for Human Rights was organized in the summer of 1964 by medical professionals to provide care and support for Civil Rights activists....

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    • The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State
    • By: Charles L. Chavis Jr.
    • Narrated by: Korey Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • On December 4, 1931, a mob of White men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a 23-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage....

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    • Slavery, Westward Expansion, and the Roots of the Civil War
    • By: Stephen G. Hyslop
    • Narrated by: Douglas R. Pratt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
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    • The long view of the path to the Civil War, as charted through the Jeffersonian and Jacksonian eras in this book, reveals the critical fault in the nation’s foundation, exacerbated by slaveholding expansionists....

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    • By: S.L. Kotar, J.E. Gessler
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-24
    • Language: English
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    • “Blue Moon”Summary The Indian legend stated that a red-haired white boy, born of earthquake and comet in a month with two full moons, would ...

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    • Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
    • By: Gerard Helferich
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
    • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-09
    • Language: English
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    • This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against weeds, insects, and drought....

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    • The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Rick Bowers
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • During the civil rights movement, the state of Mississippi created an elaborate spy network....

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    • An African-American Life
    • By: Ezra Greenspan
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 20 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Born into slavery in Kentucky, the young man known as “Sandy” reinvented himself as “William Wells” Brown after escaping to freedom....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Raymond Haggart
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • Life on the Mississippi (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War...

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    • How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
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    • The is the story of how American settlers led a rebellion in 1810 against Spanish rule and created the Republic of West Florida, which was shortly annexed by the United States just 78 days later....

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    • By: Justina Prima
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • April 29, 1863, brought the Civil War to Grand Gulf, Mississippi. Sarah Bassler lost her mother six months before. For two and a half years she ...

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    • From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
    • By: Theodore Roosevelt
    • Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
    • Series: The Winning of the West, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • We all know of Theodore Roosevelt being the US president from 1901 to 1909, an American politician, statesman, soldier, conservationist, and naturalist. BUT few know of him being an acclaimed historian. Roosevelt’s The Winning of the West quickly became a bestseller....

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    • By: Robert W. Walker
    • Narrated by: Tom Fria
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-22
    • Language: English
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    • In this rousing 1852 romp through the eerie woods surrounding Hannibal, Missouri, and up and down the Mississippi River, 14-year-old Daniel Webster Jackson runs into a counterfeit Underground Railroad when he decides to run away from his foster home....

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    • The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.
    • By: Marion Barry Jr., Omar Tyree
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world.

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    • Escaping Slavery in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1820-1860
    • By: S. Charles Bolton
    • Narrated by: Andrew L. Barnes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • During the antebellum years, over 750,000 enslaved people were taken to the Lower Mississippi Valley, where two-thirds of them were sold in the slave markets of New Orleans, Natchez, and Memphis....

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    • The History and Legacy of Early Battles Won by Indigenous Groups Before the Indian Wars
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-23
    • Language: English
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    • Most Americans have heard of the Little Bighorn, the 1876 battle in which a band of Lakota Sioux and their allies wiped out most of the 7th US Cavalry under the command of George Armstrong Custer....

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