American History For Adults

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19,310 ratings
    • In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence....

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    • A Blackwashed 19th Century Pre-Civil War Fictional Story That Depicts The People, Tone And Events Of The Era.
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • If Cotton Could Talk," is a civil war era historical fiction novel about 19th-century slave life in the South. You will be introduced to a cast of ...

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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    • A Hidden Heritage
    • By: William Loren Katz
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 323 ratings
    • The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America. The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of the United States of America, American Revolution, Civil War, Chicago, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and Gulf War
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jamie Peters, Randy Whitlow, Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then pay attention....

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    • My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment
    • By: Yanis Varoufakis
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 350 ratings
    • Renowned economist and former finance minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis gives the full account of his momentous clash with the mightiest economic and political forces on earth....

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    • By: Elizabeth Partridge
    • Narrated by: June Angela
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This important work of nonfiction discusses powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history....

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    • The Story of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.

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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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    • By: Katharine McGee
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
    • Series: American Royals, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,915 ratings
    • When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. Like most royal families, the Washingtons have an heir and a spare....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country....

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,617 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • Early 1900s Segregation In A City With Secrets
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It was 1905, in New Orleans, three years after Earl’s family escaped the KKK in Mississippi. People thought Betty Jones, a brothel madam, was a ...

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    • By: Celia Rees
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 208 ratings
    • It is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged as a servant of the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes approaches her with an opportunity - safe passage to America....

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    • The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
    • By: Margalit Fox
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum.

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    • By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese-American internees. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was....

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    • The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
    • By: Brandy Colbert
    • Narrated by: Brandy Colbert, Kristyl Dawn Tift
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 317 ratings
    • Award-winning author Brandy Colbert presents a searing new work of nonfiction about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre....

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    • By: Shannon C. F. Rogers
    • Narrated by: Jensen Olaya
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Packed with voice, I’d Rather Burn than Bloom is a powerful young adult novel about a Filipina-American teen who tries to figure out who she really is in the wake of her mother’s death....

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