American Railroad History

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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,099 ratings
    • Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • Railroads Past and Present
    • By: H. Roger Grant
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," 1830-1930....

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    • The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power....

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    • The Legends that Shaped the USA. From the Discovery of America to the Troubled Founding of the Nation, Through Wars, Political Scandal, Westward Expansion, and Historic Events.
    • By: Doug Richardson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Introducing "American History: The Legends that Shaped the USA" a riveting exploration of the rich and fascinating early history of the United ...

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Routes, Places, and People That Helped Free African Americans During the Nineteenth Century and the Life of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then pay attention....

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    • History Smashers
    • By: Kate Messner, Gwendolyn Hooks
    • Narrated by: Reginald James
    • Series: History Smashers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-22
    • Language: English
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    • Before the Civil War, there was a crack team of abolitionists who used quilts and signal lanterns to guide enslaved people to freedom. RIGHT? WRONG! The truth is, the Underground Railroad wasn't very organized, and most freedom seekers were on their own....

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    • The History and Legacy of the First Rail Line Spanning the United States
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction....

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    • The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
    • By: Candacy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists....

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    • A Social and Cultural History
    • By: Aaron W. Marrs
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United States underwent an extraordinary transformation. In The American Transportation Revolution, Aaron W. Marrs explores the cultural influence of steamboats and railroads, which fascinated Americans across the country.

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    • Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
    • By: Betty DeRamus
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Uplifting and occasionally heartbreaking stories of love from the time of slavery in the American south....

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    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Del Roy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-11-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 581 ratings
    • Les Standiford, author of the John Deal thrillers, tells how the man who turned Florida's swamps into the playgrounds of the rich performed the almost superhuman feat of building a railroad from the mainland to Key West at the turn of the century....

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