Colonial Women

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    • The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Marilynne K. Roach
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 176 ratings
    • Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Frances Hill
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan....

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    • Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden - and not always stoic - face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In this book, we encounter the awesome burdens - and the considerable power - of a New England housewife's domestic life....

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    • The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
    • By: Cokie Roberts
    • Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Roberts presents a colorful blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities....

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    • Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
    • By: Jay Atkinson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • In 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed 27 men, women, and children, and took 13 captives, including 39-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter....

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    • A History
    • By: Winifred Gallagher
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Winifred Gallagher presents the history of the Post Office as America's own story, told from a fresh perspective over more than two centuries....

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    • Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
    • By: Elizabeth Reis
    • Narrated by: Susan Marlowe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men....

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    • A History from Colonial Times to Today
    • By: Pamela Nadell
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of how Jewish women maintained their identity and influenced social activism as they wrote themselves into American history....

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    • By: Mollie Ann Cox
    • Narrated by: Nicol Zanzarella
    • Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-23
    • Language: English
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    • New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father's duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder....

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    • A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated"
    • By: John L. Smith Jr.
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 15 hrs
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her.

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    • Native Women and the Making of the Early South
    • By: Alejandra Dubcovsky
    • Narrated by: Raquel Beattie
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority....

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    • Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
    • By: Edith M. Ziegler
    • Narrated by: Sally Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America....

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    • The Other Side of History
    • By: Dr. Linwood "Little Bear" Custalow
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Kathleen Kent
    • Narrated by: Ellen Archer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • In the harsh wilderness of colonial Massachusetts, Martha Allen works as a servant in her cousin's household, taking charge and locking wills with everyone....

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    • Psychological Fiction Novel Set in Colonial China. Love, Betrayal, Love and Hate.
    • By: H. Wilhelm Starkweather
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • The Affair and Beyond by H. Wilhelm Starkweather is a compelling psychological fiction novel set in the evocative landscapes of Colonial China. ...

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    • The Hansen Family Saga, Book 1
    • By: Ellin Carsta, Gerald Chapple - translator
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Series: The Hansen Family Saga, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Hamburg 1888: After thirty prosperous years, coffee importer Peter Hansen & Sons faces hard times - and certain bankruptcy - unless three brothers can make savvy moves to save the faltering business after their father’s untimely death....

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