Colonial Women History

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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
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 67 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 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
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 208 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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    • 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
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 36 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 Life of Mary Washington
    • By: Martha Saxton
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.9 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story....

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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 12 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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    • 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
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • 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
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 157 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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    • A Bahamian Family Saga
    • By: Rosemary Minns
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 19 hrs
    • Release date: 07-25-25
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This is the story of John Minns, a Quaker abolitionist who was shipwrecked near Nassau, Bahamas in 1800, and was rescued from a watery grave by ...

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    • The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons
    • By: Kathy-Ann Becker
    • Narrated by: Kathy-Ann Becker
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Silencing the Women: The Witch Trials of Mary Bliss Parsons is the true story of what happened to an early New England Puritan woman settler who was too beautiful, rich, and outspoken for her times. Enmeshed in a web of jealousy and gossip, she struggled to overcome victimization....

    $24.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • Early American Studies
    • By: Marisa J. Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Carrie Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records....

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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
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 53 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....

    $17.19 or free with 30-day trial

    • A History
    • By: Winifred Gallagher
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 97 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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    • The Legend of Molly Johnson
    • By: Leah Purcell
    • Narrated by: Leah Purcell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson and her four surviving children, another on the way. Husband Joe is away months at a time droving livestock up north, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself....

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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
    • 2.8 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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    • 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
    • 4.3 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....

    $22.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • Native Women, Violence, and Power in Colonial America (Volume 1)
    • By: Davis Truman
    • Narrated by: Ashley Reynolds
    • Length: 2 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-25
    • Language: English
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    • Savage Systers: Native Women, Violence, and Power in Colonial America overturns the conventional story of America’s frontier. Too often relegated to the margins of history, Native women have been cast as submissive figures, auxiliaries to the real business of men. This book dismantles that fiction.

    $7.01 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A pathbreaking look at Native women of the early South who defined power and defied authority....

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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
    • 4.2 out of 5 stars 48 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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    • Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge
    • By: Tracy Lawson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.8 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • "...vivid and authentic detail....Lawson makes all the trials of the American Revolution come alive.” — Jodi Daynard, author of The Midwife's ...

    $14.99 or free with 30-day trial