Early Period

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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • An Archaeology of Early American Life
    • By: James Deetz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten....

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    • The Apology, Crito, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Menexenus, Ion, Meno
    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Peter Coates, Stacey M. Patterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-17-24
    • Language: English
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    • Plato is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and...

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    • A Native History of Early America
    • By: Daniel K Richter
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Daniel K. Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity....

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    • Early 1900s Segregation In A City With Secrets
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
    • By: Benjamin L. Carp
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than 46 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. Carp tells the full story, exploding myths....

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    • A Captivating Guide to a Period in European History with Events Such as the Thirty Years War and the Salem Witch Hunts and Political Powers Such as England and the Ottoman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • This audiobook includes details of the transition from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, where Europe saw significant shifts across the continent in phases....

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    • The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
    • By: Scott Weidensaul
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....

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    • A Family Story from Early America
    • By: John Demos
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to "civilize" a "savage" native populace....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Role of Pirates in Maritime History During the Early Modern Period, Including Stories of Anne Bonny, Sir Francis Drake, and William Kidd
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • The history of the Golden Age of Piracy, the one that has shaped the modern conception of a pirate, is complex and long, with lots of information to cover....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Egyptian History, from the Early Dynastic Period Through the Early, Middle, and Late Kingdom to the Death of Cleopatra
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jay Herbert
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In this audiobook, you will travel back to ancient Egypt, when kings were considered gods, pharaohs built towering pyramids, great battles were fought, and the world as we know it today was formed....

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    • A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
    • By: Nicole Eustace
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective....

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    • A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.

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    • How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
    • By: Rosemarie Ostler
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists and is still going strong....

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    • Migration and Violence in Early America
    • By: Stephen Warren
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier"....

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    • Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
    • By: James D. Rice
    • Narrated by: Clay Teunis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • In the spring of 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a hotheaded young newcomer to Virginia, led a revolt against the colony's Indian policies....

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