Islands America

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 405 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
    • By: Ian W. Toll
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Series: The Pacific War Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,843 ratings
    • The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire island by island....

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    • The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
    • By: James A. Warren
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • A devout Puritan minister in 17th-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance....

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    • A People's History
    • By: Małgorzata Szejnert, Sean Gasper Bye - translator
    • Narrated by: Carlotta Brentan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From Annie Moore, the Irishwoman who was the first to be processed there, to Arne Peterssen, the Norwegian who was the last to be taken away from the island in 1954, Ellis Island weaves together the personal experiences of forgotten individuals....

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    • The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
    • By: Russell Shorto
    • Narrated by: Russell Shorto
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 553 ratings
    • In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today....

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    • Dispatches from the Territories and Other Far-Flung Outposts of the USA
    • By: Doug Mack
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • The territories of American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the US Virgin Islands are often neglected, but they are filled with American flags....

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    • By: Sara Ackerman
    • Narrated by: Carly Robins, Devon Hales
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 177 ratings
    • Hawaii, 1944. The Pacific battles of World War II continue to threaten American soil, and on the home front, the bonds of friendship and the strength of love are tested....

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    • Travel South America
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Home to the giant tortoises that gave them their name, the Galapagos Islands lie one thousand kilometres off the coast of mainland Ecuador....

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    • Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
    • By: Sean M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Historian Sean M. Kelley tells the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation....

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    • The Story of the World's Longest Treasure Hunt
    • By: Randall Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Braden Wright
    • Length: 16 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 832 ratings
    • The Curse of Oak Island is a fascinating account of the strange, rich history of the island and the intrepid treasure hunters who have driven themselves to financial ruin, psychotic breakdowns, and even death in pursuit of answers....

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    • A First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America
    • By: Taylor Keen
    • Narrated by: Taylor Keen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Omaha Tribal member, Cherokee citizen, and teacher Taylor Keen presents a comprehensive re-imagining of the ancient and more recent history of this continent’s oldest cultures.

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    • The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
    • By: Will Harlan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness....

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    • Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
    • By: Ed Morales
    • Narrated by: Sean Duffy
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 112 ratings
    • A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US....

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    • The History of Ellis Island
    • By: Vincent Cannato
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Hogan
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Professor Vincent J. Cannato delivers a definitive history of America's landmark port of entry....

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    • A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
    • By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
    • Narrated by: Austin Yang
    • Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • From the White Terror to the Taiwan Straits Crises, from the normalization of Sino-American relations to Trump-era rising tensions, The Struggle for Taiwan charts the paths to our present predicament to show what futures might be possible.

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    • The Final Chapter
    • By: Joy A. Steele, Gordon Fader
    • Narrated by: Genevieve Jones
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Legends, questions and theories abound about Oak Island, Nova Scotia, and tales of buried treasure there. For more than two centuries, the island has been studied, searched, probed and cursed all the while failing to give up its secrets....

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    • The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt
    • By: D'Arcy O'Connor
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Author D'Arcy O'Connor recounts the fascinating stories and amazing discoveries of past and current treasure seekers who have sought Oak Island's fabled treasure for over 200 years....

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