American History

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    • The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War
    • By: Joel H. Silbey
    • Narrated by: John H. Mayer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In the spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union....

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    • From the Discovery of the Continent
    • By: George Bancroft
    • Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
    • Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • Volume 6 of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. A Major U.S. History Series in 6 Volumes. “The Author’s Last Revision” 1891 by D. Appleton and Company....

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    • The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
    • By: Geoffrey Wawro
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Wawro
    • Length: 20 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • The American contribution to World War I is one of the great stories of the 20th century, and yet it has all but vanished from view. Sons of Freedom resurrects the brave heroes who saved the Allies, defeated Germany, and established the US as the greatest of the great powers....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism
    • By: Susan Berfield
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Woodward
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue and two of American history’s most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality....

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    • The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
    • By: Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,076 ratings
    • This program includes a bonus conversation with the authors. In 1776, an elite group of soldiers were handpicked to serve as George Washington’s bodyguards. Washington trusted them; relied on them. But unbeknownst to Washington, some of them were part of a treasonous plan....

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    • The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • With A Furious Sky, Eric Jay Dolin has created a vivid, sprawling account of our encounters with hurricanes, from the nameless storms that threatened Columbus's New World voyages to the destruction wrought in Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria....

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    • The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
    • By: Colin G. Calloway
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 23 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Colin Calloway's biography offers a fresh portrait of the most-revered American and the Native Americans whose story has been only partially told. It invites us to look again at the history of America's beginnings and see the country in a whole new light....

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    • The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted
    • By: Ian Millhiser
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • In this powerful indictment of a venerated institution, Ian Millhiser tells the history of the Supreme Court through the eyes of the everyday people who have suffered the most from it....

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    • By: Emory M. Thomas
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • A story of triumph and tragedy, this stunning biography provides a fascinating glimpse at the man behind the Civil War legend....

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    • Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country
    • By: Adam Kinzinger, Michael D'Antonio - contributor
    • Narrated by: Adam Kinzinger
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 396 ratings
    • On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to storm the US Capitol in attempts to overturn the presidential election. It was a betrayal of our Constitution, and one of the darkest days in recent history....

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    • James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
    • By: Robert W. Merry
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 531 ratings
    • When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over the rich lands of the Oregon Territory....

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    • FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
    • By: Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril....

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    • The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
    • By: Timothy Egan
    • Narrated by: Jacob York
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • In a tour de force of historical reportage, Timothy Egan’s National Book Award-winning story rescues an iconic chapter of American history from the shadows....

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    • The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive work about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history....

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    • Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner that Shocked a Nation
    • By: Deborah Davis
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to have dinner at the executive mansion with the First Family....

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    • A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
    • By: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Narrated by: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history....

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    • American Visionary
    • By: Fred Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 242 ratings
    • Meticulously researched and masterfully written, John Quincy Adams paints a rich portrait of this brilliant leader and his significance to the nation and our own lives....

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    • The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism
    • By: Steve Kornacki
    • Narrated by: Steve Kornacki, Ron Butler
    • Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,129 ratings
    • With novelistic prose and a clear sense of history, Steve Kornacki masterfully weaves together the various elements of this rambunctious and hugely impactful era in American history - the 1990s - whose effects set the stage for our current political landscape....

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