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    • The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead
    • By: Alan S. Blinder
    • Narrated by: Graham Vick
    • Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
    • In After the Music Stopped, Blinder delivers a masterful narrative of how the worst economic crisis in postwar American history happened, what the government did to fight it, and what we must do to recover from it....

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    • Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world....

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    • By: D.H. Montgomery
    • Narrated by: Keira Grace
    • Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
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    • David H Montgomery (1927 - 2011) was a professor of history at Yale University. The Beginner's American History was intended by the author as an introduction to basic American history; it aims to provide the facts to those beginning the study of US history....

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    • 1763 and the Transformation of North America
    • By: Colin G. Calloway
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since....

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    • 1763-1893
    • By: Frederic L. Paxson
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Though several historians had published works on America's westward expansion prior, Paxson's Pulitzer Prize winning study was groundbreaking in its complete and unified presentation....

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    • Antietam - The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln and Doomed Slavery
    • By: Justin Martin
    • Narrated by: James Edward Thomas
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • On September 17, 1862, the US was on the brink, facing a permanent split into two separate nations. America's very future hung on the outcome of a single battle - and the result reverberates to this day....

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    • John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War
    • By: Tony Horwitz
    • Narrated by: Dan Oreskes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • Best-selling author Tony Horwitz tells the electrifying tale of the daring insurrection that put America on the path to bloody war....

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    • A Biography
    • By: William E. Gienapp
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • In Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America, William Gienapp provides an up-to-date and vibrant biography of the most revered figure in United States history. While the heart of the book focuses on the Civil War, Gienapp begins with a finely etched portrait of Lincoln's early life....

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    • The Myth of the Religious Founding
    • By: Steven K. Green
    • Narrated by: Gregg Rizzo
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In Inventing a Christian America, Green, a leading historian of religion and politics, explores the historical record that is purported to support the popular belief in America's religious founding and status as a Christian nation....

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    • The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume III (Part 3 of a 3-Part Recording)
    • By: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Book 3.3
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,552 ratings
    • Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his 12 years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate....

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    • The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
    • By: Cameron McWhirter
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Author Cameron McWhirter chronicles the unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings that swept the country for eight months, from April to November of 1919, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society 40 years later....

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    • The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
    • By: John Taliaferro
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place....

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    • Appalachia Since 1945
    • By: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Neil Holmes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....

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    • The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953
    • By: Jeffrey Frank
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 17 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The nearly eight years of Harry Truman’s presidency—among the most turbulent in American history—were marked by victory in the wars against Germany and Japan....

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    • The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism
    • By: Diana B. Henriques
    • Narrated by: Karen Murray
    • Length: 16 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Taming the Street describes how President Franklin D. Roosevelt battled to regulate Wall Street in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing Great Depression....

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    • By: Margaret Walker
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,707 ratings
    • Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin....

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    • Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
    • By: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrated by: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,494 ratings
    • While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....

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    • The Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation
    • By: Steve Luxenberg
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 19 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Separate is a myth-shattering narrative of how a nation embraced "separation" and its pernicious consequences....

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