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  • The Weeping Time Audiobook By Anne C. Bailey cover art

    • The Weeping Time

    • Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
    • By: Anne C. Bailey
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, more than 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale....

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  • The Battle of Bretton Woods Audiobook By Benn Steil cover art

    • The Battle of Bretton Woods

    • John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order
    • By: Benn Steil
    • Narrated by: Philip Rose
    • Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

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  • Occult America Audiobook By Mitch Horowitz cover art

    • Occult America

    • White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation
    • By: Mitch Horowitz
    • Narrated by: Mitch Horowitz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • The story of the American occult has remained largely untold. Now a leading writer on the subject of alternative spirituality brings it out of the shadows. Here is a rich, fascinating, and colorful history of a religious revolution and an epic of offbeat history....

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  • American Gun Audiobook By Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson cover art

    • American Gun

    • The True Story of the AR-15 Rifle
    • By: Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 14 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II....

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  • The Kennedy Brothers Audiobook By Richard D. Mahoney cover art

    • The Kennedy Brothers

    • The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall....

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  • Empire Audiobook By Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele cover art

    • Empire

    • The Life, Legend, and Madness of Howard Hughes
    • By: Donald L. Barlett, James B. Steele
    • Narrated by: Christopher Hurt
    • Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 230 ratings
    • Howard Hughes lived one of the greatest, most heroic, misunderstood, mysterious, bizarre, and tragic lives in American history....

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  • Love and Hate in Jamestown Audiobook By David A. Price cover art

    • Love and Hate in Jamestown

    • John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
    • By: David A. Price
    • Narrated by: Josh Innerst
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings

    • A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World....

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  • The Changing Face of American Society 1945 - 2000 Audiobook By Christopher Collier, James Lincoln Collier cover art

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  • Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849 Audiobook By Patrick Newman cover art

    • Cronyism: Liberty Versus Power in Early America, 1607-1849

    • By: Patrick Newman
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Like Rothbard before him, Dr. Newman has authored a book that is masterfully researched and captivatingly written. Even the most voracious listener of American history will never see some of America's "Great Men" the same way again....

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  • William McKinley Audiobook By Kevin Phillips, Arthur M. Schlesinger cover art

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  • A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth Audiobook By James Tejani cover art

    • A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth

    • The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
    • By: James Tejani
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • Historian James Tejani charts the Port of Los Angeles's rise out of the mud and salt marsh of San Pedro estuary.

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  • The Hidden History of Neoliberalism Audiobook By Thom Hartmann cover art

    • The Hidden History of Neoliberalism

    • How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings

    • While America is at a crossroads regarding its economic future, many of us don’t fully understand how we got here. In this powerful and accessible book, Thom Hartmann demystifies neoliberalism and outlines the impact that it has had on America....

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  • Master of the Senate Audiobook By Robert A. Caro cover art

    • Master of the Senate

    • The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
    • By: Robert A. Caro
    • Narrated by: Stephen Lang
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 298 ratings
    • Master of the Senate carries Lyndon Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods...

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  • Freedom from the Market Audiobook By Mike Konczal cover art

    • Freedom from the Market

    • America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand
    • By: Mike Konczal
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom....

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  • Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition Audiobook By Kenneth C. Davis cover art

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  • The End of the Myth Audiobook By Greg Grandin cover art

    • The End of the Myth

    • From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
    • By: Greg Grandin
    • Narrated by: Eric Pollins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings

    • From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump’s border wall....

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  • America's Religious History Audiobook By Thomas S. Kidd cover art

    • America's Religious History

    • Faith, Politics, and the Shaping of a Nation
    • By: Thomas S. Kidd
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

    • Even while parts of America are becoming more secular, the nation as a whole remains deeply religious. In America’s Religious History, historian Thomas S. Kidd traces the roots and development of American religion from colonial times to the 21st century....

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  • Slavery and the Civil War: What Your History Teacher Didn't Tell You Audiobook By Garry Bowers cover art

    • Slavery and the Civil War: What Your History Teacher Didn't Tell You

    • A Handbook to Combat Revisionist History
    • By: Garry Bowers
    • Narrated by: George Bagby
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings

    • Nothing in American history has ever equaled the death and destruction of the intense and bloody warfare of 1861-1865 between Americans. For later generations, such a horror must have the comfort of a moral justification....

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  • Commodore Audiobook By Edward J. Renehan Jr. cover art

    • Commodore

    • The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
    • By: Edward J. Renehan Jr.
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The definitive biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th-century transportation tycoon who accumulated the largest private fortune in U.S. history....

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  • Railroaded Audiobook By Richard White cover art

    • Railroaded

    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 139 ratings

    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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