American History

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    • Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
    • By: Edward E Baptist
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy....

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    • Everything American History Textbooks Get Wrong
    • By: Dr. James W. Loewen, Rebecca Stefoff
    • Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Lies My Teacher Told Me is one of the most important - and successful - history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship....

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    • A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 57 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972....

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    • JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba
    • By: Jim Rasenberger
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • The U.S.-backed military invasion of Cuba in 1961 remains one of the most ill-fated blunders in American history, with echoes of the event reverberating even today....

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    • The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
    • By: Jane Mayer
    • Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 380 ratings
    • The Dark Side chronicles one of the most disturbing chapters in American history, one that will serve as the lasting legacy of the George W. Bush presidency....

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    • A History of America's Leaders
    • By: Franklin Taylor
    • Narrated by: K.C. Wayman
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Learn the stories and the struggles each president dealt with as we take a walk through the nation's development. Follow along as we discuss how the United States came into power, the leaders who shaped its development, and the wars that were fought to protect it....

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    • Lincoln's War Secretary
    • By: Walter Stahr
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Walter Stahr tells the story of Abraham Lincoln's indispensable secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union....

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    • The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
    • By: Nancy Isenberg
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash....

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    • A Life in Many Worlds
    • By: Huma Abedin
    • Narrated by: Huma Abedin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,175 ratings
    • The daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advocates, Abedin grew up in the United States and Saudi Arabia and traveled widely. Both/And grapples with family, legacy, identity, faith, marriage, motherhood - and work - with wisdom, sophistication, grace, and clarity....

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    • Lincoln, Little Crow, and the Beginning of the Frontier's End
    • By: Scott W. Berg
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • In August 1862, after decades of broken treaties, increasing hardship, and relentless encroachment on their lands, a group of Dakota warriors convened a council at the tepee of their leader, Little Crow....

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    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jonathan Levy
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present - and argues that we’ve reached yet another turning point that will define the era ahead....

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    • By: Erik Loomis
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers’ strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about....

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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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    • A New American Journey
    • By: Rinker Buck
    • Narrated by: Rinker Buck
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,122 ratings
    • In the best-selling tradition of Bill Bryson and Tony Horwitz, Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail is a major work of participatory history....

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