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    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,413 ratings
    • In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

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    • From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
    • By: Ned Sublette
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 233 ratings
    • Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation....

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    • Salem, 1692
    • By: Stacy Schiff
    • Narrated by: Eliza Foss
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 858 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the number one national best seller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse....

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    • The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Marilynne K. Roach
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 169 ratings
    • Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials....

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    • America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
    • By: Akhil Reed Amar
    • Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
    • Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • In The Words That Made Us, Akhil Reed Amar unites history and law in a vivid narrative of the biggest constitutional questions early Americans confronted, and he expertly assesses the answers they offered....

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    • The American Victory in the War of Independence
    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 26 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 428 ratings
    • In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 832 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 610 ratings
    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

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    • By: Stephen Brennan - editor
    • Narrated by: Mark Ashby
    • Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown....

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    • The Salem Trials and the American Experience
    • By: Emerson W. Baker
    • Narrated by: Marc Vietor
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....

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    • The Long Year of Revolution
    • By: Mary Beth Norton
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book - the first to look at the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from December 1773 to mid-April 1775....

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    • By: William Bradford, Harold Paget
    • Narrated by: Matthew McAuliffe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 226 ratings
    • The most important and influential source of information about the Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony, this landmark account was written between 1630 and 1647. It vividly documents the Pilgrims' adventures....

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    • A Short History of the French and Indian War
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 613 ratings
    • Apart from The Last of the Mohicans, most Americans know little of the French and Indian War, and yet it remains one of the most fascinating periods in our history....

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    • Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
    • By: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Narrated by: Dougald Hine, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
    • Length: 11 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show up for ourselves, our communities, and the living Earth, and to interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet we’re part of....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • A Transatlantic History
    • By: David D. Hall
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 21 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • A panoramic new history of Puritanism in England, Scotland, and New England....

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    • Strategist and Visionary
    • By: Wolfram Siemann, Daniel Steuer - translator
    • Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
    • Length: 36 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Wolfram Siemann paints a fundamentally new image of the man who shaped Europe for over four decades. He reveals Metternich as more modern and his career much more forward-looking than we have ever recognized....

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    • The Disillusionment of America's Founders
    • By: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident, particularly by the end of their lives....

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