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    • By: Jennifer Potter
    • Narrated by: Charlotte Strevens
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 403 ratings
    • Their ages ranged from 16 to 28, and they were deemed "young and uncorrupt". Each had a bride price of 150 pounds of tobacco set by the Virginia Company, which funded their voyage. Though the women had all gone of their own free will, they were to be sold into marriage....

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    • Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jan Maxwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,001 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent...

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    • A View of the American Revolution
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 422 ratings
    • This compellingly written history presents a fresh, new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to American nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution....

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    • The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 523 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

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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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    • The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • By: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 201 ratings
    • In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland....

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    • A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.

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    • A Family History
    • By: Serena Zabin
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The story of the Boston Massacre - when on a late winter evening in 1770, British soldiers shot five local men to death - is familiar to generations. But many accounts have obscured a fascinating truth: the Massacre arose from conflicts that were as personal as they were political....

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    • By: Adam Jortner, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Adam Jortner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 315 ratings
    • The 12 lectures included in this fascinating course provide multi-layered insights into the vision, philosophies, politics, and deep-seated faith of these brilliant leaders - in their own time, in their own words...

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    • Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World
    • By: Greg King, Sue Woolmans
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • Drawing on unpublished letters and rare primary sources, King and Woolmans tell the true story behind the tragic romance and brutal assassination that sparked World War I....

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    • The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
    • By: Glenn F. Williams
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • Known to history as "Dunmore's War", the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field....

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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • The Fuhrer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals
    • By: James Longo
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • As he rose to power, Hitler's hatred toward the Habsburgs and their diverse empire fixated on Franz Ferdinand's sons, who became outspoken critics of the Nazi party and its racist ideology. When Germany seized Austria in 1938, they were the first two Austrians arrested by the Gestapo....

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    • 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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    • How Wilderness and War Forged America's Founding Father
    • By: Peter Stark
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 15 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, Young Washington offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation....

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    • Exposing the Plan to Divide America
    • By: Mary Grabar
    • Narrated by: Liisa Ivary
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • According the New York Times’ “1619 Project”, America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World....

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    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system....

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