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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 62 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 Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
    • By: Scott Weidensaul
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....

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    • A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
    • By: Simon Winder
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 22 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 175 ratings
    • From the end of the Middle Ages to the First World War, Europe was dominated by one family: the Habsburgs. Their unprecedented rule is the focus of Simon Winder's vivid third book, Danubia. Thrillingly informative, Danubia is a treat that listeners will be eager to dip into....

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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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    • By: Thomas Jefferson
    • Narrated by: Philip Withers
    • Length: 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) served his country in many capacities - architect, naturalist, and linguist, author of the Declaration of Independence, and President of the United States. Not a conventional autobiography, this memoir is more of a summary of his life's work....

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    • A Life in Nine Pieces
    • By: Laura Tunbridge
    • Narrated by: Laura Tunbridge
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The iconic image of Beethoven is of him as a lone genius: hair wild, fists clenched, and brow furrowed. Beethoven may well have shaped the music of the future, but he was also a product of his time, influenced by the people, politics, and culture around him....

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    • A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
    • By: Nicole Eustace
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....

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    • A History of the British Empire
    • By: Caroline Elkins
    • Narrated by: Adam Barr
    • Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe....

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    • Life and Death in the New World
    • By: Malcolm Gaskill
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate....

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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 Families, the Voyage, and the Founding of America
    • By: Rebecca Fraser
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • A vivid narrative history of the Mayflower and of the Winslow family, who traveled to America in search of a new world....

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    • The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England
    • By: James A. Warren
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 73 ratings
    • A devout Puritan minister in 17th-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance....

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    • The Conquest of the New World
    • By: David E. Stannard
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 14 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • Historian David E. Stannard argues in this stunning new book, the European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the House of Austria and the Impact the Habsburgs Had on the Holy Roman Empire
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The Habsburg family ruled central Europe since the early medieval times to World War I, but they still exist as one of the most prestigious Austrian families. To keep themselves in such high positions, the Habsburgs had to develop unique strategies to fight their political enemies....

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    • A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500
    • By: Peter H. Wilson
    • Narrated by: Rory Alexander
    • Length: 34 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • German military history is typically viewed as an inexorable march to the rise of Prussia and the two world wars, the road paved by militarism and the result a specifically German way of war. Peter Wilson challenges this narrative....

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    • Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • In his first book of history, Away Off Shore, New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick reveals the people and the stories behind what was once the whaling capital of the world....

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    • A Critical Response to the 1619 Project
    • By: Peter W. Wood
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • Was America founded on the auction block in Jamestown in 1619 or aboard the Mayflower in 1620? The controversy erupted in August 2019 when the New York Times announced its 1619 Project....

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    • By: Cassandra Good, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Good
    • Length: 4 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 524 ratings
    • In the 10 lessons of America’s Founding Women, you will uncover the very real stories of the women who helped shape the United States as it underwent its transformation from a British colony to a fledgling nation....

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    • The History of the Dutch Settlement Before It Became New York City
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dave Wright
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Manhattan has long been part of a bustling community, even before it formed the backbone of New York City....

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