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  • African Founders Audiobook By David Hackett Fischer cover art

    • African Founders

    • How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
    • By: David Hackett Fischer
    • Narrated by: Lamarr Gulley
    • Length: 35 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

    • In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States....

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  • 1620 Audiobook By Peter W. Wood cover art

    • 1620

    • 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 518 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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  • In the Shadow of the Empress Audiobook By Nancy Goldstone cover art

    • In the Shadow of the Empress

    • The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
    • By: Nancy Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Emma Newman
    • Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 150 ratings

    • The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France....

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  • Fears of a Setting Sun Audiobook By Dennis C. Rasmussen cover art

    • Fears of a Setting Sun

    • 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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  • The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told Audiobook By Stephen Brennan - editor cover art

    • The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told

    • 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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  • Marooned Audiobook By Joseph Kelly cover art

    • Marooned

    • Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
    • By: Joseph Kelly
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • We all know the great American origin story: It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled "shining city on a hill"....

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  • The Ruin of All Witches Audiobook By Malcolm Gaskill cover art

    • The Ruin of All Witches

    • 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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  • A Stranger Among Saints Audiobook By Jonathan Mack cover art

    • A Stranger Among Saints

    • Stephen Hopkins, the Man Who Survived Jamestown and Saved Plymouth
    • By: Jonathan Mack
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • Sometime between 1610 and 1611, William Shakespeare wrote The Tempest. The idea for the play came from the real-life shipwreck in 1609 of the Sea Venture, which was caught in a hurricane and grounded on the coast of Bermuda....

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  • A Delusion of Satan Audiobook By Frances Hill cover art

    • A Delusion of Satan

    • The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials
    • By: Frances Hill
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 152 ratings
    • During the bleak winter of 1692 in the rigid Puritan community of Salem Village, Massachusetts, a group of young girls began experiencing violent fits, allegedly tormented by Satan....

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  • The New Age of Empire Audiobook By Kehinde Andrews cover art

    • The New Age of Empire

    • How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World
    • By: Kehinde Andrews
    • Narrated by: Kehinde Andrews
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

    • The New Age of Empire is a damning exploration of the many ways in which the effects and logic of anti-Black colonialism continue to inform our modern world.

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  • Danubia Audiobook By Simon Winder cover art

    • Danubia

    • 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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  • The Dutch Moment Audiobook By Wim Klooster cover art

    • The Dutch Moment

    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....

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  • The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told Audiobook By Stephen Brennan - editor cover art

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  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art

    • The Massachusetts Bay Colony

    • The History and Legacy of the Settlement of Colonial New England
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Tracey Norman
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • The first successful American colony in North America was settled in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia....

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  • The Pilgrims Audiobook By Captivating History cover art

    • The Pilgrims

    • A Captivating Guide to the Passengers on Board the Mayflower Who Founded the Plymouth Colony and Their Relationship with the Native Americans Along with Their Legacy in New England
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • Did you know that Plymouth was named by the explorer John Smith in 1608? Twelve years later, in 1620, the Pilgrims started their journey from Plymouth, England, and were blown off course, landing in Plymouth, North America....

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  • Roanoke Audiobook By Lee Miller cover art

    • Roanoke

    • Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
    • By: Lee Miller
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered....

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  • An Empire on the Edge Audiobook By Nick Bunker cover art

    • An Empire on the Edge

    • How Britain Came to Fight America
    • By: Nick Bunker
    • Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • The story of the American Revolution told from the unique perspective of British Parliament and the streets of London, rather than that of the Colonies....

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  • In Defense of German Colonialism Audiobook By Bruce Gilley cover art

    • In Defense of German Colonialism

    • And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West
    • By: Bruce Gilley
    • Narrated by: Damon Abernathy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings

    • The author of the groundbreaking "The Case for Colonialism" demonstrates that, contrary to modern presuppositions, German colonialism from its roots to the mid-twentieth century was overall a force for good in the world where development was encouraged and native governance flourished....

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  • Salem Possessed Audiobook By Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer cover art

    • Salem Possessed

    • The Social Origins of Witchcraft
    • By: Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials. From varied sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more fascinating than any other in the massive literature....  

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  • Tobacco Audiobook By Iain Gately cover art

    • Tobacco

    • A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
    • By: Iain Gately
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....

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