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    • Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
    • By: Jay Atkinson
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • In 1697, a band of Abenaki warriors in service to the French raided the English frontier village of Haverhill, Massachusetts. Striking swiftly, the Abenaki killed 27 men, women, and children, and took 13 captives, including 39-year-old Hannah Duston and her week-old daughter....

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    • The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
    • By: Benjamin L. Carp
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than 46 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. Carp tells the full story, exploding myths....

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    • The Life of Mary Washington
    • By: Martha Saxton
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story....

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    • His Life and Times
    • By: Willard Sterne Randall
    • Narrated by: Mark Whitten
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation, from Paine to Madison....

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    • By: William Bradford
    • Narrated by: John Roy Potter
    • Length: 2 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Of Plymouth Plantation is a journal written by William Bradford, leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, between 1630 and 1651. Bradford’s journal is regarded as the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and the early years of the colony which they founded....

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    • An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England
    • By: Peter C. Mancall
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A new look at Thomas Morton, his controversial colonial philosophy, and his lengthy feud with the Puritans....

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    • Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent
    • By: Kathleen DuVal
    • Narrated by: Daniel Adam Day
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Author Kathleen DuVal argues that it was Indians rather than European would-be colonizers who were more often able to determine the form and content of the relations between the two groups....

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    • Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
    • By: Benedict Anderson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson's brilliant book on nationalism, forged a new field of study when it first appeared in 1983....

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    • The Syrian Congress of 1920 and the Destruction of its Historic Liberal-Islamic Alliance
    • By: Elizabeth F. Thompson
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity....

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    • The Wonder of the Age
    • By: John Rhodehamel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status....

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    • By: Michael Gannon - editor
    • Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
    • Length: 20 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is the heralded "definitive history" of Florida. No other book so fully or accurately captures the highs and lows, the grandeur and the craziness, the horrors and the glories of the past 500 years in the Land of Sunshine....

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    • By: Scott Dawson
    • Narrated by: Tim Getman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 301 ratings
    • For over 400 years, the mystery of Roanoke’s “Lost Colony” has puzzled historians and spawned conspiracies - until now. Hatteras native and amateur archaeologist Scott Dawson compiles what scholars know about the Lost Colony along with what scholars have found beneath the soil....

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    • A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It
    • By: C. Bradley Thompson
    • Narrated by: Tom Parks
    • Length: 18 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • The purpose of this book is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams once called the "real American Revolution"....

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    • A National History
    • By: Jorell Meléndez-Badillo
    • Narrated by: Tony Chiroldes
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Tony Chiroldes traces the multifaceted history of Puerto Rico from pre-Columbian times to today.

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    • A New History of King Philip’s War
    • By: Lisa Brooks
    • Narrated by: Rainy Fields
    • Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • A compelling and original recovery of Native American resistance and adaptation to colonial America....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Alan Gold
    • Narrated by: Elle Newlands
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Flora MacDonald was the most famous Scotswoman of her day, singlehandedly saving Bonnie Prince Charlie. This is her fictionalized life story....

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    • From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
    • By: Francis Fukuyama
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Series: Political Order, Book 2
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-30-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,866 ratings
    • Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today....

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