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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,039 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....

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    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,209 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • A History of the Greater United States
    • By: Daniel Immerwahr
    • Narrated by: Luis Moreno
    • Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,423 ratings
    • Author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light....

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    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,691 ratings
    • Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....

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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 65 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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    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,124 ratings
    • The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....

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    • George Washington
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 924 ratings
    • From the French and Indian War to Mount Vernon, from the American Revolution to the presidency, Ellis delivers what will stand as the definitive biography of the greatest American icon....

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    • America's Most Notorious Pirate
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard....

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    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,106 ratings
    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • A City, a Siege, a Revolution
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Series: The American Revolution Series, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,046 ratings
    • In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the American Revolution....

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    • Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
    • By: Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 35 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice....

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    • A Continental History, 1750-1804
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
    • Length: 18 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 505 ratings
    • The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation....

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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 2,404 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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    • To Rule the World
    • By: Martyn Rady
    • Narrated by: Simon Boughey
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries - from their rise to power to their eventual downfall....

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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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    • 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 225 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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