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    • Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
    • By: Susan Ware
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • Ware’s deeply moving stories provide a fresh account of one of the most significant moments of political mobilization in American history. The dramatic, often joyous experiences of these women resonate powerfully today, as a new generation of young women demands to be heard....

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    • St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States
    • By: Walter Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jamie Renell
    • Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis....

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    • A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
    • By: Betsy Prioleau
    • Narrated by: Beth Hicks
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women’s suffrage....

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    • By: Taylor Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A saga of power, greed, and illicit love set in the Gilded Age of upstate New York....

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    • By: Richard Hofstadter
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This work is a landmark in American political thought. Preeminent Richard Hofstadter examines the passion for progress and reform that colored the entire period from 1890 to 1940 with startling and stimulating results....

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    • An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
    • By: Ira Katznelson
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 256 ratings
    • In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review), Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of 20th century American history....

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    • Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
    • By: Doris Kearns Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann
    • Length: 16 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 196 ratings
    • Goodwin describes the broken friendship between Teddy Roosevelt and his chosen successor, William Howard Taft....

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    • The Recurring Crises of American Democracy
    • By: Suzanne Mettler, Robert C. Lieberman
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • While many Americans despair of the current state of US politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that to the contrary, the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy....

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    • The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams
    • By: David S. Brown
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 11-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • A “marvelous … compelling” (The New York Times Book Review) biography of literary icon Henry Adams - one of America’s most prominent writers and intellectuals, who witnessed and contributed to the United States’ dramatic transition from a colonial society to a modern nation....

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    • By: Murray N. Rothbard
    • Narrated by: Graham Wright
    • Length: 24 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Rothbard's posthumous masterpiece is the definitive book on the Progressives. It will soon be the must read study of this dreadful time in our past (from the foreword by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano)....

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    • The History of Labor in the United States
    • By: J. Albert Mann
    • Narrated by: Sandy Rustin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The History of Labor in the United States is an accessible and comprehensive YA history of the way the labor movement has shaped America and how it intersects with many of the major issues facing modern teens.

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    • And What Is at Stake
    • By: Sarah Chayes
    • Narrated by: Sarah Chayes
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • From the prize-winning journalist and internationally recognized expert on corruption in government networks throughout the world comes a major work that looks homeward to America, exploring the insidious, dangerous networks of corruption of our past, present, and precarious future....

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    • Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 16 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Saving America's Cities, Lizabeth Cohen follows the career of Edward J. Logue, whose shifting approach to the urban crisis tracked the changing balance between government-funded public programs and private interests....

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    • The Life of John Hay, from Lincoln to Roosevelt
    • By: John Taliaferro
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 22 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • John Taliaferro’s brilliant biography captures the extraordinary life of Hay, one of the most amazing figures in American history, and restores him to his rightful place....

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    • A History of Chicago
    • By: Robert G. Spinney
    • Narrated by: Doug McDonald
    • Length: 13 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600's to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinney presents Chicago in terms of the people whose lives made the city....

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    • Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?
    • By: Tom Wheeler
    • Narrated by: Tim H. Dixon
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Tom Wheeler provides an accessible and visionary book that connects the experiences of the late 19th century’s industrial Gilded Age with its echoes in the 21st century digital Gilded Age....

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