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  • These United States Audiobook By Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue cover art

    • These United States

    • A Nation in the Making, 1890 to the Present
    • By: Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Thomas J. Sugrue
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 28 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A powerful history of the making and unmaking of American democracy and global power, told in sweeping scope and intimate detail....

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  • The Last American Aristocrat Audiobook By David S. Brown cover art

    • The Last American Aristocrat

    • 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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  • All the Great Prizes Audiobook By John Taliaferro cover art

    • All the Great Prizes

    • 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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  • Gone to Texas Audiobook By Randolph B. Campbell cover art

    • Gone to Texas

    • A History of the Lone Star State
    • By: Randolph B. Campbell
    • Narrated by: Jacob Sommer
    • Length: 28 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the 21st Century....

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  • City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition Audiobook By Robert G. Spinney cover art

    • City of Big Shoulders: Second Edition

    • 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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  • Techlash Audiobook By Tom Wheeler cover art

    • Techlash

    • 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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  • Understanding Race, Labor, and Radicalism in the United States from the Unusual Perspective of Lucy Parsons Audiobook By Dere

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  • Jay Gould Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art

    • Jay Gould

    • The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould. Gould studied every aspect he could of the booming railroad industry of the Civil War era, and then parlayed his money and connections to end up on the right side of the stock market crash in 1869.

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  • The Last Dollar Princess Audiobook By Linda Bennett Pennell cover art

    • The Last Dollar Princess

    • A Young Heiress's Quest for Independence in Gilded Age America and George V's Coronation Year England
    • By: Linda Bennett Pennell
    • Narrated by: Ally Lane
    • Series: An American Heiress, Book 1
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • It must be said. Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time-after-time....

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  • Plutocrats Audiobook By Chrystia Freeland cover art

    • Plutocrats

    • The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
    • By: Chrystia Freeland
    • Narrated by: Allyson Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically....

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  • The Shanghai Secret Audiobook By Vanessa Lind cover art

    • The Shanghai Secret

    • The Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
    • By: Vanessa Lind
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Strecker
    • Series: Tidewater Chronicles, Book 1
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In the Gilded Age boomtown of Astoria, Oregon, Jo sets out to prove herself as a girl reporter. Following the trail of a missing maid, she finds her newspaper’s publisher dead. Left in charge of the paper, she discovers danger is a lot closer than she thinks....

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  • When Affirmative Action Was White Audiobook By Ira Katznelson cover art

    • When Affirmative Action Was White

    • 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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  • Rivers in the Desert Audiobook By Margaret Leslie Davis cover art

    • Rivers in the Desert

    • William Mulholland and the Inventing of Los Angeles
    • By: Margaret Leslie Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Rivers in the Desert follows the remarkable career of William Mulholland, the visionary who engineered the rise of Los Angeles as the greatest American city west of the Mississippi....

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  • Last Call Audiobook By Daniel Okrent cover art

    • Last Call

    • The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
    • By: Daniel Okrent
    • Narrated by: Daniel Okrent
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Last Call is capacious, meticulous, and thrillingly told. It stands as the most complete history of Prohibition ever written and confirms Daniel Okrent's rank as a major American writer....

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  • The Progressive Era Audiobook By Murray N. Rothbard cover art

    • The Progressive Era

    • 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 122 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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  • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe Audiobook By Mary Calvi cover art

    • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe

    • A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt's First Love
    • By: Mary Calvi
    • Narrated by: Lauren Ezzo
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy....

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  • Last Train to Paradise Audiobook By Les Standiford cover art

    • Last Train to Paradise

    • Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad That Crossed an Ocean
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: Richmond Hoxie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • The fast-paced and gripping true account of the extraordinary construction and spectacular demise of the Key West Railroad - one of the greatest engineering feats ever undertaken, destroyed in one fell swoop by the strongest storm ever to hit US shores....

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  • Iron Empires Audiobook By Michael Hiltzik cover art

    • Iron Empires

    • Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Tecoksy
    • Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings

    • In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of short, squabbling lines, America's railways soon exploded into a titanic industry helmed by a pageant of speculators, crooks, and visionaries....

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  • The House That Sugarcane Built: The Lousiana Burguieres Audiobook By Donna McGee Onebane cover art

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  • Uneven Ground Audiobook By Ronald D Eller Ph.D. cover art

    • Uneven Ground

    • Appalachia Since 1945
    • By: Ronald D Eller Ph.D.
    • Narrated by: Neil Holmes
    • Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history....

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