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  • 100 Turning Points in American History Audiobook By Alan Axelrod cover art

    • 100 Turning Points in American History

    • By: Alan Axelrod
    • Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • “History is just one damn thing after another.” This book argues that history is not about “things” at all but is all about turning points—the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation’s life—our lives—depends....

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  • Baron Audiobook By Joanna Shupe cover art

    • Baron

    • The Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
    • By: Joanna Shupe
    • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson, Ryan Stone
    • Series: Knickerbocker Club, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • New York City's Gilded Age shines as bright as the power-wielding men of the Knickerbocker Club. And one pragmatic industrialist is about to learn that a man may make his own destiny, but love is a matter of fortune....

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  • XIT: A Story of Land, Cattle, and Capital in Texas and Montana Audiobook By Michael M. Miller cover art

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  • The Beneficiary Audiobook By Janny Scott cover art

    • The Beneficiary

    • Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
    • By: Janny Scott
    • Narrated by: Janny Scott
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 220 ratings

    • A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly compelling exploration of the degree to which an inheritance - financial, cultural, genetic - conspired in one person's self-destruction....

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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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  • The Winthrop Agreement Audiobook By Alice Sherman Simpson cover art

    • The Winthrop Agreement

    • A Novel
    • By: Alice Sherman Simpson
    • Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • A captivating historical novel set in Gilded Age New York City, The Winthrop Agreement is about an immigrant daughter’s ascent from a miserable tenement to the heights of haute couture, driven by an insatiable hunger for a place in society and secrets she must not betray....

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  • Madam Belle Audiobook By Maryjean Wall cover art

    • Madam Belle

    • Sex, Money, and Influence in a Southern Brothel
    • By: Maryjean Wall
    • Narrated by: Caroline Shively
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house: an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln....

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  • If This Is Love Audiobook By Naomi Finley cover art

    • If This Is Love

    • The Darlingtons, Book 1
    • By: Naomi Finley
    • Narrated by: April Doty
    • Series: Darlingtons, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-06-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • The year 1870. The onset of the Gilded Age. Times are changing, and so are the ideals centered around women, but Kat Darlington’s troubles go much deeper than the world’s inequality, and they occur closer to home....

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  • A New History of the American South Audiobook By W. Fitzhugh Brundage - Edited by, Laura F. Edwards - Edited by, Jon F. Sensb

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  • Going Big Audiobook By Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword cover art

    • Going Big

    • FDR’s Legacy, Biden’s New Deal, and the Struggle to Save Democracy
    • By: Robert Kuttner, Joseph E. Stiglitz - foreword
    • Narrated by: Robert Kuttner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings

    • Joe Biden has found his way back to Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. After four decades of diminishing prospects for ordinary people, the public likes what Biden is offering. Yet American democracy is in dire peril....

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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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  • The Irish Americans Audiobook By Jay P. Dolan cover art

    • The Irish Americans

    • A History
    • By: Jay P. Dolan
    • Narrated by: Jim McCabe
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America’s most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history....

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  • American History Audiobook By Paul Boyer cover art

    • American History

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Lee Goettl
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Ranging from the earliest Native American settlers to the presidency of Barack Obama, this Very Short Introduction offers an illuminating account of politics, diplomacy, and war as well as the full spectrum of social, cultural, and scientific developments that shaped our country....

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  • Smokelore Audiobook By Jim Auchmutey cover art

    • Smokelore

    • A Short History of Barbecue in America
    • By: Jim Auchmutey
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings

    • Barbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, the colonial era, slavery, the Civil War, the settling of the West, the coming of immigrants, the rise of the automobile, the expansion of suburbia....

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  • Making Catholic America Audiobook By William S. Cossen cover art

    • Making Catholic America

    • Religious Nationalism in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
    • By: William S. Cossen
    • Narrated by: Kyle Whisenant
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-24
    • Language: English
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    • Making Catholic America offers a new interpretation of American life in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, demonstrating the surprising success of an often-embattled religious group in securing itself a place in the national community.

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  • Taming the Octopus Audiobook By Kyle Edward Williams cover art

    • Taming the Octopus

    • The Long Battle for the Soul of the Corporation
    • By: Kyle Edward Williams
    • Narrated by: Jon Vertullo
    • Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • The untold story of how efforts to hold big business accountable changed American capitalism.

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  • Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (AmazonClassics Edition) Audiobook By Frederick Douglass cover art

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  • For Jobs and Freedom Audiobook By Robert H. Zieger cover art

    • For Jobs and Freedom

    • Race and Labor in America Since 1865
    • By: Robert H. Zieger
    • Narrated by: Wayne M. Lane
    • Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 02-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 describes the African American struggle to obtain equal rights in the workplace and organized labor's response to their demands....

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  • The Big Oyster Audiobook By Mark Kurlansky cover art

    • The Big Oyster

    • History on the Half Shell
    • By: Mark Kurlansky
    • Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
    • Length: 5 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 23 ratings

    • Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster....

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  • Nothing Like It in the World Audiobook By Stephen E. Ambrose cover art

    • Nothing Like It in the World

    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863 - 1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • In this account of an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage, Stephen E. Ambrose offers an historical successor to his universally acclaimed Undaunted Courage....

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