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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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  • 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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  • Deception on Sable Hill Audiobook By Shelley Gray cover art

    • Deception on Sable Hill

    • By: Shelley Gray
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Series: Chicago World's Fair Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

    • It’s mid-September 1893 and Eloisa Carstairs is the reigning debutant of Gilded Age Chicago society. To outsiders she appears to have it all. But Eloisa is living with a dark secret. Several months ago, she endured a horrible assault at the hands of Douglass Sloane....

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

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  • Steel Drivin' Man Audiobook By Scott Reynolds Nelson cover art

    • Steel Drivin' Man

    • John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
    • By: Scott Reynolds Nelson
    • Narrated by: Panama Jackson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In Steel Drivin' Man, Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time: the first rail route through the Appalachian Mountains....

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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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  • The Politicians and the Egalitarians Audiobook By Sean Wilentz cover art

    • The Politicians and the Egalitarians

    • The Hidden History of American Politics
    • By: Sean Wilentz
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 05-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

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  • From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend Audiobook By Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty cover art

    • From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

    • An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States
    • By: Priscilla Murolo, A.B. Chitty
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Praised for its "impressive even-handedness", From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend has set the standard for viewing American history through the prism of working people (Publishers Weekly, starred review)....

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  • Coxey's Crusade for Jobs Audiobook By Jerry Prout cover art

    • Coxey's Crusade for Jobs

    • Unemployment in the Gilded Age
    • By: Jerry Prout
    • Narrated by: Tim Toddhurst
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In the depths of a depression in 1894, a highly successful Gilded Age businessman named Jacob Coxey led a group of jobless men on a march from his hometown of Massillon, Ohio, to the steps of the nation's Capitol....

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  • The Jungle (AmazonClassics Edition) Audiobook By Upton Sinclair cover art

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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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  • 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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  • Leland Stanford Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art

    • Leland Stanford

    • The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California's Governor and the West's Most Famous Robber Baron
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Daniel Houle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • Leland Stanford: The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became California’s Governor and the West’s Most Famous Robber Baron chronicles the remarkable life of Stanford....

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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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  • Seduced by the Light Audiobook By Alexandra Rimer cover art

    • Seduced by the Light

    • The Mina Miller Edison Story
    • By: Alexandra Rimer
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America’s history. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison....

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  • Cuba Libre Audiobook By Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner cover art

    • Cuba Libre

    • A 500-Year Quest for Independence
    • By: Philip Brenner, Peter Eisner
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This timely book provides a balanced, deeply knowledgeable introduction to Cuba since 1492. Tracing the island's history over 500 years....

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  • Rebel Cinderella Audiobook By Adam Hochschild cover art

    • Rebel Cinderella

    • From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
    • By: Adam Hochschild
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 44 ratings

    • From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time....

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  • The Robber Barons: John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and Cornelius Vanderbilt Audiobook By Andrew Green cover art

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