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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
    • By: Les Standiford
    • Narrated by: John Dossett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the riveting story of Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers’ strike that transformed their fabled partnership into a furious rivalry....

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    • 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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    • 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 3 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Ethnic and Class Dynamics During the Era of American Industrialization
    • By: Robert F. Zeidel
    • Narrated by: Jim Woods
    • Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces....

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    • The Rapid Urbanization and Development in 19th Century USA
    • By: Kelly Mass
    • Narrated by: Chris Newman
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-22
    • Language: English
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    • The Gilded Age was a period in American history that covered the late 19th century, from the 1870s till around 1900. The Gilded Age was a period of great financial development in the United States, specifically in the North and West....

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    • Gilded Age Chicago Mysteries, Book 2
    • By: N. S. Wikarski
    • Narrated by: Ann Russek
    • Series: Gilded Age Chicago Mystery, Book 2
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 01-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • For the two amateur sleuths, a random drowning becomes intertwined with labor riots, a national railroad strike, a medium who speaks to the dead, a blackmailer, and a murderer intent on covering his tracks by any means necessary....

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    • The Life and Times of a Philadelphia Entrepreneur
    • By: Bill Double
    • Narrated by: Scott Carrico
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Introduced at the 1876 Centennial Exposition and powered by an historic advertising campaign, Hires Root Beer - launched 10 years before Coca-Cola - blazed the trail for development of the American soft drink industry. Its inventor, Charles Elmer Hires....

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    • Oscar Wilde in North America
    • By: Roy Morris Jr.
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • A chronicle of his sensational eleven-month speaking tour of America, Declaring His Genius offers an indelible portrait of both Oscar Wilde and the Gilded Age....

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    • Equal Opportunity at the Dawn of Corporate Capital
    • By: Claire Goldstene
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Goldstene uses a biographical approach to focus on key figures along a spectrum of political belief as they struggled to reconcile the inherent contradictions of equal opportunity....

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    • Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, & Henry Clay Frick: The Story of America’s Oil and Steel Founding Fathers
    • By: Richard Milton
    • Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • You are one click away from discovering the biographies of America’s oil and steel founding fathers, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, and Henry Clay Frick, that led to the Gilded Age....

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