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    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 135 ratings
    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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    • Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
    • By: Danielle L. McGuire
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil rights movement. Here's the truth....

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    • A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America
    • By: Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim
    • Narrated by: Chanté McCormick
    • Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Discover how - and why - Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’ arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement....

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    • How We Became a Nation of Heretics
    • By: Ross Douthat
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Ross Douthat offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails - and why it threatens to take American society with it....

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    • The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the American Slave Trade
    • By: Hannah Durkin
    • Narrated by: Tariye Peterside
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Dr. Hannah Durkin tells the immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors—the last documented survivors of any slave ship—whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways....

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    • How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It
    • By: Nancy Fraser
    • Narrated by: Kate Udall
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world....

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    • The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
    • By: Lizabeth Cohen
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life....

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    • Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Tanisha Ford
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball,” the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years.

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    • Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
    • By: Wil Haygood
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Award-winning author Wil Haygood details the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past 100 years....

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    • JFK in the Presidency
    • By: Mark K. Updegrove
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Mark K. Updegrove
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • An illuminating account of John F. Kennedy’s brief but transformative tenure in the White House, from acclaimed author and historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation and presidential historian for ABC News....

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    • Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009
    • By: Neal Gabler
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 46 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America....

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    • A Traveler's Guide to the People, Places, and Events That Made the Movement
    • By: Deborah D. Douglas
    • Narrated by: Deborah D. Douglas, Bree Newsome Bass, Rebecca Lee
    • Length: 17 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom. From witnessing eye-opening landmarks to celebrating triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail....

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    • A Global History of Prohibition
    • By: Mark Lawrence Schrad
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • As Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon....

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    • Why It Matters & Why You Should Care
    • By: Victor Ray
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory explains the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity....

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    • The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan
    • By: Kim Phillips-Fein
    • Narrated by: Lorna Raver
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America - and their profit margins - from socialism and the "nanny state"....

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    • African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
    • By: Gretchen Sorin
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Gretchen Sorin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life - the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie....

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    • The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter
    • By: Charlton D. McIlwain
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know....

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    • By: Dr. Marvin Dunn
    • Narrated by: Dr. Marvin Dunn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first book devoted to the history of African Americans in South Florida and their pivotal role in the growth and development of Miami, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century traces their triumphs, drudgery, horrors, and courage during the first 100 years of the city's history....

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    • Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation
    • By: Rawn James Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Brown v. Board of Education is widely considered a seminal point in the battle to end segregation, but it was in fact the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign....

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