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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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The Lost Tribe
- By Joanne McInnes on 29-03-2018
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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Really good
- By Rowey555 on 13-12-2024
By: Andres Resendez
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Astor
- The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....
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More like a gossip column
- By Amazon Customer on 15-12-2024
By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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I have been recommending this to everyone
- By Timothy Llewellyn on 16-11-2021
By: Malcolm X, and others
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Jim Bridger
- Trailblazer of the American West
- By: Jerry Enzler
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of....
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Most detailed history of a great American Pioneer and Explorer
- By David Murphy on 11-03-2025
By: Jerry Enzler
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....
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A really interesting topic addressed with excellent research, the book looses its fluency by overloaded detail
- By james gardiner on 07-08-2024
By: William Strauss, and others
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Braiding Sweetgrass
- Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
- By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science....
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The Lost Tribe
- By Joanne McInnes on 29-03-2018
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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Really good
- By Rowey555 on 13-12-2024
By: Andres Resendez
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Astor
- The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune....
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More like a gossip column
- By Amazon Customer on 15-12-2024
By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- As Told to Alex Haley
- By: Malcolm X, Alex Haley
- Narrated by: Laurence Fishburne
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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In this searing classic autobiography, originally published in 1965, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and Black empowerment activist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Human Rights movement....
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I have been recommending this to everyone
- By Timothy Llewellyn on 16-11-2021
By: Malcolm X, and others
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Jim Bridger
- Trailblazer of the American West
- By: Jerry Enzler
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of....
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Most detailed history of a great American Pioneer and Explorer
- By David Murphy on 11-03-2025
By: Jerry Enzler
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play....
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A really interesting topic addressed with excellent research, the book looses its fluency by overloaded detail
- By james gardiner on 07-08-2024
By: William Strauss, and others
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Operation Paperclip
- The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America
- By: Annie Jacobsen
- Narrated by: Annie Jacobsen
- Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In the chaos following World War II, the US government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project....
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Great book overall
- By Mr Peter Brennan on 19-06-2019
By: Annie Jacobsen
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UFOs & Nukes, Second Edition
- Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
- By: Robert Hastings
- Narrated by: Michael Hacker
- Length: 22 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The reality of UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons facilities has been convincingly established. Over the past four decades, renowned researcher Robert Hastings has interviewed more than 150 of those veterans regarding their involvement in these astounding cases.
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Great story facts reported as found.
- By C&C Perry on 28-03-2025
By: Robert Hastings
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MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)
- By: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella, Clay Newcomb
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creators of the New York Times bestselling series Campfire Stories: Close Calls comes a new original audiobook that brings to life the bold, hair-raising, and often tragic adventures of a generation of eighteenth-century frontiersmen: the Long Hunters....
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Fantastic recounting
- By Anonymous User on 20-01-2025
By: Steven Rinella, and others
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The Innovators
- How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Dennis Boutsikaris
- Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet....
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Great book.
- By NICK G on 29-05-2015
By: Walter Isaacson
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Covert Regime Change
- America's Secret Cold War: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
- By: Lindsey A. O'Rourke
- Narrated by: Gary Roelofs
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O’Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on covert cases misses the basic causes of regime change....
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Boring and unstructured
- By Barrie Machin on 09-07-2024
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The Fourth Turning Is Here
- What the Seasons of History Tell Us About How and When This Crisis Will End
- By: Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Neil Howe
- Length: 20 hrs and 29 mins
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Twenty-five years ago, Neil Howe and the late William Strauss dazzled the world with a provocative new theory of American history. Looking back at the last 500 years, they’d uncovered a distinct pattern: modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting roughly 80 to 100 years....
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This will change your future life development.
- By Jack on 15-02-2025
By: Neil Howe
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The Ride of Her Life
- The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
- By: Elizabeth Letts
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Letts, Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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From the number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion comes the triumphant true story of a woman who rode her horse across America in the 1950s, fulfilling her dying wish to see the Pacific Ocean....
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the believable story
- By Janet Catesby on 12-03-2024
By: Elizabeth Letts
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All the President's Men
- By: Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the book that changed America....
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Very relevant to current political events
- By The Quiet Reader on 04-06-2018
By: Bob Woodward, and others
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The Indifferent Stars Above
- The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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In early December 1846, starving and desperate, Sarah Graves and 14 other pioneers led by George Donner set out for California on snowshoes and over the next 32 days endured almost unfathomable hardships and horrors....
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Incredibly in-depth look at The Donner Party
- By Lisa A Kearney on 06-01-2021
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Against All Odds
- A True Story of Ultimate Courage and Survival in World War II
- By: Alex Kershaw
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
- Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice “Footsie” Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war....
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Top class story telling
- By Pipc on 02-08-2023
By: Alex Kershaw
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Kosciuszko
- The incredible life of the man behind the mountain
- By: Anthony Sharwood
- Narrated by: Anthony Sharwood
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Heroes are hard to come by - but there's one man whose legend has stood the test of two centuries, and whose name sits on Australia's highest peak. Tadeusz Kosciuszko: freedom fighter, friend of Thomas Jefferson and champion of liberty on two continents.
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Witty informative and fun.
- By Bernie on 11-12-2024
By: Anthony Sharwood
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Nelson Runger
- Length: 24 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us - an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings....
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Rather verbose
- By Richard on 07-01-2019
By: Walter Isaacson
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Vanderbilt
- The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
- By: Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe
- Narrated by: Anderson Cooper
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s family, the Vanderbilts.
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Excellent
- By JayGee on 22-01-2025
By: Anderson Cooper, and others
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Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
- The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside
- By: Nick Offerman
- Narrated by: Nick Offerman
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times best-selling author Nick Offerman....
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Smug liberal sermon
- By Anonymous User on 18-09-2023
By: Nick Offerman
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Pacific Thunder
- The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944
- By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 13 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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On 27 October 1942, four "Long Lance" torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet....
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Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon
- Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops, and the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream
- By: David McGowan
- Narrated by: Bill Fike
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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The very strange but nevertheless true story of the dark underbelly of a 1960s hippie utopia. Laurel Canyon in the 1960s and early 1970s was a magical place....
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2.5 stars
- By Hannah Gardner on 27-09-2020
By: David McGowan
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MeatEater's American History
- The Mountain Men (1806-1840)
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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From the creators of the New York Times bestselling audio series Campfire Stories and MeatEater’s American History comes a new audiobook original that plunges listeners into the untamed world of a celebrated and misunderstood group of nineteenth-century outdoorsmen: the Mountain Men.
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Not as good as the Long Hunters
- By Anonymous User on 04-06-2025
By: Steven Rinella
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Say Hello to the Bad Guys
- How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
- By: Marc Raimondi
- Narrated by: Marc Raimondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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From ESPN reporter Marc Raimondi comes a compelling, gripping narrative history of professional wrestling’s legendary faction, The NWO (New World Order), from their inception in 1996 to their influence on American pop culture today.
By: Marc Raimondi
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Made in America
- By: Bill Bryson
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
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In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....
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Very entertaining account of American vocabulary
- By Aileen on 03-07-2015
By: Bill Bryson
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Ministry of Truth
- Democracy, Reality, and the Republicans' War on the Recent Past
- By: Steve Benen
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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For as long as historical records have existed, authoritarian regimes have tried to rewrite history to suit their purposes, using their dictatorial powers to create myths, spread propaganda, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes.
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Reality
- By Anonymous User on 19-10-2024
By: Steve Benen
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The Chosen Few
- A Company of Paratroopers and Its Heroic Struggle to Survive in the Mountains of Afghanistan
- By: Gregg Zoroya, William H. McRaven - foreward
- Narrated by: Gregg Zoroya
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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The never-before-told story of one of the most decorated units in the war in Afghanistan and its fifteen-month ordeal that culminated in the 2008 Battle of Wanat, the war's deadliest....
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Such an emotional story.
- By Lisa on 29-11-2018
By: Gregg Zoroya, and others
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Private Empire
- ExxonMobil and American Power
- By: Steve Coll
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 24 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power....
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Highly recommended
- By Rowey555 on 04-06-2024
By: Steve Coll
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1493
- Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
- By: Charles C. Mann
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....
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Astonishingly wonderful.
- By Keith Bielamowicz on 12-01-2022
By: Charles C. Mann
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And the Band Played On
- Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic
- By: Randy Shilts
- Narrated by: Victor Bevine
- Length: 31 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Upon its first publication 20 years ago, And The Band Played On was quickly recognized as a masterpiece of investigatve reporting....
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Should be mandatory reading for all
- By Rachel on 29-08-2016
By: Randy Shilts
New Releases
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Early American Sex Scandals
- By: Cassandra Good, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Cassandra Good
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
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From the founding of the United States to the aftermath of the Civil War, sex scandals made headlines and influenced politics across the country. In the six lectures of Early American Sex Scandals, Dr. Cassandra Good of Marymount University will take you on a revealing journey through some of the most influential and notorious scandals of America’s first century.
By: Cassandra Good, and others
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Burning Down the House
- Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
- By: Jonathan Gould
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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“Psycho Killer.” “Take Me to the River.” “Road to Nowhere.” Few artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads. One of the foundational bands of downtown New York’s 1970s music scene, Talking Heads have endured as a musical and cultural force for decades, their unique brand of transcendent, experimental rock a lingering influence on popular music—despite having disbanded over thirty years ago. Now on the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation, acclaimed music biographer and contributor to The New Yorker Jonathan Gould offers the definitive story of Talking Heads.
By: Jonathan Gould
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Trump’s Triumph
- America's Greatest Comeback
- By: Newt Gingrich
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Newt Gingrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich takes listeners inside the most significant political comeback in American history and explains where the Trump movement goes from here.
By: Newt Gingrich
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Say Hello to the Bad Guys
- How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
- By: Marc Raimondi
- Narrated by: Marc Raimondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1996, professional wrestling was one of the most watched sports on cable television, with more than 5 million people tuning in every week. And in the late 1990s, pro-wrestling was the hottest thing in American pop culture, with companies making millions in action figures, video games, and simple black t-shirts emblazoned with three little letters: NWO. The NWO, or New World Order, became a business like no other, and was responsible for the explosive ratings and rabid fanbase.
By: Marc Raimondi
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Connecting to Our Ancestral Past
- Healing Through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual
- By: Francesca Mason Boring
- Narrated by: Autumn Silvas
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cultures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for millennia.
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Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
- By: Barry M. Andrews
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A study of the spiritual practices developed by the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist movement and a case for their necessity today.
By: Barry M. Andrews
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Early American Sex Scandals
- By: Cassandra Good, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Cassandra Good
- Length: 2 hrs and 29 mins
- Original Recording
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From the founding of the United States to the aftermath of the Civil War, sex scandals made headlines and influenced politics across the country. In the six lectures of Early American Sex Scandals, Dr. Cassandra Good of Marymount University will take you on a revealing journey through some of the most influential and notorious scandals of America’s first century.
By: Cassandra Good, and others
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Burning Down the House
- Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
- By: Jonathan Gould
- Narrated by: Jason Culp
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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“Psycho Killer.” “Take Me to the River.” “Road to Nowhere.” Few artists have had the lasting impact and relevance of Talking Heads. One of the foundational bands of downtown New York’s 1970s music scene, Talking Heads have endured as a musical and cultural force for decades, their unique brand of transcendent, experimental rock a lingering influence on popular music—despite having disbanded over thirty years ago. Now on the 50th anniversary of the band’s formation, acclaimed music biographer and contributor to The New Yorker Jonathan Gould offers the definitive story of Talking Heads.
By: Jonathan Gould
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Trump’s Triumph
- America's Greatest Comeback
- By: Newt Gingrich
- Narrated by: Charles Constant, Newt Gingrich
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Newt Gingrich takes listeners inside the most significant political comeback in American history and explains where the Trump movement goes from here.
By: Newt Gingrich
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Say Hello to the Bad Guys
- How Professional Wrestling's New World Order Changed America
- By: Marc Raimondi
- Narrated by: Marc Raimondi
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1996, professional wrestling was one of the most watched sports on cable television, with more than 5 million people tuning in every week. And in the late 1990s, pro-wrestling was the hottest thing in American pop culture, with companies making millions in action figures, video games, and simple black t-shirts emblazoned with three little letters: NWO. The NWO, or New World Order, became a business like no other, and was responsible for the explosive ratings and rabid fanbase.
By: Marc Raimondi
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Connecting to Our Ancestral Past
- Healing Through Family Constellations, Ceremony, and Ritual
- By: Francesca Mason Boring
- Narrated by: Autumn Silvas
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cultures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for millennia.
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Transcendentalism and the Cultivation of the Soul
- By: Barry M. Andrews
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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A study of the spiritual practices developed by the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist movement and a case for their necessity today.
By: Barry M. Andrews
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The Great Miscalculation
- The Race to Save New York City's Citicorp Tower
- By: Michael M. Greenburg
- Narrated by: Mitch Crawford
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The Citicorp Center, a fifty-nine-story skyscraper built in 1977, immediately became one of the most recognizable features on the New York City skyline with its distinctive inclined roof and oddly placed support columns. Designed by one of the top structural engineers in the field, William LeMessurier, the tower would become the crown jewel of his professional career; In essence, he created a skyscraper on stilts. The building was a modern marvel—until it was revealed that it had a one in sixteen chance of collapse.
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They Had Names
- Tracing the History of the North American Indigenous People
- By: Nathaniel Jeanson
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Jeanson
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Before the Pilgrims landed at Cape Cod, what was happening in North America? Who was there? What civilizations rose and fell? For years, the answers to these questions have been shrouded in mystery. At the time of European contact, a diverse world of Native peoples thrived across the continent. What was their backstory? Who were the ancestors of the Sioux? Where did the Navajo come from? What about the Apache, the Comanche, the Cherokee?
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Skylab
- The History and Legacy of America’s First Space Station
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 1 hr and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1869, the Atlantic Monthly magazine published a new novella in serial form. This bizarre tale, The Brick Moon, was written by a historian (and Unitarian minister) named Edward Everett Hale, who had already written several well-received novels and articles. However, this was something completely different today, as it was in the genre of what is today considered science fiction. Many people compared the new work to the previous novels of French writer Jules Verne, including From the Earth to the Moon, but Hale’s work was presented as a genuine account of a previous experiment.
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Echoes of a Lost America
- Unraveling the Murder of JFK
- By: Monika Wiesak
- Narrated by: Monika Wiesak
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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November 22, 1963—a date seared into the collective memory—marked a decisive moment that fundamentally shifted the course of history. Yet, John F. Kennedy’s assassination remains shrouded in mystery. What exactly transpired on that devastating day in Dallas and in the months leading up to it? What were the essential components needed to pull off the crime of the century? Who emerged victorious and who suffered defeat, both in the immediate aftermath and in the decades that ensued? And how did the perpetrators ensure they would not face consequences?
By: Monika Wiesak
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The Beast in the Clouds
- The Roosevelt Brothers's Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
- By: Nathalia Holt
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
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During the 1920s, dozens of expeditions scoured the Chinese and Tibetan wilderness in search of the panda bear, a beast that many believed did not exist. When the two eldest sons of President Theodore Roosevelt sought the bear in 1928, they had little hope of success. Together with a team of scientists and naturalists, they accomplished what a decade of explorers could not, ultimately introducing the panda to the West. In the process, they documented a vanishing world and set off a new era of conservation biology.
By: Nathalia Holt
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The Invincible Twelfth
- The 12th South Carolina Infantry of the Gregg-McGowan Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia
- By: Benjamin L. Cwayna
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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The regiment’s career commenced with an ignominious defeat in its initial engagement on the South Carolina coast at Port Royal Sound in 1861. This demoralizing event could have set the regiment on a trajectory of self-fulfilling failure and catastrophe.
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American Scare
- Florida's Hidden Cold War on Black and Queer Lives
- By: Robert W. Fieseler
- Narrated by: Desmond Manny
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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In January 1959, Art Copleston was escorted out of his college accounting class by three police officers. In a motel room, blinds drawn, he sat in front of a state senator and the legal counsel for the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, nicknamed the “Johns Committee.” His crime? Being a suspected homosexual. And the government of Florida would use any tactic at their disposal—legal or not—to get Copleston to admit it.
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W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919
- By: David Levering Lewis
- Narrated by: Courtney B. Vance
- Length: 35 hrs and 3 mins
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This monumental biography by David Levering Lewis—eight years in the research and writing—treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year period that demonstrates how W.E.B. Du Bois changed forever the way Americans think about themselves. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of the poet and the impatience of the agitator.
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The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
- By: Alrutheus Ambush Taylor
- Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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An available audiobook in cooperation with Spoken Realms. The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction (1924) by Alrutheus Ambush Taylor Narrated by Joseph Tabler.
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War Against All Puerto Ricans
- Revolution and Terror in America's Colony
- By: Nelson A. Denis
- Narrated by: Luis Vega
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination.
By: Nelson A. Denis
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What Would Mrs. Astor Do?
- The Essential Guide to the Manners and Mores of the Gilded Age (Washington Mews Books, Book 5)
- By: Cecelia Tichi
- Narrated by: Cecelia Tichi, Carol Monda, Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
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Mark Twain called it the Gilded Age. Between 1870 and 1900, the United States’ population doubled, accompanied by an unparalleled industrial expansion and an explosion of wealth. America was the foremost nation of the world, and New York City was its beating heart. There, the richest and most influential—Thomas Edison, J. P. Morgan, Edith Wharton, the Vanderbilts, Andrew Carnegie, and more—became icons, whose comings and goings were breathlessly reported in the papers of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. It was a time of abundance, but also bitter rivalries.
By: Cecelia Tichi
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Charlottesville
- An American Story
- By: Deborah Baker
- Narrated by: Deborah Baker
- Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour of their arrival, the city’s historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far-right cadres battled activists in the streets. Before the weekend was over, a neo-Nazi had driven a car into a throng of counterprotesters, killing a young woman and injuring dozens.
By: Deborah Baker
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The Old U(VA) and I 1961-1965
- By: Frank Briggs
- Narrated by: Steve Knupp
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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The Old U(VA) and I: 1961-1965
By: Frank Briggs
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The Corpsewood Manor Murders in North Georgia
- By: Amy Petulla
- Narrated by: Sarah Welborn
- Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
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In 1982, Tony West and Avery Brock made a visit to notorious Corpsewood Manor under the pretense of a celebration. They brutally murdered their hosts. Dr. Charles Scudder and companion Joey Odom built the "castle in the woods" in the Trion forest after Scudder left his position as professor at Loyola. He brought with him twelve thousand doses of LSD. Rumors of drug use and Satanism swirled around the two men. Scudder even claimed to have summoned a demon to protect the estate. The murders set the stage for a trial vibrant with local lore.
By: Amy Petulla
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Hidden History of Spanish New Mexico
- Hidden History
- By: Ray John de Aragón
- Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
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New Mexico's Spanish legacy has informed the cultural traditions of one of the last states to join the union for more than four hundred years, or before the alluring capital of Santa Fe was founded in 1610. The fame the region gained from artist Georgia O'Keefe, writers Lew Wallace and D. H. Lawrence, and pistolero Billy the Kid has made New Mexico an international tourist destination.
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How to Go Mad Without Losing Your Mind
- Madness and Black Radical Creativity
- By: La Marr Jurelle Bruce
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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"Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly." So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce's urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping meanings of madness: the lived experience of an unruly mind, the psychiatric category of serious mental illness, the emotional state also known as "rage," and any drastic deviation from psychosocial norms.
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Michigan's Strychnine Saint
- The Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight
- By: Tobin T. Buhk
- Narrated by: Will Tulin
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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The spring of 1903 proved disastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died in her crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasm before she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and child to the grave after suffering from a crippling convulsion. While neighbors whispered about a curse and physicians feared a contagious disease, Kalkaska County sheriff John W. Creighton and prosecuting attorney Ernest C. Smith searched for answers. As they probed deeper into the suspicious deaths, they uncovered a wicked web of intrigue.
By: Tobin T. Buhk
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That Day in Dallas
- Lee Harvey Oswald Did NOT Kill JFK
- By: Robert K. Tanenbaum
- Narrated by: Jeff Moon
- Length: 3 hrs and 21 mins
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That Day in Dallas: Lee Harvey Oswald Did Not Kill JFK is best described as a prosecution by Robert K. Tanenbaum of those corrupt, unscrupulous government and unelected agency officials, who from inception with predetermined outcomes, deceitfully engaged in insecure, phony pretense probes regarding the assassination in Dealey Plaza. Those responsible are prosecuted while those who speak truth to power are exonerated.
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American Maccabee
- Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews
- By: Andrew Porwancher
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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A scion of the Protestant elite, Theodore Roosevelt was an unlikely ally of the waves of impoverished Jewish newcomers who crowded the docks at Ellis Island. Yet from his earliest years he forged ties with Jews never before witnessed in a president. American Maccabee traces Roosevelt's deep connection with the Jewish people at every step of his dazzling ascent. But it also reveals a man of contradictions whose checkered approach to Jewish issues was no less conflicted than the nation he led.
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Mysteries of the Inca
- History, Book 46
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Dannelle Ennis
- Length: 14 mins
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Where did the ancestors of the Inca come from? How did the Inca Empire develop? Who was the founder of the Inca civilization? What caused the downfall of the Inca?
By: Rich Linville
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The Founders' Curse
- James Monroe's Struggle Against Political Parties
- By: Brook Poston
- Narrated by: Marlin May
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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From the Revolutionary War to his death in 1831, James Monroe's life was dominated by partisan politics. Monroe not uniquely among the American founders hated political parties, even writing that he "always considered their existence as the curse of the country." Yet his career saw the rise, fall, and rebirth of American political parties.
By: Brook Poston
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Their Accomplices Wore Robes
- How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System
- By: Brando Simeo Starkey
- Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
- Length: 24 hrs and 59 mins
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A magisterial new history of the role of the Supreme Court as an ally in implementing and preserving a racial caste system in America, Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes listeners from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court—even more than the presidency or Congress—aligned with the enemies of Black progress to undermine the promise of the Constitution’s Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
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Deadwood
- A History from Beginning to Present (Old West)
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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In 1874, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led a US Army expedition into the Black Hills of South Dakota, which was at that time under the control of the Lakota people. To the expedition members, this was unknown territory on the leading edge of the American frontier. The purpose of the expedition was not only to find a possible location for a fort and a route through the Black Hills to the Southwest but also to investigate rumors of gold deposits. Custer’s cavalry and infantry were accompanied by specialist miners and geologists whose role was to search for that gold.
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The Turtle, the Mitten, and an Epic History of Michigan
- By: Aaron Helman
- Narrated by: Aaron Helman
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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Part travel, part history, part adventure, and 100% Pure Michigan, The Turtle, The Mitten, and An Epic History of Michigan tells the irresistible story of the Wolverine State from the receding glaciers to the indigenous tribes to the European colonialists to the lumber kings, auto barons, and culture shapers who helped create the America we recognize today.
By: Aaron Helman