- Colonial Period (339)
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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
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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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Soo good I enjoy listening multiple times
- By Momo on 23-08-2023
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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
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Killing the Witches
- The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts....
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A huge listen: educational and entertaining
- By little cloud on 02-10-2023
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Indigenous Continent
- The Epic Contest for North America
- By: Pekka Hamalainen
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
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In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....
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First Nations’ sovereignty, survival and pride in the face of massive disruption
- By Toby Eccles on 24-01-2024
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George Washington
- The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
- By: David O. Stewart
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
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A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart....
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The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told
- By: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrated by: Keith O'Brien
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
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Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates....
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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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Soo good I enjoy listening multiple times
- By Momo on 23-08-2023
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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
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Killing the Witches
- The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts....
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A huge listen: educational and entertaining
- By little cloud on 02-10-2023
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Indigenous Continent
- The Epic Contest for North America
- By: Pekka Hamalainen
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....
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First Nations’ sovereignty, survival and pride in the face of massive disruption
- By Toby Eccles on 24-01-2024
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George Washington
- The Political Rise of America's Founding Father
- By: David O. Stewart
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 18 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart....
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The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told
- By: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrated by: Keith O'Brien
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the years, thousands of tales both true and fantastic have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates....
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The Deerfield Massacre
- A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- By: James L. Swanson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
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In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded....
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Why use 10 words when 60 will do
- By Rowey555 on 08-04-2024
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....
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A classic
- By Marita on 13-12-2018
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- By: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic....
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Conceived in Liberty
- By: Murray N. Rothbard
- Narrated by: Floy Lilley
- Length: 80 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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The new single-volume edition of Conceived in Liberty is here! After so many years of having to juggle four volumes, the Mises Institute has finally put it all together in a single book....
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Albion's Seed
- Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time....
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Almost a Miracle
- The American Victory in the War of Independence
- By: John Ferling
- Narrated by: David Baker
- Length: 26 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war....
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King Philip's War
- The History and Legacy of America's Forgotten Conflict
- By: Eric B. Schultz, Michael J. Tougias, Nathaniel Philbrick - foreword
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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The harrowing story of one of America's first and costliest wars - featuring a new foreword by best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick....
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- By: Harriet Jacobs
- Narrated by: Audio Élan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children....
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A Glimpse in Humanity’s Dark History
- By Amazon Customer on 21-11-2020
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The Salem Witch Hunt
- A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Edwin Andrews
- Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
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Decades after witch-hunting had begun to die down in Europe, North America was about to witness its bloodiest witch hunt in history. The Massachusetts of 1692 was a very different one to the state we know today....
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- By: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....
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Amazing History Lesson
- By Charlie on 19-11-2018
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William Penn: The Life and Legacy of the English Quaker Who Founded Pennsylvania
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Of all the original 13 colonies in America, only one owes its conception to one man, and Pennsylvania was and still remains bound up in the life and character of its founder, William Penn....
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Very informative
- By Joshua Ebert on 07-12-2022
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard....
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epic read.
- By Simon on 27-10-2022
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The Pirate Hunter
- By: Richard Zacks
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....
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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
- Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
- By: Edith M. Ziegler
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America....
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Needed more
- By Tezza on 02-07-2021
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Our First Civil War
- Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
- By: H. W. Brands
- Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? That is the question H. W. Brands answers....
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Salem Witch Trials
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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During the bitter winter of 1692/93, a group of young Puritan women in the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, accused more than 200 of their neighbors and fellow townspeople of using witchcraft to injure and torment them....
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This Land Is Their Land
- The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
- By: David J. Silverman
- Narrated by: William Roberts
- Length: 14 hrs and 55 mins
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Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story....
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Political Gastronomy
- Food and Authority in the English Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
- By: Michael A. LaCombe
- Narrated by: Andrew S. Troth
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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The first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 was a powerfully symbolic event and not merely the pageant of abundance that we still reenact today. In these early encounters between Indians and English in North America, food was also symbolic of power....
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Benjamin Franklin's Book of Virtues
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Jason McCoy
- Length: 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Our planet's narrative is a blend of resilience and adaptation. Despite challenges, the human spirit seeks progress and enlightenment. Our shared humanity unites us through stories, aspirations, and dreams....
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- By: Wim Klooster
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
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In The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast....
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Covered with Night
- A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
- By: Nicole Eustace
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....
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Atlantic Wars
- From the Fifteenth Century to the Age of Revolution
- By: Geoffrey Plank
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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In a sweeping account, Atlantic Wars explores how warfare shaped the experiences of the peoples living in the watershed of the Atlantic Ocean between the late Middle Ages and the Age of Revolution....
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A great mix of scholarship and entertainment.
- By Mark Henman on 30-07-2022
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The French and Indian War and the Conquest of New France
- By: William R. Nester
- Narrated by: Philip Benoit
- Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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The French and Indian War was the world's first truly global conflict....
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Story of a huge conflict now little known
- By Tim on 16-01-2023
New Releases
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Abigail Adams Remember the Ladies
- History, Book 42
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Amanda Dunlap
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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I am born on November 22, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. My name is Abigail Smith. Maybe my last name will change when I’m older. My family owns four slaves. Phoebe is a slave who takes care of me while I am a child. When I grow up, I want to teach our slaves to read and write, give them freedom, and pay them to work for me. I do not believe in slavery for men or ladies.
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Profiles in Freedom
- Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin
- By: Carl Higbie
- Narrated by: Eben Fowler
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and national news anchor of Carl Higbie Frontline on Newsmax TV, believes in REAL America and the need to remember the heroes who made this country great. In Profiles in Freedom, he reintroduces some of the Americans who made this great country what it is today.
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New Worlds for All
- Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment)
- By: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New Worlds for All, Colin G. Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America.
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The Deerfield Massacre
- A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- By: James L. Swanson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded, written by acclaimed historian James Swanson.
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Why use 10 words when 60 will do
- By Rowey555 on 08-04-2024
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Journal of a Trapper
- Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains
- By: Osborne Russell
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the rugged Rockies with Osborne Russell! Journey nine years through his trapper's journal, facing blizzards, bears, and bison while navigating life off the grid. Witness the clash of trappers and tribes, and glimpse the untamed beauty of a changing wilderness. This historical adventure unfolds in Russell's own words, offering a unique perspective on the early American West.
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The Currency of Empire
- Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
- By: Jonathan Barth
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation.
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Abigail Adams Remember the Ladies
- History, Book 42
- By: Rich Linville
- Narrated by: Amanda Dunlap
- Length: 10 mins
- Unabridged
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I am born on November 22, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts. My name is Abigail Smith. Maybe my last name will change when I’m older. My family owns four slaves. Phoebe is a slave who takes care of me while I am a child. When I grow up, I want to teach our slaves to read and write, give them freedom, and pay them to work for me. I do not believe in slavery for men or ladies.
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Profiles in Freedom
- Heroes Who Shaped America with a Foreword by Senator Markwayne Mullin
- By: Carl Higbie
- Narrated by: Eben Fowler
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL and national news anchor of Carl Higbie Frontline on Newsmax TV, believes in REAL America and the need to remember the heroes who made this country great. In Profiles in Freedom, he reintroduces some of the Americans who made this great country what it is today.
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New Worlds for All
- Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America (The American Moment)
- By: Colin G. Calloway
- Narrated by: James McSorley
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New Worlds for All, Colin G. Calloway explores the unique and vibrant new cultures that Indians and Europeans forged together in early America.
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The Deerfield Massacre
- A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
- By: James L. Swanson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding account of a forgotten chapter in American history: the deadly confrontation between Indians and colonists in Massachusetts in 1704 and the tragic saga that unfolded, written by acclaimed historian James Swanson.
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Why use 10 words when 60 will do
- By Rowey555 on 08-04-2024
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Journal of a Trapper
- Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains
- By: Osborne Russell
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 5 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Step into the rugged Rockies with Osborne Russell! Journey nine years through his trapper's journal, facing blizzards, bears, and bison while navigating life off the grid. Witness the clash of trappers and tribes, and glimpse the untamed beauty of a changing wilderness. This historical adventure unfolds in Russell's own words, offering a unique perspective on the early American West.
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The Currency of Empire
- Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
- By: Jonathan Barth
- Narrated by: John Harrison Gass
- Length: 14 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early years of North American history, and he shows how the control of money informed English imperial action overseas. The export-oriented mercantile economy promoted by the English Crown, Barth argues, directed the plan for colonization, the regulation of colonial commerce, and the politics of empire. The imperial project required an orderly flow of gold and silver, and thus England's colonial regime required stringent monetary regulation.