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The Colonization of South Africa
- The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
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The European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships...The Colonization of South Africa: The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa looks at the controversial expeditions, fighting, and results...you will learn about the colonization of South Africa like never before.
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The Colonization of South Africa
- The History and Legacy of the European Subjugation of South Africa
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 05-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- The History of America's Most Controversial Espionage Trial
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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The case of Alger Hiss and the rise of McCarthyism were undoubtedly instrumental in the way that one of the most notorious cases in American history unfolded in the early 1950s. After years of keeping tabs on Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the two Communist sympathizers were indicted on charges of treason and conspiracy to commit espionage for passing off secrets about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
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The Case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
- The History of America's Most Controversial Espionage Trial
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 12-01-2017
- Language: English
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: The History of the USSR Under Mikhail Gorbachev
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs
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The Cold War moved into one of its most dangerous phases after Brezhnev’s death as both sides deployed nuclear weapons within alarming proximity in Europe. A NATO exercise, “Operation Able Archer”, almost led to a Soviet miscalculation, and when the Soviets shot down a South Korean airliner in September 1983, claiming it had strayed into Soviet airspace, the Cold War became very tense indeed.
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The Collapse of the Soviet Union: The History of the USSR Under Mikhail Gorbachev
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs
- Release date: 08-08-2019
- Language: English
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The Roman Forum: The History and Legacy of the Center of Rome's Empire
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Steve Rausch
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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The Roman Empire is the most famous in history, and the center of the far-reaching empire's activities were located in the Forum, a low area between the Capitoline and Palatine hills in Rome. The topography held a great deal of significance for Romans, and consequently so many layers of myth were laid on top of the landscape and buildings that it is difficult to separate legend from actual historical fact.
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The Roman Forum: The History and Legacy of the Center of Rome's Empire
- Narrated by: Steve Rausch
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 18-06-2015
- Language: English
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Portuguese Macau
- The History and Legacy of the Autonomous Chinese Territory That Became the Last European Colony in Asia
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
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Portuguese Macau examines how this tiny foothold managed to last as a European possession for so long, and the dynamics that led to China establishing sovereignty over it at the end of the 20th century.
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Portuguese Macau
- The History and Legacy of the Autonomous Chinese Territory That Became the Last European Colony in Asia
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 32 mins
- Release date: 17-07-2018
- Language: English
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Poseidon
- The Origins and History of the Greek God of the Sea
- By: Charles River Editors, Andrew Scott
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Poseidon is one of the most easily recognizable characters in all of ancient Greek mythology. His signature trident is iconic; one sight of it invariably floods the modern mind with images of aquatic chariots and daunting typhoons. But there is so much more to the character of Poseidon than maritime denizens and disasters, which shouldn't really come as a surprise.
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Poseidon
- The Origins and History of the Greek God of the Sea
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 19-05-2017
- Language: English
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Operation Mockingbird
- The Controversial History of the CIA’s Efforts to Manipulate American Media Outlets
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
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Freedom of the press isn’t just a fundamental right in America but a key part of the democratic process. When the United States secured its independence against Britain in the War of Independence in 1783, there was no certainty about what the new country would look like in terms of national governance. In 1787, delegates from the various states convened in Philadelphia to draft a constitution that would define this.
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Operation Mockingbird
- The Controversial History of the CIA’s Efforts to Manipulate American Media Outlets
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2024
- Language: English
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The Acropolis of Athens: The History of Greece's Most Famous Landmark
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Robert Slone
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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The Acropolis, which literally means "a city on the heights", is a citadel whose currently surviving structures were mostly built during the fifth century BC in honor of Athena, the patron goddess of Athens. It functioned as a sacred precinct that contained the city's most important religious and municipal structures, many of which have remained relatively intact for over 2,000 years.
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The Acropolis of Athens: The History of Greece's Most Famous Landmark
- Narrated by: Robert Slone
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 22-05-2015
- Language: English
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The Scramble for Africa: The History and Legacy of the Colonization of Africa by European Nations During the New Imperialism Era
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
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The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a manner as to avoid provocation of war.
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- By Jack mullumby on 19-11-2019
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The Scramble for Africa: The History and Legacy of the Colonization of Africa by European Nations During the New Imperialism Era
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Release date: 29-06-2017
- Language: English
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The Formation of the United Nations
- The History of the Negotiations That Brought About the World’s Biggest International Organization
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
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On November 29, 1943, as the Allies’ primary leaders met in Tehran, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt described to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin his idea for the organization that would become the United Nations. The American president suggested that the active arm of the organization be “the Four Policemen”: the U.S., USSR, UK, and China. Stalin agreed with much of the framework in principle, but asserted that China likely would not possess the strength after the war to assist.
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The Formation of the United Nations
- The History of the Negotiations That Brought About the World’s Biggest International Organization
- Narrated by: KC Wayman
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-06-2025
- Language: English
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Fighting the Third Crusade
- The Lives and Legacies of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Christopher Hudspeth
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
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Saladin is widely considered one of the greatest generals in history and one of the most famous leaders of the Middle Ages, but he remains a paradox, both in personal and in historical terms. A military genius, he first served other generals and was overshadowed, late in life, by his greatest rival, Richard I of England. He was far more admired by his Christian enemies, who extolled his chivalry, than some of his Muslim rivals, who fought him for control of Egypt and Syria in the 12th century.
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Fighting the Third Crusade
- The Lives and Legacies of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin
- Narrated by: Christopher Hudspeth
- Length: 1 hr and 57 mins
- Release date: 09-07-2015
- Language: English
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King Arthur: The History and Folklore of the Arthurian Legend
- By: Charles River Editors, Jesse Harasta
- Narrated by: Sabrina Z
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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King Arthur is one of the most famous names in history, and his name still evokes visions of fantasy, chivalry, bravery, and more even today. Arthur remains a pop culture fixture around the globe, made famous in various Arthurian tales written by writers like Chretien de Troyes. Arthur came to embody the ideals of the Middle Ages: strength, chivalry, bravery, and more. Along the way, his Excalibur sword, the Holy Grail, his queen, and more have all become household words.
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King Arthur: The History and Folklore of the Arthurian Legend
- Narrated by: Sabrina Z
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 08-04-2015
- Language: English
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Anubis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife
- By: Charles River Editors, Markus Carabas
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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Anubis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife looks at the god that had such a decisive impact on the Egyptians’ concepts of death and afterlife. You will learn about Anubis like never before.
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Anubis: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God of the Afterlife
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Release date: 23-10-2018
- Language: English
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Henry Clay Frick
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad and Steel Magnate Who Became One of America’s Most Famous Art Collectors
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
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The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things belonging to others. Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, few were as influential as Henry Clay Frick, who rubbed shoulders with men like J.P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie while overseeing some of the era’s biggest companies.
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Henry Clay Frick
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad and Steel Magnate Who Became One of America’s Most Famous Art Collectors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 30 mins
- Release date: 02-10-2018
- Language: English
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Jay Gould
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Of all the men labeled as robber barons during the Gilded Age, nobody was as notorious during his time as Jason Gould, known to his few friends as Jay and his many enemies by names not suitable to print. Famed editor Joseph Pulitzer called Gould “[o]ne of the most sinister figures that ever flitted, bat-like, across the vision of the American people,” and Robert G. Ingersoll said of him, “I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.”
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Jay Gould
- The Life and Legacy of the Railroad Executive Who Became America’s Most Notorious Robber Baron
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 12-09-2018
- Language: English
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Horus
- The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God Who Was the Son of Isis and Osiris
- By: Charles River Editors, Markus Carabas
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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There are few characters in Egyptian myth whose image and name are more widely known than Horus. His name most probably means “The Distant One”; as the celestial falcon, his wings were believed to span the length of the distant sky, and his eyes were the sun and the moon. This name betrays the connection Horus shared with Re, the “all-powerful” sun god, and also hints at his earlier incarnation as one of the earliest celestial gods in Egyptian religious belief.
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Horus
- The History and Legacy of the Ancient Egyptian God Who Was the Son of Isis and Osiris
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 06-06-2018
- Language: English
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Medieval Ireland: The History and Legacy of the Irish During the Middle Ages
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
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There are very few national relationships quite as complicated and enigmatic as the one that exists between the English and the Irish. For two peoples so interconnected by geography and history, the depth of animosity that is often expressed is difficult at times to understand. At the same time, historic links of family and clan, and common Gaelic roots, have at times fostered a degree of mutual regard, interdependence, and cooperation that is also occasionally hard to fathom. During World War I, for example, Ireland fought for the British Empire as part of that empire.
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Medieval Ireland: The History and Legacy of the Irish During the Middle Ages
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Release date: 02-05-2018
- Language: English
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The Crimean War
- The History and Legacy of the Conflict That Modernized Warfare and Weakened Tsarist Russia
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
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Some have called the Crimean War history’s most unnecessary war, and while it is misunderstood, often overlooked, and sometimes ignored, it also involved many of the 19th century’s major powers, namely Russia, Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Austria, as well as men from lands these powers would call their empires. It was a war bridging the old with the new, mixing Napoleonic fighting styles and modern weapons, old world diplomacy and modern communications, and the traditional rules of war and modern death tolls.
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The Crimean War
- The History and Legacy of the Conflict That Modernized Warfare and Weakened Tsarist Russia
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 25-01-2019
- Language: English
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The History of the Civil War
- The Causes, Battles, and Generals of the War Between the States
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 24 hrs and 41 mins
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The Civil War was the deadliest conflict in American history, and had the two sides realized it would last four years and inflict over a million casualties, it might not have been fought. Since it was, however, historians and history buffs alike have been studying and analyzing the biggest battles ever since. Americans have long been fascinated by the Civil War, marveling at the size of the battles, the leadership of the generals, and the courage of the soldiers.
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The History of the Civil War
- The Causes, Battles, and Generals of the War Between the States
- Narrated by: Chris Abell
- Length: 24 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2015
- Language: English
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The Diadochi
- The History of Alexander the Great’s Successors and the Wars That Divided His Empire
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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In 323 BCE, Alexander the Great was on top of the world; on June 11, 323 B.C., Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, Hegemon of the League of Corinth, King of Kings, died. The Diadochi: The History of Alexander the Great’s Successors and the Wars That Divided His Empire chronicles how Alexander’s legendary conquests shaped the next several centuries, and how the successor generals carved out various empires. You will learn about the Diadochi like never before.
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The Diadochi
- The History of Alexander the Great’s Successors and the Wars That Divided His Empire
- Narrated by: Daniel Houle
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 13-03-2020
- Language: English
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