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The Haymarket Affair
- The History of the Riots in Chicago that Galvanized the Labor Movement
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
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Although it's no longer well known as a flashpoint, few things were as controversial during the late 19th century as the Haymarket Affair. Depending on one's perspective, the riots and the violence that ensued were the result of anarchist terrorists attacking law enforcement authorities with a homemade bomb that was detonated during a large public event, killing a police officer and wounding several more.
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The Haymarket Affair
- The History of the Riots in Chicago that Galvanized the Labor Movement
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-05-2017
- Language: English
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Windsor Castle
- The History of England's Oldest Castle Still in Use
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
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Windsor Castle is one of the most significant residences of the British Monarchy ever conceived, and it has continued to maintain that perfect balance between ancient traditions and modern needs. Built by a conqueror to defend his new domains, it now hosts tourist groups from around the world. The castle has often served as a refuge, with its early battlements offering shelter to royals for centuries, while the castle helped shield others from the attacks of French kings and the Nazis.
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Windsor Castle
- The History of England's Oldest Castle Still in Use
- Narrated by: Jim D. Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Release date: 10-02-2017
- Language: English
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The Glorious Revolution
- The History of the Overthrow of King James II of England by William of Orange
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
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The Enlightenment had been awakened by the European Age of Discovery, but the continent was also a seedbed of insurrection, holy wars, and volatility. People were growing weary of the unpredictable system of monarchy, a post that was inherited only by members of an exclusive bloodline or connection, one that often muted the voices of the people. Time and time again, grossly incompetent and seemingly diabolic rulers had come to power through the rigged regal system.
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The Glorious Revolution
- The History of the Overthrow of King James II of England by William of Orange
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 10 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2017
- Language: English
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Monet & Renoir
- The Lives and Legacies of the Famous Impressionist Artists
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
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To get a sense of the kind of prestige that Claude Monet enjoys within the art world, one need only learn that his Le Bassin Aux Nympheás (1919) - from his series of paintings featuring water lilies - sold for the equivalent of more than $70 million. This is a staggering price, especially considering that early in his life, Monet had been so poor and debt-ridden that some of his paintings were taken from him by creditors.
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Monet & Renoir
- The Lives and Legacies of the Famous Impressionist Artists
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 24-01-2017
- Language: English
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Halicarnassus
- The History and Legacy of the Ancient Greek City and Home to One of the Seven Wonders of the World
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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In 353 BCE, when King Mausolus of Halicarnassus passed away, his sister and queen Artemisia was inconsolable, but she found a way to honor him through finishing a project that they had started together during his life: the construction of a mausoleum that was so marvelous it would later be considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
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Halicarnassus
- The History and Legacy of the Ancient Greek City and Home to One of the Seven Wonders of the World
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 21-12-2016
- Language: English
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Lennon-McCartney: The Story of Music's Greatest Songwriting Duo
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
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Beatlemania had struck North America, creating a musical and pop culture phenomenon unlike anything the world had ever seen. At the center of it all was John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the principal songwriting duo who were instrumental in creating the soundtrack of the 1960s, while producing some of the world's most timeless classics. Together with George Harrison and Ringo Starr, Lennon and McCartney propelled The Beatles to unprecedented heights, experimenting with their sound in ways that revolutionized rock and inspired bands across various musical genres.
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Lennon-McCartney: The Story of Music's Greatest Songwriting Duo
- Narrated by: Robin McKay
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 30-06-2015
- Language: English
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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: The Czech Resistance's Killing of the Top Nazi Official During World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Todd Van Linda
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
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Cloak and dagger adventure, with daring commandos parachuted deep behind enemy lines to kill a sinister mastermind, belongs chiefly to the realm of thriller novels or films.
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The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich: The Czech Resistance's Killing of the Top Nazi Official During World War II
- Narrated by: Todd Van Linda
- Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
- Release date: 02-06-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Harriet Tubman
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Arthur P. Daniels
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
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Harriet Tubman is one of the most famous women in American history, and from an early age every American learns of her contributions to abolition and the Underground Railroad. The woman who became known as the Moses of her people personally led more than 13 expeditions to free slaves in the South, and she was so integral in helping escaped slaves achieve freedom that her name is practically synonymous with the Underground Railroad today.
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American Legends: The Life of Harriet Tubman
- Narrated by: Arthur P. Daniels
- Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
- Release date: 18-05-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of James Cagney
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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When the American Film Institute assembled a list of its top 100 actors, one of the top 10 was James Cagney, an actor whose acting and dancing talents spawned a career that spanned over five decades and once compelled Orson Welles to call him "maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera." Ultimately it was portraying tough guys and gangsters in the 1930s that turned Cagney into a massive star, the kinds of roles he was born to play after growing up rough in Manhattan at the turn of the 20th century.
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American Legends: The Life of James Cagney
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-05-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Gary Cooper
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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Hollywood has never had a shortage of actors who thrived in one genre, whether it was John Wayne in Westerns or James Cagney in gangster films, but few had success across the entire spectrum like Gary Cooper, who managed to earn five Academy Award nominations despite an untimely death that cut short his career. Those nominations came for comedies, Westerns, and dramas, with wins for High Noon and the World War I film Sergeant York.
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American Legends: The Life of Gary Cooper
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Henry Fonda
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Among all of Hollywood's iconic leading men, arguably none proved as versatile at acting as Henry Fonda, whose career spanned six decades and earned him Academy Awards for roles in various genres. After breaking into Hollywood in 1935, Fonda quickly rose the ranks, earning an Academy Award nomination in the classic Twelve Angry Men (1940), but Fonda had the kind of staying power that most actors could only dream of.
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American Legends: The Life of Henry Fonda
- Narrated by: James Romick
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 30-04-2015
- Language: English
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American Legends: The Life of Aretha Franklin
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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A certain inevitability characterizes the rise to fame of Aretha Franklin. Indeed, while it is true that neither of her parents were pop singers, they were each talented vocalists - Aretha's father, C.L., was a particularly famous preacher, with a voice so melodic that his sermons effectively doubled as musical performances. Moreover, in an age in which economic opportunities were particularly limited for African-Americans, Aretha was fortunate enough to grow up in a household of relative comfort.
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American Legends: The Life of Aretha Franklin
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 24-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Dust Bowl
- The History and Legacy of the Most Notorious Drought in American History
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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It is almost impossible to imagine today, but in the late 19th and early 20th century there were places where land was cheaper than food and more plentiful than water. During the homesteading period of the 1860s-1880s, the government typically offered land grants of 160 acres to any farmer who could get it cultivated within a certain amount of time. With that much land to make productive, and a limited number of years to get it cleared and planted, men would do whatever it took to get their crops in.
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The Dust Bowl
- The History and Legacy of the Most Notorious Drought in American History
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
- Release date: 13-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Sumerians
- The History and Legacy of the Ancient Mesopotamian Empire That Established Civilization
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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When American archaeologists discovered a collection of cuneiform tablets in Iraq in the late 19th century, they were confronted with a language and a people who were at the time only scarcely known to even the most knowledgeable scholars of ancient Mesopotamia: the Sumerians.
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The Sumerians
- The History and Legacy of the Ancient Mesopotamian Empire That Established Civilization
- Narrated by: Neil Holmes
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
- The History of the Central European Nation from Its Founding to Its Breakup
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
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On New Year’s Day 1993, Czechoslovakia broke into two separate countries, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Thus ended one of the creations brought about by the Treaty of Versailles after World War I, and as a country that had existed for just under 75 years, Czechoslovakia spent most of its time under the tyranny of fascism or communism. The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia examines how the multicultural nation was founded, the inherent tensions there, and how it eventually came apart. You will learn about Czechoslovakia like never before.
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The Dissolution of Czechoslovakia
- The History of the Central European Nation from Its Founding to Its Breakup
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 27-05-2019
- Language: English
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South Africa
- The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
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The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it, going back centuries. In fact, the European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, at the southern extremity of the African continent, which made landfall with a view to establishing a victualing station to service passing Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) ships.
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Great introduction to a turbulent history
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South Africa
- The History and Legacy of the Nation From European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 5 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 16-04-2019
- Language: English
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The Fall of Constantinople
- The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the End of the Byzantine Empire
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
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In terms of geopolitics, perhaps the most seminal event of the Middle Ages was the successful Ottoman siege of Constantinople in 1453.
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The Fall of Constantinople
- The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the End of the Byzantine Empire
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 4 mins
- Release date: 28-04-2015
- Language: English
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The Panzers: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany’s Most Famous Tanks During World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
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World War II was the culmination of a quarter century of tank development, and it would also be the first major test of tanks in mobile warfare. However, many of the tanks were constructed with the static warfare of the Western Front in mind and were thus slow and had short operational ranges. Others were too light to face opposing tanks or the new generation of anti-tank weapons that hadn’t existed in World War I. The unsuitability of these tank models for this new kind of warfare was quickly recognized, and the belligerent powers scrambled to create better designs.
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The Panzers: The History and Legacy of Nazi Germany’s Most Famous Tanks During World War II
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 2 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 29-05-2018
- Language: English
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The Long Range Desert Group and SAS
- The History and Legacy of Great Britain’s Most Elite Secret Units in North Africa During World War II
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
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The fighting in North Africa during World War II is commonly overlooked, aside from the famous battle at El Alamein that pitted the British under General Bernard Montgomery against the legendary "Desert Fox", Erwin Rommel. But while the Second Battle of El Alamein would be the pivotal action in North Africa, the conflict in North Africa began all the way back in the summer of 1940, when Italian dictator Benito Mussolini declared Italy’s entrance into the war, seeing an opportunity for Italy to enlarge its colonial holdings in Africa by seizing portions of the British Empire.
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The Long Range Desert Group and SAS
- The History and Legacy of Great Britain’s Most Elite Secret Units in North Africa During World War II
- Narrated by: Mark Norman
- Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2018
- Language: English
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The Three Kingdoms of Ancient China
- The History and Legacy of the Reunification of China After the Han Dynasty
- By: Charles River Editors, Jin Fang
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 50 mins
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One of the most turbulent and romanticized eras in ancient Chinese history is that of the three kingdoms period. During the third century AD in China, warlords battled for supremacy. This turbulent and bloody era is known as the three kingdoms period. It's also one of the most romanticized eras in Chinese history; heroes and villains like Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang have served has inspiration for poetry, novels, opera, and song in China.
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The Three Kingdoms of Ancient China
- The History and Legacy of the Reunification of China After the Han Dynasty
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 50 mins
- Release date: 04-11-2016
- Language: English
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