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The American Revolution
- A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
- By: Eric Porterfield
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
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Relive the revolution that gave birth to the United States as it stands today....
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INFORMATIVE!!
- By Grace on 10-02-24
By: Eric Porterfield
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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
- Unabridged
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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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I learned a lot...
- By Jon lanģley on 01-04-22
By: Wim Klooster
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The Name of War
- King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
- By: Jill Lepore
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves....
By: Jill Lepore
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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....
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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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
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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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A startling new view of world history
- By Andrew on 23-02-15
By: Charles C. Mann
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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 must read
- By Silviu Blajut on 04-11-18
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The American Revolution
- A Concise History from Colonial Rebellion to the War for Independence to the Constitution
- By: Eric Porterfield
- Narrated by: Daniel Winski
- Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Relive the revolution that gave birth to the United States as it stands today....
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INFORMATIVE!!
- By Grace on 10-02-24
By: Eric Porterfield
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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
- Unabridged
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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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I learned a lot...
- By Jon lanģley on 01-04-22
By: Wim Klooster
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The Name of War
- King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
- By: Jill Lepore
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Telling the story of what may have been the bitterest of American conflicts, and its reverberations over the centuries, Lepore has enabled us to see how the ways in which we remember past events are as important in their effect on our history as were the events themselves....
By: Jill Lepore
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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....
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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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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A startling new view of world history
- By Andrew on 23-02-15
By: Charles C. Mann
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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 must read
- By Silviu Blajut on 04-11-18
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Fredd Wayne
- Length: 6 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Ben Franklin's own lively story of his early years is a unique, fascinating, and influential look....
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A good insight into the character of the man
- By Andrew on 31-10-08
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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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Fascinating and well narrated
- By Chris F on 07-07-21
By: Andres Resendez
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The Amish
- The History and Legacy of One of America's Oldest and Most Unique Communities
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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In the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation took Europe by storm. The havoc wreaked saw the split of churches and the emergence of the Amish, led by Jakob Ammann....
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Neither interesting nor informative
- By Lena h. on 11-05-23
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Why We Love Pirates
- The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
- By: Rebecca Simon PhD
- Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
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During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd....
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Don't waste your time.
- By Kindle Customer on 16-10-22
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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
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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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One of the best
- By Dolores on 27-07-14
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Rosicrucian America
- How a Secret Society Influenced the Destiny of a Nation
- By: Steven Sora
- Narrated by: Nick McDougal
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Providing a thorough and expansive view of Rosicrucianism, its occult origins, and its deep imprint on America, Sora shows how this secret society still continues to exert invisible influence on the modern world....
By: Steven Sora
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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
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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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A very thorough book on the American Revolution
- By Alan Michael Forrester on 07-04-13
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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....
By: Hourly History
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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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Comprehensive introduction to America's independen
- By Ariel on 31-08-17
By: John Ferling
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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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interesting
- By Hannah Cairns on 15-07-22
By: Angus Konstam
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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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Good in parts
- By Jeremy Critchlow on 14-06-22
By: Emerson W. Baker
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The Once & Future Witch Hunt
- A Descendant's Reckoning from Salem to the Present
- By: Alice Markham-Cantor, Rebecca Traister - foreword, Silvia Federici - afterword
- Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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As the descendant of Martha Carrier, an accused woman executed at Salem, Alice Markham-Cantor presents a riveting story that spans centuries and brings the historical significance of the witch trials into modern times.
By: Alice Markham-Cantor, and others
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The Mayflower
- A Captivating Guide to a Cultural Icon in the History of the United States of America and the Pilgrims’ Journey from England to the Establishment of Plymouth Colony
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
- Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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In fact, of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, only about 40 were fleeing England for religious reasons. And if you want to learn more fascinating facts about this cultural icon, pay attention....
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A DESPERATE ATLANTIC CROSSING INTO THE UNKNOWN
- By Helen Unsworth on 09-09-21
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The First Salute
- A View of the American Revolution
- By: Barbara W. Tuchman
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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This compellingly written history presents a fresh, new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to American nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution....
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A fascinating time in history
- By Amazon Customer on 20-09-22
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Joseph Thompson
- Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs....
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Reader is a bot
- By Steve M. Potter on 03-03-24
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Native American History
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Mike Nelson
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the story of the gradual rise, sudden destruction, and slow recovery of the native people of North America....
By: Hourly History
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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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Cherokee Power
- Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670–1774 (New Directions in Native American Studies Series, Book 22)
- By: Kristofer Ray
- Narrated by: John Guccion
- Length: 5 hrs and 38 mins
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In Cherokee Power, Kristofer Ray highlights the role of the Overhill Cherokees in shaping imperial and Indigenous geopolitics in 17th- and 18th-century America....
By: Kristofer Ray
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Damned Women
- Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
- By: Elizabeth Reis
- Narrated by: Susan Marlowe
- Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft more often than men....
By: Elizabeth Reis
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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
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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.
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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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Which witch is which?
- By Dr Mark Thomas on 07-09-20
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A Man Most Driven
- By: Peter Firstbrook
- Narrated by: Barnaby Edwards
- Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery and then murdered his master to escape....
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Just Awesome
- By Nicola on 10-02-15
By: Peter Firstbrook
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The Americas
- A Captivating Guide to the History of the Continents of North and South America, Starting from the Olmecs Through the Maya and Aztecs to European Colonization and Independence Movements
- By: Captivating History
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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The one character trait that, sometimes, surpasses the human instinct for survival is curiosity. When humans discovered an entire hemisphere that lay beyond their own Eastern Hemisphere, the race was on. What opportunities would these new lands hold? Listen to find out more....
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A Very Important History Work!!!!
- By Alicia Fowler on 27-09-20
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Detestable and Wicked Arts
- New England and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Atlantic World
- By: Paul B. Moyer
- Narrated by: Scott Carrico
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
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In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies....
By: Paul B. Moyer