Colonial Period

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    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-11
    • Language: English
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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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    • The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • By: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-18
    • Language: English
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    • In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland....

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    • America's Most Notorious Pirate
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
    • By: Wim Klooster
    • Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
    • Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-15
    • Language: English
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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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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
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    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today....

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    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 19-03-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer....

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    • The Plymouth Puritans and the Beginning of English New England
    • By: Francis J. Bremer
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 23-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • Francis J. Bremer focuses on the role of religion in the settlement of the Plymouth Colony and how those values influenced political, intellectual, and cultural aspects of New England life 150 years before the American Revolution....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • The Man Who Made the Supreme Court
    • By: Richard Brookhiser
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The life of John Marshall, founding father and America's premier chief justice....

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    • The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
    • By: David L. Preston
    • Narrated by: Michael Quinlan
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On July 9, 1755, British and colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock suffered a crushing defeat to French and Native American enemy forces in Ohio Country....

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    • A Native History of Early America
    • By: Daniel K Richter
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Daniel K. Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity....

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    • Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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