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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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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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    • Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
    • By: Robert M. Utley
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you....

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    • The Social Origins of Witchcraft
    • By: Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-18
    • Language: English
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    • The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials. From varied sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more fascinating than any other in the massive literature....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    • By: Betty Boyd Caroli
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 18-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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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    • A New History of the English Civil War
    • By: Jessie Childs
    • Narrated by: Miranda Raison
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • The Civil War was the most traumatic conflict in British history, pitting friends and family members against each other and tearing down the old order. Jessie Childs plunges the listener into the shock of the struggle through one of its most dramatic episodes: the siege of Basing House....

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    • Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
    • By: Kyle Longley
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales. In the US, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President LBJ. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
    • By: John Ehle
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds....

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    • By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers....

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    • How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
    • By: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Frangione Jim
    • Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age....

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    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • By: Nick Estes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

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    • Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
    • By: Walter Johnson
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself....

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • A History of New York City to 1898
    • By: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Series: Gotham, Book 1
    • Length: 67 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898....

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