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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier - the boundary between complex Native cultures and the first colonizing Europeans.Here is the older, wilder, darker history of a time when the land between the Atlantic and the Appalachians was contested ground - when radically different societies adopted and adapted the ways of the other, while struggling for control of what all considered to be their land.
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interesting and accessible.
- By Amazon Customer on 15-11-24
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-11-12
- Language: English
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Walter Isaacson, Holter Graham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
- Narrated by: Walter Isaacson, Holter Graham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Release date: 18-11-25
- Language: English
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George Washington
- The Wonder of the Age
- By: John Rhodehamel
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has established himself as an authority of our nation's preeminent founding father. Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status.
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George Washington
- The Wonder of the Age
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 21-02-17
- Language: English
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Republic and Empire
- Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence
- By: Trevor Burnard, Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinces in the British world in 1776. What of the loyal half? Why did some of Britain's subjects feel so aggrieved that they wanted to establish a new system of government, while others did not rebel? In this authoritative history, Trevor Burnard and Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy show that understanding the long-term causes of the American Revolution requires a global view.
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Republic and Empire
- Crisis, Revolution, and America's Early Independence
- Narrated by: Al Kessel
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 20-01-26
- Language: English
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A Land As God Made It
- Jamestown and the Birth of America
- By: James Horn
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs
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The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history "An absolutely terrific book." —New York Times In this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England's first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown...
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A Land As God Made It
- Jamestown and the Birth of America
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 28-07-26
- Language: English
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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. This makes it easier to listen to and makes clearer just what a contribution this book is to the history of libertarian literature. There's never been a better time to remember the revolutionary and even libertarian roots of the American founding, and there's no better guide to what this means in the narrative of the colonial period than Murray Rothbard.
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Conceived in Liberty
- Narrated by: Floy Lilley
- Length: 80 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-03-16
- Language: English
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The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told
- By: Stephen Brennan - editor
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons - for battle, for infinite wealth, for the excitement of exploring the unknown, and for escape from the mundane. We have always had a primal relationship with the sea - even those who have never been to sea remain fascinated by the seafaring life and tales of salty adventure. Now in a brand–new series collection, The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told brings together such diverse authors as Charles Dickens, Jack London, John Masefield, Stephen Crane, Herman Melville, and dozens more.
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doesn't stand up to its title
- By tfdodo on 20-09-25
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The Best Sailing Stories Ever Told
- Narrated by: Mark Ashby
- Length: 21 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 11-02-13
- Language: English
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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Balanced
- By Anonymous on 23-09-24
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 21-09-21
- Language: English
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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. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches—but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.
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Killing the Witches
- The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Series: Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 26-09-23
- Language: English
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
- Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- By: Carol F. Karlsen
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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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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Insightful, Enraging and thorough.
- By Iputaspellonyou on 02-03-20
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The Devil in the Shape of a Woman
- Witchcraft in Colonial New England
- Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 08-05-18
- Language: English
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Mayflower Lives
- Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
- By: Martyn Whittock
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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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. Collectively, these people would become known to history as "the Pilgrims". The story of the Pilgrims has taken on a life of its own as one of our founding national myths - their escape from religious persecution, the dangerous transatlantic journey, that brutal first winter.
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Brilliant.
- By Anonymous on 12-09-19
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Mayflower Lives
- Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 06-08-19
- Language: English
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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
- Unabridged
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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? Surely, a small country in Europe could wield the power of an empire if it could claim these new lands in the Americas.
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A Very Important History Work!!!!
- By Alicia Fowler on 27-09-20
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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
- Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 04-09-20
- Language: English
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Colonial America
- A Very Short Introduction
- By: Alan Taylor
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective, examining the interplay of Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the flow of goods, people, plants, animals, capital, and ideas. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents an engaging overview of the best of this new scholarship.
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Short but good.
- By Anonymous on 17-08-23
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Colonial America
- A Very Short Introduction
- Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- By: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
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This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 01-05-18
- Language: English
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Being Thomas Jefferson
- An Intimate History
- By: Andrew Burstein
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
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Jefferson was a soft-spoken man who recoiled from direct conflict, yet a master puppeteer in politics. Whenever he left Monticello, where he could control his environment, he suffered debilitating headaches that plagued him for decades, until he finally retired from public life. So, what did it feel like to be Thomas Jefferson? Burstein explains the decision to take as his mistress Sally Hemings, the enslaved half-sister of his late wife, who bore him six children, none of whom he acknowledged.
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Being Thomas Jefferson
- An Intimate History
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 13-01-26
- Language: English
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John Adams: A Life
- By: John Ferling
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
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In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. Bringing to life an exciting time, an age in which Adams played an important political and intellectual role. this book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times.
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John Adams and his fascinating life
- By Princess Sparkle on 11-06-25
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John Adams: A Life
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 13-11-18
- Language: English
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)
- By: Peter Moore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
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Brought to you by Penguin. Bestselling historian Peter Moore traces how Enlightenment ideas were exported from Britain and put into practice in America - where they became the most successful export of all time, the American Dream 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness' is the best-known...
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- By Amazon Customer on 10-11-23
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Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
- Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 17 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-06-23
- Language: English
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How the Post Office Created America
- A History
- By: Winifred Gallagher
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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The founders established the Post Office before they had even signed the Declaration of Independence, and for a very long time it was the US government's largest and most important endeavor - indeed, it was the government for most citizens. This was no conventional mail network but the central nervous system of the new body politic, designed to bind 13 quarrelsome colonies into the United States by delivering news about public affairs to every citizen - a radical idea that appalled Europe's great powers.
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How the Post Office Created America
- A History
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-06-16
- Language: English
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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
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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. The fleets and armies that fought for the Dutch in the decades-long war against Spain included numerous foreigners, largely drawn from countries in northwestern Europe. Likewise, many settlers of Dutch colonies were born in other parts of Europe or the New World.
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I learned a lot...
- By Jon lanģley on 01-04-22
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The Dutch Moment
- War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World
- Narrated by: Fred Filbrich
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 15-10-19
- Language: English
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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
- Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
- By: Edith M. Ziegler
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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Great Britain's forced transportation of convicts to colonial Australia is well known. Less widely known is Britain's earlier program of sending convicts - including women - to North America. Many of these women were assigned as servants in Maryland. Contemporary readers and scholars will be fascinated by Ziegler's explanation of how gender-influenced punishments were meted out to women and often ensnared them in Britain's system of convict labor.
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Harlots, Hussies, and Poor Unfortunate Women
- Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
- Narrated by: Sally Martin
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-03-15
- Language: English
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