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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 29 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-16-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,121 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....

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    • The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,257 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....

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    • A Story of Courage, Community, and War
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,902 ratings
    • From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth....

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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: 10-07-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,474 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,723 ratings
    • 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 City, a Siege, a Revolution
    • By: Nathaniel Philbrick
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Series: The American Revolution Series, Book 1
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,058 ratings
    • In the opening volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick turns his keen eye to pre-Revolutionary Boston and the spark that ignited the American Revolution....

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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: 05-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 160 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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    • By: Harriet Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Audio Élan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 495 ratings
    • Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children....

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    • By: Adam Jortner, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Adam Jortner
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • The history of the Boston Tea Party is a hidden one. Why? Since it was a clandestine operation, all sorts of rumors and legends grew up around the event—many collected decades after the American Revolution had ended....

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    • How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
    • By: John Oller
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,163 ratings
    • In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British southern campaign....

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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: 12-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 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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    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,118 ratings
    • 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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    • Deciding the Fate of North America
    • By: Walter R. Borneman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled....

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    • Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
    • By: Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 35 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless, adventurous, enterprising, relentless, seeking a foothold on the future. European immigrants and American colonists, settlers and speculators, soldiers and missionaries, fugitives from justice....

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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: 11-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 192 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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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 837 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • A Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
    • By: Marilynne K. Roach
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 27 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Based on 27 years of original archival research, this day-by-day narrative of the hysteria that swept through Salem Village in 1692 and 1693 reveals new connections behind the events and shows how rapidly a community can descend into bloodthirsty madness....

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