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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 9,116 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams....

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jan Maxwell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,017 ratings
    • In this powerful, epic biography, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent...

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    • A Good Year for Revolution
    • By: Kevin Phillips
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 25 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by puncturing the myth that 1776 was the struggle’s watershed year....

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    • Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy
    • By: James Horn
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Along the banks of the James River, Virginia, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a few weeks of each other that would profoundly shape the course of history....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Puritan Leader in Colonial Massachusetts Who Is Considered to Be One of the Earliest American Feminists
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating life of Anne Hutchinson, then pay attention.... Her steps were determined and steady, even though the plank of the wooden ship bobbed up and down in the glittering but frigid water that splashed against the wet dock....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective....

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    • Slavery and Colonization in Early America
    • By: Wendy Warren
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In a work that recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England....

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    • Crime, Transportation, and the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
    • By: Edith M. Ziegler
    • Narrated by: Sally Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Merchant King and American Patriot
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • He was a rich, powerful aristocrat, a merchant king who loved English culture and fashion, and, above all, he was a loyal British subject with ambitions of a lordship in England. There simply was no doubt about it: John Hancock was the least likely man in Boston to start a rebellion....

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    • Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
    • By: Carol Berkin
    • Narrated by: Donna Postel
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American, and Carol Berkin shows us that women played a vital role throughout the struggle....

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    • A Story of American Freedom
    • By: Russell Shorto
    • Narrated by: Russell Shorto
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful 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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    • The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World
    • By: David Brion Davis
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 16 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 306 ratings
    • A definitive history by a writer deeply immersed in the subject, Inhuman Bondage links together the profits of slavery, the pain of the enslaved, and the legacy of racism....

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    • The Birth of Ingenuity
    • By: Nick Bunker
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • From his early career as a printer and journalist to his scientific work and his role as a founder of a new republic, Benjamin Franklin has always seemed the inevitable embodiment of American ingenuity....

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    • A Family Story from Early America
    • By: John Demos
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to "civilize" a "savage" native populace....

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    • Volume II The New Jersey Colony: A Small Colony with a Fighter's Heart (Volume 2)
    • By: Mary A Baewer
    • Narrated by: Deren Hansen
    • Series: Adventures in Colonial America, Book 2
    • Length: 1 hr and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Adventures in Colonial America is a 13-part series focusing on the history of each of the original 13 American colonies from their founding....

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    • Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
    • By: Mac Griswold
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 14 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods....

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