American History Myths

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    • Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
    • By: Jermaine Fowler
    • Narrated by: Jermaine Fowler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This sweeping survey of Black history shows how Black humanity has been erased and how its recovery can save the humanity of us all....

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    • Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
    • By: Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby - Foreword
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,115 ratings
    • Andrew L. Seidel, a constitutional attorney at the Freedom from Religion Foundation, builds his case point by point, comparing the Ten Commandments to the Constitution and contrasting biblical doctrine with America's founding philosophy....

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    • Captivating Myths and Legends of Cherooke Mythology, the Choctaws and Other Indigenous Peoples from North America
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Michael Reaves
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Explore captivating Native American myths....

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    • Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won
    • By: Edward H. Bonekemper III
    • Narrated by: C.J. McAllister
    • Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 639 ratings
    • The former Confederate states have continually mythologized the South's defeat to the North, depicting the Civil War as unnecessary, or as a fight over states' Constitutional rights....

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    • The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
    • By: Josh Levin
    • Narrated by: January LaVoy
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • In this critically acclaimed true crime tale of "welfare queen" Linda Taylor, a Slate editor reveals a "wild, only-in-America story" of political manipulation and murder (Attica Locke, Edgar Award-winning author)....

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: C.T. Vivian
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Harris
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
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    • In 1970, C. T. Vivian, a close colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a member of his executive staff, sat down to take stock of the civil rights movement and the progress it had made. His assessment was that it failed, and that the blame lay in the existence of myths about America....

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    • Fake History and the Hunt for a "Lost White Race"
    • By: Jason Colavito
    • Narrated by: Charles Henderson Norman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The Mound Builder Myth is the first book to chronicle the attempt to recast the Native American burial mounds as the work of a lost white race of “true” native Americans....

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    • Reflections on Affluence, Autonomy, Safety and Power
    • By: D.L. Mayfield
    • Narrated by: Nan McNamara
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
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    • Affluence, autonomy, safety, and power. These are the central values of the American dream. But are they actually compatible with Jesus' command to love our neighbor as ourselves? In essays grouped around these four values, D. L. Mayfield asks us to pay attention to the ways they shape....

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    • The Man Behind the Myths
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Milton Bagby
    • Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
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    • An essential book for any student of Lincoln and American history, Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths is acclaimed Lincoln biographer Stephen B. Oates’ unique exploration of America’s 16th president in reality and memory....

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    • National Myth and the Battle for America
    • By: Richard Slotkin
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics.

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    • The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson
    • By: Jeff Pearlman
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 22 hrs
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 413 ratings
    • From the mid-1980s into the early 1990s, the greatest athlete of all time streaked across American sports and popular culture. Stadiums struggled to contain him. Clocks failed to capture his speed. His strength was legendary. His power unmatched....

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    • Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
    • By: Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 4 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-20
    • Language: English
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    • A deep dive into how F. Scott Fitzgerald's vision of the American Dream has been understood, portrayed, distorted, misused, and kept alive....

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    • A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
    • By: J. W. Ocker
    • Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 ratings
    • Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond....

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    • The Myths of the North American Indians with a Summary
    • By: Lewis Spence
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Be ready to immerse yourself into the myths and long forgotten stories of the Native Americans. Discover how those myths took life through many stories, and what they were at their core....

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    • A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
    • By: Ty Seidule
    • Narrated by: Ty Seidule
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
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    • Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the US Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor....

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    • Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
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    • Using objects that Americans have saved through the centuries and stories they have passed along, as well as histories teased from documents, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich chronicles the production of cloth—and of history—in early America....

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