American Railroads

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    • Railroads Past and Present
    • By: H. Roger Grant
    • Narrated by: Todd Barsness
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this social history of the impact of railroads on American life, H. Roger Grant concentrates on the railroad's "golden age," 1830-1930....

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    • The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869
    • By: Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Jeffrey DeMunn
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 09-07-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,105 ratings
    • Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Colson Whitehead
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,242 ratings
    • Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits....

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    • By: E. Nesbit
    • Narrated by: Virginia Leishman
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
    • Father has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. Now Mother has moved Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis from London to an old English country house....

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    • The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America
    • By: Richard White
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 23 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • Richard White shows the transcontinentals to be pivotal actors in the making of modern America. But the triumphal myths of the golden spike and an innovative capitalism all die here. Instead we have a new vision of the Gilded Age that shows history to be rooted in failure and success....

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    • The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Gordon H. Chang
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • A groundbreaking, breathtaking history of the Chinese workers who built the Transcontinental Railroad, helping to forge modern America only to disappear into the shadows of history until now....

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    • The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • In a grand-scale narrative history, the bestselling author of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize now captures the decades when capitalism was at its most unbridled and a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen utterly transformed America from an agrarian economy to a world power....

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    • Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
    • By: Betty DeRamus
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Uplifting and occasionally heartbreaking stories of love from the time of slavery in the American south....

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    • A Historical Clean and Wholesome Inspirational Underground Railroad Romance Novella
    • By: Cecelia Dowdy
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Ruth’s beau died - simply because he was a slave.She is determined to help other enslaved people as she assists with the Underground Railroad. ...

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    • The Legends that Shaped the USA. From the Discovery of America to the Troubled Founding of the Nation, Through Wars, Political Scandal, Westward Expansion, and Historic Events.
    • By: Doug Richardson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Introducing "American History: The Legends that Shaped the USA" a riveting exploration of the rich and fascinating early history of the United ...

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    • The History of America's Most Famous Railroad Company and Its Role in the Transcontinental Railroad
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 2 hrs
    • Release date: 02-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States....

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    • Canada and the Civil War
    • By: Brian Martin
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
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    • Filled with engaging stories and astonishing facts, From Underground Railroad to Rebel Refuge examines the role of Canadians in the American Civil War...

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Routes, Places, and People That Helped Free African Americans During the Nineteenth Century and the Life of Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, then pay attention....

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    • The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
    • By: Candacy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • The first book to explore the historical role and residual impact of the Green Book, a travel guide for Black motorists....

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    • A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
    • By: Karolyn Smardz Frost
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 02-29-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Acclaimed archeologist and historian Karolyn Smardz Frost painstakingly resurrects Thornton and Lucie Blackburn⿿s perilous 1830s journey from Kentucky slavery to Canadian freedom....

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    • By: James McBride
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....

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