American Social History

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    • Third Edition
    • By: John R. Thelin
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 21 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 12-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Colleges and universities are among the most cherished - and controversial - institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of A History of American Higher Education, John R. Thelin offers welcome perspective on the triumphs and crises of this highly influential sector....

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    • The Demise of the Middle Class—and How to Rescue Our Future
    • By: Thom Hartmann
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt
    • Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-24
    • Language: English
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    • America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author explores the fall of the American Dream and the steps we can take to bring it back.

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    • The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry
    • By: Paul Starr
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 24 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Considered the definitive history of the American healthcare system, The Social Transformation of American Medicine examines how the roles of doctors, hospitals, health plans, and government programs have evolved over the last two and a half centuries....

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    • The History of Jim Crow
    • By: Jerrold M. Packard
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under legalized segregation: Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced racial "etiquette", these rules governed nearly every aspect of life - and outlined draconian punishments for infractions....

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    • Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
    • By: Monica Muñoz Martinez
    • Narrated by: Kyla García
    • Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
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    • Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement-including the renowned Texas Rangers - killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims....

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    • Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    • By: James W. Loewen
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,997 ratings
    • This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

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    • By: Lilia M. Schwarcz, Heloisa M. Starling
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 28 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • In an extraordinary journey that spans 500 years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country....

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    • How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Donald Corren
    • Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-20-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar, a timely history of the constitutional changes that built equality into the nation's foundation and how those guarantees have been shaken over time....

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    • A New History of the Aztecs
    • By: Camilla Townsend
    • Narrated by: Christina Delaine
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • For the first time, in Fifth Sun, the history of the Aztecs is offered in all its complexity based solely on the texts written by the indigenous people themselves....

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    • By: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet
    • Narrated by: Tariq Trotter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 329 ratings
    • This searing audio documentary brings listeners deep inside the unforgettable story of MOVE, gaining unprecedented access to surviving MOVE members, elected officials from the era, eyewitnesses, and historians to create an indelible portrait of an American tragedy.

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    • A Homegrown Syndicate's Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in American History
    • By: James Higdon
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 ratings
    • In the summer of 1987, Johnny Boone set out to grow and harvest one of the greatest outdoor marijuana crops in modern times....

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    • The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
    • By: T. J. English
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 21 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 596 ratings
    • In Paddy Whacked, best-selling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism....

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    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 269 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

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    • The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Juan Williams
    • Narrated by: Juan Williams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
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    • In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.

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