American Violence

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    • Migration and Violence in Early America
    • By: Stephen Warren
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In 1779, Shawnees from Chillicothe, a community in the Ohio country, told the British, "We have always been the frontier"....

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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 272 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • 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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    • Shattering the Myths That Fuel Gun Violence
    • By: Thomas Gabor, Fred Guttenberg
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Fred Guttenberg, who lost his beloved daughter Jaime in the 2018 Parkland school shooting, and international gun policy consultant Thomas Gabor team up in American Carnage to dismantle some of the most common myths about guns and gun violence....

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    • A Brief History of an Ongoing American Tragedy
    • By: Chris Murphy
    • Narrated by: Chris Murphy
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores the origins of our violent impulses, the roots of our obsession with firearms, and the mythologies that prevent us from confronting our national crisis....

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    • The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
    • By: John Glatt
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 07-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • In the early morning hours of August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at her Frederick, Colorado, home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive....

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    • You've Been Warned
    • By: Smokey Moment
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The dating pool was trash... Sharla was not looking when she came across his profile... He was everything! Fine... Built... Swag... The look of a ...

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    • By: Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely
    • Narrated by: Guy Lockard, Keith Nobbs
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,216 ratings
    • A bag of chips. That's all 16-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo....

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    • Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
    • By: Beth Lew-Williams
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Aquino
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In 1885, following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. The Chinese Must Go shows how American immigration policies incited this violence....

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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,498 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
    • By: Kellie Carter Jackson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what White nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War....

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    • Indians and Empires in the Early American West
    • By: Ned Blackhawk
    • Narrated by: Curtis Michael Holland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Ned Blackhawk places Native peoples squarely at the center of a dynamic and complex story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that profoundly shaped the American West.

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    • An Account of the Trump Administration's Effect on American Democracy, Human Rights, Science and Public Health
    • By: Jack Hassard
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • This is Citizen Jack’s book, a masterful demonstration of a personal view turned sociopolitical gold. —CHARLES R. AULT JR., Professor Emeritus,...

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    • No Mercy
    • By: Smokey Moment
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Previously titled: An Obsessed Kind of Love Jessica is more than the baby momma of Dominic... She's a social media influencer with 1.1 million ...

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    • An Archaeology of Early American Life
    • By: James Deetz
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten....

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    • How Americans Fought the Civil War
    • By: Aaron Sheehan-Dean
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • At least three-quarters of a million lives were lost during the American Civil War. Given its seemingly indiscriminate mass destruction, this conflict is often thought of as the first "total war." But Aaron Sheehan-Dean argues for another interpretation....

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    • How African Americans Fought Back
    • By: David F. Krugler
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • 1919, the Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I....

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    • Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
    • By: Lauret Savoy
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past....

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    • Sex, Violence, and Memory in African American History
    • By: Gregory D. Smithers
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this bold and provocative book, historian Gregory Smithers investigates how African Americans have narrated, remembered, and represented slave-breeding practices....

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