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    • Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
    • By: Erika Lee
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences....

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    • The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
    • By: Clay Risen
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....

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    • A New History of the Civil War
    • By: Elizabeth R. Varon
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims....

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    • Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
    • By: Hawa Allan
    • Narrated by: Hawa Allan
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-22
    • Language: English
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    • The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts....

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    • Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
    • By: Joanne B. Freeman
    • Narrated by: Joanne B. Freeman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War....

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    • The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
    • By: Lennard Davis
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights....

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    • McCarthyism to Terrorism
    • By: Haynes Johnson
    • Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Compelling narrative history, insightful political commentary, and intimate personal remembrance combine to make The Age of Anxiety a vitally important book for our time....

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    • America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
    • By: Sasha Issenberg
    • Narrated by: Graham Halstead
    • Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium....

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    • George A. Custer in the Civil War (Emerging Civil War Series)
    • By: Daniel Davis
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Series: Emerging Civil War
    • Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry into the valley of the Little Bighorn. By sunset, Custer and five of his companies lay dead - killed in battle against Sioux and Cheyenne warriors....

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    • A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
    • By: Donald A. Jelinek
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....

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    • A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
    • By: Melvin I. Urofsky
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times....

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    • A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
    • By: Christopher M. Finan
    • Narrated by: Christopher M. Finan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act traces the fight for free speech from the turn of the 19th century through the War on Terror. Christopher Finan has given us a vital history of our most fundamental, and most vulnerable, constitutional right....

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    • Life After the Foreign Legion
    • By: Joel Adam Struthers
    • Narrated by: Joel Adam Struthers
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • CIVIL: Life After the Foreign Legion is the author's follow-up to Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion. During his recent return to France, he shares with you his past in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Algeria as a security contractor and more....

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    • The History of the Controversial Law That Sparked the Confederacy's Secession and the Civil War
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Despite the attempt to settle America's slavery issue with the Missouri Compromise in 1820, the young nation kept pushing further westward, and with that more territory was acquired....

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    • Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
    • By: Leanda de Lisle
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Leanda de Lisle presents a myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective....

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    • A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire.
    • By: Maggie Brookes
    • Narrated by: Avita Jay
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • 21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire—not least because she lives next door to Tom and Jamie, two very different brothers for whom she has equally great affection. But her comfortable life is turned upside down....

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    • The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
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    • A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism, Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance and inclusion in society....

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