Colonial Life

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    • By: Harriet Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Audio Élan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 494 ratings
    • Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children....

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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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    • Image and Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England, 1650-1750
    • By: Laurel Thatcher Thatcher Ulrich
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • This enthralling work of scholarship strips away abstractions to reveal the hidden - and not always stoic - face of the "goodwives" of colonial America. In this book, we encounter the awesome burdens - and the considerable power - of a New England housewife's domestic life....

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    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • Popular Justice in the Rocky Mountains
    • By: Thomas J. Dimsdale
    • Narrated by: Steve Coulter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • The classic Old West narrative of the chase, trial, capture, and execution of outlaw Henry Plummer and his road agent band....

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    • Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution
    • By: Kathleen DuVal
    • Narrated by: Susan Boyce
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Independence Lost reveals that individual motives counted as much as the ideals of liberty and freedom the Founders espoused....

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    • Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
    • By: Sally M. Walker
    • Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • How did the colonists of Jamestown and Maryland live and die? Forensic anthropology provides an incredible array of answers....

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    • Life and Death in the New World
    • By: Malcolm Gaskill
    • Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In Springfield, Massachusetts in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils, livestock ails, property vanishes, and people suffer convulsions as if possessed by demons. A woman is seen wading through the swamp like a lost soul. Disturbing dreams and visions proliferate....

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    • By: John Ferling
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • John Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. This masterful book is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times....

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    • The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765-1803
    • By: Carl A. Brasseaux
    • Narrated by: Aaron Henkin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Alan Taylor
    • Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial America by adopting both a trans-Atlantic and a trans-continental perspective....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the Colonial History of the United States and How Immigrants of Countries Such as England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands Established Colonies
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Colin Fluxman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Did you know that the first English settlement in the New World was a disaster? Perhaps you have heard the story of Roanoke before. Or maybe even the creation of Jamestown. But have you heard about the Spanish colonies in North America? Listen to find out more....

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    • The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington
    • By: Gerard N. Magliocca
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The first biography of George Washington's extraordinary nephew, who inherited Mount Vernon and was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man on the Supreme Court for nearly thirty years....

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    • Commandants, Soldiers, and Civilians in French Illinois, 1720-1770
    • By: David MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Todd Curless
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Fort de Chartres, built in 1719-1720 in the heart of what would become the American Midwest, embodied French colonial power for half a century....

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    • US History for Kids Grade 3 | Children's History Books
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Frank Block
    • Length: 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-21
    • Language: English
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    • Here’s another book that tackles the daily lives of families living in different times. History should be discussed as a time where people lived and societies functioned according to the norms at the time....

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    • By: Kevin J. Hayes
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • John Adams once snobbishly dismissed George Washington as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement....

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    • The Life of Mary Washington
    • By: Martha Saxton
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story....

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    • Matriarch of the Mayflower
    • By: Kathryn Haueisen
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-24
    • Language: English
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    • Based on True Events - Step back in time and embark on a captivating journey alongside Mary Brewster, a steadfast Christian woman whose unwavering ...

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