Early American Politics

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    • David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
    • By: Victoria Johnson
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • When Dr. David Hosack tilled the country's first botanical garden in the Manhattan soil more than 200 years ago, he didn't just dramatically alter the New York landscape; he left a monumental legacy of advocacy for public health and wide-ranging support for the sciences....

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    • The Essential American
    • By: David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 30 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War....

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    • Women and Politics in the Early American Republic
    • By: Rosmarie Zagarri
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise....

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    • George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution
    • By: Lindsay M. Chervinsky
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-20
    • Language: English
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    • On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries - Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph - for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet....

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    • The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
    • By: Joseph J. Ellis
    • Narrated by: Bob Walter
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 898 ratings
    • An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - Adams, Burr, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison, and Washington....

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    • A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
    • By: Nicole Eustace
    • Narrated by: Laural Merlington
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two White fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania....

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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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    • A Native History of Early America
    • By: Daniel K Richter
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In rediscovering early America as Indian country, Daniel K. Richter employs the historian's craft to challenge cherished assumptions about times and places we thought we knew well, revealing Native American experiences at the core of the nation's birth and identity....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Richard M. Valelly
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 3 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated. There has never been a greater need for an impartial primer on the basics of the American political system....

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    • Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
    • By: Jennifer L. Morgan
    • Narrated by: Angel Pean
    • Length: 11 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-22
    • Language: English
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    • In Reckoning with Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan draws on the lived experiences of enslaved African women in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to reveal the contours of early modern notions of trade, race, and commodification in the Black Atlantic....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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    • Uncovering the Story of an Early American Crisis
    • By: James E. Lewis Jr.
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 20 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This book explores the political and cultural forces that shaped how Americans made sense of the uncertain rumors and reports about Burr's intentions and movements....

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    • The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
    • By: Benjamin L. Carp
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than 46 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. Carp tells the full story, exploding myths....

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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
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    • 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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    • A historical fiction novel of adventure, tragedy, and romance in the early days of Yellowstone (Frontier Traveler series, Book 1)
    • By: D.A. Galloway
    • Narrated by: Michael Bauer
    • Series: Frontier Traveler Series, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-21
    • Language: English
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    • Does time heal all wounds? Or do some last forever? Pennsylvania, 1971: Graham Davidson is a young man with survivor’s guilt after the death of three siblings. Estranged from his father and seeking a direction in his life, Graham learns about vision quests from a Crow Indian....

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