Early Colonial History

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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 58 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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 18 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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    • The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
    • By: Scott Weidensaul
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....

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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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    • A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In an obscure, two-hundred-year-old museum in a little town in western Massachusetts there stands what once was the most revered relic from the history of early New England: the massive, tomahawk-scarred door that came to symbolize the notorious Deerfield Massacre of 1704.

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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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    • Old Times in the Colonies
    • By: Charles Carleton Coffin
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The settlement of North America was the beginning of a new era in human history. The oppressive laws, habits, and customs of the Old World no longer held such power over those who had made the treacherous journey across the Atlantic....

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    • How Early Americans Pioneered Their Own Brand of English
    • By: Rosemarie Ostler
    • Narrated by: Erin Bennett
    • Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists and is still going strong....

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    • A Family Story from Early America
    • By: John Demos
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavored to "civilize" a "savage" native populace....

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    • Bacon's Rebellion and the Transformation of Early America
    • By: James D. Rice
    • Narrated by: Clay Teunis
    • Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • In the spring of 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a hotheaded young newcomer to Virginia, led a revolt against the colony's Indian policies....

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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 41 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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    • Catastrophe and Colonial Settlement in Early America
    • By: Kathleen Donegan
    • Narrated by: Deborah VanFleet
    • Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-28-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • The early years of English settlement in America were characterized by catastrophe: starvation, disease, extreme violence, ruinous ignorance, and serial abandonment....

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    • Early American Studies
    • By: Marisa J. Fuentes
    • Narrated by: Carrie Burgess
    • Length: 7 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records....

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    • Slavery and Colonization in Early America
    • By: Wendy Warren
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 12-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In a work that recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England....

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    • By: Richard Cullen Rath
    • Narrated by: Paul Redford
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this fascinating and highly original work of cultural history, Richard Cullen Rath recreates in rich detail a world remote from our own, one in which sounds were charged with meaning and power....

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