Historical Memoirs

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 697 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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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 61 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 Narrative
    • By: Allan W. Eckert
    • Narrated by: Kevin Foley
    • Series: Winning of America, Book 1
    • Length: 30 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,647 ratings
    • The frontiersmen were a remarkable breed of men. They were often rough and illiterate, sometimes brutal and vicious, often seeking an escape in the wilderness of mid-America....

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    • A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    • By: Loung Ung
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,235 ratings
    • One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five....

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    • By: Mohandas K. Gandhi
    • Narrated by: Surjan Singh
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • This is the compelling autobiography of Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi, who inspired millions with the sheer strength of his personal actions and steadfast upholding of the twin principles of truth and non-violence in the face of the most adverse circumstances....

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    • The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II
    • By: Vicki Constantine Croke
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,356 ratings
    • Part biography, part war story, and part wildlife adventure, Croke delivers an utterly charming narrative and an important, little-known piece of the legacy of World War II....

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    • The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
    • By: Kirstin Downey
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 223 ratings
    • Frances Perkins is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the 20th century....

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    • Now, with a Stunning Bonus Episode!
    • By: Jon Ronson
    • Narrated by: Jon Ronson
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,681 ratings
    • This is the story of a Tulsa debutante who, as a result of a series of unlikely and often very bad life choices she made in the ‘90s, found herself in the midst of one of the most terrible crimes ever to take place in America....

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    • The Fate of the Franklin Expedition
    • By: Owen Beattie, John Geiger
    • Narrated by: Liam Gerrard
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his men set out to "penetrate the icy fastness of the north, and to circumnavigate America." And then they disappeared. The truth about what happened to Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition was shrouded in mystery for more than a century....

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    • The Year of the Terror in the French Revolution
    • By: R. R. Palmer, Isser Woloch - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • The Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, creating a climate of fear and suspicion in revolutionary France....

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    • Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician
    • By: Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Series: Cecelia and Kate, Book 1-3
    • Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 45 ratings
    • Enter Regency-era England—and a world in which magical mayhem and high society go hand in hand—with three novels featuring cousins Cecelia and Kate....

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    • 1904-1930
    • By: William L. Shirer
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: Twentieth Century Journey, Book 1
    • Length: 22 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 11-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • William L. Shirer was a CBS foreign correspondent and renowned author of New York Times best-selling nonfiction about World War II, and this is the first part of his three-part autobiography....

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    • The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • By: Caroline Fraser
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 21 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,234 ratings
    • The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie book series....

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    • Women in the West, Book 1
    • By: Margot Mifflin
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 6 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 770 ratings
    • In 1851 Olive Oatman was a 13-year-old pioneer traveling west toward Zion with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures....

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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Lloyd James
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 478 ratings
    • Report from Engine Co. 82 is the story of one company of New York firefighters...

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    • From “A Journal of Love”: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anais Nin, 1934--1937
    • By: Anais Nin
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 18 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The renowned diarist continues the story begun in Henry and June and Incest. Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally....

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    • A Personal Narrative
    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 16 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-02
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • "If there is any life that is happier than the life we led on our timber ranch, it must be the sort of life...

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    • The Rise and Ruin of America's Most Powerful Trial Lawyer
    • By: Curtis Wilkie
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • The Fall of the House of Zeus tells the story of Dickie Scruggs, arguably the most successful plaintiff's lawyer in America....

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    • The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer
    • By: Nina Burleigh
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 14 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In 1964, Mary Pinchot Meyer, the beautiful, rebellious, and intelligent ex-wife of a top CIA official and a secret mistress of President John F. Kennedy, was killed on a quiet Georgetown towpath near her home....

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