History Essays

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    • By: Barbara Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Aviva Skell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 12-16-11
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The critically-acclaimed historian’s insights, sense of humor, and sharp pen take on everything from Vietnam, Israel, and the Great War to writing history and its meaning. Includes these essays....

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    • Essays on Desire and Consumption
    • By: Katy Kelleher
    • Narrated by: Cindy Kay
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects....

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    • An Essay
    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial politics....

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    • By: Emma Goldman
    • Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 12-27-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman....

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    • A History of the Human Community; with a Retrospective Essay
    • By: William H. McNeill
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 30 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The Rise of the West is famous for its ambitious scope and intellectual rigor. In it, McNeill challenges the Spengler-Toynbee view that a number of separate civilizations pursued essentially independent careers, and argues instead that human cultures interacted at every stage....

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    • Selected Essays
    • By: Barbara W. Tuchman
    • Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Master historian Barbara W. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-10-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Here in one volume are both the Essays: First Series and Essays: Second Series from one of the most influential philosophers in American history....

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    • The Anti-Industrial Revolution
    • By: Ayn Rand, Peter Schwartz
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • In the 1960s and early '70s, the most prominent cultural movement was the New Left: a movement that condemned America and everything it stood for....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Peter Johnson
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-16-99
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 246 ratings
    • "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men..."

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    • By: Dennis Smith
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger, Jeff David, Don Leslie
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 219 ratings
    • Report from Ground Zero is the most detailed and immediate record of 9/11, with the unique perspective of a writer who has been praised as "the poet laureate of firefighters"....

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    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

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    • Essays on War and Climate Change
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation....

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    • Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces
    • By: C. S. Lewis
    • Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
    • Length: 38 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 746 ratings
    • This is an extensive collection of short essays and other pieces by C. S. Lewis that have been brought together in one volume for the first time....

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    • How Bad Behavior Built Civilization
    • By: Robert Evans
    • Narrated by: Tristan Morris
    • Length: 7 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 963 ratings
    • Cracked editor Robert Evans brings his signature dogged research and lively insight to uncover the many and magnificent ways vice has influenced history....

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    • By: Matthew Arnold
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney
    • Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,931 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History
    • By: Isaiah Berlin
    • Narrated by: Peter Kenny
    • Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • For Isaiah Berlin, there is a fundamental distinction in mankind: those who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things - foxes - and those who relate everything to a central all-embracing system - hedgehogs....

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    • Essays
    • By: Ross Gay
    • Narrated by: Ross Gay
    • Series: Essays Series, Book 1
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • From New York Times bestselling author Ross Gay comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection.

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