History Essays

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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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    • 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 283 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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    • 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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    • 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 12 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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    • 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 733 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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    • 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 207 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 Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'N' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N' Roll
    • By: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus....

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    • By: Ralph Waldo Emerson
    • Narrated by: Alastair Cameron
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson was a leader in the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century....

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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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    • 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 121 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: George Orwell
    • Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White
    • Length: 25 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • With great originality and wit, Orwell unfolds his views on subjects ranging from a revaluation of Charles Dickens to the nature of Socialism, from a comic yet profound discussion of naughty seaside postcards to a spirited defense of English cooking....

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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 244 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: 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 8,799 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • In These Streets
    • By: Jenifer Lewis
    • Narrated by: Jenifer Lewis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,679 ratings
    • Walking in My Joy is a collection of electric stories by the one and only, super hilarious Jenifer Lewis. Her commentary on what’s happening in the world today, told through her outrageous real-life adventures, will have you laughing out loud, while her insightful messages touch your soul....

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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 43 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: John Muir
    • Narrated by: Steven Brand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Part of John Muir's appeal to modern audiences is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone and more....

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    • A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
    • By: Sabine Hossenfelder
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 401 ratings
    • Not only can we not currently explain the origin of the universe, it is questionable we will ever be able to explain it. The notion that there are universes within particles, or that particles are conscious, is ascientific, as is the hypothesis that our universe is a computer simulation....

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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 953 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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