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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 293 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • A Cultural History of the North Sea and the Transformation of Europe
    • By: Michael Pye
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • An epic adventure ranging from the terror of the Vikings to the golden age of cities: Michael Pye tells the amazing story of how modernity emerged on the shores of the North Sea....

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    • An American Family
    • By: Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-04-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 857 ratings
    • This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....

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    • A Cultural History of Alcohol
    • By: Iain Gately
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • Drink investigates the history of this Jekyll and Hyde of fluids, tracing mankind's love/hate relationship with alcohol from ancient Egypt to the present day....

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    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • By: Shane White
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 12 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

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    • Four Speeches
    • By: Malcom X
    • Narrated by: George Washington III
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 973 ratings
    • Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African-American leaders of the 1960s....

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    • American Social Policy, 1950 - 1980
    • By: Charles Murray
    • Narrated by: Robert Morris
    • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • This remarkable book demonstrates how the social programs of the 1960s and ’70s had the unintended effect of slowing and even reversing earlier progress in reducing poverty, crime, and discrimination....

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    • By: Anne Moody
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 665 ratings
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

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    • The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
    • By: Jefferson R. Cowie
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 17 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s....

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    • By: Denise Dennis
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Black History for Beginners covers a rich but often ignored history and chronicles the Black struggle from capture and enslavement in Africa through the civil rights movement and up to today and the new and different kinds of struggles that Black people face today....

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    • A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
    • By: Jeremy Lent, Fritjof Capra - foreword
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 19 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • This fresh perspective on crucial questions of history identifies the root metaphors that cultures have used to construct meaning in their world....

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    • The History of a People
    • By: T. R. Fehrenbach
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 24 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Authoritative and immediate, this is the classic account of the most powerful of the American Indian tribes. T. R. Fehrenbach traces the Comanches' rise to power....

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    • A New History
    • By: Valerie Hansen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes....

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    • A Cultural and Political History
    • By: Thomas Barfield
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

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    • A People's History, 1962—1976
    • By: Frank Dikötter
    • Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,873 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • A Child and a Country at the End of History
    • By: Lea Ypi
    • Narrated by: Rachel Babbage, Lea Ypi
    • Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated," she swore loyalty to the Party....

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