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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 107 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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    • 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 620 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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    • By: Lili‘uokalani
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the US. Published shortly after these events, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule....

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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 58 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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    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 460 ratings
    • This collection of writings from revered Native Americans offers timeless, meaningful lessons on living and learning....

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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 278 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 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 175 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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    • 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 837 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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    • 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 55 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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    • 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 956 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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    • A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
    • By: Ronald Hutton
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe's history....

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    • A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
    • By: Yang Jisheng, Stacy Mosher - translator, Guo Jian - translator
    • Narrated by: Nancy Wu
    • Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Following his groundbreaking and award-winning history of the Great Famine, Yang Jisheng presents the only history of the Cultural Revolution by an independent scholar based in mainland China, and makes a crucial contribution to understanding those years' lasting influence today....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Eric Avila
    • Narrated by: Tanya Eby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • This Very Short Introduction recounts the history of American culture and its creation by diverse social and ethnic groups. In doing so, it emphasizes the historic role of culture in relation to broader social, political, and economic developments....

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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 310 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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    • 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 9 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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    • The Puzzle of Polynesia
    • By: Christina Thompson
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,019 ratings
    • A thrilling, intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know....

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    • The Unknown Story
    • By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 04-11-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,597 ratings
    • The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....

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    • The Life of Alain Locke
    • By: Jeffrey C. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 45 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • In The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey C. Stewart offers the definitive biography of the father of the Harlem Renaissance, based on the extant primary sources of his life and on interviews with those who knew him personally....

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