Industrial History

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    • Poor, Sick, Mad, and Criminal in 19th-Century New York
    • By: Stacy Horn
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 409 ratings
    • Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell's Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would build a lunatic asylum, prison, hospital, workhouse, and almshouse....

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    • A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
    • By: John Cassidy
    • Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestly
    • Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • John Cassidy, a staff writer at The New Yorker and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, delivers a sweeping, dramatic history of capitalism as seen through the eyes of its fiercest critics....

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    • The Yablonski Murders and the Battle for the United Mine Workers of America
    • By: Mark A. Bradley
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Blood Runs Coal sheds light on the far-reaching effects of industrial and socioeconomic change that unfold across America to this day....

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    • The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
    • By: Fred Anderson
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 29 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 654 ratings
    • In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both....

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    • Past, Present, and Future
    • By: Michael B. A. Oldstone
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 569 ratings
    • The story of viruses and humanity is a story of fear and ignorance, of grief and heartbreak, and of great bravery and sacrifice. Michael Oldstone tells all these stories as he illuminates the history of the devastating diseases that have tormented humanity....

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    • Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
    • By: Rose George
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization....

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    • Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
    • By: Thea Cooper, Arthur Ainsberg
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Relive the heartwarming true story of the discovery of insulin as it's never been told before. Written with authentic detail and suspense, and featuring walk-ons by William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Eli Lilly himself, among many others....

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    • With the OSS in Burma
    • By: Richard Dunlop
    • Narrated by: David Baker
    • Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 605 ratings
    • The extraordinary firsthand account of an American special forces unit in the jungles of southeast Asia and their guerilla operations against the Japanese during World War II....

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    • A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
    • By: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,066 ratings
    • What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine was dosed like Viagra....

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    • The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry
    • By: Tevi Troy
    • Narrated by: Timothy Andrés Pabon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Acclaimed presidential historian Tevi Troy takes listeners on a riveting journey through the biggest battles between CEOs and the nation’s commander in chief. He unearths the untold stories—both political and personal—that have shaped America.

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    • Jonathan Letterman, the Civil War Doctor Who Pioneered Battlefield Care
    • By: Scott McGaugh
    • Narrated by: Kyle Munley
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The first full-length biography of the Civil War surgeon who, over the course of the war’s bloodiest battles - from Antietam to Gettysburg - redefined military medicine....

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    • The Story of Inflammation, Diet, and Disease
    • By: Shilpa Ravella
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Gastroenterologist Shilpa Ravella takes us on a lyrical quest across time, around the world, and into the body to reveal hidden inflammation at the root of modern disease―and how we can control it....

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    • An Informal History of the 1920s
    • By: Frederick Lewis Allen
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 378 ratings
    • In this span between armistice and depression, Americans were kicking up their heels....

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    • Life and Death in the Middle Ages
    • By: Jack Hartnell
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Bringing together medicine, art, music, politics, philosophy, religion, and social history, there is no better guide to what life was really like for the men and women who lived and died in the Middle Ages....

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    • The Origins of Autism in Nazi Vienna
    • By: Edith Sheffer
    • Narrated by: Christa Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry....

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    • A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus
    • By: Bill Wasik, Monica Murphy
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-19-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,402 ratings
    • A fresh, fascinating, and often wildly entertaining look at one of mankind’s oldest and most fearsome foes....

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    • Disease and the Course of Human History
    • By: Kyle Harper
    • Narrated by: Tim Fannon
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 12-15-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 94 ratings
    • Plagues upon the Earth tells the story of how pathogenic microbes have been an intimate part of human history from the beginning - and how our deadliest germs and biggest pandemics are the product of our success as a species....

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    • By: William Knox PhD
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Scottish History for Dummies pulls back the curtain on how the story of Scotland has shaped the world far beyond its borders. From its turbulent past to the present day, this informative guide sheds a new and timely light on the story of Scotland and its people....

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    • On (Not) Getting By in America
    • By: Barbara Ehrenreich
    • Narrated by: Cristine McMurdo-Wallis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,611 ratings
    • This engrossing piece of undercover reportage has been a fixture on the New York Times best seller list since its publication....

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