Learning World History

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    • What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Jay Snyder
    • Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,168 ratings
    • The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years....

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    • Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
    • By: James W. Loewen
    • Narrated by: Brian Keeler
    • Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,993 ratings
    • This national best seller is an entertaining, informative, and sometimes shocking expose of the way history is taught to American students....

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    • By: Sam Wineburg
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Let's start with two truths about our era: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percentage of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious....

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 559 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • The Fates of Human Societies
    • By: Jared Diamond
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,153 ratings
    • Evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond stunningly dismantles racially based theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for history's broadest patterns....

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    • An American Abroad in a Post-American World
    • By: Suzy Hansen
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the US-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist....

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    • From the Ancient World to the Information Age
    • By: Philip Parker
    • Narrated by: Joan Walker
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A truly global view of history covering over 350 of the world's most important turning points. This is an essential audiobook for every history buff....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: David Crystal
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 272 ratings
    • In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

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    • Thomas Jefferson, The First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805
    • By: Richard Zacks
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 13 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 648 ratings
    • After Tripoli declared war on the United States in 1801, Barbary pirates captured 300 U.S. sailors and marines....

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    • What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?
    • By: Pasi Sahlberg, Howard Gardner - foreword, Ken Robinson - afterword
    • Narrated by: Phil Thron
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • The first two editions of Finnish Lessons described how a small Nordic nation built a school system that provided access to a world-class education for all of its young people. This Grawemeyer Award-winning book continues to influence education policies globally....

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    • By: B. H. Liddell Hart
    • Narrated by: Will Staff
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Much has been written on the theory of history by philosophers and historiologists, but nothing so concise and understandable as Liddell Hart’s Why Don’t We Learn from History, the kind of title that makes one wonder and consider....

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    • A Captivating Guide From Beginning to End
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 2 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The Second World War was one of the most traumatic events in human history. Across the world, existing conflicts became connected, entangling nations in a vast web of violence....

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    • By: Martin Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America....

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    • From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory
    • By: Susan Wise Bauer
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 07-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves....

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    • The Untold History of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,018 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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