Local History

Product List
    • The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • By: Michael Grunwald
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it....

    Regular price: $19.34

    • A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
    • By: J. W. Ocker
    • Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond....

    Regular price: $11.87

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    • The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
    • By: Tyler Anbinder
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Author Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • a club and its city: Liverpool's social history
    • By: Daniel Fieldsend
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 16 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-25
    • Language: English
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    • On the banks of the River Mersey is a city with a radical character, shaped by its geography and the achievements of its community - in music, ...

    Regular price: $5.00

    • The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive work about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • The Most Chilling Cases in All 50 States
    • By: Ashley Hudson
    • Narrated by: Ashley Hudson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on 10 of the most chilling crimes in Connecticut history. True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases....

    Regular price: $6.95

    • By: Evan S. Connell
    • Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • This national best-seller vividly reconstructs one of the most unbelievable and controversial battles in American military history—General Custer’s Last Stand in 1876....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
    • By: John Ehle
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
    • A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 219 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"....

    Regular price: $21.04

    • 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
    • By: Jonathan Mahler
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
    • By: Robert M. Utley
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 351 ratings
    • If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
    • By: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Frangione Jim
    • Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • By: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 216 ratings
    • In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature
    • By: Jordan Fisher Smith
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • The fascinating story of the century-long attempt to control nature in the American wilderness, as told through the prism of a tragic death at Yellowstone....

    Regular price: $17.16

    • A History of Trade Politics in America
    • By: C. Donald Johnson
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 27 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Ambassador C. Donald Johnson's The Wealth of a Nation is an authoritative history of the politics of trade in America from the Revolution to the Trump era....

    Regular price: $30.09

    • Tipping Point at Saratoga
    • By: Dean Snow
    • Narrated by: Bob Souer
    • Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • In 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • A Modern History
    • By: Michael Hiltzik
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 19 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • As America struggles with an economic debacle akin to the Great Depression, nothing could be timelier than an authoritative account of the New Deal....

    Regular price: $27.48

    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • By: Nick Estes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

    Regular price: $17.19

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