Local History

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    • 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 89 ratings
    • Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond....

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    • 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 66 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....

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    • 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 7 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....

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    • 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 238 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....

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    • By: Frederic L. Paxson
    • Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
    • Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize-winner in History, 1925....

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    • 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 131 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....

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    • 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 235 ratings
    • A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds....

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    • 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 341 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....

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    • The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways
    • By: Earl Swift
    • Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-21-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • From author Earl Swift comes the surprising history of the U.S. interstate system, a fascinating route through the dreams, discoveries, and protests that shaped these mighty roads....

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    • 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 326 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....

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    • 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 59 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....

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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 121 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....

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    • A Spiritual Geography
    • By: Kathleen Norris
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography....

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    • 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 51 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....

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    • His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
    • By: S. M. Barrett
    • Narrated by: Pat Bottino
    • Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 551 ratings
    • Here is one of the most extraordinary and invaluable documents in the annals of Native American history: the authentic testament of a remarkable "war shaman"....

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    • 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 204 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....

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    • By: Robert V. Remini
    • Narrated by: Raymond Todd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 270 ratings
    • In 1815, Britain's crack troops were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander Andrew Jackson....

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    • An American Autopsy
    • By: Charlie LeDuff
    • Narrated by: Eric Martin
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,328 ratings
    • In the heart of America, a metropolis is quietly destroying itself. Detroit, once the richest city in the nation, is now its poorest....

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    • The Social Origins of Witchcraft
    • By: Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials. From varied sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more fascinating than any other in the massive literature....

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