Modern American History

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    • The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
    • By: David Fromkin
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 510 ratings
    • The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance. David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • A Captivating Guide to the Modern History of the United States of America (U.S. History)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 08-15-22
    • Language: English
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    • Starting during the renowned 1920s, we’re going to look at what life in the United States was like back then and even find some remarkable mirror images that are a reflection of what life is like during this day and age....

    Regular price: $14.95

    • An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics
    • By: Donald Jeffries
    • Narrated by: Lars Mikaelson
    • Length: 18 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 377 ratings
    • The US government has spent half the time covering up conspiracies as it has spent helping the American people....

    Regular price: $25.00

    • A Military History of the Civil War
    • By: Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Williamson Murray
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 09-26-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen....

    Regular price: $21.92

    • Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
    • By: Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black Southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • The Legends that Shaped the USA. From the Discovery of America to the Troubled Founding of the Nation, Through Wars, Political Scandal, Westward Expansion, and Historic Events.
    • By: Doug Richardson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Introducing "American History: The Legends that Shaped the USA" a riveting exploration of the rich and fascinating early history of the United ...

    Regular price: $7.99

    • A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest
    • By: Lesley Poling-Kempes
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world....

    Regular price: $17.62

    • The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
    • By: Jon Wilkman
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 07-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a 20-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared 54 miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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 67 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....

    Regular price: $34.39

    • An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
    • By: Ron Chernow
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,390 ratings
    • Winner of the National Book Award and now considered a classic, The House of Morgan is the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty....

    Regular price: $25.76

    • A Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy
    • By: David Corn
    • Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
    • Length: 17 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 623 ratings
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author and investigative reporter David Corn tells the wild and harrowing story of the Republican Party’s decades-long relationship with far-right extremism, bigotry, and paranoia.​

    Regular price: $35.09

    • The Creation of the Modern American State
    • By: William J. Novak
    • Narrated by: A.W. Miller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered services and vindicated rights....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A History of Modern Evangelicalism
    • By: Matthew Avery Sutton
    • Narrated by: Tom Beyer
    • Length: 19 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, American Apocalypse shows how a group of radical Protestants, anticipating the end of the world, paradoxically transformed it....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • How to Understand Chinese Ideology to Improve Foreign Policy and Relations with China
    • By: Eric Engle, Mao Zedong
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 18 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Mao Zedong Reader: How to Understand Chinese Ideology to Improve Foreign Policy and Relations with China Edited by Eric Engle For the first ...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • Connecting Historical Events to Modern Politics
    • By: Constance Foster, P.A. Shaw
    • Narrated by: Greg Bond
    • Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In Political Climate and American History, you'll find a detailed yet listenable approach that enriches you understanding of America's evolution, casting light on the influences guiding today's political scene.

    Regular price: $14.95

    • 1492-1877
    • By: Thomas S. Kidd
    • Narrated by: Craig Hinkle
    • Series: American History, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • American History, Volume 1 surveys the broad sweep of American history. Drawing on a deep range of research and years of classroom teaching experience, Thomas S. Kidd offers students an engaging overview of the first half of American history....

    Regular price: $30.17

    • 51 Inspiring People from Ancient Africa to Modern-Day U.S.A.
    • By: Arlisha Norwood
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
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    • Meet extraordinary black heroes throughout history—biographies for kids ages 8 to 12. You’re invited to meet ancient Egyptian rulers, brilliant scientists, legendary musicians, and civil rights activists—all in the same book!

    Regular price: $6.95

    • By: Chris Stark
    • Narrated by: Chris Stark
    • Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Blending fiction and fact, Carnival Lights ranges from reverie to nightmare and back again in a lyrical yet unflinching story of an Ojibwe family’s struggle to hold on to their land, their culture, and each other....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
    • By: Brea Baker
    • Narrated by: Brea Baker
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth....

    Regular price: $18.00

    • The Forging of a Modern American Ranger
    • By: Dick Couch
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 300 ratings
    • The 75th Ranger Regiment is a unique and distinct culture among the American military establishment....

    Regular price: $17.19