Modern American History

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    • 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 3 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....

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    • A History [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Gordon S. Wood
    • Narrated by: Jack Garrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....

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    • 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....

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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 466 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....

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    • 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 3,314 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....

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    • 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 364 ratings
    • The US government has spent half the time covering up conspiracies as it has spent helping the American people....

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    • 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 48 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....

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    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today....

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    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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    • 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 186 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....

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    • The American Infantry in Northwestern Europe, 1944-1945 [Modern Library Chronicles]
    • By: Paul Fussell
    • Narrated by: Joel Leffert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
    • From the acclaimed Modern Library Chronicles comes an exploration of a promising theory that when put to practice wreaked havoc on the world....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the History of the United States of America, American Revolution, Civil War, Chicago, Roaring Twenties, Great Depression, Pearl Harbor, and Gulf War
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jamie Peters, Randy Whitlow, Desmond Manny, Duke Holm, Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the United States of America, then pay attention....

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    • 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 90 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....

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    • A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture
    • By: Annelise Heinz
    • Narrated by: Rachel Botchan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture illustrates how the spaces between tiles and the moments between games have fostered distinct social cultures in the United States....

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    • Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta
    • By: Maurice J. Hobson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • For more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with Black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and music, earning it the nickname "the Black Mecca." Atlanta's long tradition of Black education dates back to Reconstruction....

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    • 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 65 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....

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    • 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 out of 5 stars 61 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....

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    • A Guide to American Distilleries, with Travel Advice, Folklore, and Tasting Notes
    • By: Colin Spoelman
    • Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
    • Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • This insider's guide to American distilleries offers colorful lore, regional history, and tasting notes for bourbon, whiskey, and rye.

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    • Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia
    • By: Elizabeth Catte
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia....

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    • A Captivating Guide to Ancient Indigenous Tribes, Spanish Colonization, British Rule, Independence, and Modern Times (South American Countries)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dive into the amazing story of Jamaica, a country shaped by the trials of slavery and the incredible strength of its people. This audiobook tells how enslaved Africans, despite enduring terrible hardships, built the foundation of Jamaica’s vibrant culture and heritage.

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