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....

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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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    • 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....

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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 198 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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    • 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 94 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 Captivating Guide to Modern Latin American History (South American Countries)
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 3 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-24
    • Language: English
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    • Latin America is so much more than the Amazon and Christopher Columbus. It’s a place full of stories about independence, tough fighters, and rich cultures. But how did this region become what it is today? And what has shaped its journey?

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    • 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 ...

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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
    • 4.5 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....

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    • 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....

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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 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....

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    • 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.

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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 138 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution....

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    • 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 624 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.​

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    • 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....

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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 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....

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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 3,401 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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    • 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 ...

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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 54 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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    • 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!

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    • From Colonial Craftsmanship to Modern Military Engineering
    • By: Mending Laster
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-21-25
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Forged in Precision: The Evolution of the American Rifle Discover the captivating journey of the American rifle, a tool that has shaped the history...

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