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    • A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,496 ratings
    • An illuminating history of North America's 11 rival cultural regions that explodes the red state-blue state myth....

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    • The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
    • By: Steven Hahn
    • Narrated by: Barry Press
    • Series: The Penguin History of the United States, Book 3
    • Length: 27 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 77 ratings
    • In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the 19th 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 236 ratings
    • A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds....

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    • The History of the CIA
    • By: Tim Weiner
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 21 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4,596 ratings
    • This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders....

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    • Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation
    • By: Harlow Giles Unger
    • Narrated by: William Hughes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 414 ratings
    • Patrick Henry is all but forgotten today as the first of the Founding Fathers to call for independence, the first to call for revolution, and the first to call for a bill of rights....

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    • Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
    • By: Lauret Savoy
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past....

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    • By: Norrie MacQueen
    • Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Since its inception in 1945, the United Nations has had a powerful but controversial influence on global politics....

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    • America's Best Idea
    • By: Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns
    • Narrated by: Ken Burns
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 851 ratings
    • America's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved....

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    • Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
    • By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 133 ratings
    • Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and honest history of the United States....

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    • National Myth and the Battle for America
    • By: Richard Slotkin
    • Narrated by: Chris Sorensen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A Great Disorder is a bold, urgent work that helps us make sense of today's culture wars through a brilliant reconsideration of America's foundational myths and their use in contemporary politics.

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3,608 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • A Millennium in North America
    • By: Kathleen DuVal
    • Narrated by: Carolina Hoyos
    • Length: 21 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • In this important addition to the growing tradition of North American history centered on Indigenous nations, Kathleen DuVal shows how the definitions of power and means of exerting it shifted over time, but the sovereignty and influence of Native peoples remained a constant....

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    • America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics, and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible
    • By: Simon Winchester
    • Narrated by: Simon Winchester
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,177 ratings
    • Simon Winchester delivers a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A.....

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    • Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park
    • By: Lee H. Whittlesey
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The chilling tome that launched an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years.

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    • A History of US, Book 4
    • By: Joy Hakim
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-03-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • Beginning with George Washington's inauguration and continuing into the nineteenth century, The New Nation tells the story of the remarkable challenges that the new country faced....

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    • The Women Who Raised Our Nation
    • By: Cokie Roberts
    • Narrated by: Cokie Roberts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-04
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 420 ratings
    • Cokie returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate look at the passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families and country....

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    • The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State
    • By: Garrett Felber
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of the Nation of Islam, Garrett Felber centers the Nation in the Civil Rights Era and the making of the modern carceral state....

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