Young Adult American History

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    • By: David McCullough
    • Narrated by: David McCullough
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19,221 ratings
    • In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence....

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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 3,609 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 Blackwashed 19th Century Pre-Civil War Fictional Story That Depicts The People, Tone And Events Of The Era.
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • If Cotton Could Talk," is a civil war era historical fiction novel about 19th-century slave life in the South. You will be introduced to a cast of ...

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    • By: Elizabeth Partridge
    • Narrated by: June Angela
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This important work of nonfiction discusses powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration captured by three photographers—Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams—along with firsthand accounts of this grave moment in history....

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    • A Hidden Heritage
    • By: William Loren Katz
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 320 ratings
    • The compelling account of how two heritages united in their struggle to gain freedom and equality in America. The first paths to freedom taken by runaway slaves led to Native American villages. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship....

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    • Mail Order Bride Western Romance
    • By: Amanda Davis
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Love Blooms on the Frontier When Elizabeth Carter steps off the stagecoach in Hope's Landing, Wyoming, she's looking for a fresh start. What she ...

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    • By: Celia Rees
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
    • Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • It is 1659 and Mary Newbury, theyoung granddaughter of a witch, sees her wise and beloved grandmother tortured and hanged as a servant of the Devil. Then a stranger with hauntingly familiar eyes approaches her with an opportunity - safe passage to America....

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    • By: Katharine McGee
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
    • Series: American Royals, Book 1
    • Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,907 ratings
    • When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne. Like most royal families, the Washingtons have an heir and a spare....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 11-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • From the perspective of the young adult he was then, Francisco Jiménez describes the challenges he faced in his efforts to continue his education.....

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    • Memoirs of an American Soldier
    • By: Howard E. Wasdin, Stephen Templin
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • When the Navy sends their elite, they send the SEALs. When the SEALs send their elite, they send SEAL Team Six—a secret unit made up of the finest soldiers in the country, if not the world. This is Howard Wasdin's story of beating the odds to become an elite American warrior....

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    • “Bronzeville: The Black Metropolis"
    • By: Alvin Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-24
    • Language: English
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    • In this fascinating tale set in 1919, the Thomas family leaves New Orleans for Chicago as part of the Great Migration, seeking equality denied in ...

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    • Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 3
    • By: Orson Scott Card
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Series: Tales of Alvin Maker, Book 3
    • Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,066 ratings
    • Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-13-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 161 ratings
    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • By: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Ikeda
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 03-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California. Its purpose was to house thousands of Japanese-American internees. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston recalls life at Manzanar through the eyes of the child she was....

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    • By: Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrated by: Joe Morton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 97 ratings
    • Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s....

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    • Skin to the Core
    • By: Eric Gansworth
    • Narrated by: Eric Gansworth
    • Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The term Apple is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly red on the outside, white on the inside. Eric Gansworth tells his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere....

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    • Poems to Empower
    • By: Zetta Elliott
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Forum, these poems pay tribute to victims of police brutality as well as the activists insisting that Black Lives Matter. Elliott engages poets from the past two centuries to create a chorus of voices....

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    • The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr....

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