Young Adult American History

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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: 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 19,237 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 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 12 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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    • 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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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • “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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    • The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Rick Bowers
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • During the civil rights movement, the state of Mississippi created an elaborate spy network....

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    • Early 1900s Segregation In A City With Secrets
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • It was 1905, in New Orleans, three years after Earl’s family escaped the KKK in Mississippi. People thought Betty Jones, a brothel madam, was a ...

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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: 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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    • 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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    • Understanding Our Racial Divide
    • By: Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times best-seller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience....

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    • Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam, Steve Sheinkin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • New York Times best-selling author and Newbery Honor-recipient Steve Sheinkin gives young listeners the causes and curses that divided America into Union and Confederate nations....

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