Bestsellers
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Walter Isaacson, Holter Graham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance195
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Story195
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...
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Concise review of the reasons and thoughts behind the Declaration of Independence, must read relative to current events
- By Amazon Customer on 02-05-26
By: Walter Isaacson
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- By: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,460
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Performance1,293
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Story1,283
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....
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Solid read, BUT...
- By K ODell on 07-17-19
By: Eric Jay Dolin
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,814
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Performance1,567
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Story1,563
Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....
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Egregious omission of important passage.
- By Walking Man on 02-14-19
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Codename Nemo
- The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine
- By: Charles Lachman
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance202
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Story202
On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible—capturing a German U-Boat. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy...
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Great but flawed book
- By A. N. Onymous on 06-18-24
By: Charles Lachman
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,560
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Performance2,188
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Story2,190
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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A worthwhile listen
- By Blake on 07-10-13
By: Andres Resendez
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- By: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,354
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Performance1,143
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Story1,138
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic....
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- By John on 10-06-11
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The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
- By: Walter Isaacson
- Narrated by: Walter Isaacson, Holter Graham
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance195
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Story195
America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today. “Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy...
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Concise review of the reasons and thoughts behind the Declaration of Independence, must read relative to current events
- By Amazon Customer on 02-05-26
By: Walter Isaacson
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Black Flags, Blue Waters
- The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates
- By: Eric Jay Dolin
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,460
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Performance1,293
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Story1,283
Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's "Golden Age" - spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s - when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond....
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Solid read, BUT...
- By K ODell on 07-17-19
By: Eric Jay Dolin
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- By: Benjamin Franklin
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,814
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Performance1,567
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Story1,563
Left unfinished at the time of his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin has endured as one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies ever written....
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Egregious omission of important passage.
- By Walking Man on 02-14-19
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Codename Nemo
- The Hunt for a Nazi U-Boat and the Elusive Enigma Machine
- By: Charles Lachman
- Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall221
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Performance202
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Story202
On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible—capturing a German U-Boat. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy...
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Great but flawed book
- By A. N. Onymous on 06-18-24
By: Charles Lachman
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A Land So Strange
- The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
- By: Andres Resendez
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,560
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Performance2,188
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Story2,190
In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....
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A worthwhile listen
- By Blake on 07-10-13
By: Andres Resendez
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- By: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,354
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Performance1,143
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Story1,138
The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic....
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- By John on 10-06-11
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Taking Manhattan
- The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America
- By: Russell Shorto
- Narrated by: Russell Shorto
- Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall63
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Performance57
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Story57
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York—that brash, bold, archetypal city—came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on...
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Every city leader should read this
- By Richard McKown on 02-15-26
By: Russell Shorto
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The Swamp Fox
- How Francis Marion Saved the American Revolution
- By: John Oller
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,230
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Performance1,073
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Story1,066
In the darkest days of the American Revolution, Francis Marion and his band of militia freedom fighters kept hope alive for the patriot cause during the critical British southern campaign. Like the Robin Hood of legend, Marion and his men attacked from secret hideaways before melting back into...
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The Swamp Fox - Francis Marion
- By Stephen on 06-07-17
By: John Oller
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Mayflower
- A Story of Courage, Community, and War
- By: Nathaniel Philbrick
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,975
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Performance2,156
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Story2,148
"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages." --The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history New York Times Book Review Top Ten books of the Year How did America begin? That simple question launches the acclaimed author of Bunker Hill...
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Fascinating book about a little-understood time
- By John M on 02-04-07
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The Printer and the Preacher
- Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the Surprising Friendship that Invented America
- By: Randy Petersen
- Narrated by: Van Tracy
- Length: 9 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Story9
They were the most famous men in America. They came from separate countries, followed different philosophies, and led dissimilar lives. But they were fast friends. No two people did more to shape America in the mid-1700s. Benjamin Franklin was the American prototype: hard-working, inventive...
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Missed opportunities
- By H. M. Snow on 12-19-25
By: Randy Petersen
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Killing the Witches
- The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
- By: Bill O'Reilly, Martin Dugard
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,346
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Performance1,195
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Story1,194
With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world. Killing the Witches revisits one of the most...
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O’Riley is genius!
- By B.A. Wilmott on 10-03-23
By: Bill O'Reilly, and others
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The Hemingses of Monticello
- An American Family
- By: Annette Gordon-Reed
- Narrated by: Karen White
- Length: 30 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall878
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Performance660
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Story655
This epic work tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been systematically expunged from American history until very recently....
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Worried at first
- By Phillip Goodson on 12-13-08
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- By: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrated by: Graham Winton
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall427
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Performance368
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Story368
A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the...
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
- By Buretto on 10-21-21
By: Joseph J. Ellis
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Albion's Seed
- Four British Folkways in America, Vol. 1
- By: David Hackett Fischer
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 29 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall606
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Performance517
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Story516
This fascinating audiobook is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time....
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This is great, much more than title suggests
- By Kindle Customer on 07-26-14
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That Dark and Bloody River
- Chronicles of the Ohio River Valley
- By: Allan W. Eckert
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 35 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall321
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Performance275
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Story275
An epic novel by an award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable. They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by the score, restless...
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Fascinating Look at a forgotten chapter of history
- By Chidwick on 07-25-19
By: Allan W. Eckert
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The First Frontier
- The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, and Endurance in Early America
- By: Scott Weidensaul
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall394
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Performance348
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Story348
Frontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that marked the frontier....
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Too PC
- By Eric on 07-24-13
By: Scott Weidensaul
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Revolution
- The Birth of the Greatest Nation in the History of the World
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Overall0
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Performance0
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Story0
There has never been a nation like the United States of America.Its impact on the world is unprecedented in all of human history. After two and a half centuries of existence, it is difficult to imagine what the world would be like without it.
By: Eric Metaxas
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John Adams
- By: David McCullough
- Narrated by: Edward Herrmann, Jan Maxwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Abridged
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Overall2,081
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Performance1,070
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Story1,059
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling biography of America’s founding father and second president that was the basis for the acclaimed HBO series, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey...
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fantastic
- By Thomas on 07-06-06
By: David McCullough
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- By: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 24 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall95
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Performance76
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Story76
This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system...
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This Audible book is NOT for a popular audience!
- By BigWally on 11-22-18
By: Gordon S. Wood
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Indigenous Continent
- The Epic Contest for North America
- By: Pekka Hamalainen
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall175
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Performance155
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Story155
In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....
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indigenous Continent
- By katherine on 07-09-23
By: Pekka Hamalainen
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American History, Volume 1
- 1492-1877
- By: Thomas S. Kidd
- Narrated by: Craig Hinkle
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall57
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Performance46
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Story46
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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American history warts and all from a Christian perspective.
- By Charlesj on 06-13-23
By: Thomas S. Kidd
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Blackbeard
- America's Most Notorious Pirate
- By: Angus Konstam
- Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall172
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Performance148
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Story148
Of all the colorful cutthroats who scoured the seas in search of plunder during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th century, none was more ferocious or notorious than Blackbeard....
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It’s alright
- By B. Williams on 02-26-21
By: Angus Konstam
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The Ride
- Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
- By: Kostya Kennedy
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall45
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Performance42
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Story42
“Audiobook narrator Johnny Heller has a brisk, ardent manner, moving through events at a spirited trot, conveying the urgency and high stakes of Revere’s mission.”—The Washington Post Timed for the 250th anniversary of one of America’s most famous founding events: Paul Revere’s...
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Great read on Paul Revere
- By Fred on 04-19-25
By: Kostya Kennedy
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The Witches
- Salem, 1692
- By: Stacy Schiff
- Narrated by: Eliza Foss
- Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall878
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Performance778
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Story776
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the #1 national bestseller Cleopatra unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. “The Witches is the fullest and finest story ever told about Salem in 1692, and no one else could tell it with the otherworldly flair of Stacy Schiff.” ―Joseph J. Ellis...
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Really annoying narration
- By MAG on 11-10-15
By: Stacy Schiff
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The Bulletproof George Washington
- By: David Barton
- Narrated by: Dean Jones
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall180
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Performance158
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Story158
Colonel George Washington's perilous experiences in the French and Indian War are chronicled in this riveting account of God's providence and protection....
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Annoying sound effects
- By Dan on 08-26-20
By: David Barton
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War on the Run: The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier
- By: John F. Ross
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall253
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Performance220
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Story220
Often hailed as the godfather of today's elite special forces, Robert Rogers trained and led an unorthodox unit of green provincials, raw woodsmen, farmers, and Indian scouts on "impossible" missions in colonial America that are still the stuff of soldiers' legend. The child of marginalized...
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WOW!!!
- By Olaf the Black on 11-23-18
By: John F. Ross
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The World That Made New Orleans
- From Spanish Silver to Congo Square
- By: Ned Sublette
- Narrated by: Sean Crisden
- Length: 11 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall251
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Performance227
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Story226
Offering a new perspective on the unique cultural influences of New Orleans, this entertaining history captures the soul of the city and reveals its impact on the rest of the nation....
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great book; terrible "performance"
- By WGNYC on 11-28-17
By: Ned Sublette
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- By: Harriet Jacobs
- Narrated by: Audio Élan
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall527
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Performance458
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Story456
Harriet Jacobs’ autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children....
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Another impossible narration
- By JPALJ on 06-11-18
By: Harriet Jacobs
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Six Women of Salem
- The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
- By: Marilynne K. Roach
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall211
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Performance186
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Story186
Six Women of Salem is the first work to use the lives of a select number of representative women as a microcosm to illuminate the larger crisis of the Salem witch trials. By the end of the trials, beyond the 20 who were executed and the five who perished in prison, 207 individuals had been...
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Robotic Reader
- By DangerousBlossom on 12-15-18
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A Storm of Witchcraft
- The Salem Trials and the American Experience
- By: Emerson W. Baker
- Narrated by: Marc Vietor
- Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall263
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Performance230
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Story229
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America....
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Wow....riveting and tragic
- By TeamDowager on 10-23-15
By: Emerson W. Baker