Audio Programs
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Historic Voices V: If I'm Elected |
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| by Various Artists |
| The actual voices and platforms of the US Presidential figures and their opponents from 1892 to 1948.... |
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Historic Voices X: The US Presidents Inaugural Addresses |
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| by Various Artists |
| The inaugural addresses of Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy & Nixon.... |
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The Invention of Air |
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| by Steven Johnson |
| Steven Johnson recounts the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers.... |
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On Board the Titanic |
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| by Shelley Tanaka |
| What was it like when the great Titanic sank? Jack Thayer and Harold Bride were there, and here are their stories.... |
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The Soul of America |
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| by Jacob Needleman |
| In his re-telling of the American story, Jacob Needleman brings to light the nation's deep hunger for meaning.... |
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Leading Ladies |
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| by Kay Bailey Hutchison |
| In a series of biographical portraits and historical overviews, this audiobook tells the dramatic stories of dedicated American women from varied backgrounds.... |
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Lincoln's Speeches |
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| by Abraham Lincoln |
| A collection of Lincoln's most famous speeches.... |
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The War Of The Worlds |
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| by H. G. Wells |
| This is an original recording of the famous Orson Welles broadcast that frightened the nation in the Fall of 1938. Intended as a Halloween prank, this broadcast caused mass hysteria throuhout New York.... |
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Chief Joseph |
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| by Candy Moulton |
| Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perce tribe, lived from 1840 to 1904. He became a legend through his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon's Wallowa Valley.... |
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David Crockett: Hero of the Common Man |
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| by William Groneman III |
| Perhaps no other figure in American history is more shrouded in myth and legend than David ("Davy") Crockett.... |
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Fixing Hell: An Army Psychologist Confronts Abu Ghraib |
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| by Larry C. James |
| An intense and insightful personal narrative, Fixing Hell shows us an essential perspective on Abu Ghraib that we've never seen before.... |
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Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party |
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| by David Lavender |
| The prosperous Donnoer brothers and their friend are leading their numerous children and grandchildren on a treacherous 2,500-mile trek to California.... |
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Rediscovering America's Founding Principles |
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| by Jacob Needleman |
| Jacob Needleman provides us with an insightful look into the great collective soul of our forefathers and mothers, and helps us understand the deep significance of our country.... |
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After Chancellorsville: Letters from the Heart |
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| by Judith A. Bailey,Robert I. Cotton |
| This was the American Civil War for many who lived it.... |
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II |
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| by Ronald Takaki |
| In Double Victory, a broad spectrum of American voices emerge to illustrate the various struggles and victories fought during wartime.... |
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The Battle of New Orleans |
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| by Robert V. Remini |
| In 1815, Britain's crack troops were stunningly defeated near New Orleans by a ragtag army of citizen soldiers under the fledgling commander Andrew Jackson.... |
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The First Four Presidents: The Founding Fathers Series |
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| by Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| In this edition, the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica examine the lives of the new republic's first four presidents: George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.... |
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Lincoln's Spymaster: Thomas Haines Dudley and the Liverpool Network |
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| by David Hepburn Milton |
| The Civil War conjures images of blood-soaked battlefields in the United States.... |
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Founding Fathers: Architects of a Nation |
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| by Encyclopaedia Britannica |
| Founding Fathers: Architects of a Nation sheds new light on the revolutionary leaders who planned, fought for, and created the United States of America.... |
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The Treasury of Foolishly Forgotten Americans: Colorful Characters Stuck in the Footnotes of History |
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| by Michael Farquhar |
| Best-selling journalist Michael Farquhar ransacked the archives to rescue 30 almost-famous Americans from the dust bin of obscurity.... |
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Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship |
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| by John Baldwin,Ron Powers |
| As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship.... |
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Lincoln's Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural |
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| by Ronald C. White |
| On March 4, 1865, at his second inauguration, President Lincoln did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for; nor did he blame the South solely for the sin of slavery.... |
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The Meadow |
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| by James Galvin |
| In short vignettes, Galvin gives us a deeply personal portrait of the people who lived in a mountain meadow along the Colorado-Wyoming border over its hundred-year history.... |
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Prayer in America (One Nation Under God): A Spiritual History of Our Nation: A Spiritual History of Our Nation |
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| by James P. Moore |
| In this highly original approach to the history of the United States, James Moore focuses on the extraordinary role that prayer has played in every area of American life.... |
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The Shawnees and the War for America |
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| by Colin G. Calloway |
| Rich in detail and highly readable, this compelling narrative portrays the Shawnees' valiant struggle to maintain their way of life.... |
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Blooding at Great Meadows: Young George Washington and the Battle that Shaped the Man |
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| by Alan Axelrod |
| History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country.... |
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Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation |
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| by Joseph Ellis |
| This is the story of the American Revolution, the men who made it and who then secured it. It is the story of an improbable victory by a provincial collection of loosely knit colonies.... |
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A Voyage Long and Strange |
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| by Tony Horwitz |
| On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery: he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America.... |
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Democracy in America |
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| by Ralph Raico,Wendy McElroy |
| Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat, captured the essence of nineteenth-century America in his penetrating work, Democracy in America.... |
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The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell |
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| by Mark Kurlansky |
| For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant role in the city's economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves.... |
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The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester |
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| by Mark Kurlansky |
| Fishing at sea, an ancient trade and a way of life that has defined coastal towns throughout history, may be coming to an end.... |
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Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot |
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| by J. Randy Taraborrelli |
| What does it mean to be a Kennedy? If ever three women would be challenged and changed by marriage into a family, it would be... |
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders |
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| by Kenneth C. Davis |
| Kenneth C. Davis presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny.... |
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Hero Tales: How Common Lives Reveal the Uncommon Genius of America |
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| by Theodore Roosevelt,Henry Cabot Lodge |
| In 1895, two young men destined to make their mark on American life, Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge, discovered they shared a common interest in.... |
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A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign |
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| by Edward J. Larson |
| A Magnificent Catastrophe tells the story of the most perverse, bizarre, nail-biting, and influential election battle ever in U.S. history: America's first true presidential campaign.... |
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America |
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| by Les Standiford |
| Here is history that reads like fiction: the riveting story of two founding fathers of American industry, Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick, and the bloody steelworkers' strike that transformed.... |
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Constitutional Journal: A Correspondent's Report from the Convention of 1787 |
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| by Jeffrey St. John |
| You are there, in 1787 at America's constitutional convention, with the inside story as veteran print and broadcast journalist Jeffrey St. John "reports" each day's proceedings.... |
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John Ransom's Diary: Andersonville |
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| by John Ransom |
| This book is an extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville.... |
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Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Wines and the Evening That Changed America |
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| by Charles Cerami |
| Soon after the new Constitution took effect and George Washington became president, the United States was in serious danger.... |
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New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan |
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| by Jill Lepore |
| A gripping tale and groundbreaking investigation of a mysterious, and largely forgotten, eighteenth-century slave plot to destroy New York City.... |
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears |
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| by Theda Perdue,Michael Green |
| Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears.... |
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This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War |
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| by James M. McPherson |
| In this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history.... |
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Victory, Volume 2 |
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| by Stephen Coonts |
| A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together today's best military, espionage, and techno-thriller writers... |
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American Studies |
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| by Louis Menand |
| Menand's latest journey through American cultural history. |
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Horatio's Drive |
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| by Ken Burns,Dayton Duncan |
| In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a "horseless buggy"... |
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Yiddish Radio Project: Stories from the Golden Age of Yiddish Radio |
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| by Scott Simon |
| From the 1930s to '50s, Yiddish radio was popular from coast to coast. By 1985, it was all but forgotten. Then musician and historian Henry Sapoznik discovered... |
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The Day the World Ended at Little Big Horn: A Lakota History |
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| by Joseph M. Marshall III |
| The Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876 has become known as the quintessential clash of cultures between the Lakota Sioux and whites.... |
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A Basic History of the United States, Vol. 1 |
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| by Clarence B. Carson |
| This first volume covers our heritage, our links to England, how the colonies grew, the mighty force of religion in early America, and the oppression felt by the colonists.... |
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 |
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| by Taylor Branch |
| In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume... |
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The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known |
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| by Howard Zinn |
| In February 2003, a remarkable event took place at the 92nd Street Y in New York, a celebration of the millionth copy sold of Howard Zinn's great A People's History of the United States.... |
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Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean |
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| by Les Standiford |
| The paths of the great American robber barons were paved with riches, and though ordinary citizens paid for them, they also profited.... |
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Young Men and Fire |
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| by Norman MacLean |
| On August 5, 1949, a crew of 15 of the U.S. Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Less than one hour later... |
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The Book of Honor |
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| by Ted Gup |
| In the entrance of the CIA headquarters looms a huge marble wall in to which seventy-one stars are carved - each representing an agent who has died in the line of duty... |
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The Last Voyage of Columbus: Being the Epic Tale of the Great Captain's Fourth Expedition |
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| by Martin Dugard |
| The epic, never-before-told story of Columbus's final, and perhaps greatest, journey to the New World.... |
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 |
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| by Taylor Branch |
| This audio adaptation focuses primarily on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the key moments that defined his rise to the forefront of the civil rights movement.... |
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 |
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| by Simon Winchester |
| The international best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion.... |
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Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America |
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| by John M. Barry |
| Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the greatest natural disaster this country has ever known, the Mississippi flood of 1927.... |
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The Best and the Brightest |
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| by David Halberstam |
| Here is David Halberstam's masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy, with a new Foreword by Senator John McCain.... |
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The Great Republic |
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| by Winston Churchill |
| The Great Republic is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War. This retelling of the American story... |
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The Great Hurricane: 1938 |
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| by Cherie Burns |
| This is the spellbinding hour-by-hour reconstruction of the most destructive and powerful storm ever to strike New England.... |
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West |
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| by Stephen E. Ambrose |
| Captain Meriwether Lewis was hand-picked by President Thomas Jefferson to explore and acquire the American West... |
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All You Want to Know: The United States Constitution |
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| by Walter Cronkite |
| The United States Constitution presents and explains the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Amendments to the Constitution in a way you've never experienced before... |
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation |
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| by Jon Meacham |
| In American Gospel, New York Times best-selling author Jon Meacham sets the record straight on the history of religion in American public life.... |
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1776 |
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| by David McCullough |
| 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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That's Not in My American History Book |
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| by Thomas Ayres |
| Most people don't know that.... |
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Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 |
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| by Stephen E. Ambrose |
| Nothing Like It in the World is the story of the men who built the transcontinental railroad. In Ambrose's hands, this enterprise comes to life... |
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The Wordy Shipmates |
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| by Sarah Vowell |
| New York Times best-selling author Sarah Vowell explores the Puritans and their journey to America using her special brand of armchair history.... |
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Truman |
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| by David McCullough |
| Hailed by critics as an American masterpiece, David McCullough's sweeping biography of Harry S Truman captured the heart of the nation... |
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A People's History of the United States: Highlights from the Twentieth Century |
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| by Howard Zinn |
| Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up.... |
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