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  • A Land So Strange cover art

    • A Land So Strange

    • The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca
    • By: Andres Resendez
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
    • Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 217 ratings
    • 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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    • Blackbeard

    • America's Most Notorious Pirate
    • By: Angus Konstam
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • 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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  • The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789 cover art

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    • Bloody Mohawk

    • The French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • By: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to 1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland....

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    • 1493

    • Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
    • By: Charles C. Mann
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings

    • More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed radically different suites of plants and animals....

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    • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    • By: Benjamin Franklin
    • Narrated by: Qarie Marshall
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 28-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 ratings
    • 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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    • Indigenous Continent

    • The Epic Contest for North America
    • By: Pekka Hamalainen
    • Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
    • Length: 18 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 15-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

    • In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history....

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    • Our First Civil War

    • Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
    • By: H. W. Brands
    • Narrated by: Steve Hendrickson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings

    • What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers....

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  • The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told cover art

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    • Mayflower Lives

    • Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience
    • By: Martyn Whittock
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

    • Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

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    • Why We Love Pirates

    • The Hunt for Captain Kidd and How He Changed Piracy Forever
    • By: Rebecca Simon PhD
    • Narrated by: Kate Mulligan
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings

    • During his life and even after his death, Captain William Kidd’s name was known around England and the American colonies. He was infamous for the very crime for which he was hanged, piracy. This book by Rebecca Simon dives into the details of the two-year manhunt for Captain Kidd....

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    • Hot Protestants

    • A History of Puritanism in England and America
    • By: Michael P. Winship
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 21-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • On fire for God - a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America....

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    • Dunmore's War

    • The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era
    • By: Glenn F. Williams
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Known to history as "Dunmore's War", the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field....

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    • The Americas

    • A Captivating Guide to the History of the Continents of North and South America, Starting from the Olmecs Through the Maya and Aztecs to European Colonization and Independence Movements
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Jason Zenobia
    • Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings

    • The one character trait that, sometimes, surpasses the human instinct for survival is curiosity. When humans discovered an entire hemisphere that lay beyond their own Eastern Hemisphere, the race was on. What opportunities would these new lands hold? Listen to find out more....

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    • American Intellectual History

    • A Very Short Introduction
    • By: Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen
    • Narrated by: Suzie Althens
    • Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 31-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • This addition to Oxford's Very Short Introductions series traces how Americans have addressed the issues and events of their time and place, whether it is the Civil War, the Great Depression, or the culture wars of today....

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    • Salem Witch Trials

    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
    • Release date: 23-07-21
    • Language: English
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    • During the bitter winter of 1692/93, a group of young Puritan women in the colonial town of Salem, Massachusetts, accused more than 200 of their neighbors and fellow townspeople of using witchcraft to injure and torment them....

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    • New England Bound

    • Slavery and Colonization in Early America
    • By: Wendy Warren
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Wiley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In a work that recasts the history of colonial America, Wendy Warren shows how the institution of slavery was inexorably linked with the first century of English colonization of New England....

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    • New Amsterdam

    • The History of the Dutch Settlement Before It Became New York City
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Dave Wright
    • Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
    • Release date: 22-04-15
    • Language: English
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    • Manhattan has long been part of a bustling community, even before it formed the backbone of New York City....

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