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The Rush

California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World

by Nathaniel Philbrick ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

13 hours 21 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 · A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the FallNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war**In January 1848, a carpenter spotted ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A New York Times Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 · A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the FallNational Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how California’s Gold Rush forged the modern United States—and lit the long fuse to civil war**In January 1848, a carpenter spotted
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This Land is Your Land

A Road Trip Through U.S. History

by Beverly Gage ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our ... Read more

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A Barack Obama Summer Reading List SelectionPulitzer Prize–winning author of G-Man and acclaimed historian Beverly Gage takes the ultimate road trip into the American past.Ride along with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Beverly Gage as she travels the country to see the museums, historic sites, roadside attractions, reenactments, and souvenir shops where Americans learn—and fight—about our
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The World That Made New Orleans

From Spanish Silver to Congo Square

by Ned Sublette ...

Narrated by Sean Crisden ...

Unabridged

11 hours 52 min

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. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented. This innovative history tracks ... Read more

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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. Focused on New Orleans' first century of existence, a comprehensive, chronological narrative of the political, cultural, and musical development of Louisiana's early years is presented. This innovative history tracks
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The Poisoner's Handbook

Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York

by Deborah Blum ...

Narrated by Coleen Marlo ...

Unabridged

9 hours 14 min

Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end ... Read more

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Deborah Blum, writing with the high style and skill for suspense that is characteristic of the very best mystery fiction, shares the untold story of how poison rocked Jazz Age New York City. In The Poisoner's Handbook, Blum draws from highly original research to track the fascinating, perilous days when a pair of forensic scientists began their trailblazing chemical detective work, fighting to end
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They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers ...

Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who ... Read more

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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who
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A Midwife’s Tale

The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich ...

Narrated by Susan Ericksen ...

Unabridged

15 hours 42 min

Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in ... Read more

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Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.Between 1785 and 1812, a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in twenty-seven years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in
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Soul by Soul

Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market

by Walter Johnson ...

Narrated by Tom Perkins ...

Unabridged

10 hours 22 min

Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the ... Read more

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Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged, priced, and sold, Walter Johnson transforms the statistics of this chilling trade into the
... Read more
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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 ...

Unabridged

17 hours 8 min

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 twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been "afflicted," thirty two had officially accused their ... Read more

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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 twenty who were executed and the five who perished in prison, two hundred and seven individuals had been accused, seventy four had been "afflicted," thirty two had officially accused their
... Read more
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White Flight

Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism

by Kevin M. Kruse ...

Narrated by Aaron Williamson ...

Unabridged

13 hours 48 min

During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains ... Read more

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During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate," a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived together. Over the course of the 1960s and 1970s, however, so many whites fled the city for the suburbs that Atlanta earned a new nickname: "The City Too Busy Moving to Hate."In this reappraisal of racial politics in modern America, Kevin Kruse explains
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American Pain

How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

by John Temple ...

Narrated by Charlie Thurston ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscleheads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the ... Read more

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The king of the Florida pill mills was American Pain, a mega-clinic expressly created to serve addicts posing as patients. From a fortresslike former bank building, American Pain's doctors distributed massive quantities of oxycodone to hundreds of customers a day, mostly traffickers and addicts who came by the vanload. Inked muscleheads ran the clinic's security. Former strippers operated the
... Read more
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Glass House

The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

by Brian Alexander ...

Narrated by Bob Souer ...

Unabridged

11 hours 7 min

The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, ... Read more

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The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon,
... Read more
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The Hemingses of Monticello

An American Family

by Annette Gordon-Reed ...

Narrated by Karen White ...

Unabridged

30 hours 37 min

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. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and ... Read more

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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. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family from its origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Jefferson's death in 1826. It brings to life not only Sally Hemings and
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On the Edge of Survival

A Shipwreck, a Raging Storm, and the Harrowing Alaskan Rescue That Became a Legend

by Spike Walker ...

Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

Unabridged

6 hours 2 min

A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington, to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004, during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time.Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the driving storm in an effort to rescue the ship's ... Read more

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A Malaysian cargo ship on its way from Seattle, Washington, to China ran aground off the coast of western Alaska's Aleutian Islands on December 8, 2004, during a brutal storm, leading to one of the most incredible Coast Guard rescue missions of all time.Two Coast Guard Jayhawk helicopters lifted off immediately from Air Station Kodiak during the driving storm in an effort to rescue the ship's
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Savage Kingdom

The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

by Benjamin Woolley ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

13 hours 59 min

Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first American colony, Savage Kingdom presents a bold, even reckless, political adventure driven by a sense of imperial destiny and dogged by official hostility.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy—left London ... Read more

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Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first American colony, Savage Kingdom presents a bold, even reckless, political adventure driven by a sense of imperial destiny and dogged by official hostility.Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men—led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy—left London
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Virginia State Penitentiary

by Dale M. Blumfield ...

Narrated by Chikondi Chanthunya ...

Unabridged

8 hours 9 min

Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. The prison endured severe overcrowding, three fires, an earthquake, and numerous riots.Vice President Aaron Burr was incarcerated there in 1807 as he awaited trial for treason. More than 240 prisoners were executed there by electric chair. At one time, the ACLU ... Read more

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Thomas Jefferson developed the idea for the Virginia State Penitentiary and set the standard for the future of the American prison system. The prison endured severe overcrowding, three fires, an earthquake, and numerous riots.Vice President Aaron Burr was incarcerated there in 1807 as he awaited trial for treason. More than 240 prisoners were executed there by electric chair. At one time, the ACLU
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Untold Stories of the American Revolution

25 True Stories of Spies, Women, Outsiders and Ordinary People Behind the Revolutionary War

by Elias R. Thornbury ...

Narrated by AI Voice ...

Unabridged

6 hours 15 min

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.A tailor said to have saved George Washington's life twice. A spy ring famous for a clothesline that appears in none of its surviving letters. A soldier who served seventeen months under a man's name. A poet who wrote to the commander of the American army, and got an answer.Every one of them is real. Some of what is said about them is not.Untold Stories of ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.A tailor said to have saved George Washington's life twice. A spy ring famous for a clothesline that appears in none of its surviving letters. A soldier who served seventeen months under a man's name. A poet who wrote to the commander of the American army, and got an answer.Every one of them is real. Some of what is said about them is not.Untold Stories of
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The Early Imperial Republic

From the American Revolution to the U.S.–Mexican War

Narrated by Allyson Johnson, Bill Andrew Quinn ...

Unabridged

12 hours 25 min

Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved Black people, and foreign subjects perceived, interacted with, and resisted the young republic as if it was merely another empire. Such perspectives ... Read more

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Created in a world of empires, the United States was to be something new: an expansive republic proclaiming commitments to liberty and equality but eager to extend its territory and influence. Yet from the beginning, Native powers, free and enslaved Black people, and foreign subjects perceived, interacted with, and resisted the young republic as if it was merely another empire. Such perspectives
... Read more
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Brief History of Virginia, A

by KJ Smith ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Madison G ...

Series Audiobook 46 - A Brief History of - US States Edition
Unabridged

1 hour 30 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Brief History of VirginiaVirginia, the birthplace of American history, has long been at the heart of the nation's story. A Brief History of Virginiatakes readers on a fascinating journey through the events, people, and places that have shaped this historically significant state.From the first English settlement at Jamestown to its role in the ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.A Brief History of VirginiaVirginia, the birthplace of American history, has long been at the heart of the nation's story. A Brief History of Virginiatakes readers on a fascinating journey through the events, people, and places that have shaped this historically significant state.From the first English settlement at Jamestown to its role in the
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The Lowells of Massachusetts

An American Family

by Nina Sankovitch ...

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

Unabridged

16 hours 5 min

The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s.Though no strangers to controversy, the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America's history: Percival ... Read more

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The Lowells of Massachusetts were a remarkable family. They were settlers in the New World in the 1600s, revolutionaries creating a new nation in the 1700s, merchants and manufacturers building prosperity in the 1800s, and scientists and artists flourishing in the 1900s.Though no strangers to controversy, the family boasted some of the most astonishing individuals in America's history: Percival
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St. Marks Is Dead

The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street

by Ada Calhoun ...

Narrated by Carla Mercer-Meyer ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial ... Read more

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St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O'Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street's apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial
... Read more
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Hidden History of the Outer Banks

by Sarah Downing ...

Narrated by Daniela Acitelli ...

Unabridged

3 hours 18 min

The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost—until now.Join local author and historian Sarah Downing as she reveals a past of the Outer Banks eroded by time and tides. Revel in the nostalgic days of the Carolina Beach Pavilion, stand in the shadows of windmills that once lined the coast, and learn how ... Read more

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The history of North Carolina's Outer Banks is as ancient and mesmerizing as its beaches. Much has been documented, but many stories were lost—until now.Join local author and historian Sarah Downing as she reveals a past of the Outer Banks eroded by time and tides. Revel in the nostalgic days of the Carolina Beach Pavilion, stand in the shadows of windmills that once lined the coast, and learn how
... Read more
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Brief History of New York and the United States 2 in 1, A

The City That Built America, and the Country That Changed the World

by Dominic Haynes ...

Narrated by Digital Voice Marcus G ...

Unabridged

7 hours 12 min

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.From a scrappy island trading post to a global empire—discover how one city shaped a nation, and how that nation came to lead the world.Ever feel overwhelmed trying to make sense of American history—or how New York became the beating heart of it all? Want a clear, fast-paced guide that connects the dots without putting you to sleep?This 2-in-1 volume ... Read more

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This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.From a scrappy island trading post to a global empire—discover how one city shaped a nation, and how that nation came to lead the world.Ever feel overwhelmed trying to make sense of American history—or how New York became the beating heart of it all? Want a clear, fast-paced guide that connects the dots without putting you to sleep?This 2-in-1 volume
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The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm

by Mark Sebastian Jordan ...

Narrated by Mark Sebastian Jordan ...

Unabridged

4 hours 37 min

The people of mid-Ohio's Pleasant Valley went on with their normal lives that cold and rainy spring of 1896, not knowing that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She'd been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She'd been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She'd heard about murdering those who stand in the way of love. By the time she was done, her family would be dead and ... Read more

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The people of mid-Ohio's Pleasant Valley went on with their normal lives that cold and rainy spring of 1896, not knowing that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She'd been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She'd been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She'd heard about murdering those who stand in the way of love. By the time she was done, her family would be dead and
... Read more
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Thee-Inn Visible Warp

by A M Tackett ...

Narrated by Jamal West ...

Unabridged

3 hours

There happens to be certain parts of an individual’s life that they possess a soft spot for. Music had been the one thing in my life that I had always treasured and wanted to pursue. I have been engrossed in the different genres of music that have been introduced since the beginning, and I have wanted to be a musician since childhood. But fate had other plans when the circumstances of my life ... Read more

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There happens to be certain parts of an individual’s life that they possess a soft spot for. Music had been the one thing in my life that I had always treasured and wanted to pursue. I have been engrossed in the different genres of music that have been introduced since the beginning, and I have wanted to be a musician since childhood. But fate had other plans when the circumstances of my life
... Read more

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