American Maritime History

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    • Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
    • By: Sowande’ M Mustakeem
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 13-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Sowande' Mustakeem's groundbreaking study goes inside the Atlantic slave trade to explore the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery....

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    • The Forgotten War That Changed American History
    • By: Brian Kilmeade, Don Yaeger
    • Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
    • Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-2015
    • Language: English
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    • This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up....

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    • The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution
    • By: Angela C. Sutton
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-2024
    • Language: English
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    • No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez off the coast of West Africa in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. This obscure yet fierce naval battle would have a monumental impact on British colonies and the future of slavery in America.

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    • A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
    • By: Jonathan W. White
    • Narrated by: Al Kessel
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Jonathan W. White tells the riveting story of Appleton Oaksmith, a swashbuckling sea captain whose life intersected with some of the most important moments, movements, and individuals of the mid-nineteenth century....

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    • How an American Captive Rose to Power in Barbary and Saved His Homeland from War
    • By: Des Ekin
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • In 1785, a young American named James Leander Cathcart is kidnapped at sea and carried as prisoner to the maverick North African statelet of Algiers....

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    • The Deadliest Maritime Disaster in American History
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Ronald Printz
    • Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-2015
    • Language: English
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    • A ship that sank with more than 2,000 passengers aboard - most of whom died - would be big news, yet today the sinking of the SS Sultana is often overlooked if not entirely forgotten....

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    • A History of the American Lighthouse
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 18-04-2016
    • Language: English
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    • Brilliant Beacons traces the evolution of America's lighthouse system, highlighting the political, military, and technological battles fought to illuminate the nation's hardscrabble coastlines....

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    • The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy
    • By: Andrew C. A. Jampoler
    • Narrated by: Chris Monteiro
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Hard Aground brings together three intertwined stories documenting the US Navy's strategic and materiel evolution from the end of Civil War through the First World War....

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    • Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644–1865
    • By: Sean M. Kelley
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 30-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Historian Sean M. Kelley tells the unknown story of America's two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation....

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    • Maritime Battles Through the First Hundred Years
    • By: John Williams Ptolemy
    • Narrated by: Joshua Mount
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In its two centuries of existence, America has seen more than its fair share of momentous events. Through it all, the American Navy has not only been a witness but an active and key participant to the creation and progress of the country....

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    • Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy, Volume 66 (Campaigns and Commanders Series)
    • By: Benjamin Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
    • Series: Campaigns and Commanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay....

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    • William Tillman and the Unforgettable Story of How a Free Black Man Refused to Become a Slave
    • By: Brian McGinty
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 16-08-2016
    • Language: English
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    • On July 4, 1861, the schooner S. J. Waring set sail from New York on a routine voyage to South America. Seventeen days later it limped back into New York's harbor....

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    • Foundation of America's Maritime Might
    • By: Charles Raskob Robinson
    • Narrated by: Del-Bourree Bach
    • Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-2015
    • Language: English
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    • In the era of fighting sail when ships were made of wood and men of iron, the narrator takes us into the action of the three principal theaters of the War of 1812....

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