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Being Heumann
- The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Paralyzed from polio at 18 months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a 'fire hazard' to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license, to leading the section 504 sit-in that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people around the globe.
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Being Heumann
- The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2021
- Language: English
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A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism, Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance and inclusion in society....
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- By: Leanda de Lisle
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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Henrietta Maria is the most reviled consort to have worn the crown of Britain's Three Kingdoms. Condemned as that 'Popish brat of France', a 'notorious whore' and traitor, she remains in popular memory the wife who wore the breeches and turned her husband Catholic—so causing a civil war—and a cruel and bigoted mother. Leanda de Lisle's White King was hailed as 'the definitive modern biography about Charles I' (Observer). Here she considers Henrietta Maria's point of view, unpicking the myths to reveal a very different queen.
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Henrietta Maria
- Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
- Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 04-08-2022
- Language: English
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Leanda de Lisle presents a myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells the dramatic story of the civil war from her perspective....
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The Engagement
- America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
- By: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
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On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable.
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The Engagement
- America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 01-06-2021
- Language: English
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The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium....
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- By: Clay Risen
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, "it seems preordained", as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory.
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 01-04-2014
- Language: English
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- By: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 17 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 13-08-2019
- Language: English
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims....
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The Age of Anxiety
- McCarthyism to Terrorism
- By: Haynes Johnson
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of our citizens. In this masterful history, Haynes Johnson re-creates that time of crisis. Johnson tells this monumental story through the lens of its relevance to our own time, when fear again affects American behavior and attitudes.
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The Age of Anxiety
- McCarthyism to Terrorism
- Narrated by: Kristoffer Tabori
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 05-10-2005
- Language: English
- Compelling narrative history, insightful political commentary, and intimate personal remembrance combine to make The Age of Anxiety a vitally important book for our time....
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The Field of Blood
- Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
- By: Joanne B. Freeman
- Narrated by: Joanne B. Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
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In The Field of Blood, Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the US Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery.
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Fantastic history on political violence
- By Sweing on 18-05-2023
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The Field of Blood
- Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
- Narrated by: Joanne B. Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 11-09-2018
- Language: English
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War....
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Insurrection
- Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
- By: Hawa Allan
- Narrated by: Hawa Allan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of Black American equity in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. While the act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, during Reconstruction it was invoked by President Grant to quell white-supremacist uprisings in the South.
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Insurrection
- Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
- Narrated by: Hawa Allan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 12-04-2022
- Language: English
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The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts....
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At America's Gates
- Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
- By: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out.
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At America's Gates
- Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 03-07-2018
- Language: English
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With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences....
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle
- A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
- By: Melvin I. Urofsky
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
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From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis and Dissent and the Supreme Court a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take "affirmative action" to ensure that there be no discrimination by "race, creed, color, or national origin" down to today’s American society.
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle
- A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 28-01-2020
- Language: English
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A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times....
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The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
- Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
- By: Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Justin J. Wert
- Narrated by: Bill Burrows
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections - marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot.
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The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
- Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
- Narrated by: Bill Burrows
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 23-06-2016
- Language: English
- On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law....
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Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- By: Lennard Davis
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.
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Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 14-07-2015
- Language: English
- The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights....
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Acts of Love and War
- A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire.
- By: Maggie Brookes
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
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21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire—not least because she lives next door to Tom and Jamie, two very different brothers for whom she has equally great affection. But her comfortable life is turned upside down when Tom decides he must travel to Spain to fight for the Democratic party in the bloody Spanish Civil War. He is quickly followed by Jamie, who, much to Lucy's despair, is supporting General Franco and his Fascist party.
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Acts of Love and War
- A nation torn apart by war. One woman steps into the crossfire.
- Narrated by: Avita Jay
- Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 09-06-2022
- Language: English
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21-year-old Lucy feels content with her life in Hertfordshire—not least because she lives next door to Tom and Jamie, two very different brothers for whom she has equally great affection. But her comfortable life is turned upside down....
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White Lawyer, Black Power
- A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
- By: Donald A. Jelinek
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years. In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality.
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White Lawyer, Black Power
- A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 22-12-2020
- Language: English
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Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....
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The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry
- George A. Custer in the Civil War (Emerging Civil War Series)
- By: Daniel Davis
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
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On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry into the valley of the Little Bighorn. By sunset, Custer and five of his companies lay dead - killed in battle against Sioux and Cheyenne warriors. Through the passage of time, Custer’s last fight has come to overshadow the rest of his military career, which had its brilliant beginning in the American Civil War. Plucked from obscurity by Maj. Gen. George McClellan, Custer served as a staff officer through the early stages of the war.
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The Most Desperate Acts of Gallantry
- George A. Custer in the Civil War (Emerging Civil War Series)
- Narrated by: Bob Neufeld
- Series: Emerging Civil War
- Length: 3 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 31-05-2019
- Language: English
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On June 25, 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry into the valley of the Little Bighorn. By sunset, Custer and five of his companies lay dead - killed in battle against Sioux and Cheyenne warriors....
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- The History of the Controversial Law That Sparked the Confederacy's Secession and the Civil War
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
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Despite the attempt to settle America's slavery issue with the Missouri Compromise in 1820, the young nation kept pushing further westward, and with that more territory was acquired. After the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the sectional crisis was brewing like never before, with California and the newly-acquired Mexican territory now ready to be organized into states.
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The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
- The History of the Controversial Law That Sparked the Confederacy's Secession and the Civil War
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-04-2017
- Language: English
- Despite the attempt to settle America's slavery issue with the Missouri Compromise in 1820, the young nation kept pushing further westward, and with that more territory was acquired....
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