Current American History

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • By: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-2020
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. This remarkable reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi's National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America....

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    • American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
    • By: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 13-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • On August 18, 1920, American women finally won the right to vote. Ratification of the 19th Amendment was the culmination of an almost 80-year fight in which some of the fiercest, most passionate women in history marched, protested, and sometimes broke the law in to achieve this huge leap....

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    • The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America
    • By: Candacy Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 22-03-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book. For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses....

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    • The Story of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 18-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.

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    • By: George M. Johnson
    • Narrated by: George M. Johnson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This powerful YA memoir-manifesto follows journalist and LGBTQ+ activist George M. Johnson as they explore their childhood, adolescence, and college years, growing up under the duality of being black and queer....

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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • By: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 13-09-2022
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Scott follows the spread of "rumors of emancipation" and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • By: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-2022
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From the New York Times best-selling journalist, the staggering, hidden story of an unlikely band of mothers who discovered the deadly secret of Love Canal, and exposed one of America’s most devastating environmental disasters....

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    • US History Textbook | Children's American History
    • By: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Carmyn Block
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-2022
    • Language: English
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    • History learning can be made so much fun and effective when the right resources are used. By right resources, we mean books that are visually appealing and easy to understand. Use this as an introduction to the subject or as a reviewer prior to an exam. Grab a copy today....

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    • Life in Native America
    • By: David Treuer, Sheila Keenan
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-2022
    • Language: English
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    • Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was 100 years ago....

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    • A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
    • By: Patricia Hruby Powell
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-2017
    • Language: English
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    • In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law....

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    • Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
    • By: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 18-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Paula Yoo’s latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles’s 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities.

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    • African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
    • By: Jaha Nailah Avery
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Arnell Powell, Jaha Nailah Avery
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-2023
    • Language: English
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    • The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow....

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    • Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
    • By: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-2014
    • Language: English
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    • On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away....

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    • By: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Adrian Vargas
    • Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-11-2009
    • Language: English
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    • Without bitterness or sentimentality, Francisco Jiménez finishes telling the story of his youth....

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    • Understanding Our Racial Divide
    • By: Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times best-seller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience....

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    • The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
    • By: Claire Hartfield
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-2018
    • Language: English
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    • On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the white beach. An angry white man threw stones at the boys, striking and killing one....

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    • By: Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds - introduction
    • Narrated by: Brendan Kiely
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with White kids about race in this accessible introduction to White privilege and why allyship is so vital....

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    • The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
    • By: Brad Meltzer, Josh Mensch
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 8 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • 1776. The early days of the Revolutionary War. It supposedly began with Thomas Hickey, a private in the Continental Army, and New York governor William Tryon. In an astonishing power grab, they plotted to kill Hickey's boss: a man by the name of George Washington....

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    • The Struggle for African American Voting Rights
    • By: Lawrence Goldstone
    • Narrated by: James Shippy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African-American voting rights in the United States....

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