Local History

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
    • By: John Ehle
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-2011
    • Language: English
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    • A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds....

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    • Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
    • By: Robert M. Utley
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-2011
    • Language: English
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    • If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you....

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    • By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers....

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    • Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
    • By: Kyle Longley
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales. In the US, perhaps no one was more undone by the events of 1968 than President LBJ. Kyle Longley leads his listeners on a behind-the-scenes tour of what Johnson characterized as the 'year of a continuous nightmare'....

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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • By: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 26-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding....

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    • 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: 19-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    • By: Betty Boyd Caroli
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 29-04-2019
    • Language: English
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    • This expanded and updated fifth edition presents Caroli's keen political analysis and astute observations of recent developments, including Melania Trump's reluctance to take on the mantle and former First Lady Hilary Clinton's recent run for president....

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    • The Social Origins of Witchcraft
    • By: Stephen Nissenbaum, Paul Boyer
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 17-04-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the web of human passion that climaxed in the Salem witch trials. From varied sources, Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the people and events more fascinating than any other in the massive literature....

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    • The Chilling True Story of WIlliam “Wild Bill Cody” Neal—The Vicious Denver Lady-Killer
    • By: Steve Jackson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 23-12-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • William Neal, who called himself "Wild Bill Cody," was seductive and skillful at separating love-struck women from their money, and ultimately, their lives....

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    • By: Abbie Farwell Brown
    • Narrated by: Leslie Belaire
    • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
    • Release date: 24-01-2012
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Disagreeable old Miss Terry spends her Christmas Eve getting rid of toys from her childhood toy box....

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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Author Carol F. Karlsen reveals the social construction of witchcraft in 17th-century New England and illuminates the larger contours of gender relations in that society and attempts to answer the question why some women were vulnerable to accusations of witchcraft and possession....

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • By: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-2006
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (and Some Bears)
    • By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
    • Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2020
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road....

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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since 1980, the number of people in US prisons has increased more than 450 percent. Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that prison buildup by looking at how political and economic forces conjoined to produce the prison boom....

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    • Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
    • By: Nick Estes
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century....

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    • A History of New York City to 1898
    • By: Edwin G. Burrows, Mike Wallace
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Series: Gotham, Book 1
    • Length: 67 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consolidation of the five boroughs into Greater New York in 1898....

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    • A History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 18-09-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • In riveting prose, These Truths tells the story of America, beginning in 1492, to ask whether the course of events has proven the nation's founding truths or belied them....

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