American Social History

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    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • De: C.T. Vivian
    • Narrado por: Matthew J. Harris
    • Duración: 3 h y 19 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-31-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 calificaciones
    • In 1970, C. T. Vivian, a close colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a member of his executive staff, sat down to take stock of the civil rights movement and the progress it had made. His assessment was that it failed, and that the blame lay in the existence of myths about America....

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    • The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics
    • De: Kevin Hazzard
    • Narrado por: Gilbert Glenn Brown
    • Duración: 9 h y 34 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-20-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 264 calificaciones
    • The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the course of emergency medicine around the world....

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    • Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
    • De: Lance Hill
    • Narrado por: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Duración: 13 h y 3 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-29-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • In 1964 a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization - the Deacons for Defense and Justice - to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence....

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    • The Duty of a Statesman
    • De: William Lee Miller
    • Narrado por: Lloyd James
    • Duración: 19 h y 13 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-18-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 calificaciones
    • The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world. And back in the 19th century, a great man held that office....

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    • American Universities in the 1960s
    • De: Ellen Schrecker
    • Narrado por: Janet Metzger
    • Duración: 19 h y 37 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-15-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 calificaciones
    • The 1950s through the early 1970s are widely seen as American academia's golden age, when universities - well funded and viewed as essential for national security, economic growth, and social mobility - embraced an egalitarian mission....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • De: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrado por: Robin Miles
    • Duración: 10 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-06-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,625 calificaciones
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • The Creation of the Modern American State
    • De: William J. Novak
    • Narrado por: A.W. Miller
    • Duración: 12 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-06-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed. William J. Novak shows how Americans translated new conceptions of citizenship, social welfare, and economic democracy into demands for law and policy that delivered services and vindicated rights....

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    • An American Adventure into the Strange Deaths and Surprising Afterlives of Our Nation's Leaders
    • De: Brady Carlson
    • Narrado por: Tom Zingarelli
    • Duración: 8 h y 1 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-01-16
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 96 calificaciones
    • Mixing biography and travelogue, Carlson explores whether William Henry Harrison really died of a cold and why Zachary Taylor's remains were exhumed 140 years after his death....

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    • Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America
    • De: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Narrado por: Heather Cox Richardson
    • Duración: 9 h y 9 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-01-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,567 calificaciones
    • While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral....

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    • Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
    • De: Betty DeRamus
    • Narrado por: Richard Poe
    • Duración: 8 h y 4 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-23-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • Uplifting and occasionally heartbreaking stories of love from the time of slavery in the American south....

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    • De: Bill Bryson
    • Narrado por: William Roberts
    • Duración: 18 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-16-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,557 calificaciones
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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    • The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America
    • De: Benjamin L. Carp
    • Narrado por: Joe Barrett
    • Duración: 9 h y 31 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-29-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 calificaciones
    • On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than 46 tons of tea into Boston Harbor. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary act. Carp tells the full story, exploding myths....

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    • De: James Baldwin
    • Narrado por: Jesse L. Martin
    • Duración: 2 h y 25 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 01-16-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,939 calificaciones
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
    • De: Barack Obama
    • Narrado por: Barack Obama
    • Duración: 6 h y 10 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-25-06
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,798 calificaciones
    • In July 2004, Barack Obama electrified the Democratic National Convention with an address that spoke to Americans across the political spectrum....

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    • The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
    • De: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrado por: Juliet Stevenson
    • Duración: 13 h y 54 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-09-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,546 calificaciones
    • A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine....

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    • How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
    • De: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrado por: Perry Daniels
    • Duración: 11 h y 45 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 08-24-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 calificaciones
    • Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty....

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    • The Disillusionment of America's Founders
    • De: Dennis C. Rasmussen
    • Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Duración: 9 h y 16 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-02-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 100 calificaciones
    • Americans seldom deify their Founding Fathers any longer, but they do still tend to venerate the Constitution and the republican government that the founders created. Strikingly, the founders themselves were far less confident, particularly by the end of their lives....

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    • American Symbols
    • De: Norman Pearl, Matthew Skeens
    • Narrado por: anonymous
    • Duración: 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-16-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • Many kids say the Pledge of Allegiance every day in school. But what does it mean and where did it come from? Francis Bellamy wrote it more than 100 years ago. Join Bellamy in The Pledge of Allegiance for more of the story....

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    • The Life and Legend of Baseball’s Greatest Forgotten Player
    • De: Jeremy Beer
    • Narrado por: David Sadzin
    • Duración: 13 h y 24 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-26-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 calificaciones
    • Buck O'Neil once described him as "Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Tris Speaker rolled into one". Among experts, he is regarded as the best player in Negro Leagues history. Yet even among serious sports fans, Oscar Charleston is virtually unknown today....

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    • Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
    • De: Karen L. Cox
    • Narrado por: David Sadzin
    • Duración: 6 h y 44 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-08-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 calificaciones
    • When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands....

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