American Social History

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  • Precio regular: $17.19

    • Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy
    • De: Richard L. Hasen
    • Narrado por: Tim Paige
    • Duración: 3 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-04-20
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 calificaciones
    • Taking into account how each of these threats has manifested in recent years - most notably in the 2016 and 2018 elections - Hasen offers concrete steps that need to be taken to restore trust in American elections before the democratic process is completely undermined....

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    • John C. Fremont and the Violent Election of 1856
    • De: John Bicknell
    • Narrado por: Bob Souer
    • Duración: 10 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-01-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 calificaciones
    • The 1856 presidential race was the most violent peacetime election in American history. War between proslavery and antislavery settlers raged in Kansas....

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    • The American Legacy of Land Theft and the Modern Movement for Black Land Ownership
    • De: Brea Baker
    • Narrado por: Brea Baker
    • Duración: 8 h y 21 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-18-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 calificaciones
    • Why is less than 1% of rural land in the U.S. owned by Black people? An acclaimed writer and activist explores the impact of land theft and violent displacement on racial wealth gaps, arguing that justice stems from the literal roots of the earth....

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    • Inside Trump’s Trial—and My Own
    • De: Jonathan Alter
    • Narrado por: Jonathan Alter
    • Duración: 8 h y 57 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-22-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 calificaciones
    • A vivid eyewitness account of the historic first criminal trial of a president and a cri de coeur for democracy from a New York Times bestselling author and presidential historian.

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    • De: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrado por: Richard Allen
    • Duración: 8 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-17-08
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 455 calificaciones
    • The Souls of Black Folk, his most influential work, is a collection of 14 beautifully written essays, by turns lyrical, historical, and autobiographical....

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    • The Legacy of Barack Obama
    • De: Matt Margolis, Mark Noonan
    • Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
    • Duración: 10 h y 46 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-28-17
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 432 calificaciones
    • As Barack Obama's presidential failures keep adding up, remembering them all can be a challenge. Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan have compiled everything you need to know....

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    • The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English
    • De: Lynne Murphy
    • Narrado por: Pam Ward
    • Duración: 11 h y 38 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 04-10-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 calificaciones
    • With great humo(u)r and new insights, Lynne Murphy looks at the social, political, and linguistic forces that have driven American and British English in different directions: how Americans got from centre to center, why British accents are growing away from American ones, and more....

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    • From the Constitution to Present-Day Elections, All You Need to Understand Our Democratic System
    • De: Nick Ragone
    • Narrado por: George Newbern
    • Duración: 8 h y 32 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-03-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 calificaciones
    • Specially designed to inform and empower the average citizen during this critical election year, The Everything American Government Book provides the keys to understanding the ins and outs of the most powerful democracy in the world....

    Precio regular: $18.74

    • Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
    • De: Tony Horwitz
    • Narrado por: Arthur Addison
    • Duración: 15 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 11-19-13
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 582 calificaciones
    • When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him....

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    • Unearthing the Hidden History of American Cemeteries
    • De: Greg Melville
    • Narrado por: Will Tulin
    • Duración: 8 h y 42 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 10-11-22
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 calificaciones
    • A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries, Over My Dead Body explores how, where, and why we bury our dead....

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    • How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens
    • De: Bernard E. Harcourt
    • Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Duración: 9 h y 7 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 02-27-18
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 calificaciones
    • Militarized police officers with tanks and drones. Pervasive government surveillance and profiling. Social media that distract and track us. All of these, contends Bernard E. Harcourt, are facets of a new and radical governing paradigm in the United States....

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    • How the Katharine Gibbs School Revolutionized the American Workplace for Women
    • De: Vanda Krefft
    • Narrado por: Eliza Foss
    • Duración: 10 h y 47 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 03-04-25
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 calificaciones
    • A fun and fascinating social history of the famed Katharine Gibbs School, which from the 1910s to the 1960s, trained women for executive secretary positions but surreptitiously was instilling the self-confidence and strategic know-how necessary for them to claim equality, power, and authority.

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    • Big City Dreams Along a Shanghai Road
    • De: Rob Schmitz
    • Narrado por: Paul Boehmer
    • Duración: 12 h y 17 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 12-27-15
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 calificaciones
    • Modern Shanghai: a global city in the midst of a renaissance, where dreamers arrive each day to partake in a mad torrent of capital, ideas, and opportunity....

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    • A Black Woman's Story
    • De: Elaine Brown
    • Narrado por: Elaine Brown
    • Duración: 17 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 06-22-21
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 5 out of 5 stars 76 calificaciones
    • Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974....

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    • Rise and Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus
    • De: Irving Rouse
    • Narrado por: Adam Barr
    • Duración: 6 h y 53 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-14-24
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 calificaciones
    • As Rouse discusses the Tainos' contributions to the Spaniards-from Indian corn, tobacco, and rubber balls to art, artifacts, and new words-we realize that their effect on Western civilization, brief through their contact, was an important and lasting one.

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    • Four Women Undercover in the Civil War
    • De: Karen Abbott
    • Narrado por: Karen White
    • Duración: 15 h y 14 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 09-02-14
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4 out of 5 stars 732 calificaciones
    • The stories of four courageous women - a socialite, a farmgirl, an abolitionist, and a widow - who were spies....

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    • Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
    • De: Deirdre Cooper Owens
    • Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
    • Duración: 5 h y 39 m
    • Fecha de lanzamiento: 05-07-19
    • Idioma: Inglés
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 calificaciones
    • Medical Bondage moves between southern plantations and northern urban centers to reveal how 19th-century American ideas about race, health, and status influenced doctor-patient relationships in sites of healing like slave cabins, medical colleges, and hospitals....

    Precio regular: $13.75