Local History

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    • A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
    • By: J. W. Ocker
    • Narrated by: Mark Sanderlin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Come and meet the monsters in our midst, from bigfoot to batsquatch and beyond....

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    • 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
    • By: Jonathan Mahler
    • Narrated by: Kyle Tait
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A passionate and dramatic account of a year in the life of a city, when baseball and crime reigned supreme, and when several remarkable figures emerged to steer New York clear of one of its most harrowing periods....

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    • The Most Chilling Cases in All 50 States
    • By: Ashley Hudson
    • Narrated by: Ashley Hudson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • United States of True Crime is an anthology series with books devoted to the most disturbing cases in each of the 50 states. This book focuses on 10 of the most chilling crimes in Connecticut history. True crime junkies may recognize some of the highly publicized cases....

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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: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • 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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    • By: Frederic L. Paxson
    • Narrated by: Joseph Tabler
    • Length: 24 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • History of the American Frontier 1763-1893 by Frederic L. Paxson, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin. Houghton Mifflin Company 1924. Pulitzer Prize-winner in History, 1925....

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    • The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise
    • By: Michael Grunwald
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 238 ratings
    • The Everglades was America's last frontier, a wild country long after the West was won. In this book Michael Grunwald chronicles how a series of visionaries tried to drain and "reclaim" it....

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    • The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
    • By: Tyler Anbinder
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • Author Tyler Anbinder offers the first-ever history of this now forgotten neighborhood, drawing on a wealth of research among letters and diaries, newspapers and bank records, police reports and archaeological digs....

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    • By: Evan S. Connell
    • Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 11-18-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • This national best-seller vividly reconstructs one of the most unbelievable and controversial battles in American military history—General Custer’s Last Stand in 1876....

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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: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • 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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    • Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
    • By: Robert M. Utley
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 341 ratings
    • 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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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • By: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 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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    • The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
    • By: John Ehle
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 236 ratings
    • A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds....

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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: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 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 Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis
    • By: William C. Davis
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Length: 27 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • Three Roads to the Alamo is the definitive work about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - the legendary frontiersmen and fighters who met their destiny at the Alamo in one of the most famous and tragic battles in American history....

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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: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • 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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    • 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: 06-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 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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    • 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: 12-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • 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 History of the United States
    • By: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 09-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,336 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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