Current American History

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    • A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
    • Written by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Jason Reynolds, Ibram X. Kendi - introduction
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2020-03-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 102 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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    • The Making of America's Fury
    • Written by: Evan Osnos
    • Narrated by: Evan Osnos
    • Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-14
    • Language: English
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    • After a decade abroad, the National Book Award- and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Evan Osnos returns to three places he has lived in the United States - Greenwich, CT; Clarksburg, WV; and Chicago, IL - to illuminate the origins of America’s political fury....

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    • The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
    • Written by: Keith O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Eileen Stevens
    • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2022-04-12
    • 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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    • Stories from the Dark Side of American Immigration
    • Written by: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2013-01-18
    • Language: English
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    • With painstaking research and her unique narrative style, award-winning author Ann Bausum makes the history of immigration in America come alive for young people....

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    • The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
    • Written by: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2021-04-20
    • Language: English
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    • From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry is a compelling account of the killing of Vincent Chin, the verdicts that took the Asian-American community to the streets in protest, and the groundbreaking civil rights trial that followed....

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    • Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
    • Written by: Steve Sheinkin
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 3 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2014-01-21
    • 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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    • Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution
    • Written by: Julius S. Scott, Marcus Rediker - foreword
    • Narrated by: Earl McLean
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 2022-09-13
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Written by: Francisco Jiménez
    • Narrated by: Robert Ramirez
    • Length: 5 hrs
    • Release date: 2015-02-11
    • Language: English
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    • As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for 10 years finally happens....

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    • Written by: Brendan Kiely, Jason Reynolds - introduction
    • Narrated by: Brendan Kiely
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-21
    • 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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    • A Story of America
    • Written by: Michael Eric Dyson, Marc Favreau
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2022-05-03
    • Language: English
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    • Renowned, best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson makes his YA debut, with critically acclaimed author Marc Favreau, to deliver an urgent, enlightening account of racial inequality in America....

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    • The Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and the Emergence of Black Power
    • Written by: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2017-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Listeners learn about the powerful figures and emerging leaders who joined the over 200-mile walk that became known as the "March Against Fear"....

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    • US History Textbook | Children's American History
    • Written by: Baby Professor
    • Narrated by: Carmyn Block
    • Length: 11 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-21
    • 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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    • The Story of the Black Panther Party
    • Written by: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-18
    • 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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    • The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
    • Written by: Kekla Magoon
    • Narrated by: Tyla Collier
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2021-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers - as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community....

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    • Los Angeles, 1992. Edward Jae Song Lee, Latasha Harlins, Rodney King, and a City on Fire
    • Written by: Paula Yoo
    • Narrated by: Kevin R. Free
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2024-06-18
    • 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
    • Written by: Jaha Nailah Avery
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton, Arnell Powell, Jaha Nailah Avery
    • Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2023-07-11
    • 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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    • American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot
    • Written by: Winifred Conkling
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-13
    • 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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