Local History

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    • Written by: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 2013-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 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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    • The Ever Changing Role, from Martha Washington to Melania Trump
    • Written by: Betty Boyd Caroli
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 20 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-29
    • 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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    • A Child, an Elder, and the Light from an Ancient Sky
    • Written by: Kent Nerburn
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 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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    • Written by: Evan S. Connell
    • Narrated by: Adrian Cronauer
    • Length: 20 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2011-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 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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    • The American West and Its Disappearing Water
    • Written by: Marc Reisner
    • Narrated by: Joe Spieler, Kate Udall
    • Length: 27 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2018-01-03
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • The story of the American West is the story of a relentless quest for a precious resource: water. It is a tale of rivers diverted and dammed, of political corruptions and intrigue....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
    • Written by: John Ehle
    • Narrated by: John McDonough
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2011-06-20
    • 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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    • Witchcraft in Colonial New England
    • Written by: Carol F. Karlsen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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 French and Indian War & American Revolution on New York's Frontier
    • Written by: Richard Berleth
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
    • Written by: Robert M. Utley
    • Narrated by: Richard Davidson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2011-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
    • Written by: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-08
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
    • Written by: Erik Larson
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 2002-12-29
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 257 ratings
    • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death....

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    • An Oral History
    • Written by: Russell L. Riley
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 18 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-25
    • Language: English
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    • Inside the Clinton White House offers an intimate perspective on these questions and many more, granting listeners unprecedented access to the sensitive Oval Office banter that changed the course of history....

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    • How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
    • Written by: Donald L. Miller
    • Narrated by: Frangione Jim
    • Length: 29 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2014-05-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age....

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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
    • Written by: Tyler Anbinder
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 16 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-27
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • Written by: Abbie Farwell Brown
    • Narrated by: Leslie Belaire
    • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
    • Release date: 2012-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Disagreeable old Miss Terry spends her Christmas Eve getting rid of toys from her childhood toy box....

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    • An Epic of the American West
    • Written by: Hampton Sides
    • Narrated by: Don Leslie
    • Length: 20 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2006-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes a magnificent history of the American conquest of the West....

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    • Written by: Fran Lebowitz
    • Narrated by: Fran Lebowitz
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2012-09-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In "elegant, finely honed prose" (The Washington Post Book World), Lebowitz limns the vicissitudes of contemporary urban life—its fads, trends, crazes, morals, and fashions....

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    • Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic
    • Written by: Chalmers Johnson
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 2007-11-01
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Johnson explores the trend of militarism that is bankrupting the United States and creating conditions for a new century of virulent blowback....

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    • A History of the United States
    • Written by: Jill Lepore
    • Narrated by: Jill Lepore
    • Length: 29 hrs
    • Release date: 2018-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 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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