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Robert E. Lee and Me
- A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
- By: Ty Seidule
- Narrated by: Ty Seidule
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
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Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the US Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor....
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Changing a heart and mind
- By Matt Poe on 02-01-21
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61. Robert E. Lee and Me
- A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
- Narrated by: Ty Seidule
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 01-26-21
- Language: English
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The Field of Blood
- Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
- By: Joanne B. Freeman
- Narrated by: Joanne B. Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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The previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War....
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fascinating look at an untold aspect of US.history
- By P. Cardella on 09-27-18
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62. The Field of Blood
- Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War
- Narrated by: Joanne B. Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 09-11-18
- Language: English
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No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- By: Jacqueline Jones
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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In No Right to an Honest Living, historian Jacqueline Jones reveals how Boston was the United States writ small—a place where the soaring rhetoric of egalitarianism was easy, but justice in the workplace was elusive.
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Too much repititive detail, to the point that I ended up disliking the book would not recommend to my friends.
- By Beth Ann on 11-13-24
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63. No Right to an Honest Living
- The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era
- Narrated by: Leon Nixon
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 08-27-24
- Language: English
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Ways and Means
- Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
- By: Roger Lowenstein
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
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Upon his election to the presidency, Abraham Lincoln inherited a country in crisis. Even before the Confederacy’s secession, the United States Treasury had run out of money. The government had no authority to raise taxes, no federal bank, no currency....
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Perspective that matters - financing the Civil War
- By Edgewater on 07-04-22
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64. Ways and Means
- Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 03-08-22
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
- Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- By: Manisha Sinha
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
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A groundbreaking, expansive new account of Reconstruction that fundamentally alters our view of this formative period in American history.
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Managing through narration
- By Julie on 06-18-24
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65. The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic
- Reconstruction, 1860-1920
- Narrated by: Deepa Samuel
- Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 06-11-24
- Language: English
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Clouds of Glory
- The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
- By: Michael Korda
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army....
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Good But Not Great
- By David Wardell on 05-12-15
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66. Clouds of Glory
- The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee
- Narrated by: Jack Garrett
- Length: 32 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 05-13-14
- Language: English
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Sheridan’s Secret Mission
- How the South Won the War After the Civil War
- By: Robert Cwiklik
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to protect the rights of newly freed black men....
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Great history book, not so great editing
- By Bailesie on 03-06-24
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67. Sheridan’s Secret Mission
- How the South Won the War After the Civil War
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 01-16-24
- Language: English
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Tried by War
- Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
- By: James M. McPherson
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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As we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth in 2009, this work provides agenuinely novel, even timely, view of the most written about figure in our history....
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Fantastic Read
- By Chris Morin on 03-21-17
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68. Tried by War
- Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 01-07-09
- Language: English
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Born in Slavery
- Narratives from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection
- By: William Moss - editor
- Narrated by: Christopher Wagnon
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
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"Born In Slavery" delves into the most compelling testimonies from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection, offering an immersive journey into the lives of over 2,000 formerly enslaved individuals....
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A Book About Black Slaves ReadBy A Non Black Actor
- By Aahlee Holloway on 01-09-25
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69. Born in Slavery
- Narratives from the WPA Slave Narrative Collection
- Narrated by: Christopher Wagnon
- Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-12-24
- Language: English
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Fateful Lightning
- A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- By: Allen C. Guelzo
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
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In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era....
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The worst part of this book is it's title
- By Rodney on 11-19-13
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70. Fateful Lightning
- A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 26 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-17-13
- Language: English
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The Agitators
- Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
- By: Dorothy Wickenden
- Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Anne Twomey, Gabra Zackman, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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From the executive editor of The New Yorker, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history of abolition and women’s rights, told through the story of three women—Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright—in the years before, during and after the Civil War....
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Excellent!
- By Nikki on 12-22-21
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71. The Agitators
- Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights
- Narrated by: Heather Alicia Simms, Anne Twomey, Gabra Zackman, Dorothy Wickenden - prologue
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 03-30-21
- Language: English
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Mr. Lincoln's Army
- By: Bruce Catton
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
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A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton....
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Very poor reader with great material
- By L Day on 07-28-16
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72. Mr. Lincoln's Army
- Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
- Series: The Army of the Potomac, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 07-26-16
- Language: English
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Apostles of Disunion
- Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
- By: Charles B. Dew
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
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Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public more than a century and a half after the Civil War, Apostles of Disunion offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our great national crisis....
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Racist Take - Leaves our a lot of information
- By naw74 on 04-15-21
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73. Apostles of Disunion
- Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War: Fifteenth Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Mitchell Dorian
- Length: 4 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 05-27-20
- Language: English
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The Three-Cornered War
- The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
- By: Megan Kate Nelson
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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Megan Kate Nelson “expands our understanding of how the Civil War affected Indigenous peoples and helped to shape the nation” (Library Journal, starred review), reframing the era as one of national conflict - involving not just the North and South, but also the West....
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Absolutely Loved It
- By Kyle P. Dalton on 09-08-20
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74. The Three-Cornered War
- The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 02-11-20
- Language: English
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Indivisible
- Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism
- By: Joel Richard Paul
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
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When the United States was founded in 1776, its citizens didn’t think of themselves as “Americans.” They were New Yorkers or Virginians or Pennsylvanians. It was decades later that the seeds of American nationalism....
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Author very biased
- By Richard Wayne Feller on 02-05-23
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75. Indivisible
- Daniel Webster and the Birth of American Nationalism
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 10-25-22
- Language: English
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Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- By: Tony Horwitz
- Narrated by: Arthur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
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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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A Must Read for Civil War Buffs!
- By Ms Winston on 12-06-14
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76. Confederates in the Attic
- Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- Narrated by: Arthur Addison
- Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-19-13
- Language: English
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- By: Mary Chesnut, C. Vann Woodward
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 42 hrs
- Unabridged
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The incomparable Civil War diarist Mary Chesnut wrote that she had the luck “always to stumble in on the real show.” Married to a high-ranking member of the Confederate government, she was ideally placed to watch and to record the South’s headlong plunge to ruin....
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77. Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 42 hrs
- Release date: 03-04-25
- Language: English
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Vicksburg
- Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
- By: Donald L. Miller
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
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Vicksburg, Mississippi, was the last stronghold of the Confederacy on the Mississippi River. It prevented the Union from using the river for shipping between the Union-controlled Midwest and New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico....
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Revisionist & Biased & Redundant
- By DDSC on 05-26-21
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78. Vicksburg
- Grant's Campaign That Broke the Confederacy
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 21 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 10-29-19
- Language: English
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A Terrible Glory
- Custer and the Little Bighorn: The Last Great Battle of the American West
- By: James Donovan
- Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
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A rousing and meticulously researched account of the notorious Battle of Little Big Horn and its unforgettable cast of characters from Sitting Bull to Custer himself....
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Terrific story of Custer, the Little Big Horn
- By rwmiller on 09-06-19
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79. A Terrible Glory
- Custer and the Little Bighorn: The Last Great Battle of the American West
- Narrated by: Jeff Bottoms
- Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 04-30-19
- Language: English
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John Brown, Abolitionist
- The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
- By: David S. Reynolds
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 25 hrs and 14 mins
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Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history....
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The story of the man who saved America from itself
- By Marc on 09-29-20
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80. John Brown, Abolitionist
- The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 25 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 05-14-19
- Language: English
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