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Printer, inventor, philosopher, ambassador, champion of liberty - Benjamin Franklin's influence has been felt by every American generation....

Volume one of History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent by George Bancroft. Bancroft's comprehensive study of the origins and development of the United States caused him to be referred to as the “father of American history"....

Two classics of the American spirit together on audio for the first time....

In 1528, a mission set out from Spain to colonize Florida. But the expedition went horribly wrong. Of the 300 men who had embarked on the journey, only four survived....

Splendiferous Speech explores the main sources of the American vernacular - the expanding western frontier, the bumptious world of politics, and the pages of popular 19th-century newspapers. It's a process that started with the earliest English colonists and is still going strong....

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs....

A vivid new portrait of the formative years that made George Washington a great leader, from a highly respected and accomplished historian....

From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord. A WALL STREET...

From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries....

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery...

The Poison Plot is an intimate drama constructed from historical documents and informed by Elaine Forman Crane’s deep knowledge of elite and common life in colonial Newport....

Leading into the 400th anniversary of the voyage of the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock examines the lives of the "saints" (members of the Separatist Puritan congregations) and "strangers" (economic migrants) on the original ship....

History, location, and culture continue to link New Orleans to France while distancing it culturally and symbolically from the US. This audiobook explores the traces of French language, history, and artistic expression that have been present there over the last 300 years....

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...

History celebrates George Washington as the leader of the American Revolution and the father of his country....

The one character trait that, sometimes, surpasses the human instinct for survival is curiosity. When humans discovered an entire hemisphere that lay beyond their own Eastern Hemisphere, the race was on. What opportunities would these new lands hold? Listen to find out more....

Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and...

In the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation took Europe by storm. The havoc wreaked saw the split of churches and the emergence of the Amish, led by Jakob Ammann....

If you're a curious student, a busy adult, or simply someone who wants to finally grasp how America became America, this audiobook is for you.

A grandfather tells of the violence in Boston on March 5, 1770, which was a pivotal event in the lead-up to the American Revolution in this classic story by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne....