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Lincoln's Lieutenants

The High Command of the Army of the Potomac

by Stephen W. Sears

Narrated by George Guidall

Unabridged

32 hours 2 min
From the best-selling author of Gettysburg, a multilayered group biography of the commanders who led the Army of the Potomac The high command of the Army of the Potomac was a changeable, often dysfunctional band of brothers, going through the fires of war under seven commanding generals in three years, until Grant came east in 1864. The men in charge all too frequently appeared to be fighting ... Read more
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Killing Lincoln

The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

by Bill O'Reilly and 1 more

Narrated by Bill O'Reilly
series Bill O'Reilly's Killing Series
Unabridged

7 hours 46 min
A riveting historical narrative of the heart-stopping events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the first work of history from mega-bestselling author Bill O'ReillyThe iconic anchor of The O'Reilly Factor recounts one of the most dramatic stories in American history—how one gunshot changed the country forever. In the spring of 1865, the bloody saga of America's Civil War finally ... Read more
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Gettysburg Rebels

Five Native Sons Who Came Home to Fight as Confederate Soldiers

by Tom McMillan

Narrated by Richard Powers

Unabridged

8 hours 7 min
Gettysburg Rebels is the gripping true story of five young men who grew up in Gettysburg, moved south to Virginia in the 1850s, joined the Confederate army—and returned “home” as foreign invaders for the great battle in July 1863. Drawing on rarely seen documents and family histories, as well as military service records and contemporary accounts, Tom McMillan delves into the backgrounds of Wesley ... Read more
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A Savage War

A Military History of the Civil War

by Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh and 1 more

Narrated by Mike Chamberlain

Unabridged

24 hours 1 min
The Civil War represented a momentous change in the character of war. It combined the projection of military might across a continent on a scale never before seen with an unprecedented mass mobilization of peoples. Yet despite the revolutionizing aspects of the Civil War, its leaders faced the same uncertainties that have vexed combatants since the days of Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War. In ... Read more
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The Cause of All Nations

An International History of the American Civil War

by Don H. Doyle

Narrated by Adam Grupper

Unabridged

14 hours 2 min
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, he realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that in Europe and Latin America people were watching to see whether the democratic experiment in "government by the people" would "perish from the earth." In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was more than an internal ... Read more
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War

by Leonard L. Richards

Narrated by Jeff Riggenbach

Unabridged

10 hours 5 min
In this revelatory study, award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards outlines the links between the Gold Rush and the Civil War.Richards explains how Southerners envisioned California as a new market for slaves in the gold fields, schemed to tie California to the South via railroad, and imagined splitting off the state’s southern half for a slave state. We see how the Gold Rush influenced other ... Read more
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Oliver Winchester: The Life and Legacy of America’s Famous Rifle Manufacturer

by Charles River Editors

Narrated by Scott Clem

Unabridged

1 hour 25 min
By the time weapons industrialist Oliver Winchester was born, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sent to the Pacific by Thomas Jefferson had only recently returned with their report on the first overland continental journey. Outside of a small group of mountain men trapping and trading fur for European fashion magnates, few white settlers had found their way across the Great Plains. The firearms of ... Read more
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Stagecoaches and Wagons: The History of Overland Transportation Companies and Methods in 19th Century America

by Charles River Editors

Narrated by Scott Clem

Unabridged

2 hours 14 min
The United States is a massive country, with the continental 48 states covering over three million square miles. From the 13 colonies along the Atlantic Ocean, the nation spread ever westward, and before automobiles, airplanes, and railroads, the most reliable transportation was one’s own two feet or a horse.Wagons, whether covered or uncovered, have been used to haul people and supplies for ... Read more
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Land of Lincoln

Adventures in Abe's America

by Andrew Ferguson

Narrated by Patrick Lawlor

Unabridged

10 hours 39 min
Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff. Like so many sons of Illinois before him, he hung photos of Abe on his bedroom wall, memorized the Gettysburg Address, and read himself to sleep at night with the Second Inaugural or the "Letter to Mrs. Bixby." Ferguson eventually outgrew his obsession. But ... Read more
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Abraham Lincoln: A Life 1862

From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond, Playing the Last Trump Card, The Soft War Turns Hard, The Emancipation Proclamation

by Michael Burlingame

Narrated by Sean Pratt

Unabridged

12 hours 14 min
Publishers Weekly describes this book as “the most meticulously researched Lincoln biography ever written. Burlingame's Lincoln comes alive as the author unfolds vast amounts of new research while breathing new life into familiar stories. It is the essential title for the bicentennial.” Publishers Weekly also notes, “The book need not be heard in one sitting. Each part stands alone.” Now Gildan ... Read more
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Lincoln's Mentors

The Education of a Leader

by Michael J. Gerhardt

Narrated by TBD

Unabridged

12 hours
A novel and brilliant look at how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership: acclaimed historian Michael J. Gerhardt, who appeared during the impeachment proceedings of President Trump, reveals how a group of five men mentored an obscure lawyer with no executive experience to become American’s greatest leader.In 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly ... Read more
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Gullah, The: The History and Legacy of the African American Ethnic Group in the American Southeast

by Charles River Editors

Narrated by Bill Hare

Unabridged

1 hour 28 min
“If you do not know where you're going, you should know where you come from.” – Old Gullah ProverbCharming drawls, bluegrass bops, NASCAR, mouthwatering barbecues, and the Great Smoky Mountains are all customs that make America’s Deep South home to some of the most vibrant, powerfully evocative, and culturally rich subregions on the continent, tethered to a heritage that rose from the ashes of the ... Read more
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Lincoln's Body

by Richard Wightman Fox

Narrated by Pete Larkin

Unabridged

12 hours 41 min
A groundbreaking, magisterial study that explains why, like Walt Whitman, we "love the President personally." In a stunning feat of scholarship insight, and engaging prose, Lincoln's Body explores how a president ungainly in body and downright "ugly" of aspect came to mean so much to us. nineteenth-century African Americans felt deep affection for their "liberatpr" as a "homely" man who did not ... Read more
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American Civil Wars

The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s

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Narrated by Johnny Heller and 1 more

Unabridged

8 hours 58 min
American Civil Wars takes listeners beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary ... Read more
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American Ulysses

A Life of Ulysses S. Grant

by Ronald C. White

Narrated by Arthur Morey

Unabridged

27 hours 35 min
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A. Lincoln, a major new biography of one of America's greatest generals-and most misunderstood presidentsFinalist for the Gilder-Lehrman Military History Book PrizeIn his time, Ulysses S. Grant was routinely grouped with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in the "Trinity of Great American Leaders." But the battlefield commander-turned-commander-in ... Read more
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Thaddeus Stevens

Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian

by Hans L. Trefousse

Narrated by Tom Weiner

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min
One of the mostcontroversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevensis best remembered for his role as congressional leader of the radicalRepublicans and as a chief architect of Reconstruction. Long painted byhistorians as a vindictive “dictator of Congress,” out to punish the South atthe behest of big business and his own ego, Stevens receives a more balancedtreatment in ... Read more
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Gettysburg: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

What happened, why it matters, and what to see

by Jeff Shaara

Narrated by Robertson Dean

Unabridged

1 hour 13 min
TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORYJeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of a Civil War battlefield every American should visit: Gettysburg. Shaara explores the history, the people, and the places that capture the true meaning and magnitude of the conflict and provides engaging narratives of the war’s crucial battles. ... Read more
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Abraham Lincoln

A Life (Volume One)

by Michael Burlingame

Narrated by Sean Pratt

Unabridged

49 hours 19 min
In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along with decades of research in multiple manuscript archives and long-neglected newspapers, this remarkable work will both alter and reinforce our ... Read more
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Antietam: A Guided Tour from Jeff Shaara's Civil War Battlefields

What happened, why it matters, and what to see

by Jeff Shaara

Narrated by Robertson Dean

Unabridged

48 min
TRAVEL THROUGH A PIVOTAL TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORYJeff Shaara, America’s premier Civil War novelist, gives a remarkable guided tour of the ten Civil War battlefields every American should visit: Shiloh, Antietam, Fredericksburg/Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, New Market, Chickamauga, the Wilderness/Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg/Appomattox. Shaara explores the history, the ... Read more
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A Campaign of Giants--The Battle for Petersburg

Volume 1: From the Crossing of the James to the Crater

by A. Wilson Greene

Narrated by Paul Woodson

Unabridged

25 hours 9 min
Grinding, bloody, and ultimately decisive, the Petersburg Campaign was the Civil War's longest and among its most complex. Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee squared off for more than nine months in their struggle for Petersburg, the key to the Confederate capital at Richmond. Featuring some of the war's most notorious battles, the campaign played out against a backdrop of political drama and ... Read more
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Armies of Deliverance

A New History of the Civil War

by Elizabeth R. Varon

Narrated by Paul Woodson

Unabridged

17 hours 41 min
Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to ... Read more
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Stealing the General

The Great Locomotive Chase and the First Medal of Honor

by Russell S. Bonds

Narrated by Bronson Pinchot

Unabridged

15 hours 12 min
On April 12, 1862—one year to the day after Confederate guns opened on Fort Sumter and started the Civil War—a tall, mysterious smuggler and self-appointed Union spy named James J. Andrews and nineteen infantry volunteers infiltrated Georgia and stole a steam engine called the General. Racing northward at speeds near sixty miles an hour, cutting telegraph lines, and destroying track along the way, ... Read more
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Woman's War Record 1861-1865, A

by Septima M. Collis

Narrated by Suzi Woods

Unabridged

1 hour 17 min
Septima Collis, a native of South Carolina, married Union general Charles H.T. Collis prior to the Civil War. She supported and accompanied her husband during the Civil War. This rendition is beautifully narrated by Suzi Woods. ... Read more
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Bass Reeves: The Life and Legacy of the Wild West’s First Black Deputy Marshal

by Charles River Editors

Narrated by Ray Howard

Unabridged

1 hour 25 min
Exploration of the early American West, beginning with Lewis and Clark’s transcontinental trek at the behest of President Thomas Jefferson, was not accomplished by standing armies, the era’s new steam train technology, or by way of land grabs. These came later, but not until pathways known only to a few of the land’s indigenous people were discovered, carved out, and charted in an area stretching ... Read more
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